Former President Donald Trump has laid out broad plans to sculpt the government in his own image in a potential second term as president, and members of Congress may have little ability, or desire, to stop him.
Trump would inherit an executive branch that’s been strengthened over the decades under both parties, according to congressional experts, and has made statements on the presidential campaign trail that he would remake the federal government in a variety of ways.
Among those stated plans: changing the immigration system, making huge sections of the federal workforce removable at will, using the military for civilian law enforcement and turning the Justice Department toward his perceived enemies.
