The nomination of Kash Patel has upended the post-Watergate tradition of picking nonpartisan F.B.I. directors with extensive law enforcement experience.
During his first week or so in power, President Trump may have violated the law in firing several inspectors general, a member of the National Labor Relations Board and civil-servant prosecutors.
The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.
President Trump said during the campaign that he wanted to revive presidents’ authority to withhold or delay the spending of funds that Congress has appropriated.
The move removed three of the four sitting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, leaving it unable to act as the Trump administration begins reshaping intelligence agencies.
The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a never-ending cycle of politicization.”
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