{"id":2600019,"date":"2026-05-07T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-war-aside-here-are-two-very-good-things-trump-is-doing-domestically\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:12:22","slug":"iran-war-aside-here-are-two-very-good-things-trump-is-doing-domestically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-war-aside-here-are-two-very-good-things-trump-is-doing-domestically\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Two Very Good Things Trump Is Doing Domestically"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-war-aside-here-are-two-very-good-things-trump-is-doing-domestically%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2600019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Gas prices feel bleak, the piece says, but it highlights two management actions it views as important.<\/p>\n<p>First, it claims that new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/only-two-sitting-senators-voted-against-work-requirements-in-historic-welfare-overhaul\/\" title=\"Only two sitting senators voted against ... requirements in historic welfare overhaul\">federal work requirements<\/a> have led to millions losing SNAP (food stamp) benefits-citing the Wall Street Journal\u2019s report of over three million terminations-arguing this is part of President Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill.\u201d It also points to a reported sharp drop in enrollment,suggesting prior expansion under the previous administration went too far.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it argues progress has been made against asylum access it characterizes as being abused. It says the Trump administration has directed visa processing abroad to ask nonimmigrant applicants weather they fear their home government and will not claim asylum after arriving; it cites a Washington Post report about denying visas unless applicants answer \u201cno\u201d to those questions.The article contrasts this wiht past increases in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >asylum\/credible-fear claims<\/a> and endorses the effort to restrict routes to protection in the U.S.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It can feel pretty bleak right now, what with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-bidens-policies-to-lift-oil-and-gas-prices-hurt-u-s-households\/\" title=\"Economists: Biden\u2019s policies to lift oil and gas prices, hurt U.S. households\">gas prices<\/a> nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50 percent higher<\/a> than last year (don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m assured over and over that the war on Israel\u2019s behalf is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HQNewsNow\/status\/2052105386971250996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worth it<\/a>!). But this administration is still doing some very important things that deserve notice. Here are two big ones.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kicking millions of people off food stamps.<\/strong> The Wall Street Journal last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/more-than-three-million-people-have-lost-federal-food-aid-061b0a28?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that new federal work requirements have resulted in more than three million people having their \u201cfood assistance\u201d (free money to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/fns-prod.azureedge.us\/sites\/default\/files\/ops\/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sugary sodas and bags of chips<\/a>) terminated. That\u2019s thanks to President Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d passed last year, and now people who don\u2019t have children and who aren\u2019t disabled actually have to work or even just volunteer for something if they want their treats. <\/p>\n<p>There have been some dramatic results, including a 50 percent drop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/food-stamp-spending-expansion-blamed-for-15-percent-grocery-price-inflation\/\" title=\"... spending increase blamed for 15% rise in grocery prices.\">food stamp enrollment<\/a> in Arizona, according to the Journal. Mind you, this comes after the previous administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/biden-food-stamps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turbocharged the program<\/a> in 2021, increasing recipient benefits by 25 percent from what they were. That was the largest expansion in history. Enough is enough with the welfare. Keep going, President Trump!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Further ending the asylum scam.<\/strong> Far more important than putting up a wall that\u2019s even a thousand feet high is halting the obscene flow of foreigners setting a single toe on U.S. soil\u00a0and earning an automatic, indefinite right to stay by way of the magic word: asylum. So absurd is the scheme that the Supreme Court is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/25\/supreme-court-weighs-asylum-policy-critical-to-combatting-border-surges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deliberating<\/a> whether a foreigner can secure that right by claiming asylum without even being on American territory. <\/p>\n<p>But the Trump administration has taken steps to stop it, and The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/28\/trump-asylum-nonimmigrant-visas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> last week that visas to the U.S. will be denied to foreigners who don\u2019t first formally affirm that they are not in fear of their own country\u2019s government. In other words, their intent in visiting America is not to claim asylum in hopes of staying once they arrive.<\/p>\n<p>During Trump\u2019s first term, asylum claims, or \u201cclaims of credible fear,\u201d increased each year by the tens of thousands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/sw-border-migration\/claims-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tripling<\/a> between 2017 and 2019. The word had gotten out south of the border that sneaking onto American soil and saying the magic word kicked in a years-long process of court dates and appeals, all with legal protection to stay in the U.S. while it played out.<\/p>\n<p>The Post reported that the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio has instructed U.S. consulars abroad to ask all nonimmigrant visa applicants whether they currently experience harm in their own countries and whether they would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-face-of-criticism-buttigieg-blames-trump-for-ohio-train-derailment\/\" title=\"In Face of Criticism, Buttigieg Blames Trump for Ohio Train Derailment\">fear returning home<\/a>. \u201cVisa applicants must respond verbally with a \u2018no\u2019 to both questions for the consular officer to continue with visa issuance,\u201d the directive said, according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>A person named Jeremy Konyndyk, described as president of the group Refugees International, was quoted in the article accusing the administration of \u201ctrying to systematically demolish any means by which a persecuted person could seek protection and safety in the United States.\u201d If that\u2019s the intent, it has my full endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually none of these people are \u201cpersecuted.\u201d They\u2019re from countries with corrupted or inept governments that, nine times out of ten, they voted for. Now that their homes are surrounded by the squalor they chose, they want to come here and get loaded up with welfare, which Democrats eagerly oblige, all while doing nothing to assimilate. This is how we ended up with \u201cLittle Mogadishu\u201d Minneapolis, where we imported an endless string of Somalis, who now <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/09\/democrats-want-anti-ice-protesters-to-die-so-they-can-protect-their-fraudulent-patronage-with-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scam the American taxpayer<\/a> to the tune of billions. Then they elected the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/12\/ilhan-omar-is-a-walking-case-for-higher-u-s-citizenship-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most ungrateful refugee<\/a> to Congress. That all needs to end yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>And so, while it might feel sometimes like we\u2019re swirling in a toilet bowl, just remember, there are good things happening.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may feel bleak, but this administration is doing major things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2600020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Donald-Trump.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[66411,79278,53031,3634,35343],"class_list":["post-2600019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-campaign-update","tag-conservative-actions","tag-domestic-policy","tag-trump","tag-u-s-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Donald-Trump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600023,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600019\/revisions\/2600023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}