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What A Day

Trump vs. The Constitution

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We're three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, and already Democratic lawmakers are warning that we're in a constitutional crisis. They point to the fact that Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, is getting a major say in how government agencies operate; the Trump administration shuttering USAID – an independent agency created by Congress – without Congressional approval; and the push to block funding that's already been appropriated. While federal courts have helped Democrats slow down some of Trump's more brazen actions, Vice President J.D. Vance fueled fears of a deeper constitutional challenge Sunday when he tweeted, 'Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.' Kate Show, co-host of Crooked's legal podcast' Strict Scrutiny,' helps us make sense of the legal drama. And in headlines: Trump sat down with Fox News' Bret Baier for the traditional pre-game Super Bowl interview, Hamas released three more Israeli hostages in exchange for nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners as the ceasefire continued to hold, and the Trump administration moved to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, February 10th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey. The show that is taking it nice and slow today because the Super Bowl was last night, and some of us are still running on pure guacamole.

0:15.0

On today's show, Project 2025 co-author and new director of the Office of Management and Budget,

0:24.2

Russell Vote, has only been in office a few days and he's already shutting shit down.

0:28.2

And Yeh is back on his hateful Twitter rants.

0:30.8

Can someone just take his phone?

0:32.9

But first, we're three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term and already

0:37.1

Democratic lawmakers are

0:38.2

sounding the alarm that we are in a constitutional crisis. They point to the fact that Elon Musk,

0:43.1

an unelected billionaire, is getting a major say in which government agencies get to exist,

0:49.3

that the Trump administration has tried to shudder USAID, an independent agency created by Congress without congressional approval.

0:57.0

Also, the administration's push to block funding that's already been appropriated and basically run roughshod over laws that were established decades ago.

1:05.4

Here's Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy speaking on ABCs this week on Sunday.

1:10.2

Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced,

1:14.3

certainly since Watergate, the president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt

1:20.4

purposes. The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can

1:25.9

reward his political friends, he can punish his

1:28.9

political enemies. That is the evisceration of democracy. And New Jersey Democratic Senator

1:34.9

Cory Booker echoed the sentiment on CNN's State of the Union. This is an astonishing

1:40.1

allowance of corruption and abuse and violations of people's privacy and other most sacrosanct

1:46.9

values. We are in a crisis right now, and Democrats will use every tool possible to protect

1:53.4

Americans, to drive down costs, to make us safer. These are the very opposite that Donald

1:58.9

Trump is doing to Americans right now.

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