Summary
Trump briefly froze $3 trillion in federal grants and loans, causing widespread disruption before rescinding the order amid legal challenges.
Critics argue the move, alongside recent freezes on DEI programs and foreign aid, is part of a broader effort to consolidate executive power.
Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, is expected to implement a more structured version of the freeze.
Trump’s actions, including incentivizing federal worker resignations, signal a shift toward oligarchic control.
It’s clear hes destroying the country for his rich dictator friends
Producing chaos on that scale brings attention. And Trump lives of attention like a vampire lives of blood.
Create chaos. Bankrupt the country. Buy everything for pennies. See Russia.
I think it’s quite simple, akin to the psychological negotiation technique called priming.
He does all this absolutely unhinged stuff and when later he comes up with proposals that are 30% less insane, it doesn’t sound that bad, even if by absolute standards it’s still batshit crazy.
The chaos is the point. It’s pretty simple, really
