Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. On the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, the impact of President Trump's mass firings across the federal workforce, how it's affecting the basic functions of government and the lives of thousands of workers.

Plus, echoes of the past,

how one expert says the first few weeks of President Trump's second term

look like some autocracies.

Americans haven't seen this before,

so they don't know what it means.

Trump 1.0 didn't do as much lasting damage

as Trump 2.0 has already done in the first few weeks.

And how the gutting of billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid threatens the livelihoods of American farmers. Welcome to the News Hour. The federal government is closed today in observance of President's Day,

but the Trump administration's effort to permanently scale back the size and scope of the federal

workforce continues in full force. As Laura Barone Lopez

reports, President Trump's actions in his first few weeks also fueled demonstrations on this

holiday weekend.

Where is Congress? This President's Day.

This is what democracy looks like.

Protests across the country, pushing back against President Trump's first month in office

and what organizers say are his anti-democratic and illegal actions.

No, we no pirates!

They call it the No Kings Day protest, even as the president suggested in social media post this weekend that he is above the law,

stating he who saves his country does not violate any law.

Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin responded on CBS.

The dominant objective of this administration is corruption and lawlessness.

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