The Trump Administration Targets Congress—Again

For the second time in less than a month, the Trump administration has used law enforcement to directly target Congress. Republicans are mostly unwilling to do anything to stand up to Donald Trump, and Democrats are incapable of exerting either formal or informal political power. Under Trump, the executive branch has pursued a multipronged attack on Congress’s independence and powers. “The Trump administration is really using totalitarian or even authoritarian practices,” Nadler told The New York Times after the incident at his office. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to proceed with its plan for mass layoffs across government agencies, which was blocked by a federal judge.