A week from now, we will have a new presidential administration. Let’s see how many of the incoming cabinet will be seated. I do find it comical that Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is crowing about holding the Trump administration accountable. Or the rantings of one delusional Sen. Adam Schiff of California that he will continue to focus on investigating Trump. Think of the abject idiocy of the California state legislature meeting and deciding to appropriate tens of millions of dollars to “Trump-proof” their state. It would seem obvious they should meet to figure out why the fire hydrants were producing no water and why their reservoirs were empty.

Lest I digress.

All of this posturing by the progressive socialist leftists, who had their proverbial butts handed to them in the November 2024 election, has to be crushed. There is one simple way to do that, and that is to restore constitutional governance. Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, our rule of law, articulates the (18) enumerated powers, duties, responsibilities, and purviews of the federal government. It is imperative that the Republican-led House and Senate tie everything that the federal government does to its enumerated powers and nothing else. It is time to force Democrats to admit what we all know publicly…the leftists despise our Constitution and routinely violate its fundamental premise. Case in point, even as he is walking out the door, Joe Biden continues to relieve student loan debt, even as the US Supreme Court issued the decision that he has no enumerated constitutional powers to do so.

So, where is Chuck Schumer to hold Biden accountable? Why isn’t Adam Schiff talking about investigating Biden? Heck, even Nancy Pelosi stated that Biden did not have the constitutional power or authority to relieve student loan debt…yet he keeps needling away at it.

Speaker of the House Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thune should hold a joint press conference and state that the legislative actions of the 119th Congress shall be aligned with Article I, Section 8. They should state that all federal government agencies, programs, legislation, and funding appropriations must be aligned with Article I, Section 8. And that means specifically articulating the alignment. Too often the “general welfare” concept has been used for the expansion of the federal government and its powers. The leaders of DOGE should assess the mission, task and purpose of every federal government agency and resolve its alignment with the enumerated powers delegated to the federal government.

I would offer that every budget line item of the federal government should have a specific reference to the U.S. Constitution. Ask yourself, what does funding drag queen shows in foreign nations have to do with the (18) enumerated powers, duties, and responsibilities of the federal government? And we could go on and on.

Now is the best time to restore constitutional governance. One of the reasons why we have an apocalyptic debt crisis in America is a lack of adherence to our Constitution. One of the reasons why we have trillion dollars of deficits is because we have not adhered to our Constitution. We often hear the phrase that we do not have a revenue issue in Washington DC; we have a spending issue. The truth be told, we have a constitutional issue. If we restore the sense of federalism in this Nation, we will realize the constraints that our rule of law places on the federal government. We will come to understand the words of the 10th Amendment, “The powers not delegated to the United States (federal government) by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

If there is one call to action for constitution conservatives, it is to admonish our elected representatives at the federal government and at all levels to adhere to constitutional governance or city charter governance. If we do so, then we restore this Constitutional Republic to what it was intended to be: “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” one that shall not perish from the face of this earth.

Steadfast and Loyal.