Love him or hate him, no one can argue that the first weeks of President Donald Trump's second administration have lacked executive energy.
His presidential orders have taken big policy swings by unilaterally declaring an end to the administrative state and canceling birthright citizenship.
With an assist from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the president is rapidly consolidating control over the federal bureaucracy by centralizing access to heretofore walled-off payment and personnel systems, replacing civil servants with political appointees, and putting independent agencies under White House supervision.
