We have a lot to get to tonight in the next hour of the readout, including Stacey Abrams on Trump's obsession with race and the mania about getting rid of anything that promotes diversity.

But we begin tonight with this question.

Who exactly is running the government?

Just about 36 hours after Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget tried to freeze trillions of

dollars in federal grants and loans mostly used to fund programs for Americans in need,

the administration reversed course and rescinded the directive after causing widespread chaos

and confusion. Surprise, surprise. Even after being a president before, Donald Trump still doesn't know how

the government works. He's happy to give free reign to a gang of right-wing ideologues to run the show

to please the billionaires who brought him back to the White House, while Trump himself watches

Fox or golfs or shows up to give speeches festooned by soldiers like he's the leader of some

military dictatorship. Bottom line, he's just by soldiers like he's the leader of some military dictatorship.

Bottom line.

He's just happy to be free of the threat of prison.

But if remember his campaign, not much of what you're seeing in this first week and a half actually kind of reads like Donald Trump.

The freeze on federal funds sounds like something out of Elon Musk's doge plan to slash the government.

And Elon's influence is all over Trump's other unauthorized gambits. A payout to federal workers

to resign with an email subject line fork in the road that mirrored Elon's email to Twitter

employees in 2022 when he bought the company.

The White House won't say if Musk was involved in the payout plan, but the imprint of

another billionaire-backed ideologue is all over Trump's immigration executive orders.

Stephen Miller, who seemingly fulfilled a lifelong goal of mobilizing the force of the entire United States

government to terrorize immigrant communities. There's also Trump's ripped straight from Project

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