Open Letter to President Donald Trump

Nothing is more urgent than compelling Congress to undo the damage Congress has wrought.

April 12, 2025

Dear Mr. President,

The remarkable progress of the first two and a half months of your Second Administration sent a resolute message to political elites: unionized positions that fail to protect the equal individual rights of United States citizens have no place in our government.

You have underscored a fundamental truth—that the American people do not exist to serve the interests of bureaucrats and political insiders. Rather, citizens should be free to use their property as they choose and pursue happiness under a government that is accountable to them.

Congress Must Act

While your bold executive orders have advanced these principles, they remain vulnerable to reversal by future administrations. To restore enduring constitutional self-government, Congress must act. The great challenge is the inertia gripping Capitol Hill. Many members of Congress have no incentive to repeal unwise and unconstitutional laws or dismantle the sprawling array of constitutionally illegitimate federal agencies, offices, bureaus, entire departments, and spending programs that Congress created.

To address this, I respectfully propose a strategy that leverages your unparalleled platform for persuasion. Please consider compiling and publishing a public list of Republicans who have been in Congress for over a decade, yet have not led efforts to repeal a single unconstitutional law or abolish even one wasteful, corrupt bureaucratic program or federal agency.

(I mention Republicans because everyone knows Democrats will not reduce government spending, restrict government power, or dismantle any part of government bureaucracy.)

Such a list would illuminate a troubling reality: certain long-serving members have enriched themselves, their families, and associates through crony favoritism, insider advantages, and political privileges, all while not even trying to repeal the profound harms they inflicted on our republic.

These harms include, but are not limited to, the colossal administrative state and the progressive regime of entitlements on which our government now spends more (of other people’s) money each year than any government or institution of any kind has ever spent in all of recorded history.

A Long Train Of Abuses

The legacy of Congress since the 1930s is not merely shameful—it is unbecoming of a free, responsible, self-governing people.

These are not light and transient grievances, to borrow from our Declaration of Independence; they represent a long train of abuses and usurpations—a sustained betrayal of our Constitution that, if left in place and not repealed, justifies the American people exercising their unalienable right to alter or abolish their government and institute new safeguards for their future security.

Ordinary citizens lack the influence to hold lawmakers accountable for granting powers to the Executive Branch—powers you now wield—that We The People never authorized, while creating and expanding constitutionally illegitimate, counterproductive programs that stifle individual liberty and reward those who are politically-connected.

You, however, possess a unique capacity to challenge Congressional Republicans, particularly those who have some semblance of a constitutional conscience, to rectify these wrongs.

Nothing is more urgent than compelling Congress to undo the damage Congress has wrought.

Shine The Light On Them

By shining a spotlight on Republicans who have prioritized personal gain over restoring constitutional constraints on government, you could rally the American people and galvanize meaningful reform. Such transparency would honor your commitment to dismantling the bureaucratic excesses of Washington, D.C., and helping us transform the progressive bureaucratic regime we have now into the self-governing constitutional republic we want to become.

With profound gratitude for your unwavering resolve to confront the entrenched power of the administrative state, I urge you to wield your influence as a catalyst for lasting liberty. Let’s put the feet of Republicans to the fire and make Congress clean up Congress’s mess.

Sincerely,

Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D.
Denver, Colorado
United States Citizen