President Trump has an uncanny knack for selecting his political adversaries. He’s expelled his Republican foes from the party, propelled a swift reversal in corporate policy on D.E.I., and profoundly altered the nation’s immigration debate, leading to a significant number of Democrats backing the Laken Riley Act, a legislation that simplifies the deportation process for unauthorized migrants accused of certain crimes, which he signed into law this afternoon. Now, his sights are set on the government itself. By offering buyouts to approximately two million federal workers, attempting to freeze federal grants and loans, and openly challenging Congress’s role as an equal governing partner by ignoring the laws it has passed, Trump has put on a display of taking on the bureaucracy he helms. Despite generating a unified backlash from the Democrats, he is confident that public sentiment is on his side. He is betting that Americans won’t mind his disruption of institutions that most have lost faith in, and that despite the rocky rollout of the funding freeze, they will reward him for seemingly trying to shake things up.
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