Trump Should Accept the Gift the Democrat Judges Are Trying To Give Him

November 4, 2025

Two Democrat federal judges are doing their best to give President Trump the budgetary authority that Congress refuses to use, and Trump looks the gift horse in the mouth.  Instead of bickering with the judges, he should just accept their gift.  It would allow a smooth transaction from a dysfunctional democracy riven with faction and hate into a well functioning autocracy free of special interest control of a corrupt legislature.

President Trump has been ordered by the judiciary to begin making SNAP payments on November 5 despite the absence of a congressional authorization.  Some say this is rule by judges.  I see it as judicial recognition that US democracy is so dysfunctional it must be replaced by an autocrat who can keep the government functioning.  This is the end fate of all democracies, and America has now reached this point.

Obama-appointed US federal district judge John McConnell has ordered Trump to pay the 42 million Americans with entitlements to working Americans’ incomes the benefits in the absence of Congressional authorization.  

The Democrats refuse to pass a budget because they say Trump is “crushing people all across the country” by attempting to limit free health care to immigrant-invaders who walked into the US to collect free food, housing, and medical care.

As it is more important to Democrats that immigrant-invaders are supported by American taxpayers than to continue legislative control over the federal budget, Trump should accept the gift of power and dispense with the no longer needed Congress.  

The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.