Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025

[speak easy]

Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.

Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.

He wants to revive the practice of “impounding” funds, refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like — a tactic that lawmakers banned under President Richard Nixon.

He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as “the sick political class that hates our country.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

[flamingdem]

1. Why so confident

What's up the sleeves of the repugnant repubs?

Third party or another more nefarious way to fake win?

Insane that he's even running!

[LiberalFighter]

2. At a minimum we need control of at least one chamber in Congress.

Preferably both.

And we damn well need Biden to win.