Washington – The first week of President Donald Trump in office is not over yet, but he fulfilled his plan to “flood the area” with a flood of executive actions designed to sweep in his second term and wash the age of Biden.
If the Americans feel the feeling of “shock and amazement,” Trump’s advisors say they hoped to instill, they should not be surprised. These actions, from starting the process of deportation of undocumented immigrants to forgive political supporters and repeal dozens of Biden executive orders, were largely included in the Trump campaign agenda while looking for a historical return to the oval office later of his ultratería 2020. In short, Trump is serving his political base and establishing old scores with new policies.
“We all have some chip on our shoulder, nobody bigger than him,” said the White House Cabinet Deputy director Taylor Budowich, in a telephone interview with NBC News.
But the actions of week 1, which included massive pardons of the convicts of January 6 and abortion activists, represented the low fruit. And although Trump is committed to controlling the narrative of his presidency by calling attention at all times, he is already beginning to see the challenges of implementing his agenda.
This week, a federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump order of the first day that redefined the citizen subsidy of the 14th amendment to any person born in the United States, qualifying it “blatantly unconstitutional.” On Thursday, Mexico refused to provide landing rights to an American military plane loaded with deportees, according to two defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. (A White House official said it was “an administrative problem and quickly rectified).
The precious efficiency department of the Trump government, which is not an official agency, has not yet been launched. One of his co -chairs, Vivek Ramasswamy, is starting to launch an offer of governor in Ohio. The other, Spacex billionaire chief, Elon Musk, has spent time publicly fighting with other Trump supporters about politics, grass and personal differences.
When Trump announced his “Stargate” project to attract private investments to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, Musk attacked the plan, generating a fight on social networks with Sam Altman, the OpenAi CEO.
“They don’t really have the money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform, X, in reference to SoftBank, which is Openai’s partner in the Stargate project. Operai and his chatgpt compete with the Grok function in X.
Altman replied: “I realize what is good for the country is not always optimal for its companies.”
The failures forced Trump to intervene, and he minimized him as an musk that fought against “one of the people he hates.”
Steve Bannon, who popularized the idea of radically restructuring the government, “deconstructs the administrative state,” as he calls it, said Musk has focused on the wrong direction in the first days of the administration.
“You do not bring a Silicon Valley dispute between two technological brothers to the Roosevelt room, which is 5 feet from the oval office and on the global stage,” said Bannon, who also criticized Musk’s affinity for the qualified high H- Visa 1b program as out of tune with the “America First” platform of Trump. “Either you keep it for yourself or tell you privately.”
Musk should keep his eyes on the massive task of cutting the federal footprint, Bannon added.
“We all want Dege to win, but you have to show results. To deconstruct the administrative state and radically reduce government spending, it needs something like dux in combination with [the Office of Management and Budget]”Bannon said.” Now we have to fulfill, and I’m afraid we are burning daylight. “
Even so, Trump’s assistants and allies are satisfied with what they describe as a very successful opening to the presidency that owes to the president’s urgency and the preparation of his team during the presidential transition period. It is informed by the fact that Trump, the second president chosen for non -consecutive terms, is not eligible to seek re -election.
“The president knew exactly what he wanted to do and when he wanted to do it,” said a senior White House official. “There is an action and unequivocal philosophy in our policy. … Some in the past have moderated in a way they thought it was more sustainable. But the reality for the president is that we are in a time of time for action. “
Part of Trump’s plan is “flooding the area” with actions that make it difficult for any individual movement to receive the scrutiny that could be obtained in normal circumstances, said a Trump ally familiar with his plans in the presidency.
He has received help in a favorably stacked congress and led by Republicans. Three of their most controversial nominees will have their confirmation audiences at the same time as next week: Kash Patel for the FBI director; Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence Director; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Among its remuneration acts: revoke security details for several former federal officials.
Trump is already restructuring the federal workforce in a dramatic way. Dozens of national security officials were sent home from the White House works this week while Trump seeks to ensure that only loyal ones are in their proximity. He signed an order on his first day in the position reimplaiming his plan “Program F”, which facilitates the dismissal of thousands of federal workers. On Friday, he said he was considering closing the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a measure that would require the action of Congress.
“As the cabinet is filled, they will also be ready with the same level of activity, the same motivation to go and deliver, so I think we will rely on them and continue doing striking and exciting things.” The White House official said. “We are going to look for ways that really capture politics in events and a visual of everything we are trying to achieve.”
The ally familiar with Trump’s transition planning said the evidence so far suggests that Trump and his team believe they have the mandate to promulgate their complete agenda.
“Do not forgive 1,600 J6 prisoners unless you feel that you will not get any reaction from which you cannot recover,” said the ally.
