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Dulcinea

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Sun Feb 16, 2025, 01:37 PM Feb 2025

Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month [View all]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while redefining the U.S. role in the world.

At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected, South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the firing of thousands of federal employees and potentially shutter entire agencies created by Congress.

Those efforts have largely overshadowed Trump’s crackdowns on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts to remake social policy by wiping out diversity, equity and inclusion programs and rolling back transgender rights.

The president has also imposed scores of new tariffs against U.S. trade partners and threatened more, even as economists warn that will pass costs on to U.S. consumers and feed inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-firings-tariffs-lawsuits-economy-ukraine-putin-19b79f62ad7c9d51cfb1f0551953051e

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