Trump has moved quickly on almost every front since returning to the White House, doing as much as possible through executive orders and requesting rapid congressional action wherever possible.
These are the actions of a president who knows he can’t spread his executive actions out over a longer period of time, especially given the inevitable legal challenges, and is unsure whether his congressional majorities will survive this term, much less a hypothetical extra one.
When challenged on high federal spending in his first term, some Republicans say Trump told them he would pursue cuts once he was reelected. That spending and the size of the federal government have been a bigger part of Trump’s focus this time around suggests he no longer has his eyes
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