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Dulcinea

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Sun Feb 16, 2025, 01:37 PM Feb 16

Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while redefining the U.S. role in the world.

At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected, South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the firing of thousands of federal employees and potentially shutter entire agencies created by Congress.

Those efforts have largely overshadowed Trump’s crackdowns on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts to remake social policy by wiping out diversity, equity and inclusion programs and rolling back transgender rights.

The president has also imposed scores of new tariffs against U.S. trade partners and threatened more, even as economists warn that will pass costs on to U.S. consumers and feed inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-firings-tariffs-lawsuits-economy-ukraine-putin-19b79f62ad7c9d51cfb1f0551953051e

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Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month (Original Post) Dulcinea Feb 16 OP
He is the dictator he said he would be Zorro Feb 16 #1

Zorro

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1. He is the dictator he said he would be
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 05:16 PM
Feb 16

He dictates executive orders daily that seriously affect the nation's health with no real interest in the consequences.

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