Eric Lipton

The thing that is most striking to me is just the number of places that he, through either contracts or regulatory investigations, that they are looking at him at the same time as he now has the power over them. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior.

The thing that is most striking to me is just the number of places that he, through either contracts or regulatory investigations, that they are looking at him at the same time as he now has the power over them. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior.

the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the Employment, you know, EEOC, NLRB, the FEC, the SEC. I mean, there are so many acronyms, so many places that either regulating him or paying him at the same time as he has this immense power to help decide what their regulatory powers and budgets are.

the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the Employment, you know, EEOC, NLRB, the FEC, the SEC. I mean, there are so many acronyms, so many places that either regulating him or paying him at the same time as he has this immense power to help decide what their regulatory powers and budgets are.

the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the Employment, you know, EEOC, NLRB, the FEC, the SEC. I mean, there are so many acronyms, so many places that either regulating him or paying him at the same time as he has this immense power to help decide what their regulatory powers and budgets are.

It's just how does one single person do all those things without having a massive conflict of interest?

It's just how does one single person do all those things without having a massive conflict of interest?

It's just how does one single person do all those things without having a massive conflict of interest?

If you look at the first Trump administration and then went into Biden, it's really striking the extent of the pendulum swing. I mean, so many of the regulatory rollbacks that Trump implemented were then rolled back by Biden. The thing that really is going to make determine the course of history is what the courts decide now.

If you look at the first Trump administration and then went into Biden, it's really striking the extent of the pendulum swing. I mean, so many of the regulatory rollbacks that Trump implemented were then rolled back by Biden. The thing that really is going to make determine the course of history is what the courts decide now.

If you look at the first Trump administration and then went into Biden, it's really striking the extent of the pendulum swing. I mean, so many of the regulatory rollbacks that Trump implemented were then rolled back by Biden. The thing that really is going to make determine the course of history is what the courts decide now.

Because if the courts side with Trump and realign the constitutional powers in a way that Russell Vaught and others in the Trump administration believe, then that really is going to create, it's not going to be a pendulum swing anymore. It's going to be a fundamental change in the distribution of power in the United States.

Because if the courts side with Trump and realign the constitutional powers in a way that Russell Vaught and others in the Trump administration believe, then that really is going to create, it's not going to be a pendulum swing anymore. It's going to be a fundamental change in the distribution of power in the United States.

Because if the courts side with Trump and realign the constitutional powers in a way that Russell Vaught and others in the Trump administration believe, then that really is going to create, it's not going to be a pendulum swing anymore. It's going to be a fundamental change in the distribution of power in the United States.

And all of these lawsuits, while they're annoying to the Trump administration and to Elon Musk, that's where the test is really going to come. And who knows how the court is going to decide. You know, it's really sort of hard to predict. But what I can say is that that's the thing that really is going to determine how consequential all of this is.

And all of these lawsuits, while they're annoying to the Trump administration and to Elon Musk, that's where the test is really going to come. And who knows how the court is going to decide. You know, it's really sort of hard to predict. But what I can say is that that's the thing that really is going to determine how consequential all of this is.

And all of these lawsuits, while they're annoying to the Trump administration and to Elon Musk, that's where the test is really going to come. And who knows how the court is going to decide. You know, it's really sort of hard to predict. But what I can say is that that's the thing that really is going to determine how consequential all of this is.

Because many of these things can be rolled back in whatever the next Democratic administration is. But if the courts decide that the executive branch really has these broad powers to decide the finances and the operations of federal agencies are, that's huge. And it will be tested at some point in the next four years.

Because many of these things can be rolled back in whatever the next Democratic administration is. But if the courts decide that the executive branch really has these broad powers to decide the finances and the operations of federal agencies are, that's huge. And it will be tested at some point in the next four years.

Because many of these things can be rolled back in whatever the next Democratic administration is. But if the courts decide that the executive branch really has these broad powers to decide the finances and the operations of federal agencies are, that's huge. And it will be tested at some point in the next four years.