Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump’s second week of office seemed to provide a daily dose of deliberate bumps for the country.
There were chaotic memories of his first term. The White House was found in its guideline to freeze federal expenditure on grants and loans. And the Republican President grabbed an allegations not supported after a fatal plane crash near Washington.
Trump also escalated his movements against the institutions that he had chosen for the leadership. His government displaced prosecutors who worked on Capitol Riot and laid the basics for cleaning FBI agents. Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire ally, began the effort to dramatically reduce the federal assistant.
Some snack bars from week No. 2:
New administration, aged problems
Trump and his team even impressed some of their critics with a steady stream of management regulations in their first week. The administration seemed better organized and more effective than last time when Trump was president.
But in his second week, Trump’s white house stumbled across himself with a confusing memo that freezing federal financing, causing disorders and led to complaint. A judge blocked the guideline temporarily and the memo was quickly lifted. Then Trump has reacted to the deadliest disaster of American aviation for decades by blaming unfounded initiatives for diversity and his willingness to end the tragedy of tragedy in his personal political crusades.
The cascade of controversy and outrage remembered some of the more notorious moments of Trump’s first term, such as the chaos of his initial ban on travel from people from Muslim countries and his free-running briefings during the Covid 19 pandemy.
Trump tries to recreate Washington
During the entire 2024 campaign, Trump made it clear that he would not be satisfied with tiny changes in Washington. He wanted dramatic changes, especially in institutions such as the Ministry of Justice, which he believed that he had wronged him over the years.
When he was back in office, the first step apologized almost everyone who was charged on January 6, 2021, Riot. His administration continued last week. The prosecutors were pushed out and the Top -FBI officials were instructed to retire or be fired. An official of the high -ranking Ministry of Justice, who previously worked in Trump’s right -back team, asked for the names of every FBI agent who worked on January 6th.
Other shaking were reported in the entire capital of the nation. A top official of the Ministry of Finance and the federal government of the federal government were scrubbed by “gender -specific ideology”. It seemed only a few, if at all, to limit how far Trump and his allies would go to remake Washington.
If in doubt
When Trump deals with various challenges of the country, he has repeatedly pointed out efforts to promote diversity, justice and inclusion in society or the main cause of a variety of problems.
One of Trump’s earliest steps to regain the Oval Office was to issue the Federal Government’s efforts. Trump and his supporters suggested that such initiatives are discriminatory and lead to incompetence.
His administration is so intended to exterminate it from the government that the federal employees have to report the ongoing secret DEI programs. But he didn’t stop there.
While the investigators only began with the investigation of the cause of a collision near Reagan National Airport between a helicopter of the army and a Jetliner, Trump began to speculate that the efforts of federal diversity and inclusion were somehow to blame. The president could not support these claims when she repeatedly pressed on it by reporters in the briefing room of the White House.
When asked why he believed that diversity has something to do with the crash, he said: “Because I have common sense. OK?”
A day earlier, Trump reported the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, about inflation and pointed out again. In his social media. “”
Trump had his first substantial flop
The week was the first substantial setback of the Trump government: freezing the abrupt and then the fulfillment of the federal scholarship in the middle of a public revolt.
Municipalities in the whole country rely on federal grants and loans to manage a variety of programs and services, from living space and veteran services to community health centers. The sudden editions of “break”, which was announced in an office for management and budget memo, sent Shockwaves Coast to coast.
“Every corner of the country feels the anger of Donald Trump’s cruel plan,” said the democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer from New York, at a press conference in Capitol.
The memo was lifted, even though the underlying Trump Executive Order, to clamp expenses that do not match its guidelines for the climate, dei and more. The white house around the face showed the limits of the government’s wider efforts to reduce the size and scope of the government.
Roll back in connection with the summary is one thing. Cutting programs that veterans, parents, children, older adults and other services provide is a completely different political equation.
“A fork in the street” for federal workers
Trump campaigned for “Demonage The Deep State”, and the federal employee received a great dose last week how disturbing these efforts will be.
The fresh administration had already ceased freezing from the federal government. Then millions of federal employees received an e -mail “fork in the street” shortly after the end of business hours on Monday, in which they offer eight -month vacation if they agreed to resign.
Those who terminated were promised to be paid by September 30th. They don’t necessarily have to work and in the meantime could strive for a fresh job. However, there were broad concerns about the legality of the offer and the question of whether Trump tried to create a poisonous work environment.
The employees have to decide whether to lose the deal by Thursday. Those who choose a stay must work full -time from the office and be exposed to “improved standards for suitability and behavior”. The e -mail also warned that future downsizing from the state workforce is likely.
In addition to the administration, this is to commission the federal officials to oversee the efforts to go on vacation.
When asked whether he was afraid on Friday that too many experienced federal employees would go, Trump replied: “Everyone is interchangeable. We will make good people to replace them when it turns out that it is more. … but we would love to leave them. “
Is America in a trade war?
Trump once posted eminent on social media that “trade wars are good and easy to win” – an assertion that he is now being put to the test against Canada and Mexico after being imposed on tariffs within hours these two countries led.
Trump said that the tariffs are about stopping the illegal smuggling of fentanyl and preventing the illegal immigration on the US borders with Mexico and Canada. The president won 25% tariffs for imports from Mexico and Canada on Saturday at a speed of 10% for Canadian oil, natural gas and electricity. China is exposed to a tariff of 10%.
These movements annoyed Mexico and Canada almost immediately, the two largest trading partners in America, who had previously negotiated a contract with Trump during his first term. Both raised retribution tariffs. Hockey fans at the game of Ottawa Senator in Canada Bugen on the US national anthem. The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged his citizens to buy Canadians.
You have against a US president who really loves tariffs. He already promises more import taxes for computer chips, steel, copper, pharmaceutical drugs and the European Union. His administration still has to explain why these taxes will not worsen the inflation in which it was chosen. The budget tablator at Yale University estimates the tariffs of Trump’s tariffs of the average American budget of 1,000 to $ 1,200 for annual shopping.
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New York price registered. Associated Press Writer Josh Boak in Palm Beach, Florida and AP congress correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
