The Monday morning after Trump actually imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and markets went down in Asia stock markets and pre-market, and experts speculated but didn't really know, it might be a bargaining tactic, but that he needs to actually put the tariff on to make it really effective, and then later he can scale it back. Similar with Greenland, at first it was a more frivolously-taken comment and then later it started to become more real.
Trump no longer listens to when people say You can't do that. That's not how that's done. He no longer believes that. Mike Allen.
Musk at Twitter fired a bunch of people (kept only thoes he knew he needed) and then later hired some back. Now Musk is inside the Fed treasury system, and the government might do the same thing. Fire a bunch of people.
Musk had called USAID a criminal organization. It distributes funds around the world for charity organizations and such. It's agents have security clearances. He said it funded the Covid lab or someting. So they go into organizations, claim fraud, make allegations, and then clean house.
Just going through outflow payments from the Treasury and saying, Let's cut that one, Let's cut that one, etc.
Questions about executive branch's authority to legally do these things (if done by previous White House, and not by Congress signed into law which it was). But they're just doing it by executive order anyway.