Today, Trump said he would be meeting with vote to discuss which of the so-called Democrat agencies to cut from while the government is shut down.

As the co-author of Project 2025, vote has been wanting to reshape the federal government for years,

literally laying out the steps to achieve the long-sought conservative goal of a president with dramatically expanded authority over the executive branch,

including the power to cut off spending, fire employees, control independent agencies, and

deregulate the economy. And thanks to the president's shutdown, he and vote are working overtime

to that exact goal. As the New York Times reports to many legal experts, Mr. Votes work is a threat to the

foundations of democracy. One of the main sources of power the Congress has over the executive

branch is the budget, said Eloise Paskatchoff, the law professor at Georgetown University.

If the executive branch isn't controlled by the power of the purse, then there is very little

that will control the president.

The president literally turning on American citizens, calling them the enemies within.

It reminds me of during the Wilson administration during World War I, where dissent was criminalized,

where it wasn't violence that was the concern from the Wilson administration.

It was people who were speaking out against the president.

During that time, journalists were jailed.

Newspapers were threatened and shut down.

Activists who were speaking out against the war were put into jail for long periods of time.

One gentleman served 10 years.

And the whole thing was about looking for

the enemies within this country. It sounds very similar to what the President of the United

States not just says he wants to do, but is attempting to operationalize. And I just, I want to shake people, Tim, because it's like, oh, baby, it might not be, it might not be maybe about to happen.

We are living it.

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