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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

All Things with Kim Strassel: Donald Trump Floods the Presidential Zone

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is issuing executive actions at the speed of light, targeting the border, government bureaucracy, tariffs and the economy. How does it all shake out? Former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney draws on his own time in the Trump White House to analyze the big orders--their purpose, impact and legality. What's Trump up to with tariffs on Mexico and Canada? Is it really possible to reform the civil service? How and where will DOGE hit a wall? Plus, insights on the Impoundment Control Act fight to come.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel,

0:35.3

a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to this week's edition of All Things with Kim Strassel.

0:41.3

Donald Trump is issuing executive orders faster than a speeding bullet.

0:46.3

And here this week, to make sense of the scope, the substance, the legality of that approach is a man who has been there in the White House stir, who has seen

0:55.6

how that sausage is made. Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is here with us this week.

1:01.7

And as a man who was also a member of Congress and then the head of the Office of Management

1:06.3

and Budget under Trump, I can't think of anyone who would be better to give us some insight as to what we are seeing now.

1:12.6

Mick, welcome to the show.

1:14.6

Hello, Kim Strassel. It is great to hear your voice again. Hope you well.

1:17.6

Yes, you too. I'm going to jump in with a very big question up at the top.

1:22.6

So Donald Trump has been back in office now for a little more than two weeks.

1:27.8

It feels a little bit like six months.

1:31.0

A lot is happening.

1:33.3

Most of it so far shows of executive power, whether it be the huge tariffs we saw over the weekend levied on Canada or Mexico from a spate of executive orders.

1:45.0

Broadly, how would you describe what we are seeing in these first two weeks?

1:50.0

Does this to you, as a former chief of staff, look organized and deliberate or chaotic?

1:57.0

Is it impressive? Is it overreaching? What adjectives would you use? With a couple of exceptions,

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