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Don Devine is proud that The Washington Post once attacked him as President Ronald Reagan's "terrible swift sword of the civil service," but even he is blown away by the muscular reforms of the Trump administration.
 
That doesn't stop him from giving advice on how to slay the deep state leviathan, however. Devine, who served as the second director of the Office of Personnel Management under Reagan from 1981 to 1985, warned that public-sector unions will always oppose efforts to bring the administrative state to heel, so any conservative will have to take on these issues with steely resolve.
 
"They're going to be fighting you no matter what you do," Devine told The Daily Signal.
 
"The unions in the government, which shouldn't even be there ... The unions, that's their job, all right? If you do anything, they're going to go to the courts after you."
 
"So, what's the answer? You got to do it anyway, you got to fight them," he explained. Public-sector unions, who represent federal government employees, have filed multiple lawsuits to block Trump's reforms on everything from DOGE getting access to federal data to the firing of probationary employees to the removal of collective bargaining privileges.
 
Trump has just the stomach to face this threat, however, Devine said.
 
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Adversaries and allies alike have been ripping off the United States with “asymmetrical tariffs” for decades. Now, Trump is fighting back.

“Whatever a particular country tariffs us, we reciprocate and just mirror image them. In other words, it’s their choice, not ours,” VDH says.

On this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson explains the history behind tariffs and how other countries have taken advantage of America’s no-tariff policy for years.

“It was all predicated in the postwar period. We were so affluent, so powerful—Europe, China, Russia were in shambles—that we had to take up the burdens of reviving the economy by taking great trade deficits,” Victor Davis Hanson says.

We can’t afford to remain neutral in the trade war that’s been happening for decades.

“If tariffs are so destructive of their economies, why is China booming?” Victor Davis Hanson asks.

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

It’s a mixed night as Republicans win both Florida elections, win on voting ID in Wisconsin, and lose the Supreme Court.

Sen. Cory Booker breaks a record for filibustering… nothing.

The left attempts to make a hero out of an illegal immigrant by leaving out his history with MS-13.


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Say hello to your new neighbors—12 million of them.
 
Under the Biden Administration, illegal border crossings jumped to record numbers. Yet within 8 weeks of President Trump assuming office, border crossings plunged to the lowest in decades.
 
On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” VDH breaks down the step-by-step invasion on our southern border that was intricately planned and encouraged by Democrats.
 
“Never in the history of the United States, within four years, did the government, by intent, destroy the border, and welcome in 12 million people.”
 
Meanwhile, Americans needed proof of vaccination or faced being fired from their jobs.
 
“I suppose they thought that maybe people who were coming in without English, without high school diplomas, for the most part, without capital, and without skills would be dependent on federal charges.”

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President Donald Trump announces new tariffs on products from dozens of countries.  

The justices at the Supreme Court hear arguments for a major case that could determine if South Carolina is allowed to not fund Planned Parenthood. 

And a former Biden administration official announced his run for governor in, you guessed it, California.  


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