President Trump’s urge to expand and consolidate power increases on several fronts, even if the government level is the focus of the government on the Capitol Hill. Trump’s actions sharpen the fears of critics from crawling authoritarianism.
The shutdown and Trump’s wide-ranging apply of power are linked in a way. Trump has searched for fresh ways to improve the pressure on the Democrats who say that they will not appear to the Republican demands to reopen the government without changes in health policy.
On Friday, Trump’s budget director Russell Vougt announced that federal financing of 2.1 billion US dollars for infrastructure projects in Chicago would be held back.
This happened shortly after $ 18 billion was stopped Under similar circumstances For New York City.
The measures were allegedly related to the apply of racial or other guidelines for diversity, justice and inclusion (dei). But Chicago and New York are democratic strongholds and habitual goals of the president’s rhetorical anger.
Trump and Voe have also threatened to make mass decisions from federal workers, a break from the closure of the recent past in which the employees were assessed.
Measures in connection with the closure are only a facet of an overall Trump approach that is concerned about freedom and bourgeois freedom -even if he and his allies defend them as in national interest.
On Friday, the Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said Trump, instructed Pete Hegseth Secretary to “provide all the necessary troops to protect the war fighting of Portland”.
The murder rate in Portland, ORE, has dropped by 50 percent this year. According to statistics From the city’s police office. Data from the FBI It indicates that the city rates the 72nd place for PRO -Kopf -Verwalt criminal offenses nationwide.
Nevertheless, Leavitt said that Trump had instructed his helpers to start Review of aid for Portland That could possibly be cut. “We will not finance states, allow anarchy,” she said.
On Saturday, a federal judge Trump kept the National Guard in Portland at the moment. The judge of the district court, Karin Imgut, found that Team Trump’s argument for the need for such a step was “simply directed to the facts”.
Trump nominated Immergut to her position during his first term. The deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, nevertheless referred to the judge’s decision on Saturday with “legal uprising”.
In the Washington Post, Washington Post revealed details of the administration’s proposal at the end of last week at some universities and universities.
The basic offer was that the universities could maneuver themselves in a preferred position to maintain federal money signed too Trumps “Compact for Academic Excellency in Higher Education”.
However, the price in academic freedom would be considerable.
A provision states that all university employees in their official skills “have to do without measures or speeches in relation to social and political events” unless these events directly influence the colleges.
Another measure required that units within a university are “abolished” that “reduce” conservative ideas – at best a brightly defined concept.
An equally unspecific third measure asked the universities to examine potential foreign students who “demonstrate the hostility to the United States, their allies or their values”.
In a lengthy riposte on social media, the Rede-Rede organization argued the basis for individual rights and expression that “monitoring the compulsory government, which tries to end the first change to impose official orthoxy, is unacceptable.”
There are several other ongoing furors about the tendency of the President to apply his power in an unusually personal way.
Trump’s striving for the former FBI director James Comey has produced fresh revelations in the past few days.
Two high -ranking prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia were released. One of them, Michael Ben’ary, was attacked by a Pro Trump figure on social media because she was supposed to be resistant to the indictment against Comey.
In a farewell letter to colleagues received by the New York Times, Ben’ary complained that the current leadership of the Ministry of Justice is “more about punishing the president’s perceived enemies than with the protection of our national security”.
Regardless of Reuters, Reuters reported that an FBI agent had been relieved of the obligation to have refused to arrange a “perpetrator” from Comey.
In a more bizarre case, the head of the presidential library of the former President Eisenhower was forced to step down Monday. At least partially the cause seems to be his refusal to give a sword from the library, the Trump the British King Charles III. Presented by Trump.
At the same time, events on the world stage have led to a durability even with some conservatives, which are cautious about extraordinary military actions without the consent of the congress.
Hegseth announced another strike from the United States off the Venezuela coast on Friday. He published a video about the obvious strike on social media and said that it was about Trump’s orders and that “our intelligence was undoubtedly confirmed that this ship wore narcotics with traders.”
No evidence was presented to support this claim – a fact that applies to some of the other incidents that have brought the total amount of people recently killed by the USA to 21.
Senator Randa Paul (R-KY) rose last month after a previous, similar strike with Vice President Vance into a public social media line. Vance made the murder of alleged drug cartel members “who poison our fellow citizens”, “the highest and best use of our military”.
Paul shot back: “What a feel -worthy and thoughtless feeling is to glorify someone without legal proceedings.”
It doesn’t seem to be a way to change the course now.
The first months of his second term were remarkable for the pace and the scale in which he tried to consolidate his own strength.
He argues that he went through the will of the voters who chose him.
But critics, including some former Republicans, see it very differently.
“I have no doubt that he intends to destroy all historical guidelines of American democracy,” said John ‘Mac’ Stipanovich, who was a prominent GOP operation in Florida for decades.
“We live in dangerous times.”
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