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Calmes: Donald Trump's second presidency delivers a diktat a day

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Ruben Navarrette : Donald Trump has been a diktat a day since taking office.

He says he's choosing to be a strong man, exactly what the anti-monarchical founders were trying to prevent.

Trump is blatantly ignoring Congress ’ power of the purse, a prerogative so elementary it’s kids’ stuff; see “ Schoolhouse Rock” He says Trump 's Day 1 clemency for his nearly 1,600 fellow insurrectionists was at least within his express powers.

Thousands of USAID workers worldwide are now off the job, along with senior officials who tried to stop the illegal purge.

Where’s the outrage? “Do I want Congress to exercise its right and power as a coequal branch of the federal government? Yes, I do,” Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker , a senior Republican , lamely told reporters.