Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump The second week in power seemed to offer a daily dose of deliberate tremors for the country.
There were chaotic reminders of his first mandate. The White House found himself backward on Directive to freeze federal expenses on subsidies and loans. And the republican president accusations not taken care of After a deadly plane crash near Washington.
Trump also intensified his movements against the institutions he was elected to lead. His administration The ousted prosecutors who worked on the cases of riot of Capitol And laid the basics of the FBI agents serving. Elon MuskTrump billionairestarted his efforts to Considerably reduce the federal workforce.
Some take -away meals of week 2:
New administration, old problems
Trump and his team even impressed some of their detractors with a Constant flow of decrees in their first week. The administration seemed better organized and more efficient than the last time that Trump was president.
But during her second week, Trump’s White House tripped in itself with a confusing memo that aimed to freeze federal funding, causing disturbances and leading to prosecution. A judge temporarily blocked the directive and the note was quickly canceled. Then Trump responded to the most deadly American aviation disaster for decades by blaming the diversity initiatives, demonstrating his desire to shoe tragedy in his personal political crusades.
The controversy and indignation waterfall recalled some of the most infamous moments of Trump’s first mandate, such as the chaos of its initial travel ban on the people of Muslim countries and its freewheeling briefs during the pandemic of the pandemic 19 years old.
Trump tries to redo Washington
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump clearly indicated that he would not just make small adjustments to Washington. He wanted a dramatic change, in particular in institutions such as the Ministry of Justice which, according to him, had harmed him over the years.
Once back to power, the first step was forgiven almost everyone accused on January 6, 2021, Riot. During last week, his administration went even further. Prosecutor were pushedAnd senior FBI officials were ordered to retire or be dismissed. A senior official of the Ministry of Justice who previously worked in Trump’s legal defense team asked for the names of each FBI agent who worked in the cases of January 6.
Other reshuffles have been reported throughout the national capital. A senior treasure official to leave and federal websites were rubbing of “genre ideology”. There seemed to be little or no limits to the distance to which Trump and his allies would go to redo Washington.
If in doubt, blame
While Trump deals with various challenges that the country faces, he has repeatedly stressed the efforts to promote Diversity, equity and inclusion In society, or Dei, as a deep cause of a multitude of problems.
One of Trump’s first movements by taking over the oval office was to deliver orders to Cancel Federal Government’s DEI efforts. Trump and his supporters suggested that such initiatives were discriminatory and lead to incompetence.
Its administration is so determined to eradicate it from the government that it forces federal workers to report any Dei Subreptice program that continues. But he didn’t stop there.
While the investigators were just starting to investigate the cause of a open -air collision Near Reagan National Airport between an army helicopter and a jet, Trump began to speculate that federal diversity and inclusion efforts were somehow to blame. The president was unable to support these statements when he was repeatedly supported by journalists in the White House information room.
When he was asked why he thought that diversity had something to do with the accident, he said, “Because I have common sense. ALL RIGHT?”
One day earlier, Trump reprimanded the president of the federal reserve Jerome Powell on inflation and again stressed Dei, saying on his network of social media than “if the Fed had spent less time on Dei” and Other liberal problems, “inflation would never have been a problem. “”
Trump had his first big flop
The first big setback of the Trump administration policy punctuated the first setback of the Trump administration policy: brutal frost, then the disgusting of federal grant funds in the midst of a public revolt.
Communities across the country depend on federal subsidies and loans to manage a wide range of programs and services, housing services and veterans with community health care centers. The sudden “break” announced in a management and budget management office sent shocked shock waves to the coast.
“Each corner of the country has the anger of Donald Trump’s cruel plan,” said Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer in New York at a press conference in Capitol.
The service note has been canceled, although Trump’s underlying executive orders are written on expenses that do not align with its climate policies, DEI and more. The White House on the front has shown the limits of the broader administration effort to reduce the size and scope of the government.
Return the government to the summary is one thing. But the reduction of programs that provide services to veterans, parents, children, older adults and others is a completely different political equation.
“A fork on the road” for federal workers
Trump campaigned on the “deep state dismantling” and the federal workforce obtained a large dose last week how disruptive this effort will be.
The new administration had already imposed a federally of hiring freezing. Then, millions of federal employees received an email of “fork on the road” shortly after the end of working hours on Monday offering them eight months of leave paid if they agreed to resign.
Those who resigned were promised that they would be paid until September 30. They would not necessarily be required to work and could seek a new job in the meantime. But there were major concerns about the legality of the offer and if Trump was trying to create a toxic working environment.
Employees must decide to conclude the agreement by Thursday. Those who choose to stay will have to work full time in the office and face “improved standards for adequacy and driving”. The email also warned that the reduction in future workforce of government workforce was likely.
It is at the top of the administration to order federal officials supervising the efforts of the DEI to be put on leave.
On Friday, if he was worried too many experienced federal workers, Trump replied: “Everyone is replaceable. We will get good people to replace them if it turns out to be more. … but we would be delighted to make them leave.
Is America stuck in a trade war?
Trump once published on social networks that “commercial wars are good and easy to win” – an assertion that he is now doing the test against Canada and Mexico after Imposing prices In a few hours, led to reprisal measures by these two countries.
Trump said the prices aimed at stopping the illicit smuggling of fentanyl, as well as preventing illegal immigration to American borders with Mexico and Canada. The president put on Saturday 25% of the prices on imports in Mexico and Canada, with a rate of 10% on Canadian oil, natural gas and electricity. China faces a price of 10%.
These movements almost immediately angry Mexico and Canada, the two largest trade partners in America who had previously negotiated an agreement with Trump during his first mandate. The two reprisal rates allowed. Ottawa senators’ hockey fans in Canada have flocked to the American national anthem. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged his citizens to buy the Canadian.
They are against an American president who really likes prices. It already promises more import taxes on computer fleas, steel, copper, pharmaceutical drugs and the European Union. His administration has not yet explained why these taxes will not act the inflation he was elected to repair. The Yale University Budget Laboratory estimates that Trump prices would cost $ 1,000 the average American cleaning at $ 1,200 in annual purchasing power.
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Price reported in New York. The writer Associated Press Josh Boak in Palm Beach, Florida, and the correspondent of the AP Congress, Lisa Mascaro, contributed to this report.