Julian Epstein
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Is Cancelling DEI And Cancel Culture (Ep. 2424)
So the access to the payment systems is perfectly constitutional. He has the right to rescind or to slow down federal payments, so long as they are not earmarked. He has the right to do workforce reductions within limits. Now, there may be challenges on second-order issues. I can imagine a judge saying that if Musk gets access to payment systems, he has to ensure that
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Is Cancelling DEI And Cancel Culture (Ep. 2424)
privacy information isn't leaked to the public. That's perfectly reasonable. I can see there being issues relating to lower level civil service employees in terms of what protections they may have through the Merit Systems Protection Board. But these are secondary issues. For the most part, Trump has all of the authority he is going to need.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Is Cancelling DEI And Cancel Culture (Ep. 2424)
And to the extent that some of these issues have not been decided and go to the Supreme Court, you're going to see happen exactly what happened in the ballot access, Trump's ballot issue in Colorado, and the immunity decisions, which are the Supreme Court has made it very, very clear that they do not regard the bureaucratic state as a fourth branch of government.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Is Cancelling DEI And Cancel Culture (Ep. 2424)
There is no constitutional crisis, and President Trump made it clear that he'll abide by whatever court decisions come down. So there is no constitutional crisis. And, moreover, Trump is likely to win on all the major issues. Trump, as the chief executive of the executive branch, has the right to go in and audit and access payments, and he has his right to have his designee do that in Elon Musk.