Don Wolfensberger at The Hill:
It is clear from the Trump-Musk blitz that the president wanted to swiftly impose his will through executive orders before the courts and Congress could catch-up and reverse them. Musk’s DOGE team serves as a “heat shield” for the president when protests reach the boiling point. That’s when Trump leaves D.C. for Mar-a-Lago.
Don’t count on the courts to bail out the agencies. While lower courts have intervened against Trump and Musk with temporary pauses and delays (so far, Trump is just one for seven), the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority gives anyone pause over how the high court might rule in the latest spate of cases.
If Congress does not push back against being stripped of its core constitutional powers of the purse, it will be left holding nothing but shredded purse strings, and the public will have nothing but fading memories of representative democracy.