⚔️ Trump versus the US is institutional trench warfare, and his forces captured some ground today.
CFPB abandoned 18 enforcement cases protecting consumers from predatory lenders while Voice of America was gutted again with 85% workforce cuts. Social Security is crumbling and has started hiding its telephone wait times to conceal its collapse.
The judiciary keeps fighting back and blocked his Harvard foreign student ban and some NSF funding cuts.
This war is already happening. They seize agencies, courts push back, and they advance elsewhere while judges and civil servants defend what ground they can. Tell your representative and senators to get in the fray so that we can reinforce the institutions that are still standing.
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