Trump Promised To ‘Drain the Swamp.’ He Did the Opposite.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp!” The “swamp” is the permanent Washington bureaucracy working to perpetuate itself. In 2020, then-President Trump said he was succeeding: “We’re draining the Washington swamp!” But it’s not true. “He made government bigger,” Economist Ed Stringham says in my new video. ‘That’s going in the wrong direction. […]