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2025-02-06 Home Front: Politix
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President Trump's stunning start: Reshape the government, remake the world
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[USA Today] Don't blink.
President Donald Trump, the sequel, has moved in his opening days with a velocity faster than any modern-day president, testing the boundaries of his power and challenging the checks and balances that have marked America's democracy from its founding.
He has even pitched plans to redraw the map of the world, from Greenland to Gaza.
To remind: It's only Day 17.
Laws stymied, notably the bill passed with bipartisan support banning TikTok. Appropriated funds withheld, although a second federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the administration's sweeping freeze on federal grants and loans. Government agencies dismantled, starting with USAID; the Education Department may be next. A constitutional amendment guaranteeing birthright citizenship redefined by executive order. Tariffs threatened, imposed and paused on foreign countries, rattling the markets and allies.
Plus the "Fork in the Road" deadline − that was the subject line of the first email they received − looms Thursday for about two million federal workers to decide whether to take an unprecedented offer of buyouts. Even the CIA on Tuesday offered buyouts to almost all of its workforce.
The idea of a 100-day action plan, the milestone set by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office in the midst of the nation's worst depression, now seems almost quaint, like snail mail. Helped by a compliant Congress, Trump 2.0 is moving at fiber-optic speed, with more discipline and bigger ambitions than during his first term. 
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