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fromAxios
10 hours ago

Trump charts path to total control amid government shutdown

Zoom in: Trump said he met Thursday with White House budget chief Russ Vought to discuss what "Democrat agencies" should get cuts, casting the shutdown as a chance to shrink a federal workforce Trump has long viewed as hostile. Goading Democrats, Trump flaunted Vought's role in Project 2025 ("he of PROJECT 2025 Fame") - the hard-right blueprint for expanding executive power that Trump disavowed on the campaign trail after it became a political liability.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

The Shutdown Isn't a Stalemate It's a Power Grab. And the Media Are Missing It.

The shutdown is a deliberate Republican strategy to centralize executive power, with Russ Vought using unilateral spending cuts as a dry run to reshape federal authority.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

The capitulation of the US media is not an aberration

American democracy faces unprecedented peril as executive power consolidation, information manipulation, and selective concealment of evidence threaten free and fair elections.
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