Washington Post - President Donald Trump has signed more than 70 executive orders in just over 30 days, far more than any other president in that amount of time, and he is on pace to surpass his record of 220 — the most signed in a single presidential term.
Washington Post - The Trump administration plans to shutter more than 110 IRS offices
that have taxpayer assistance centers as the White House’s efficiency
zeal carves deeper into the tax agency.
Daily Beast - President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the law firm representing former special counsel Jack Smith. Covington & Burling LLP currently represents Smith in a personal capacity and previously provided pro bono legal services to the special counsel’s office, according to White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf.
The new executive order suspends the security clearance held by Smith’s attorney Peter Koski, along with those of any other attorneys at the firm who assisted Smith as special counsel, pending a review of their roles, if any, in the “weaponization of the judicial process.”
It also directs the Office of Management and Budget to “terminate any engagement” with the firm.
“We’re going to call it the deranged Jack Smith signing or bill,” Trump told reporters before the signing, according to CNN. Afterward, he handed the pen he’d used to an attendee and said, “Why don’t you give it to Jack Smith?”
The action is a “major escalation” in Trump’s targeting of his perceived enemies, according to ABC News.
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