The US president is testing the limits of executive authority, sidelining Congress and enriching allies while destabilising the global economy<\/p>\n
Donald Trump is provoking a US constitutional<\/a> crisis, claiming sweeping powers to override or bypass Congress\u2019s control over spending in a brazen attempt to centralise financial power in the executive branch. If he succeeds, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warns<\/a>, it would be a 21st-century coup \u2013 with power slipping from elected officials\u2019 hands. The real story hidden behind the president\u2019s trade war<\/a>, he says, is the hijacking of government. And Mr Krugman\u2019s right.<\/p>\n By usurping the authority to shut down government programmes at will \u2013 even those funded by Congress \u2013 Mr Trump could slash federal spending and taxes while pretending to balance the books. In reality, he\u2019d be robbing<\/a> the poor to enrich the wealthy. In a world where economic jargon has been corrupted to depict exploitation as \u201cwealth creation\u201d, the audacity of Mr Trump \u2013 and his lackeys \u2013 to personally<\/a> profit is breathtaking. Mr Trump\u2019s philosophy is simple: let the uber-rich do whatever they want, with little or no oversight. The result will be vast wealth for a select few while life grows nastier and shorter for the many.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US president is testing the limits of executive authority, sidelining Congress and enriching allies while destabilising the global economy Donald Trump is provoking a US constitutional crisis, claiming sweeping powers to override or bypass Congress\u2019s control over spending in a brazen attempt to centralise financial power in the executive branch. If he succeeds, Nobel … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}