Trump's recent actions, including freezing federal funds and barring certain spending, reveal a larger strategy to centralize power and replace American democracy with an oligarchy. This article examines Trump's attempts to control the federal government and outlines the dangers of this shift towards concentrated power and wealth.
On Wednesday, Trump rescinded an order he had made late on Monday night that froze up to $3 trillion in federal grants and loans. Hospitals, schools, non-profits, research organizations, pre-school programs and police departments wondered if they lost federal financial support. By Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge had temporarily blocked the order in response to lawsuits claiming that Trump had no authority to freeze funds allocated by Congress.
Attorneys general in 22 states and the District of Columbia, all of them Democrats, had joined together to stop the order. So, on Wednesday, in the midst of this chaos, Trump’s acting director of the office of management and budget (OMB), Matthew J Vaeth, notified federal agencies that the Monday-night order had been “rescinded”.The scale of Trump’s Monday-night order was wildly broad. It argued that federal spending must be aligned with “presidential priorities” while reviews are undertaken and gave officials until 10 February to report to the OMB. By then, the OMB will likely be run by Russ Vought, Trump’s nominee – and, not incidentally, the chief author of Project 2025, the blueprint for Trump’s takeover of the US government. My betting is we’ll see another version of Monday night’s order emerge once Vought is installed. It will be somewhat more detailed to avoid the confusion of the first attempt. But the Trump White House views the order as essential. It’s part of a much larger plan. Last week, in a separate initiative, Trump barred certain spending he disagreed with, including programs involving “diversity, equity and inclusion” and non-government organizations he believes undermine the national interest. He also ordered a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid spending, which has jeopardized congressionally authorized foreign assistance, including military aid to Ukraine and the distribution of medications in Africa and developing nations.Trump’s attempted takeover of the US government is part of a larger strategy to replace democracy with an oligarchy. Trump, like any president, has the power to pause previously appropriated spending to review it, but Trump’s freezes are not really about pausing. They’re about centralizing control of the federal government in Trump’s hands. Trump aims to put people into these jobs who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States. Trump’s attempted takeover of the US government is itself part of a larger strategy to replace American democracy with an oligarchy. Concentrated power promotes concentrated wealth, just as concentrated wealth promotes concentrated power. The two are symbiotic.
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