Washington (AP)-as President Donald Trump approaches the first month in his second term, he has moved at dizzying speed and blunt violence to reorganize American social and political norms and the economy and at the same time the US role in the To define the world.
At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, a billionaire who was not elected in South Africa, to convey the dismissal of thousands of federal employees and possibly created by the congress.
Trump’s approach to immigration and the boundary between the USA and Mexico and its efforts to redesign social policy have overshadowed this efforts by extinguishing, justice and inclusion programs.
The president has also imposed numerous fresh tariffs against US trading partners and more threatened, even if economists warn that pass on the costs to US consumers and feed inflation.
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The Trump administration released thousands of workers who were still in the trial period who were common for fresh jobs. Some had less than an hour to leave their offices.
The potential losses of jobs include doctors, energy infrastructure specialists, foreign service employees, FBI agents, prosecutors, educational and agricultural data experts, employees in overseas and even personnel who would otherwise have to manage the discharges.
At the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was founded after the 2008 financial crisis to protect the public, the administration not only wants to shorten almost the entire workforce, but also delete all data from the past 12 years. The administration agreed to continue measuring the agency until March 3. in accordance with the order of a judge.
While Trump promised to turn Washington upside down, his steps could have far -reaching effects on thousands of federal employees across the country and increasing the unemployment rate if a gigantic number of layoffs occur at the same time.
Mount legal challenges
The judicial challenges of Trump’s guidelines began on the day of inauguration and have been irate since January 20. The administration looks like around 70 lawsuits nationwide, which question its executive commands and parades to reduce the Federal Government.
The congress controlled by Republicans sets up little resistance, so that the judges have given the judges more than a dozen commands that, at least temporarily block aspects of Trump’s agenda, that automatically reach people from an execution order to the end of the US citizenship, that were born in this country to give Musk’s team access to sensitive federal data.
While many of these judges were nominated by democratic presidents, Trump also made unfavorable decisions by judges selected by Republican President. Trump suggested that he could address the judiciary and said: “Maybe we have to look at the judges.” In the meantime, the government said that it will appeal while the press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt every “legal abuse of the rule of law “.
The administration also achieved a few victories when a judge allowed him to move forward with a resigned withdrawal program.
The economic outlook worsens
In the middle of the political upheaval, the latest economic data could cause some concerns from the White House.
According to the Ministry of Labor, inflation increased in January with a monthly rate of 0.5%. In the past three months, the consumer price index has increased with an annual rate of 4.5% – a sign that inflation is increased again for a gigantic part of 2024 after cooling.
Trump told the voters that he could lower inflation and do so almost immediately after taking office. But when Leavitt Trump’s predecessor, the Democrat Joe Biden, accused Joe Biden, recognized the recent inflation indicators “worse than expected”.
Further problems with the problem came when the trade department stated that retail sales had dropped by 0.9% per month in January. A gigantic decline could signal a weakening of the consumer and economic growth.
The Federal Reserve’s report on industrial production also showed that the factory production rose 0.1% in January, which was primarily due to a decline in the production of motor vehicles and parts by 5.2%.
These could be all blips, which means that the monthly data is really critical in February.
The “fair trade” that Trump wants is not necessarily fair
After Trump previously imposed tariffs on China and prepared import taxes on Canada and Mexico, he triggered what he called “Big”. He said his government would put together fresh tariffs in the coming weeks and months to meet the charges of other countries.
Other nations hardly find Trump’s approach.
In her view, it contains other objects than tariffs such as value added taxes that resemble sales taxes. This means that the rates could be much higher than a standard tariff in Europe.
Trump plans in addition to the 25% tariffs for steel and aluminum, which he announced on Monday.
It is not clear whether these trade penalties are mainly negotiating tools or opportunities for Trump to achieve income. So far he has proposed that they are both.
The congress observes how his authority erodes. But there are signs of pushback
The congress is confused by the rush as an institutional authority – as the first government branch of the constitution with its unsurpassed authority on federal expenditure – undermined in real time.
The spokesman for the House, Mike Johnson, R-La., Said Musk’s work “very exciting”. Johnson said Trump took “legitimate measures of the executive”.
But even among the Republicans of the Congress, there were compact signs that protests have appeared were written and on the phone to protect their interests and voters for the household, since the financing of programs, services and government contracts is reduced.
MP Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. “I am not powerless. I am a member of the congress, ”he said.
Democratic legislators have joined demonstrators outside the federal offices and argued that Trump and Musk had gone too far. The Democrats proposed laws for the protection of various programs and even submitted officials against the president about his plans for Bulldoze and the renovation of Gaza.
Trump wants a fresh world order
With his call to Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, Trump hopes that he initiated the beginning of the Kremlin war against Ukraine.
The leaders agreed that their teams “start negotiations immediately”. After Trump had phoned Putin, Trump called the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss both sides to the negotiating table.
Putin Call is a monumental development in a war that has wounded hundreds of thousands dead or seriously.
But the way forward remains complicated.
Zelenskyy said he would not meet Putin until a Trump peace plan is knocked out. Trump received a setback when the European leaders and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth criticized him because he suggested that NATO membership for Ukraine was not on the cards.
The White House faces another dilemma in which Zelenskyy wants the United States and other countries to grant security guarantees for Ukraine, and Zelenskyy insists that he and Trump have an agreement on the contours of a peace agreement.
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Associated Press Writer Aamer Madhani in Munich and the correspondent of the AP congress, Lisa Mascaro, contributed to this report.
