Understanding the Constitutional Crisis: A President Exceeding Any View of Their Authority

I hear of a lot people, educated people included, asking what’s the big deal about Trump sending Musk’s pre-millennial minions into government agencies, where they endanger security, steal private information, intimidate employees, all in complete derogation and disrespect of the US Constitution. Even worse, Musk, using alleged but nonexistent authority delegated by Trump, is closing programs , firing federal employees, and impounding funds the House and Senate allocated for specific purposes. Musk and Trump are illegally doing what only Congress can do. (Fortunately, all federal judges hearing challenges have placed at least termporary halts to this lawlessness.)

The MAGA extremists in control of our federal government offer a simple, non legal and irrelevant response for their actions: saving money and cutting waste is a good thing.

That is correct, but there are already in place laws that allow this to be done properly and Constitutionally, not by sending in billionaire Elon Musk and the Ayn Rand Brigade to destroy our government.

Besides, fealty to our Constitution and preserving the separation of owners is far more important than a debate about how much money should be spent on which programs, and as stated, that’s the role of Congress…