It won’t work completely….
Things ARE just TOO Big….
But Yes….
The next Predsident WILL have a hell of job trying to puts some of the stuff that Trump will have broken…
And Yes….
People ARE gonna have to fight and find other ways around Trump and the Project 2025 efforts ….
President Donald Trump’s effort to do as much as possible as quickly as possible to remake the federal government would gut agencies that have existed for decades or longer. His larger plans would remake elements of the government infrastructure that have been around for centuries.
From Benjamin Franklin to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, it took all of US history to build up some of what Trump has talked about trying to tear down, privatize or remake. And that’s not counting the reforms he plans for safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which he says, without evidence, are full of fraud, but which are also on objectively unsustainable paths.
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US Postal Service…
The beginnings of the US Postal Service were in place before the Declaration of Independence was signed. Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general, and the ability to share information was key to the principle of free speech underpinning the American democratic experiment. Now the USPS is an independent agency of the executive branch and part of the country’s infrastructure overseen by a bipartisan board of governors.
More recently, the Postal Service has struggled to remain solvent as modes of communication changed. But while it may lose billions each year – $9.5 billion in the most recent fiscal year – the cost-effective method of shipping it provides is the backbone of many modern businesses.
Nearly all USPS financing – $78.5 billion annually – is not from taxpayers but from users of the system…
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Internal Revenue Service…
It was during the Civil War when a temporary income tax was imposed and the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue under the Department of the Treasury was established.
The permanent federal income tax was not established until 1913, when the 16th Amendment was ratified and gave Congress the power to tax individual and corporate income. The Bureau of Internal Revenue was rebranded as the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, in 1953. Now, Trump wants to tax imports through tariffs and pivot away from the taxation of income, although it’s not clear the math will work. Rather than the IRS, Trump wants income generated through tariffs, or taxes on imported goods, to go through an External Revenue Service. Multiple acting commissioners of the IRS resigned in the opening months of Trump’s term rather than share IRS data with immigration officials….
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Birthright Citizenship…
In the 1857 Dred Scott case, probably the US Supreme Court’s worst-ever decision, the high court ruled that no descendant of an enslaved person could be a US citizen. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, sought to correct that wrong by declaring that everyone born in the US would be a citizen. Today, Trump sees that promise of citizenship as a magnet for illegal immigration and wants to bar birthright citizenship from US-born children of undocumented immigrants. The Supreme Court will have to weigh in….
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Department of Education…
While it has roots in the federal government that date back to the 1860s, the current Department of Education was created by Congress and President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Multiple Republican presidents have talked about abolishing the department, but Trump is going the furthest. His education secretary, Linda McMahon, has been tasked with winding down the department to the fullest extent allowed by law. Other agencies would take over department functions like the oversight of student loans. States would control their own education systems and Trump has said he wants to give more money directly to them, although much of the department’s function is to distribute federal funds. There is also some irony here since Trump has threatened federal support for schools that continue to pursue diversity programs….
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