The Social Security Commissioner is out. Add her to the list.
The firings continue. Over the weekend, it was a brace of immigration judges,1 hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration, hundreds more at DHS, an unknown number at the FDA. Trump’s goons are trying to get the Supreme Court to bless his firing of a government ethics watchdog. And [...] they’re also trying to hire back some nuclear safety workers they fired last week—hey, look, who knew they might be important?
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The more aggressively Trump and Co. move without receiving real pushback from voters or elected Republicans, the bolder they seem to become to go still further. “He who saves his Country,” Trump posted on Saturday, “does not violate any Law.”
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Senate Republicans are waving through nominee after ludicrous nominee. The DOGE boys are worming their way into agency after agency. With the prologue stage of the Trump administration wrapping up, Trump’s laws do not constrain the People’s Emperor post feels like a thesis statement for what comes next.
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Everything moves faster and faster. So far, Americans seem barely to have noticed. Maybe it should be some grim comfort that it’s all coming to a head faster than any of us might have thought. Soon, we all may be forced to pay attention, whether we like it or not.
The Bulwark
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