Trump vs. The Constitution

特朗普与宪法之争

What A Day

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2025-02-10

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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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  • It's Monday, February 10th.

  • I'm Jane Coastin, and this is what a day.

  • 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.

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

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

  • He and Ye is back on its hateful Twitter rants.

  • Can someone just take his phone?

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

  • and already Democratic lawmakers are sounding the alarm that we are in a constitutional crisis.

  • They point to the fact that Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire,

  • is getting a major say in which government agencies get to exist.

  • That the Trump administration has tried to shutter usaid,

  • an independent agency created by Congress without congressional approval.

  • Also,

  • the administration's push to block funding that's already been appropriated

  • and basically run roughshod over laws that were established decades ago.

  • Here's Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy speaking on ABC's this Week on Sunday.

  • Yeah, listen.

  • I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate.