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Trump signs new order to vastly expand presidential powers

www.thedailybeast.com Trump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand Presidential Powers

The president’s new executive order would give him control over independent agencies, testing a once-fringe legal theory. Lawsuits are sure to follow.

Summary

Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding presidential control over independent agencies, including the FTC, FCC, and SEC.

The order enforces the “unitary executive theory,” which argues the president has sole authority over the executive branch. It grants Trump’s budget chief, Russell Vought, oversight of these agencies’ performance and budgets.

The move is expected to face legal challenges, as past presidents have largely respected agency independence.

Trump defended the order, stating, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

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America, when are you going to stop this? You finally have a chance to exercise the second amendment, to defend your freedom and to show the world you aren't the bad guys; And you do nothing...

Trump/Musk are literally following the steps laid out by Hitler and they aren't even hiding it.
Legal challenges? They are ignoring the courts. How will that change anything?

When do we start exercising our second amendment on this tyrannical dictator?
Absolutely literally -
I don't even have the words to express my feelings properly to this bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
I hate they way he coops that quote that was meant for luigi.
Trump defended the order, stating, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Okay, Adolf.
If Congress wasn't filled with feckless lickspittles, they could just not fund the executive branch. But they are, so they will
Laws are more like suggestions.
What is the legal argument against this? The article was paywalled, but the summay only says that past presidents have respected agency independence. That sounds like just a gentlemans agreement. Nothing legally binding. So do the challenges have a leg to stand on?
Where are the American "patriots" who would defend democracy and protect the country against tyranny with their 2A rights to their dying breath?

That's right. Fucking crickets from that bunch.
FCC huh? There goes TV that's against him
It's terrifying to think that there's still nearly 4 years left of this.
Can’t think of any way this will come back and bite us. /s
Remember about this in the next terms when the new president will not revert this order.
Wishing for more wishes
Trump voters in my area of the country are still extremely happy with what Trump and Musk are doing. When Trump eventually invests all of social security in his meme coin they will probably be thrilled with that too.
Colour me shocked.
That's why they call these oversite positions "quasi-judicial". Congress has explicit power to create judicial bodies not specified in the Constitution. Of course, who knows what this Supreme Court will do with the plain text.
He's so Meta. A Dictator dictating that he can dictate.
God what a fucking terrible anus mouth. I hate when it smiles.
All the fucking dictators say the same shit.
So Trump doesn't love his country?

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