The Trump administration is moving quickly to drain the swamp at NASA, with reports indicating that space entrepreneur Jared Isaacman will lead the charge to transform America's moon program from a bureaucratic money pit into a lean, effective operation that actually serves the American people.
NASA's latest moon rocket sits on a Florida launch pad as a monument to everything wrong with big government - massive cost overruns, endless delays, and a mission that seems more focused on political theater than American greatness. But under Trump's leadership, that's about to change dramatically.
Isaacman, who made history as the first private citizen to conduct a spacewalk, brings a private sector mentality that's the antithesis of Washington's spend-and-delay culture. While career bureaucrats have turned NASA into another bloated federal agency more concerned with diversity quotas than reaching the stars, Isaacman has actually been to space - twice.
"Big federal projects tend to grow in cost, delay in schedule, and drift in purpose," according to sources familiar with the situation, but Isaacman is determined to "make sure that NASA is staying tied to the public interest instead of political symbolism."
This represents a seismic shift from the Biden years, when NASA was more focused on climate change propaganda and woke hiring practices than actual space exploration. The contrast couldn't be starker - while Democrats turned our space agency into another vehicle for leftist ideology, Trump is putting a proven leader in charge who's actually accomplished something in space.
Patriots should be celebrating this news. For too long, NASA has represented everything wrong with the federal government - endless spending with little to show for it, projects that benefit contractors more than citizens, and leadership more interested in political correctness than American supremacy in space.
With Isaacman at the helm, NASA can finally return to its core mission: making America the dominant force beyond Earth's atmosphere. The question now is whether the entrenched bureaucracy will get in line with Trump's vision, or if they'll need to be shown the door along with their failed programs.