Chaos in Government Personnel Decisions and Legal Implications

OA1122 - We’re not even three weeks into the second Trump administration and already well into our first Constitutional crisis. How was the world’s richest man given access to the nation’s checkbook and the total authority to shut down a $40 billion federal agency with 10,000 employees--and can he be stopped?  After a quick review of some recent good news, we try to understand how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are illegally reshaping the federal government before closing out the news sandwich with a big L for the Proud Boys.

• D.C. District Court judge Royce Lambert’s order in Doe v. McHenry protecting trans prisoners (2/4/25)

• Trump’s executive order establishing the Department of Governmental Efficiency (1/20/25)

• “The Trump-Musk power grab has happened before--in Hungary,” Zach Beauchamp Vox (2/5/25)

• “U.S. Agency for International Development: An Overview,” Congressional Research Service (1/6/25)

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