It’s Day Three of the Trump administration, and the Wall Street Journal is … impatient.
Donald Trump has spent the first 70 hours of his presidency focusing mainly on issuing directives to executive-branch agencies to prioritize their work according to his agenda. Trump has shut down DEI offices throughout the federal agencies, ended affirmative action, put a stop to intervention in political speech, and focused the Department of Justice on combatting obstruction of immigration-law enforcement by state and local officials.
On that note, the WSJ reports ‘exclusively’ that Trump has expanded deportation authority to a wide range of federal law-enforcement agencies … while the WSJ crabs that Trump hasn’t launched any “large-scale” operations yet (emphasis mine):
The Trump administration is attempting to amass a larger force of law-enforcement officials to…
