PANews reported on February 13 that according to the Washington Post, US President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk took unprecedented actions in the first three weeks of their second term to weaken the power of federal agencies, suspend or cancel billions of dollars in authorized spending, and lay off tens of thousands of federal employees, triggering more than 50 lawsuits.
Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has intervened in the operations of 18 federal agencies, trying to terminate 199 government contracts and push for a $1 trillion cut in the federal budget. A White House spokesman said the court's obstruction of Trump's executive order was an "abuse" of the law. But legal experts warned that if the government blatantly ignores the court's ruling, the United States may face a constitutional crisis.
Trump's supporters believe that these measures are aimed at correcting the excessive expansion of power of federal agencies, while Democrats and some legal professionals believe that this marks an extreme expansion of executive power that could undermine the U.S. constitutional order.
