SAN ANTONIO — President Donald Trump has been in office for three weeks now, and the Republican has moved fast to reshape the federal government, from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by tech mogul Elon Musk to offering buyouts to federal employees, to a temporary funding freeze.
Democrats are trying to keep up in the meantime and on Inside Texas Politics, Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, called the President’s actions “dangerous and expensive.”
“He has tasked Elon Musk with going into federal agencies and basically dismantling them, taking them apart and accessing people’s social security information, their personal information, perhaps their medical information, all of these things,” Congressman Castro said. “So, a lot of both dangerous and costly things.”
The Democrat also said what the President is attempting to do is “unprecedented in American history.”
And he tells us the fight, so far, is in the courts, not Congress since the President has used executive orders for most of the attempted changes.
“So it means that most of this stuff is going to be litigated in court. And we have successfully supported litigation now that has put injunctions, basically, on the federal funding freeze, for example, and a few other executive orders at this point.”