I didn’t realize that Trump was going to able to do things like pass a budget via EO. For one, its not going to do the dems any favors to shut down the government over the budget. The public will have a negative reaction to that and blame the dems, further eroding what chance of power they have left. But more importantly, it appears that Trump and Elon are quite literally taking the power of the purse away from congress anyways. They literally control the treasury. Whatever budget congress passes or doesnt pass wont mean as much when DOGE now controls the distribution of government funds as they see fit. Whos going to stop them? Not the GOP controlled congress, not the GOP Supreme Court, and certainly not the powerless dems. Or actually abolish the Department of Education. He cannot do that strictly via EO no matter what he thinks. Its going to happen. But just because Trump is rattling off all these EOs doesn’t mean they actually they’re going to be in effect. It does though. Thats how EOs work. And it takes either an act of congress or the courts to stop them. And the fact of the matter is that Trump has the advantage in congress and SCOTUS. So even in the rare instance that a court does shut down one of his EOs, either the SCOTUS will reverse the court decision, or Trump will simply do a new EO with modified language to get around the court ruling. We really need to be cognizant of the extreme peril we are in, and fully understand that neither dems nor institutions can save us now. Trump has as near to absolute power as one could reasonably describe it. There isnt much he cant do, and theres no group or authority with the power to stop him that is willing to do so.