Trump Riles Washington as He Tries to Overthrow the Existing Order

The New York Times ^ | Feb. 4, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Peter Baker

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Trump in just two weeks back in office has moved with astonishing speed and boundless ambition to overturn the existing political, economic, cultural and international order in an even more far-reaching way than many of his supporters or critics had imagined possible.

Mr. Trump has thrown the nation’s capital into turmoil by purging enemies at home, attacking allies abroad, shuttering one agency while targeting others, handing the tools of government to an unelected billionaire, ignoring multiple laws, trying to rewrite the Constitution and even flirting with staying in power beyond his two-term limit.

Taking a Gatling gun approach to governing, firing shots in all directions at the same time, Mr. Trump has left virtually no corner of Washington untouched as he seeks to tear down the old apparatus and refashion it to his liking. Day after day, the city has been roiled with one political shock after another, starting with provocative social posts early in the morning, moving to personal conflicts in the middle of the day and finally to threatening staffwide emails after midnight.

A protest on Monday at the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development turned confrontational when several congressional Democrats tried to enter the building after employees were locked out. Security guards blocked the lawmakers, who vowed to get a court order to prevent Mr. Trump from subsuming the agency into the State Department. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Monday that he was now the agency’s acting director.

The showdown over the aid agency, which was created by Congress in 1961 and presumably can be closed only by Congress, reflects just one front of the battle. Mr. Trump effectively moved on Monday to dismantle another agency disliked by conservatives and corporate chieftains.

After firing the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mr. Trump...

[j_guru]

I read elsewhere that the Act that congress passed, did not create the agency, but rather, it was created by executive order via John Kennedy.

[budj]

Well, given that this order is from Soros/0bama/Biden/Harris ...

[mikey_hates_everything]

They knew what he was going to do. That’s why they tried to kill him last Summer.

[RummyChick]

There is going to be an interesting inflection point that is going to come very quickly as the young nerds see the pattern.

Musk sees why USAID has to be shut down. He sees the “evil” things NED has done.

But what happens when Stefanik was a Director of the “evil” organization and Rubio was a director of one of the offshoots, IRI.

I think the money laundering and money for Black Ops is going to continue. Maybe we can just get rid of some of the insane grift in the USAID department .

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NED co-founder Allen Weinstein in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

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[SpaceBar]

He ain’t ‘trying’, Peter.

Prepare yourself for a four year enema.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“Tries” ???

[Allegra]

…the existing very corrupt, tyrannical political, economic, cultural and international order…

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Trump Riles Washington as He Tries to Overthrow the Existing Order”””

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a better and shorter headline would be-—

Trump Riles Washington as He Overthrows the Existing Order

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””2025 is the year for retribution”””

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I would say-—

2025 is the year for Common Sense

[ViLaLuz]

“Overthrow” LOL

[Orosius]

“he seeks to tear down the old apparatus and refashion it to his liking.
No, to the liking of 77,284,118 Americans.”

And the Founding Fathers and authors of the Constitution.

[chopperk]

Thank God we’ve got Trump.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Founding Fathers and authors of the Constitution.”

Imagine how they are partying in heaven!

[CIB-173RDABN]

Security guards blocked the lawmakers, who vowed to get a court order to prevent Mr. Trump from subsuming the agency into the State Department. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Monday that he was now the agency’s acting director.

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They need a refresher course in our Constitution. We have three equal and separate branches of government.

A court might rule on a law but the courts have been very reluctant to interfere with the other two branches and how they do their job.

The big question what are they trying to hide.

[Pearfect]

Baker IS A LEFT WING RADICAL WRITER FOR THE NYT.

NYT ( NOT YOUR TRUTH )