It’s arguably Trump’s “most brazen transfer but since returning to workplace,” the Invoice Clinton-era labor secretary wrote on Facebook.
Reich acknowledged it “might appear to be Trump simply sowing extra chaos and dysfunction as we’ve grown accustomed to” however warned “it’s deeper than that” and is “all a part of Trump’s plan to consolidate energy.”
That includes, famous Reich: “Substituting loyalists for consultants throughout the federal government, utilizing retribution to intimidate others, purging the federal government’s impartial inspectors basic, giving the Protection Division extra authority over civilian life (and placing a raving loyalist in cost), giving Elon Musk authority to chop spending and roll again rules, and readying a large tax lower for the rich and massive firms.”
Reich has been a longtime critic of the returned president.
Final week, he cautioned in an opinion piece for the British newspaper The Guardian about how “Trump’s vengeance machine is much more harmful than it was earlier than” with its stripping of safety from former high Trump aides, regardless of credible threats to their lives.
