Week Two (Continued)
The Trump Administration is keeping up its breakneck pace.
Tuesday night, the Office of Personnel Management offered 2 million federal employees a chance to resign by February 6 and be paid through September, avoiding new in-office work requirements and government downsizing efforts. The buyout faces hurdles, with lawyers questioning if it violates federal spending laws and unions advising skepticism.
Then Wednesday, the Office of Management and Budget rescinded Monday’s controversial memo pausing spending on federal loans and grants. The Trump admin says the reversal “effectively end the court case,” but won’t stop the President’s spending audits; critics called it “more confusion and chaos.”
Meanwhile, President Trump Sharpied the Laken Riley Act into law this week. At the signing, he announced plans to send 30,000 of the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay.
CHOOSE HUMILITY
Amid contentious political climates, it’s easy to cast ourselves in the right and see the shortcomings of others. When we find ourselves grumbling, we must remember to check our own hearts.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Matthew 7:3-5 (CSB) (read full passage)