Matthew via Suzy Ward, January 14th, 2019 ~ January 15, 2019


With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. The combination of positive and negative responses to ever-rising vibrations has kept Earth’s energy field of potential in too much turmoil for any activity to achieve unstoppable momentum. However, energy streamers around the effort to indict all Illuminati principals have been gaining strength consistently and, of the multiple activities behind the scenes to end dark control of your world, it appears that the indictments will be the first to reach fruition. If the current pace of strengthening continues, action already underway can become known worldwide within months.

Well-known individuals being charged with crimes against humanity will come as a shock to most people, and it’s reasonable to anticipate reactions ranging from “fake news” to vehement denial, anger and fear. Lower-ranking Illuminati will try to jump ship rather than go down with it, wrongfully accused individuals will want to prove their innocence, and if there is strong resistance in some quarters, very likely military troops will be called upon to keep the public safe. Confusion will be widespread until the society understands the far-reaching benevolent impact of what is happening.

Dear ones, before much longer your mission as lightworkers will rachet up a notch or two. Your fearlessness and exhilaration can calm persons around you, and that will be immensely helpful, but you will need to be mentors, too. The peoples will need to be told that removing those individuals from their influential positions is leading to a peaceful world with wise honorable leaders and the end of warring, corruption, deception and impoverishment. You can substantiate your explanations by referring doubters to pertinent information compiled by researchers and published on the Internet or elsewhere, and if individuals believe telepathic communication is real, tell them about channeled information from sources you trust.

A number of you are asking if the incoming energy waves could be causing the conditions you are experiencing and if so, what can you do to relieve the discomfort. In previous messages we have spoken at some length about this important matter, but it bears repeating and we offer a condensed version of that information.

Primary symptoms of bodies’ adjusting to intensifying energy are fatigue, weakness and general sense of unease; episodes of memory lapses, headaches, mood swings, aching muscles and joints, ringing in the ears, blurred vision, cramping, nausea and itchiness are not uncommon. To lessen their effects, get sufficient sleep, engage in age-appropriate exercise and drink a lot of water. Avoid sugar, alcohol except a sensible amount of red wine, and foods with chemical additives. Of all foods, fruits and vegetables have the most light, and if you are financially able, choose organic produce. If your diet is not vegetarian or vegan, choose seafood certified free of impurities and eggs, dairy products and meat from animals that have not been given antibiotics or growth hormones.

Reducing mental and emotional stress is of paramount importance—stress is the root cause of all dis-ease—but do not take pharmaceuticals as sleep aids, to pep up or calm down. What will be most helpful to you in stress reduction is as unique as each of you is, but the following suggestions can raise your vibrations, thus beneficial to all. Change negative thoughts and feelings to positive. Avoid situations that drain your energy. Feel grateful for the goodness in your life. Let go of bitterness and forgive those you feel have wronged you. Be in Nature as often as you can. Spend time with animals. Reserve time for solitude and introspection. Meditate. Listen to your favorite music. Read uplifting poetry or prose. Watch amusing TV programs. Write down the source of frustration, then let go of the feeling. Communicate with like-minded people.  Smile often and love yourselves as much as we love you.

We caution that the symptoms mentioned above also can indicate the onset of illness; if a condition persists, consult a healthcare specialist, preferably one who has a holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment. The more conscientiously you care for yourselves in mind, body and spirit, the more light you absorb; light raises your vibrations, and that will enable you to more easily adjust to upcoming energy surges.

“For ages the Vatican has known about pedophile priests. Why didn’t a pope take action long ago to end that abomination?” For centuries popes were members of the wealthiest families, the forerunners of the Illuminati. They controlled the masses via “papal infallibility” and “God’s laws” while the popes’ families reaped more riches through tithing, taxes and “servitude to God.”

Devout believers provided the virtually free labor that erected opulent buildings on Vatican grounds and master painters, sculptors, and creators of stained glass and intricate tile murals produced the art that so grandly decorates the buildings. Even if the popes during those years and down through the centuries may not have been pedophiles themselves, most assuredly they didn’t want anyone to know that pedophilia was rampant in Catholicism’s hierarchy.

When the first accusations were made, the offenders claimed innocence and that was the end of it; but as the light intensified, so did the resolve of more and more abused individuals to speak out. When the same claims against adults in trusted positions in secular society led to admissions and convictions, accusations against priests no longer could be swept under the rug. Although papal acknowledgement has been given to those offenses of longstanding, the extent of unconscionable acts that have taken place in the Vatican is yet to be revealed. As shocking to the public as the announcement of indictments will be, disclosing the truth that the Vatican is the international headquarters of Satanism will be more so.

“I don’t think that Matthew has a good grasp of what can happen when ET’s step in to this world and try to make changes. Once they cause change with their technologies, then we’ll be dependent upon them. Once that dependency has been established then control takes place. We have a planet of many resources and likely those resources are valuable to outside civilizations. The cabal are the bad guys and we can rid our world of them over time as more and more people become enlightened. We don’t need outside sources for that, particularly when those outside sources are interested in our planet for trading and profit. My intuition tells me that any outside source that visits our world will not be good for us in the long term.”

In numerous messages we have talked about the importance of trusting your intuition, guidance to the conscious mind from soul level, where truth is known. This is a case whereby belief is blocking intuitive awareness—what one believes, whether it arises from fact or falsehood or assumption, is the individual’s reality. Dispelling the concerns of that dear soul who wrote is necessary because she is not alone in being wary of other civilizations, and crews in crafts surrounding Earth cannot land and ETs living in your midst cannot introduce themselves until the society is ready to greet them without fright.

So then, let us address the two issues that are relevant here. One is Gaia’s desire that life on her planetary body be according to her vision of everyone living peacefully in harmony with Nature and sharing the world’s abundance. The other is a universal law: No civilization may impose its ideas, however beneficial those would be, upon any other civilization. Accordingly, pre-birth agreements were made by the souls who chose to live on Earth so they could complete third density karmic lessons and the myriad souls who would help them become enlightened so they could co-create the kind of world they, the peoples, want—it’s the same world that Gaia wants for them. And, God authorized civilizations advanced in spiritual and conscious awareness to help their Earth family rid the planet of the darkness that has prevented them from manifesting that kind of world.

It is too late to think that you can rid the world of the cabal on your own. The massive light beamed from civilizations 80-some years ago interrupted the cabal’s pervasive darkness that was controlling life in your world. Members of those civilizations who volunteered to go to Earth anchored that light and generated their own, thereby bringing to light the cabal’s long-hidden heinous activities. Crews in your skies have prevented detonation of nuclear warheads launched by the cabal and are reducing the toxic elements in their chemtrails. Some of the many extraterrestrials living among you have thwarted the cabal’s efforts to start pandemics, some have exposed their other illegal and immoral activities, some are working to wrest from the cabal their control of the global economy, some are in the international group whose efforts eventually will hold the cabal legally accountable.

ETs also erected the light grid around the planet that prevents the entry of any source with low vibrations. Therefore, only beings with high vibrations can come to Earth, and those who have been waiting to join you have no intention or interest in profiting from your world’s resources or controlling the populace.

Yes, their technologies will indeed change the planet. With swiftness that will astonish you, they will dematerialize nuclear waste; eliminate the toxicity in your soil, waters and atmosphere; turn deserts into arable lands; and expand the rain forests; and your scientists will work side by side with the extraterrestrials in all of those endeavors. The populace will neither want nor need to become dependent upon other civilizations, and after the visiting helpers teach the use of their technologies and gift them to you, they want to return to their homelands and families.

Feel grateful for these “outside sources”! While your governments deny their existence, your entertainment industry gives them reality as monstrous creatures who will eat, annihilate or enslave you. That is more than enough for the society to overcome without adding concerns that people from other worlds intend to profit from your natural resources—that is what the cabal has been doing for centuries. Other civilizations have been helping Earth’s peoples in myriad ways for millennia because the souls who embody there are beloved members of the universal family.

We say farewell for now, dear brothers and sisters, but in every moment we and all other light beings in this universe are supporting you with the power of unconditional love.

Brenda’s Blog via Brenda Hoffman, January 11th, 2019 ~ January 15, 2019


Dear Ones,

Your past 3D fears have been understandable for you either experienced similar fears, or someone else has. Three-D fears were limited to the known. Such is no longer true because you are entering a new life as a new being.

So as you activate your new skills, fears may dominate your being. Not because such is necessary, but because you have no knowledge of your new normal. Everything is new and therefore a bit frightening.

Puberty was a frustrating, fearful time for many despite adults informing you that your erratic emotions and physical changes were to be expected, that all was well in your life.

But no one of the 3D earth is reaffirming your rightness now for you are no longer functioning as either you or they expected.

Of course, that last statement sends a shiver of fear through many forerunners for you are now worried you might grow a tail or act so different as to be ostracised by your community.

Such is not the case. For you know what you need to do to be part of society. The difference is you likely no longer wish to play many of those roles.

Perhaps think of the butterfly as it leaves its cocoon. Do you not suppose that butterfly is a bit frightened when it takes its first flying test run? So it is for you.

Innately, you will activate the skills you created for this transition. But that first attempt to do so will probably seem a bit frightening or awkward for you have no one but us or your transition community to inform you of your rightness.

Your special skills are now coming to the forefront – and they will appear without effort on your part. But as they do, you will wonder if you are normal. Something you have been taught for eons to fight for.

You seldom have if ever relayed your special skills to others while of the earth. So it is you are frightened by the possibility of doing so will set you outside the norm despite your innate knowledge that such is your role.

Of course, you are not necessarily able to look within a butterfly’s thought processes, but we will tell you that at every new stage, the butterfly questions the wisdom of its ways until it initiates the next stage. It is confusing for the butterfly to transition from a caterpillar to cocoon. And equally confusing to leave its cocoon and fly away.

Many of you claim that such is so natural the butterfly does not worry about each transition. Such is true to a certain extent, but as is true for a plant pushing through the soil despite the effort it takes to do so, the butterfly innately knows what it needs to do but not why. So each stage creates confusion and some fear until it is a butterfly.

Such is so for you now. You are likely somewhat confused for you know you are changing, but you have little idea how you will do so. Will you wake up one day with a magic wand in your fingers? Will you feel the need to sit in a cave for years? Will you be the envy of your neighborhood as you create one toy after another?

Who knows? Most certainly not you. And that is your fear. Why does this give me joy and not this? Why am I changing? Why am I not changing? Shouldn’t I be more skilled by now?

So it goes as you shift your fears from 3D memories to forerunner skillsets.

You no longer fully understand yourself, and no one can explain you to you. For the Universes are not as informed as you would like about your new skills. We are more like your parents knowing you will change during puberty but not when or necessarily how. When will my voice deepen? Will my breasts be large, medium, or small? All similar to the questions you have now.

You are evolving emotionally, spiritually, and physically to meet the needs you forerunners created throughout the eons to initiate and complete this transition.

So it is you started this transition more rapidly than we thought possible and you are completing it in the same fashion. It is just that you want the answers today even though no one including you know what those answers are.

Suffice it for you to know you are extremely skilled. You will complete your transition role. And the skills you need to do so will appear when appropriate. So be it. Amen.

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Experience The Limitless Eternal MAGIC Of Our Divine God Self NOW ~ January 15, 2019


By L’Aura Pleiadian 

Entering The NO TIME of Our Eternal God Self ~ Now

Being ONE with the Beloved, consciously.

Being Our Divine Ascended Being NOW.

Being Our Original Light now.

Being in Love with the Eternal.

Being ONE with NO Time. 

Being ONE with our Eternal Divine Presence. 

Being aware consciously that we have never been separated from our LIMITLESS Divine Presence and Original LIGHT~  Now.

 

This is the limitless eternal MAGIC of Our Divine God Self. ALL form responds to this ~ our eternal Presence.

Breathe and consciously let go of time and all of its concepts.

Even NOW ~ breathe and relax and enter NOW.

Entering the SACRED NO time Presence we NOW connect and enter the Eternal Portal of Our Divine Light.

We ARE linked, we ARE In Union.

Our hearts are Entrained with the magnificence and GLORY of Our Eternal Divine Self.

Feel this now.

 

Consciously let go of any thoughts or concepts of time.

When YOU can, do not look at time. Take your watch off for a few days if you can, are you needing to look at time?

When we are in Divine Union with our Eternal Divine Presence, we do not notice TIME. It looses its meaning and it is not felt or experienced.

We then access our Eternal Divine Beauty, Youth, Glory and our unconditional Love.

WE are then filled with joy NOW.

WE are then filled with Love now.

We are then free from the aspects of aging, now.

AS we link with our eternal PRESENCE we live as our eternal Being here. That knows not of time. That knows not of an ending and a beginning.

That is the Dimensional awareness of Being Ascended.

That is the Limitless Presence of OUR Original Light.

 

Enter the eternal Portal now, of no time. Through your breath unite consciously MORE AND MORE with NO Time. That is with the Eternal You. This is where our eternal Beings exist, in that space, through the heart of no time.

In Love and Glory, with the Divine Council of Overseers. In JOY and Love, United and entrained, with all that is ~ the Eternal. Now.

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The Arcturian Group ~ Beyond the Illusion ~ January 15, 2019


Editor’s Note: This is such a lovely and defining article that I AM presenting this again for finding, and realizing, a “better” way to love! Reaching for, and finding, a higher way of BEing love unconditionally is rewarding and an unspeakably wonderful delight! Please read that (again), reach for a better way to love, and be…

InJoy!

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Channeled By: Marilyn Raffaele

 

We are the Arcturian Group, a collective of ascended Arcturian beings from the eighth dimension here to assist Gaia and her people during these times of ascending consciousness.

 

Know that these messages as well as others that may resonate with you are in reality your own state of consciousness manifesting as the particular message.  If this were not true, you would not be drawn to or be able to understand them.

 

You, who are spiritually prepared to expand beyond the illusion and integrate truth are the forefront of the ascension process.  You chose to be on earth during these times of intense energetic chaos and change in order to complete your own third dimensional spiritual journey and become the first wave of ascension and example for those following.

 

You are preparing the way for those of the second wave–individuals spiritually ready to awaken but who until now have resisted doing so.  Know that the Light of so many now awakening out of three dimensional sleep state, is shifting and dissolving the old paradigm, even when things appear to getting worse.  Try not to give up hope but rather stand back as an observer for you are soon going to see much that will restore the  hope you may have lost.

 

You serve as living breathing examples of unconditional love for those around you when you realize and begin to live out from a consciousness that knows unconditional love is the only reality and that anything else simply represents conditioned beliefs about love such as; its absence, concepts about, or its reality.

 

Unconditional love can only ever be all there is because there is only ONE–one substance, one life, one reality, one law.  Love is the energetic glue connecting  everything within this Infinite ONE and those who ignorantly continue to believe in and live out from a consciousness of separation and duality create for themselves the illusory forms of these beliefs.

 

You can ignore, but never change the reality of Oneness by judging from outer appearances as proof of its nonexistence.  Continuing to hold to the third dimensional belief system after outgrowing it only delays a person’s spiritual evolution because Oneness is the foundation of all reality and must be acknowledged at some point.  For some it may be in a future life, for you it is now.

 

There are some who present a very religious face to the public, preaching ideas of love, but who do not practice them when confronted with experiences or opportunities that may result in personal inconvenience or lifestyle discomfort.  Unconditional love cannot continue being flowery words spoken or written, but must become an attained state of consciousness.

 

Because Love/oneness is the only reality, all false concepts about love must be allowed to fade away and be replaced by a deeper realization of what love really is.  The third dimensional belief system has created and promoted hundreds of concepts of love, the grandest of them being romantic love.

 

Romantic love is based in the belief that everyone is half of a couple. This concept would be true if humans were simply physical, but they are not and never have been.  Although appearing to be just physical, the reality is that everyone is a whole and complete expression of Divine consciousness having the experience of being in physical form.

 

Many, even the very evolved are reluctant to move past their favorite three dimensional concepts of love but as long as an individual continues to seek wholeness, happiness, and fulfillment from another, they remain just that– half of a couple.

 

This does not mean that spiritually awakened individuals will or can never have happy and fulfilling relationships, it simply means that their relationships will unfold in new and higher ways, without the seeking, yearning,  and intense game playing that constitutes most three dimensional relationships.

 

When a person attains a consciousness of being whole and complete, the mind interprets this outwardly in forms that represent wholeness and completeness for the individual–a surgeon may get new ideas for surgery, the mechanic may get new ideas for fixing something, and the right life partner may show up–or the opportunity to live alone–whatever represents fulfillment for the individual.

 

Those of you hoping for right partnership must accept, live, be, and integrate the truth that  completeness and fulfillment already fully exists within.  Consciously bring to mind; “I am one with and can never be separate from my perfect partner-Divine Consciousness”.   Once again we remind you that you are creators.

 

Attachment to another even when there is no energetic alignment has to do with many things. Two people may of had happy relationships in other lifetimes as partners, siblings, or friends and are drawn to do it again.  This is why some are drawn to same gender relationships.

 

Frequently, and especially in these times of closure for many, two people will come together in order to compete some unfinished lesson or experience from an earlier lifetime.  For some it is their opportunity to once and for all resolve some long standing karmic situation in a loving way.

 

Occasionally two people come together in spite of intense dislike because sub-consciously they know that the higher frequencies of Light pouring to earth at this time will enable them to clear and move beyond the negative past life issue between them.

 

Anyone who understands higher truth is spiritually  ready to let go of and move beyond concepts of love promoting that family, friends, country, church, etc. must always be fully supported and accepted whether right or wrong because this is love.

 

                    Love is the unconditional realization of another’s Christhood. 

 

Since in reality there is no time, you can always acknowledge another’s Christhood after the fact, when you remember that you forgot to do it when with the person.  This is how you practice living, breathing, and being Reality.

 

Let go of concepts  proclaiming that things need, should, or must be a certain way in order to be correct. Most of the worlds’ “should’s and shouldn’t’s” have been carried in collective consciousness from earlier times when they may of actually made sense for personal safety.  Others are nothing more than rules and regulations given by third dimensional thinkers, governments, and religious leaders often to promote their own agendas.

 

You are ready to come out from under the bondage of three dimensional thinking because you have evolved beyond the need for someone to tell  you what is right and what is wrong–you already know what is right and wrong.

 

Allow yourselves to be who and what you are.  If family or friends think you have become a  “weirdo”,  simply laugh, bless them, and move on.  Does God need outer validation?    Where could it come from since IT is all there is?

 

You validate yourselves and it is called evolution.   When you can finally move past commonly accepted beliefs and replace them with truth, you stop energetically feeding the manifestations of duality and separation.

 

You must accept that you have attained a consciousness that no longer needs to seek, search, and struggle to find God.  You are no longer beginners or you would not understand the deeper truths.  It is time to live your attained state of consciousness without further doubt and procrastination.

 

Many come to intellectually accept truth but continue to live exactly as they always have,  considering truth to be a nice idea, but not practical.  Many go to church regularly in the belief that this makes them spiritual.  There is nothing more practical for a whole, complete, and joyous life than a consciousness fully aware that these qualities are ever present and available within.

 

In order to get to  where you are today, you have had thousands of experiences and studied truth in its various forms  and modalities throughout  many lifetimes.  In this lifetime, some of you are now living or have lived and carry with you in cellular memory strict religious beliefs with all their rules and regulations but finding that you no longer resonate with the teachings.

 

For some it takes a great deal of courage to live truth when it begins to unfold from within.  A person may be afraid to speak of these things  to those of his old mindset be they family, friends, or church elders.  Living truth is not for the faint hearted especially in the beginning,  but continuing to align with some organization or individual out of fear of criticism serves only to keep the person in energy he has outgrown and where he will continue to create experiences reflective of that energy.

 

The choice is yours, dear ones.  Do you choose to be what you already are or do you wish to continue with the illusion of being a poor human constantly suffering third dimensional problems and continually seeking a savior, human or Divine, to save you?.

 

Stop  waiting for someone or  something to change the world for you.  Only the awakened consciousness of the collective can and is shifting the three dimensional world out of illusion.

 

Allow the real YOU  to create your experiences.  You are your own Light should you choose to accept this fact.

 

You are Divine Consciousness in expression.  Claim it.

 

 

We are the Arcturian Group                   

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I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance | Op-Ed from Daily Caller ~ January 15, 2019


Here! Here! Perhaps some will have a more positive view of the partial government shutdown after hearing the perspective and facts below from an insider. We know by the undercover camera work from Project Veritas that the smug attitudes of agency people are exactly as claimed.

There are far more benefits to a partial government shutdown than negative aspects, and I said from the beginning my view was from the positive side because it would show Americans just how much toxic fat there is in the current government structure that works to serve itself.

Boo-hoo for the employees who didn’t get paid. I’ve worked for free, usually 7 days a week, for nearly 7 years on this blog and the other inconsequential, part-time work I was able to get since legally immigrating to the US 14 years ago was next to working for free.

Many have and are making personal and financial sacrifices for this planetary cause; ultimate freedom from tyranny. America has been drowning in alphabet soup but the deep state government’s picnic is over.

The unconscionable salaries these dead weights get for producing nothing and obstructing positive change are needed for important Humanitarian projects.

When kids are going to school without breakfast, millions of families are on food stamps, can’t afford health care, and veterans are living and dying on the street there is no excuse for this wanton wastefulness from spoiled adolescents drunk on entitlement.

Get rid of those unnecessary jobs, restructure, and create a government that works FOR the People. Employ citizens who actually care and will strive to create a better world. Service to self is a passing motivator that will soon fade from society.

Kudos to President Trump for this strategy. It’s long past time to eject the old guard and their minions.

Change it up! Mix the metaphors! Get the controlled burn going. Then we can cauterize the festering wound that is Washington and let the healing begin.  ~ BP

 


I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance

January 14, 2019

The Daily Caller is taking the rare step of publishing this anonymous op-ed at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose career would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.


As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.

Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed and can never return to its previous form.

The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.

On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.

Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position — some do this in the same position for more than a decade.

They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands — administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.

Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process. Then there are the 5 percent with moxie (career managers). At any given time they can change, clarify or add to the process — even to distort or block policy counsel for the president.

Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends. Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president’s agenda. This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president’s agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them. Until the shutdown.

Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce, with only select essential personnel serving national security tasks. One might think this is how government should function, but bureaucracies operate from the bottom up — a collective of self-generated ideas. Ideas become initiatives, formalize into offices, they seek funds from Congress and become bureaus or sub-agencies, and maybe one day grow to be their own independent agency, like ours. The nature of a big administrative bureaucracy is to grow to serve itself. I watch it and fight it daily.

When the agency is full, employees held liable for poor performance respond with threats, lawsuits, complaints and process in at least a dozen offices, taking years of mounting paperwork with no fear of accountability, extending their careers, while no real work is done. Do we succumb to such extortion? Yes. We pay them settlements, we waive bad reviews, and we promote them.

Many government agencies have adopted the position that more complaints are good because it shows inclusion in, you guessed it, the process. When complaints come, it is cheaper to pay them off than to hold public servants accountable. The result: People accused of serious offenses are not charged, and self-proclaimed victims are paid by you, the American taxpayer.

The message to federal supervisors is clear. Maintain the status quo, or face allegations. Many federal employees truly believe that doing tasks more efficiently and cutting out waste, by closing troubled programs instead of expanding them, “is morally wrong,” as one cried to me.

I get it. These are their pets. It is tough to put them down and let go, and many resist. This phenomenon was best summed up by a colleague who said, “The goal in government is to do nothing. If you try to get things done, that’s when you will run into trouble.”

But President Trump can end this abuse. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them. Sure, we empathize with families making tough financial decisions, like mine, and just like private citizens who have to find other work and bring competitive value every day, while paying more than a third of their salary in federal taxes.

President Trump has created more jobs in the private sector than the furloughed federal workforce. Now that we are shut down, not only are we identifying and eliminating much of the sabotage and waste, but we are finally working on the president’s agenda.

President Trump does not need Congress to address the border emergency, and yes, it is an emergency. Billions upon billions of hard-earned tax dollars are still being dumped into foreign aid programs every year that do nothing for America’s interest or national security. The president does not need congressional funding to deconstruct abusive agencies who work against his agenda. This is a chance to effect real change, and his leverage grows stronger every day the shutdown lasts.

The president should add to his demands, including a vote on all of his political nominees in the Senate. Send the career appointees back. Many are in the 5 percent of saboteurs and resistance leaders.

A word of caution: To be a victory, this shutdown must be different than those of the past and should achieve lasting disruption with two major changes, or it will hurt the president.

The first thing we need out of this is better security, particularly at the southern border. Our founders envisioned a free market night watchman state, not the bungled bloated bureaucracy our government has become. But we have to keep the uniformed officers paid, which is an emergency. Ideally, continue a resolution to pay the essential employees only, if they are truly working on national security. Furloughed employees should find other work, never return and not be paid.

Secondly, we need savings for taxpayers. If this fight is merely rhetorical bickering with Nancy Pelosi, we all lose, especially the president. But if it proves that government is better when smaller, focusing only on essential functions that serve Americans, then President Trump will achieve something great that Reagan was only bold enough to dream.

The president’s instincts are right. Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions. A referendum to end government plunder must happen. Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose. Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever.

The author is a senior official in the Trump administration.


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