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Elon Mask and President Donald Trump have applied the Silicon Valley’s “fast -moving and broken” spirit to the US government.
Men work quickly to reconsider the elements of the federal government, purge they disliked or trusted staff, literally opened the water gate in California, and the constitutional check and balance and public opinion. There is a development fire hose to demonstrate. they.
Musk revealed on Monday was appointed as a special civil servant who can work for up to 130 days in 365 days.
According to CNN reports by Kaitlan Collins and Tierney Sneed, he is not a volunteer or full -time government official, but has a confidential security clearance.
The mask can also access the closely protected payment system paid by the US government. Trump is asked why it is very important for Musk to access such delicate power, and the reason seems to be fired for people.
“Well, he accesses the people and accesses what he doesn’t think is good. If we agree with him, and only when we agree with him. He said that he did not explain in detail, but suggested that there is a mask.
Federal government workers continue to resign from new e -mail addresses in the management and budget offices, and encourage them to pay until September without working. The offer has not been approved by Congress, the Republican members are very silent whether they believe in it, and the union encourages 2 million federal workers somewhere in the neighborhood. I encourage you. Workers need to trade until February 6, but more asterisks are open.
The CNN reported on the weekend that the officials of the National Traffic Safety Commission, which is close to retirement, was told that he was not qualified to acquire after a fatal collision between the American Airlines jet and the Army helicopter. From the report by Pete Muntean in CNN:
The disaster seems to have left the top brass in the scrambled agency behind the scenes to find a way to exempt employees from the Trump administration’s offer. On Friday, the head of NTSB sent a message to an employee who agreed to the first message of management in order to “withdraw the postponed resignation immediately” with the Human Resources Management Bureau.
Congress created a USAID, a organization that distributes US government foreign assistance to developing countries around the world, but the mask and Trump are completely completely in the second week of Trump. The semester that seems to be trying to end.
When he appeared on his social media platform, the mask compared agency with a rotten apple, a “worm full of balls.” He said it was not worth saving.
Trump rejected the USAID worker as a “steep left madman” while appearing in an elliptical office on Monday, and set it when there was “fraud” despite the constitution. He said he would not need a parliament to restore the institution. He did not explain the fraud claim in detail, but repeatedly claimed that USAID paid tens of millions of people to go to the condom to Hamas. There is no evidence of such an expensive condom movement.
However, the distributor in which websites have been deleted and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been nominated as a substitute director.
After Trump ordered foreign aid, dozens of high -ranking officials were taken on vacation, but exceptions such as African AIDS programs were made.
More than 10,000 officials of government agencies were told not to come to the headquarters of the agency on Monday. The security representative refused to permit access to the mask’s government’s headquarters on the weekend and took a vacation.
Foreign aid shows a few of the US government spending, but President John F. Kennedy argued that it is worth investing in Congress.
“A wide range of poverty and confusion leads to the collapse of existing political and social structures, which inevitably invite the totalitarian progress of all weak and unstable areas,” Kennedy said.
Former employees were in a hurry on Monday to protect foreign assistance and institutions.
“This is the wealthy man in the world who decided that the world’s wealthy countries should stop helping the poorest in the world,” said Jeremy, who worked for an agency between the Biden administration and the Obama administration.・ Konindek appeared on Monday. “That’s the story here. The President has no authority to unilaterally close the federal agencies established under Congress and Congress.”
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has simply permitted what these things happen, and may have a legitimate debate on providing funds for the distribution of USAID, but this is being done. He pointed out that there may be another goal.
“The confusion seems to be a performance,” Zakaria said. “It is a desire to own Libs in some way.”
Other institutions stated that Trump should end but have been created by Congress if we expect a similar battle over the Ministry of Education and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
The FBI agent was asked by the Judicious Ministry of Justice to enter into a questionnaire explaining their research on the case involved in Cappitol Riot on January 6, 2021. According to a CNN judicial team, it may be a sign of a large -scale firing at an institution.
However, the agent is encouraged to stay and wait for being fired.
“Please do not offer resignation or resignation,” the FBI Agent Association told the members by e -mail acquired by CNN. “We will never defend physical non -compliance, but it is necessary to clarify that your removal is not spontaneous.”
Dozens of employees who worked in the lawsuit on January 6 were told by James McGuenley that they could not “trust” implementing “faithfully,” “faithfully” or “faithful”. Later, it was already fired by the Judicial Ministry.
The FBI leader has been instructed by the Ministry of Justice to provide the Judicious Ministry of current and former employees on January 6 to provide the Judicial Ministry of employees. CNN was previously reported.
Several information on the FBI has been preparing for the deadline on Tuesday to know if the Ministry of Justice will deliver the information demanded by the Justice. As of Monday, DRISCOLL and other advanced FBI leaders did not determine whether they would comply with orders.
On the weekend, Trump called the President’s power in a new way and threatened the state economic emergency and threatening tariffs of almost all products from Mexico and Canada with 25 % (exception to Canada energy products. Except for 10 % tax).
He also declared that 10 % of additional tariffs on products from China would be imposed.
The reason for the new tax was to stop immigration and Fentanyl into the United States, but Fentanyl, which has a relatively low Fentanyl through Canada, comes to the United States.
The declaration surprised the global market and sued the Republican members for engraving them for their state industry.
However, by Monday, Trump withdrew from the threat of tariffs in Mexico and Canada. Mexico’s President has promised to dispatch 10,000 units on the border of Mexico, a token gesture that enables one -month negotiations with the United States. Similarly, According to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Canadian tariff was suspended after the afternoon.
Justin Wolfers, an economist at Michigan University, stated that the market had provided a good guide for CNN on Monday to respond to tariffs.
“Trump will announce tariffs, so the market will decrease. Trump regains tariffs and the market will rise,” said Wolfers. “If this is a way to write a TV program, it’s a pretty convincing script and I look at it quite well, but it doesn’t make sense if this is a way to manage the economy.”
Former Democratic Party, but was openly critical of the economic policy of Biden Policy, Rally Summers, on Sunday, imposes tariffs on CNN Manu Raj, alienated allies, from other countries. Negotiated with Trump, who said that he would not help anyone other than American enemies to warn the country. “In playgrounds and international relations, bullying is not a strategy to win permanently,” said Samers. “That’s this.”
There is no other story that is more local, but to keep an eye on it. Trump boasted on Monday on efforts to release water from Central Valley Dam in California. He said that Californians would thank him for their movement, but the headline of Politico may be close to the truth. “Trump said that he had opened California’s water. Local authorities say he had almost immersed them.” This is the opening of a gate in two California Dams. He talks about the local officials because the officials have full abilities. Trump has quoted the recent Los Angeles fire as one of the reasons to release water, but it is not clear that water will reach Los Angeles.
Trump explained how he released water.
“We did it in a very rough way, but I didn’t want to do it roughly,” he said.
This story is updated in additional details.
CNN’s Josh Campbell has contributed to this report.
