Amid a late-winter snowstorm in D.C. yesterday afternoon, Hell froze over. It’s a story you may not have heard. And it’s something neither party ever does, even though both make promises to do so in order to propel themselves into office. What happened? Well, President Trump signed an executive order to make government “less wasteful,” by requiring the heads of all executive-level departments and agencies to cut their budgets—some by as much as twenty percent—and “improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the executive branch.” The EO also invites public input, something that has been sorely lacking for many years:

.@POTUS w his cabinet watching, signed an exec order that requires thorough exam of every executive department & agency pic.twitter.com/ugjgvCGAfy

— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) March 13, 2017

Here’s the full text of the EO:

TRANSCRIPT: Pres.Trump's EO titled "Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch." https://t.co/F5jlRdlzon #MAGA @gehrig38

— Maine First Media (@MaineFirstMedia) March 13, 2017

Some were thrilled that the Swamp Thing’s gettin’ a much-needed hair cut:

https://twitter.com/OliviaOnFire/status/841430991117864962

And Newt Gingrich offered an excellent suggestion for the chopping block:

.@newtgingrich: “They should abolish the Congressional Budget Office. It is corrupt, it is dishonest, it was totally wrong on #Obamacare.” pic.twitter.com/T2ZclPBN5o

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 13, 2017

So many gov. depts. have been politicized, they will do NO good for the USA citizen. Trump's EO today will be looking into that. CBO & ALL

— Art Pressley (@Artco77) March 14, 2017

Right you are.

And, of course, the perpetual naysayers (read: those who have no idea what the limited role of the federal government is) just won’t cut Mr. Trump any slack, insisting that slashing the size of government will, in fact, lead to Armageddon:

This is the EO that leads up to Trump shutting down the government agencies he personally dislikes. https://t.co/KQi2diSiQp

— Katie (@sothenkatiesays) March 14, 2017

https://twitter.com/TheZachBeard/status/841430138675986432

Ah, yes. Order 66. Because advocating for the execution of President Trump and his cabinet is hip and cool these days, or something. But then, mindless drones do tend to believe everything they consume on the interwebz. And CNN.

This EO is going to result in gutting gov't agency budgets to reduce wasteful spending. Also, Trump's still golfing on your tax dollars. https://t.co/qtPtR0IsZu

— Kara Basler (@ThelassaEdaoin) March 13, 2017

Gee, now they’re worried about golf. Where were these trolls for the past eight years when Mr. Obama played round-after-round–after-round, and callously hopped into his golf cart following the beheading of an American citizen by ISIS? Sheesh; give it a rest.

Slashing wasteful spending and weeding out redundancy is a great start. And I’d advocate for the elimination of agencies—let’s start with the EPA, Congress!—that have no right to exist under our constitution, as well as eliminating spending on treadmills for shrimp, parties for hipsters, jazz lessons for robots, and other such ludicrous expenditures bankrolled by you and I. We’re twenty-plus trillion dollars in debt; the federal government has grown way too big for its britches; and it’s become far too invasive in our everyday lives. So yes, Hell froze over yesterday, and not just because President Trump is cutting the size of government, but also because he’s doing exactly what he said he’d do as Candidate Trump: keeping his promises. And that’s a welcome and refreshing change to the zombie-infested swamp he’s willingly waded in to. And to that I say, Bravo, Mr. President! Here’s hoping the feckless GOP Congress will follow your lead.