2024 ELECTION: “Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters [in the 2024 election] return him to the White House in 2025… Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him…
He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as ‘the sick political class that hates our country.’”
Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman, “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025,” nytimes.com, July 17, 2023