MISJUDGEMENT & OVERREACH

MISJUDGEMENT & OVERREACH
Open Letter to the President
#07 . . 3/17/2025

Mr. President, I am a registered Republican in South Carolina. You have espoused some good goals for your administration, including cutting the cost of government, but I believe that you are going about it in the wrong ways.

(1) I believe that cutting down or cutting out our broadcast services that promote free speech, democracy, and the USA is a grave mistake. I believe these services are highly effective at promoting our interests abroad and bring us many benefits at very low cost. I believe these services do not constitute waste, fraud, or abuse. I am sure there is always room for improvement and that improvement should be pursued constantly. Firing 99% of good, effective employees and 99% of good, effective programs looks like an approach likely to produce much more harm than good.

(2) I understand that a large portion of these services were mandated by legislation with funding authorized by Congress and were signed into law. I understand that means Congress, not you or any other president, has the lawful authority to end those programs or their funding. If you carry out such breaches of the Constitutional role of the Legislative branch of government, then I believe you should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office, the same as I would recommend for a president from the Democratic, Independent, or “Other” political party.

I implore you to reconsider your approach, which I find rash, counterproductive, and illegal.

At the moment, my advice and request to my representatives in the House and Senate is to stand up against your actions to override their authority and responsibility in these matters. If you do not back down from your attempts to overreach your Constitutional role, then I advise and request that they lead a movement to impeach, convict, and remove you from office, the same as I would advise and request regarding any other president under similar circumstances.