Love it or hate it, by the administration’s own accounting, the first 10 months of President Trump’s second term represent one of the most aggressive and far-reaching governing periods in modern American history. At a recent cabinet meeting, department heads laid out a sweeping list of actions they say have fundamentally altered the direction of the federal government, the economy, and national security. Many decisions have been challenged in court and all the way up to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration has reported over 90% success in court cases.
At the core of the administration’s case is speed and scale. Cabinet members repeatedly emphasized that changes once projected to take a decade are now being executed in years—or months. From defense to deregulation, border en
