People spoke.
In the heart, this is what Donald Trump argues: He was elected president (again) last November, and therefore the American people gave him Planch to act as they see appropriate.
But the reality may be more than the United States. President Trump was moving at lightning speed to implement his agenda – signing a snowstorm of executive orders and empowering the Illon Musk business squad, the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), to reshape the federal bureaucracy, because it disintegrates agencies and pays civilization service.
Why did we write this
The founders of America, who want to prevent political factions, have given equal authority to Congress, courts and executive authority. President Donald Trump’s actions stressed an accurate balance.
In this process, President Trump mainly ends the Congress, which carries the “wallet power”. But instead of trying to prevent him, the Republican lawmakers – who control the congressions – urge to continue.
Mr. Trump also defies the authority of the judicial branch. He attacked the judges as “liberal activists” and suggested that Anything he does to “save” the country It cannot be illegal – although he mentioned it too He was committing the rulings of the court.
For Democrats and many scientists, the situation has all signs of the constitutional crisis: the president raises the balance of power in the United States for centuries as shown by the founding fathers. Instead of three equal branches that act as an verification of each other, the authority has become increasingly focused over the years in the White House-a trend that is now shipped during the era of Mr. Trump in ways, for critics, raising a ghost of tyranny.
“The executive authority broadcasts its powers beyond what any other administration has tried to do,” says Shanna Kushner Jadaryan, a professor at the College of Citizenship and Public Affairs at the University of Serkios. “This is the crisis in which we are.”
To justify their actions, Mr. Trump and his supporters argue that the current situation that broke the degree that he is not democratic. They say that the federal bureaucracy has grown very large, as they say, as Congress says, as they say, it has become impossible for the government to do what the voters want.
“Do not match the will of people,” said Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, during an unofficial press conference recently with Mr. Trump at the Oval Office last week. Nevertheless, voters gave Mr. Trump a relatively narrow victory, as a little less than 155 million votes were made.
The Executive Director of Technology said that the bureaucracy has become “the fourth, unconstitutional, non -constitutional branch – which, in many ways, is currently more than any elected representative.”
In just one month, Mr. Trump – with the help of Mr. Musk and his team – dramatically reduced external aid by eliminating almost the United States Agency for International Development, and began to dismantle the Ministry of Education, and raised the alarm bells on the integrity of the taxpayer information in the Ministry of Treasury and the internal revenue service where Dogs are looking for evidence of waste, fraud and ill -treatment.
Political polarization leaves less voices in the political center
Most Republicans in Congress correspond to Mr. Trump’s calmness of power on the national legislative body, as shown in Article 1 of the Constitution. But some are quietly declining, especially those in the battlefield areas that sometimes adopt the locations of the middle.
Take the Republican Party, Don Bacon, who represents such a region in Nebraska. Although it supports the elimination of the financial protection office for consumers, this must be done correctly.
“We have to follow the law,” Bacon said to CNN. “If there are things we have to re -direct, let us do this in the constitutional way.”
However, voices like Mr. Bacon are few and far apart; The vast majority of Republicans in Congress occupy safe seats from the Republican Party. If they encounter a threat, this is a fundamental challenge from the right if they are seen as anti -Trump. They know that the wide resources available to the Republican Party – including billions of Mr. Musk – can support such a competitor.
What is exacerbated by the issue is the fact that the republican control over both the congressional councils is very narrow, as members do not want both sides in most cases to break the party. This makes Mr. Trump weak by nature in his ability to pass the most controversial elements in his agenda via Congress. Therefore, it focuses on executive procedures – although many of them have faced a challenge in court and can prove that it is illegal.
Piotism, which grows for decades, hinders the ability of Congress to restore its power. “Trump”, the Republicans, including the former explicit deputy Liz Cheney of Wyoming, are now in the political wilderness. The center cavity, which is a reflection of the GerryMandering program that made most of the Congress areas safe for one party or another.
This scenario explains why the founding fathers did not mention political parties in the constitution. They were concerned about the factions. But human nature indicates that the factions were inevitable, and that the founders knew this, says Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
“They were hoping that they discovered what [James] Dr. Perry says: “Madison described” the extent of structure and the correct structure “for our country.” “The structures were all these checks and balances.”
But what they did not rely on is the party, which today translates into a majority of the field, is likely to enhance the president’s agenda, at least until the mid -period elections 2026. But even some Republicans feel distressed enough by the administration that prevents the approved Congress Ask President Trump to release money It means farmers and infrastructure projects, among other things.
The efforts made to curb in the executive branch come and go
The congressional congressional, and the president who takes it strongly, is not just a republican phenomenon. It was happening for decades. President Franklin Roosevelt, a democratic who took office among the Great Depression, has signed hundreds of executive orders in his first year, and unlike President Trump so far, he has obtained Congress to pass the main pieces that the federal government has widely expanded.
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Republican President George W. Bush established the internal security structure this day, and he used the “signing” force when bills were signed in the law. Such data, and if not legally binding, made interpretations of the law that prompted the envelope of the executive authority.
When Democrat Barack Obama lost control of Congress in his first elections in the middle of the period, he used what he called the “pen and phone” strategy to age his agenda: signing executive procedures and phone calls to external groups to pressure Congress to pass Congress legislation.
Recently, President Joe Biden signed more than 40 executive requests in his first 100 days, a record in the post -FDR era. Many of these orders were the efforts made to back down from what his predecessor, Mr. Trump, did – created Pinjong’s effect where departments and parties changed. Mr. Trump has now retreated many orders of Mr. Biden, More than 60 on its own so far.
The efforts made to reform or curb in the executive branch have diminished and diminished over the years.
President Ronald Reagan established the blessing committee, headed by businessman c. Peter Grace, to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. While most of its recommendations have never been implemented, Call the committee With the perception of future efforts to curb the federal bureaucracy.
The most successful government restructuring was launched in 1993 by Vice President Al Gore. In the five years, the national partnership for the re -invention of the government canceled more than 100 programs and 250,000 federal jobs, and unified more than 800 agencies. However, contrary to Mr. Trump’s effort, the Initiative Jorat Initiative included an accurate review of programs and expenses before taking action.
In any case, President Biden lacked attention to government reform. During his first two years in office, he released Two reform initiatives onlyCompared to 37 during President Bill Clinton and 31 during the presidency of Reagan. As a result, President Biden may have helped pave the way for Trump’s effort and the current massacre. The public’s confidence in democracy has been a near -eight decrease since the 1980s. A The last height in the Gallup pollAfter the November elections and before the inauguration of Mr. Trump, it reflects greater satisfaction among the Republicans.
Trump, musk actions that define challenges for American rule
Mr. Musk closed the general misery with the government and turned it into a crusade. DOGE team enters data systems for various government agencies aimed at reducing their size or explicit elimination, which raises interest in public monitoring.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly praised Mr. Musk’s efforts, and made him a “private government employee” amid fears that the millionaire was working without any legal guidelines or supervision. One of the questions on the horizon focuses on many companies’ interests for companies that have work with the federal government, and whether he takes advantage of Dog’s actions. When asked, he denies any conflict of interests.
As for the great American rule, the largest test has not yet come. The legal challenges of many of the actions of Mr. Trump are in the court, and the main question is, what happens if the Supreme Court ruled against him? Is it honest?
Or is Mr. Trump follow an example of the holiday earlier, President Andrew Jackson, whose image is hanging in the Oval Office? In 1832, President Jackson ignored a resolution of the Supreme Court of the Native American Rights, and challenged the Supreme Court to impose its decision. Not possible.
At the present time, Dr. Perry says, “We still see checks in the provincial courts.”
But soon, Mr. Trump can find himself in the same position as Jackson for nearly 200 years, as he faces an order from the court that he has no intention to follow up.
