Andrew Prokop

He withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.

issued a pretty sweeping executive order calling for the rollback of a bunch of Biden administration policies, including what Trump calls the electric vehicle mandate. It's not really a mandate, but, you know, certain fuel efficiency standards that would ease the transition to electric vehicles. Trump said, nope, that's going away.

issued a pretty sweeping executive order calling for the rollback of a bunch of Biden administration policies, including what Trump calls the electric vehicle mandate. It's not really a mandate, but, you know, certain fuel efficiency standards that would ease the transition to electric vehicles. Trump said, nope, that's going away.

issued a pretty sweeping executive order calling for the rollback of a bunch of Biden administration policies, including what Trump calls the electric vehicle mandate. It's not really a mandate, but, you know, certain fuel efficiency standards that would ease the transition to electric vehicles. Trump said, nope, that's going away.

Big ugly windmills. He also opened up lots of new areas of Alaska to new fossil fuel production and wants to go from there. So Trump wants to deprioritize climate change, boost fossil fuel production and make new projects of any kind really easier to build. OK. He also made a bunch of changes to how the government works, it seemed like. Yes.

Big ugly windmills. He also opened up lots of new areas of Alaska to new fossil fuel production and wants to go from there. So Trump wants to deprioritize climate change, boost fossil fuel production and make new projects of any kind really easier to build. OK. He also made a bunch of changes to how the government works, it seemed like. Yes.

Big ugly windmills. He also opened up lots of new areas of Alaska to new fossil fuel production and wants to go from there. So Trump wants to deprioritize climate change, boost fossil fuel production and make new projects of any kind really easier to build. OK. He also made a bunch of changes to how the government works, it seemed like. Yes.

So one of Trump and the people around him's long-running regrets, thoughts about how things went wrong in their first term is that they believe that the federal civil service bureaucracy was – Two, anti-Trump, was disobedient, insubordinate, did not want to implement his policies, and that's why they failed in a lot of what they tried to do last time around.

So one of Trump and the people around him's long-running regrets, thoughts about how things went wrong in their first term is that they believe that the federal civil service bureaucracy was – Two, anti-Trump, was disobedient, insubordinate, did not want to implement his policies, and that's why they failed in a lot of what they tried to do last time around.

So one of Trump and the people around him's long-running regrets, thoughts about how things went wrong in their first term is that they believe that the federal civil service bureaucracy was – Two, anti-Trump, was disobedient, insubordinate, did not want to implement his policies, and that's why they failed in a lot of what they tried to do last time around.

So they have been cooking up ideas for years about how to get – in their view, better control of this bureaucracy, which mainly amounts to making more positions, political jobs that are easier to hire without going through the civil service projects and making it easier to fire existing civil servants, either by reclassifying them as political jobs or just taking their protections away.

So they have been cooking up ideas for years about how to get – in their view, better control of this bureaucracy, which mainly amounts to making more positions, political jobs that are easier to hire without going through the civil service projects and making it easier to fire existing civil servants, either by reclassifying them as political jobs or just taking their protections away.

So they have been cooking up ideas for years about how to get – in their view, better control of this bureaucracy, which mainly amounts to making more positions, political jobs that are easier to hire without going through the civil service projects and making it easier to fire existing civil servants, either by reclassifying them as political jobs or just taking their protections away.

So Trump issued a series of orders that get at different parts of this,

So Trump issued a series of orders that get at different parts of this,

So Trump issued a series of orders that get at different parts of this,

We didn't really see, you know, mass firings yet. There were a few firings reported, heads of immigration court systems. But this is, I think, laying the groundwork. It's a signal that they're very serious about this idea and that they really do intend on kind of taking a wrecking ball to the federal civil service as we know it.

We didn't really see, you know, mass firings yet. There were a few firings reported, heads of immigration court systems. But this is, I think, laying the groundwork. It's a signal that they're very serious about this idea and that they really do intend on kind of taking a wrecking ball to the federal civil service as we know it.

We didn't really see, you know, mass firings yet. There were a few firings reported, heads of immigration court systems. But this is, I think, laying the groundwork. It's a signal that they're very serious about this idea and that they really do intend on kind of taking a wrecking ball to the federal civil service as we know it.

Yes, RIP Vivek.