Washington – President Donald Trump’s office seemed to deliberately give a daily dose of a shock to the country in the second week.
He was a chaotic reminder of his first term. The White House found itself back on its instructions to freeze federal expenses on grants and loans. And the Republican President made an incapable allegations after a deadly plane crash near Washington.
Trump also carried forward his steps against the institutions that were elected to lead him. His administration excluded the prosecution who worked on capital riot cases and formed the basis to purify the FBI agents. Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire colleague, started efforts to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.
Some takeaways from week number 2:
New administration, old problems
Trump and his team also impressed some of their critics with a stable section of executive orders in their first week. The administration was better organized and the last time was more effective than the President of Trump.
But in its second week, Trump’s White House stumbled himself with a misleading memorandum, which was aimed at freeze federal money, causing disruption and lawsuits. A judge temporarily blocked the instructions, and the memo was quickly canceled. Then, Trump responded to the deadliest American aviation disaster in decades, with a uninterrupted diversity initiative, which demonstrated his desire for the tragedy in his personal political criminals.
The waterfall of controversy and resentment recalled some more notorious moments of Trump’s first term, such as the chaos of their initial travel ban on people in Muslim countries and their freewhelling briefing during the Kovid -19 pandemic.
Trump tried to remake Washington
During the 2024 campaign, Trump clarified that he would not compromise on making small twics in Washington. He wanted dramatic changes, especially in institutions such as the Department of Justice that he felt that he had done injustice over the years.
Once he returned to the office, the first step was on January 6, 2021, almost all in the riot. His administration moved further in the last week. The prosecutors were pushed out, and the top FBI officials were ordered to be retired or removed. A senior justice department officer, who had previously worked in Trump’s legal defense team, asked for the name of every FBI agent working in the January 6 cases.
Another shakeup was reported in the country’s capital. A top Treasury Officer abandoned and federal websites were scrubbed by “gender ideology”. The boundaries are visible to Trump and his colleagues how far, if any, if any, to remake Washington.
When doubt, blame
As Trump belongs to the various challenges faced by the country, he has repeatedly pointed to efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in society, or DEI, as the root cause of a crowd of problems.
An order was to issue an order to undo the DEI efforts of the federal government, one of Trump’s initial steps on retaining the Oval office. Trump and his supporters suggested that such initiatives are discriminatory and lead to disability.
Their administration is so intended to erase it from the government that it needs to report any cursory DEI programs to federal workers that continue. But he has not stopped there.
While investigators were started to investigate the cause of a midar collision near the Reagan National Airport between the army helicopter and a jetiner, Trump estimated that the federal diversity and inclusion efforts were somehow convicted. The President could not support those claims when reporters in the White House briefing room repeatedly pressed.
When asked why he felt that the diversity had to do anything from the accident, he said, “Because I have general knowledge.” Ok?”
A day earlier, Trump reprimanded Federal Reserve President Jerome Powell on inflation and again pointed to the DI, said on his social media network that “If Fed would have spent DEI less time” and other liberal issues, “inflation Never have a problem.
Trump had his first big flop
The first major policy setback of the Trump administration was to puncture the week: a sudden freeze of the federal grant fund between a public rebellion, and then unfrief.
Community across the nation depend on federal grants and loans, which are to run a huge array of programs and services from housing and veteran services to community health care centers. Sudden spending in the office of management and budget memorandum, “Stop” sent Shockwaves Coast to the coast.
At a news conference in Capital, New York’s Senate Democratic leader Chak Shumor said, “Every corner of the country is feeling the anger of Donald Trump’s cruel plan.”
The memo was canceled, although the underlying Trump’s executive orders were ordered to spend, which does not align with its policies on climate, dei and more. Regarding the White House-the face showed the limitations of the widespread effort of the administration to reduce the size and realm of the government.
It is one thing to roll back to the government in the abstraction. But cutting programs that serve giants, parents, children, big adults and others are a completely different political equation.
‘A fork in the road’ for federal workers
Trump campaigned on “Dip State of Deep”, and the federal workforce received a major dose in this last week how much disruptive this effort would be.
The new administration had already put freezing freezes on a federal work. Then, millions of federal employees received an “fork in the road” email on Monday after the end of the trade hours on Monday, if they agreed to the payment of eight months when agreeing to resign.
Those who left, were promised that they would be paid through September 30. They will not need to do the necessary work and in the meantime they can seek new employment. But there were extensive concerns about the validity of the proposal and whether Trump was trying to create an atmosphere of toxic work.
Employees have to decide whether to deal by Thursday or not. Those who choose to live will need to work from the office throughout the time and “enhances the standards of suitability and conduct.” Email also warned that there was a possibility of a decline in the future of the government workforce.
It is at the top of the administration that federal officials were ordered to oversee their efforts to be kept on leave.
On Friday, when asked if he was worried that many experienced federal activists would leave, Trump replied, “Everyone is in change. If it gets more then we will get good people to change them. … but we would like to leave them. ,
Is America stuck in a trade war?
Trump once posted a famous post on social media that “trade war is good, and easy to win” – a claim that he is now testing against Canada and Mexico after implementing Tariff, which is now within hours He led anti -retaliation measures by those two countries.
Trump said Tariffs are about preventing illegal smuggling of Fentanel, as well as preventing illegal immigration on US borders with Mexico and Canada. The President on Saturday put 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, with a rate of 10% lower on Canadian oil, natural gas and electricity. China faces 10% tariff.
They angered two of the two largest trading partners in Mexico and Canada, who had earlier interacted with Trump during their first term. Both imposed anti -anti -counter tariffs. Hockey fans provoked the American national anthem in the game of Ottawa Senators in Canada. Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau encouraged his citizens to buy Canadians.
He is against an American President who actually loves tariffs. He is already promising computer chips, steel, copper, medicines and more import taxes on the European Union. His administration has not yet explained why these taxes have not extended the inflation to deteriorate, which he was chosen to fix. The budget lab at Yale University estimates that Trump’s tariffs will cost an average of US domestic $ 1,000 to $ 1,200 in annual purchasing power.