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The parasitic act is cutting spending while leveraging the position to increase their own revenue. The guy "cutting spending" is getting contracts and tax cuts out of the deal, and killing watchdog agencies and anything else that might try to stop him. It's almost poetically parasitic. He's inside the host, sucking it dry, while killing anything that can get in his way.

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While I agree with you, the "parasitic" act I was referring to was specifically taking over the USDS. The image I had in mind was the fungus that mind-controls insects.

Trump doesn't have the authority to create new federal agencies, so he claims to have repurposed the authority of an existing one, retaining only the shell for appearances. I don't think that can possibly be constitutional - it entirely defeats the point of Congress having that authority, and is effectively a line-item veto if the law can say "this agency will exist for X purpose" and the president can simply ignore the "for X purpose" - but it doesn't matter if neither Congress nor the courts are willing to do anything about it.

The USDS is irrelevant, it was taken over to provide a fig leaf of legality and legitimacy to Elon’s depredation.

Yes... that's what I said

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