Cnn
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It was the week that reality began to catch up with the White House.
President Donald Trump clearly did Address to a joint session From Congress on Tuesday evening, there will be no break in its incessant rhythm, its attempts to maximize the executive power and its upheaval of the country and the world.
However, each political action provokes a counter-reaction.
And the first signs of friction appear which could slow down the start of the president’s shock. It is unlikely that this prevents Trump’s aggressive power games, but it shows that even he is immune to political gravity.
There is little sign that he faces any imminent and significant opposition of the Democrats of Congress, whose acts of protest of the hoof and lame during his speech in prime time only exposed their helplessness.
But the complications of a Adjustment of the economy now seems to weigh on Trump’s behavior. The impact on the regular Americans of Elon Musk’s offer to shred the federal government prompted the GOP legislators to demand a role. The Supreme Court has just published a decision This could frustrate the administration’s attempt to close foreign aid. And more Justice Reining decisions in Trump’s captures of power mean that the coming months are probably more hampered than its first six weeks in power.
On Tuesday, for example, an unrepentant Trump made a huge price of imposing 25% coverage in Canada and Mexico. However, a day later, he had exempted the automotive industry for a month. Thursday, he put all the prices of the Western hemisphere on keep up until April. The movements against China remain unchanged. But it was not the first time in his second term that the president has brandished the tariff stick, then back – Mexico and Canada have been on the Trump roller coaster for weeks.
The president’s collaborators often invoice him as the biggest profession of negotiation in history – but we do not know exactly what he has obtained for this concession on a policy that he had framed as anything except existential for prosperity and national security in America only two days earlier.
His decision to clig eyes, however, has followed serious losses on the stock market – a barometer that Trump uses to judge his own performance – an increasing concern of republican legislators on probable consumer price increases which could be caused by the new policy and increasingly dark data on the economic confidence of consumers.
The Republican Senator Rand Paul offered Thursday to the anguish of the GOP. “Almost all of the Kentucky industries have come to see me and said to me:” (The prices) will harm our industry and will put pressure on the prices of houses, cars “, and therefore I will continue to argue against prices,” said Paul.
It seems strange that the president did not achieve the impact of his policies before imposing them. Or that the CEOs of the three large car giants should take the phone to explain that it jeopardized an emblematic American industry. Perhaps the president’s love for the “beautiful” prices blinded him with their consequences. Or, is the theatrical thrill of consumption of power reserved for the president so attractive that it should be nothing more than a blow throughout?
“April 2 will be a great day for America,” said Trump on Thursday, setting up the anticipation for another price deadline – which is sure to create greater uncertainty that could hinder economic feeling and exasperate Mexico and Canada.
Trump’s self-imposed judgment suggests confusion rather than the force around which he focused his political character. He seems to have fallen once Canada and Mexico – which threatened their own prices – refused to withdraw. The next time he brandishes the price stick, he may cry the wolf.
Elon Musk’s efforts to empty the federal government are continuing. Each day brings news of more mass layoffs. This week, it appeared that managers of Musk and the cabinet write large cuts of personnel at the Pentagon and the internal income service. The president is preparing an executive decree to close the Department of Education – an objective of the Republicans for at least four decades – although this certainly triggers a judicial struggle for the executive power.
The early trigger by Musk of the American agency for international development was suspended political fruits, and the general principle of reducing the size of the government is popular among many Americans. But the more deeply it reduces agencies that have a direct impact on the lives of Americans, the greater the political risk.
Plans to reduce tens of thousands of jobs in the Veterans Department already arouse assertions that the president and musk turn their backs on citizens who have served their country and, in many cases, have paid a high price with their physical and mental health. “Their reckless plan to eliminate the ability of the VA to keep America’s promise to veterans will turn against millions of veterans and their families who have risked their lives in service for our country,” warned Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government employees.
Administration officials insist that the cuts aim to rationalize the bureaucracy and to reverse the bloating of the era of President Joe Biden. But they could have a ulterior motive – to advance a plan to privatize the VA by stealth. The president thought of a plan to extend private care for veterans in his first mandate – one of the reasons why the current cuts are so alarming for veterans groups.
“They shot on the VA, gradually cut him off. And now it seems that they are taking a big piece of it, “Naveed Shah, a veteran of the war in Iraq who is now a political director of joint defense, the largest basic organization in the country led by the veterans on Thursday, in Audie Cornish on” CNN this morning “on Thursday.
The growing sensitivity of Musk’s mission is one of the reasons why the GOP legislators and the secretaries of the Cabinet now ask the White House a role in the training of the management of its chainsaw at the Ministry of Government.
Trump said on Thursday that he would hold bihebdomedary meetings from his secretaries of the cabinet and his musks on the government’s screening operation, in a sign that the White House seeks to alleviate future political benefits.
“While secretaries learn and understand people who work for the various departments, they can be very precise about who will remain, and who will go,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday. “We say the” scalpel “rather than the” ax “, he added. “The combination of them, Elon, Doge and other great people will be able to do things at a historical level.”
On Wednesday, the head of Tesla held meetings with the legislators of the Chamber and the Senate in the midst of calls for votes on the codification of some of the cups made by his Doge team. It was the first sign that the Republican Congress – which did almost nothing to verify Trump – now wants to keep part of his power before imminent spending fights.
A greater involvement of the congress also follows a decision of the Supreme Court this week in which a majority of 5-4 told the administration that it should finally pay more than $ 2 billion in frozen foreign aid already appropriate by the congress. The case is far from being a final judgment on the extraordinary use of executive power by the administration. But he gave an index that the court could contest the conviction of the White House that it has a unilateral power to close the programs and the departments.
On the one hand, Republican legislators could request a credit slice for achieving an objective that has long united its party – limiting the government. But their involvement will certainly slow down the rhythm of Musk’s shock therapy. After all, each legislator has a project in its district to save. And a result of the Doge Purge was to underline the fact that the federal government is not limited to Beltway. Each state has its large federal building – and jobs and programs are threatened in each state as the government’s dismantling campaign continues.
An effort to codify Musk law cuts is the appropriate constitutional course and could spare the prolonged legal battles of the administration in certain cases. But this will also add to a congress already increased by the need to transmit enormous tax reductions proposed by Trump, his budget, a future ceiling crisis and a potential government closure. And forcing the Republicans to vote on cuts that could prove unpopular could also play in the hands of Democrats.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, said on Thursday that he was working with the Senate Committee of Finance to make “good progress” on the legislation, but that “it will take some time”.
Taking time in progress directly unlike the disturbance of Trump and Musk, think later Mantra.
The Revolution still seems to occur. It will just go a little more slowly.