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Two weeks before the term of President Donald Trump, narrative suddenly swing back and forth. A series of administrative orders began the term: new discipline and organized government proof. Fast retreat from federal funds frozen: proves that Trump's first evidence of chaos as president. Elon Musk's lightning war on the USAID: Who can be sure?
The first Trump administration caused many people to violate any effort. No matter what Trump promises, he is too good at serving as the president, and the invalid manager cannot achieve this goal. He did really want to abolish Obama's medical reform and build the border wall, but he just had no attention. His employees were attracted by internal hatred and could not be useful. As a result, eternal obstacles and obstacles.
Recently, the Trump World has cultivated greater control. Trump's 2024 campaign co -manager Susie Wiles maintained a regular track during the election (except for some obvious exceptions), and she is now Chief of Staff of the White House. The 2025 project is the external efforts led by the current and even future White House staff, which also shows how to better implement how to perform better in the second semester. When Trump signed a series of execution orders in many aspects on January 20th and 21st, although the federal judge's sharp condemnation and drafting errors caused suspicion of people, it seemed to prove that the situation had changed.
but Chaos and strategy To understand this presidential position, it is a misleading and helpless binary document. Chaos can help Trump, because it makes Congress, external advocates or the public facing challenging coordination resistance. Many White House's actions seem to be usurping the legislature, but the speed of this move makes Congress of both sides look shock and soft. However, his goal is not just caused confusion. Trump likes to keep the assistant's scattered-it enables him to play a role and prevent any faction from being too strong. (His gratitude for checks and balances does not seem to have expanded to Congress and courts.) Internal disputes are not a disadvantage for Trump: this is the way he solves the dispute.
In addition, chaos is not a lack of strategy. As I wrote last week, the donation of the management and budget office was not a temporary move, but part of the long -term planning of conservative ideology to challenge the law to prevent the president from retaining funding. This is why the White House retreat from frozen is almost only temporary.
Elon Musk's actions seem to be even more improvised through the so -called government efficiency department. Unlike OMB's colic, Musk has little interest in the risk of his federal government's operation. According to reports, his team includes unswary experienced assistants under the age of 19. Nonetheless, how Twitter's transition to X is a good model of how to play a role. After Musk actively took over, the company's refugees collapsed completely. More than two years later, the location was overwhelmed by the racist giant, but it still has functional and has become Musk's powerful political weapon.
If the musk is left for ourselves, we may expect that DOGE is similar. He has obtained nearly 1 % of the federal labor resignation, almost carried by a single person. The International Development Agency of the United States has fallen into the edge of death. According to reports, he has obtained the right of government data. As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote yesterday: "This is an administrative coup." Muskhua's federal government may not be able to serve the public well, but it may become Musk and The effective political tool of its allies.
This may not be the only administrative coup in action. New employees are joining the government every day, and many of them are connected with the plan of the 2025 project. Russell Vough is the intellectual leadership light of the 2025 project. It passed a program voting yesterday to confirm the leadership of the week. Adam Candeub, another project contributor in 2025, was just appointed as the chief consultant of the Federal Communications Commission. This group is in an orderly manner than Musk, and prefers a cautious and quiet plan, not his straightforward, noisy nails.
Unity Musk and ideology are committed to their promises that they can do, and see what they can get rid of. If it looks like chaos, then that's it. They know what they want to do.
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