Terrifying & un-American:
#Trump & his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of #PresidentialPower over the machinery of #government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the #ExecutiveBranch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.
#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump intends to bring #IndependentAgencies — like the #FCC… & the #FTC… under direct presidential control.
He wants to revive the practice of “impounding” funds, refusing to spend money #Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like — a tactic that lawmakers #banned under President Richard #Nixon.
He intends to strip #EmploymentProtections from tens of thousands of #career #CivilServants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to HIS agenda. & he plans to scour the #intelligence agencies, the #StateDepartment & the #defense bureaucracies to remove ofcls HE has #vilified as “the sick political class that hates our country.”
“The president’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal govt in a way that hasn’t been done since F.D.R.’s New Deal,” said John McEntee, a fmr WH personnel chief who began #Trump’s systematic attempt to sweep out ofcls deemed to be #disloyal in 2020 & who is now involved in mapping out the new approach.
#Trump & his advisers are making no secret of their intentions — proclaiming them in rallies & on his campaign website, describing them in white papers & openly discussing them.
“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence & seize them,” said Russell T. Vought, who ran the Office of Management & Budget in the Trump WH & now runs a policy org, the Center for Renewing America.
…Vought & McEntee are involved in Project 2025, a $22M presidential transition op that is preparing policies, personnel lists & transition plans to recommend to any Republican who may win the 2024 election. The transition project, the scale of which is unprecedented in conservative politics, is led by the #HeritageFoundation, a think tank that has shaped the personnel & policies of Republican admins since Reagan.
That work at Heritage dovetails w/plans on the #Trump campaign website to expand #PresidentialPower that were drafted primarily by 2 of Trump’s advisers, VincentHaley & RossWorthington, w/input from other advisers, including #StephenMiller, the architect of Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda (#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #FamilySeparation)
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