NOTHING HAS CHANGED—EXCEPT WHO HOLDS POWER
What is happening in Congress today is not new.
The Trump administration’s actions around immigration, secrecy, misuse of federal resources, and resistance to oversight are not new.
The only thing that has changed is the scale, the boldness, and the degree to which this White House now refuses to even pretend to be accountable.
What should be a routine Homeland Security oversight hearing has turned into yet another platform for political misdirection—fixated on Joe Biden, who is no longer president, rather than on real-time abuses happening under the Trump administration.
The detentions of legal immigrants, asylum seekers, and even U.S. citizens under Trump’s directives are no longer isolated incidents—they are systemic.
And yet the Department of Homeland Security continues to block congressional access to detention facilities in direct violation of statutory authority.
Secret ICE agents, masked and unnamed, are no longer targeting “the worst of the worst.”
They are grabbing people from courtrooms and legally sanctioned proceedings.
FBI agents are being pulled from investigations into terrorism, gangs, and trafficking to assist in rounding up nonviolent, lawful migrants—making the country less safe, not more secure.
And again, this is not new. What’s new is the brazenness. Trump’s allies—Pam Bondi and Kash Patel included—were once at the front lines demanding transparency about Jeffrey Epstein’s files. Trump himself promised to release them.
Now those same figures claim there is “nothing to see,” even while Trump’s own social media posts acknowledge the presence of allegations—he simply dismisses them as “not credible.”
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers who once screamed for Epstein accountability have now voted against releasing the files.
Why?
Because it may now implicate their leader.
Nothing has changed, except who the evidence might harm.
This isn’t just political hypocrisy.
It’s a full-scale betrayal of public trust.
The American people were told the swamp would be drained.
Instead, it was fortified.
Congress has the authority—and the obligation—to investigate corruption and abuse of power.
But every time that scrutiny inches too close to Trump, the GOP majority shuts it down with procedural tricks and tabled motions.
The Epstein cover-up may be the first real fracture point within the MAGA base, who were promised full exposure of elite wrongdoing.
Now they are being asked to look away.
But for a growing number of Americans—including many conservatives—that is no longer acceptable.
What we are seeing is not a new story.
It is the same story repeated: power protected at all costs, truth obscured, and justice deferred.
Until Congress regains its spine and reclaims its role, the erosion of democratic accountability will continue—quietly, procedurally, and with each tabled motion.