President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms.

We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo.

NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works.

Listen to Trump's terms from NPR.

We've got to use every tool we have.

This is a full-on assault on the American people.

Democrats warned of the death of democracy if Trump was re-elected.

Now that he's back in office, what are they doing?

It's Tuesday, February 11th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, America's closest allies clap back on new steel and aluminum tariffs.

Tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum would be entirely unjustified.

But you don't have to run a country or a steel mill to feel the pinch, how tariffs affect you.

And the head of the union representing USAID workers says foreign service staff have been hung out to drive.

There's just a sense of what else is coming down the pike that will be directed at me.

But first, where are the Democrats?

Less than one month into his second term, President Trump has already remade much of the government firing federal workers, ripping up stacks of Biden-era executive orders and issuing

hundreds of his own, and letting his biggest campaign

donor and the world's richest man, Elon Musk, effectively shut down government programs he doesn't

like. Democrats don't have a majority in any branch of the federal government, and their leader

in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, had this to say about the party's current state of submission.

Republicans have repeatedly lectured America. They control the House, the Senate, and the

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