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US President Donald Trump’s aggressive start to his second term is exposing fault lines among the American right.
A recent Reuters poll found a “notable portion” of Trump supporters opposed some of his early actions, including calls to abolish the Department of Education and to take over Gaza.
At a UK political summit, anti-woke American journalist Bari Weiss warned conservatives against being swallowed by the far right: “If a political movement does not police its ranks, does not draw lines… it cannot long endure.”
Some Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, are privately trying to counter Elon Musk’s scorched-earth approach to cutting the federal government, Politico reported. And after Musk emailed every government employee Saturday threatening their jobs if they didn’t reply with a list of recent accomplishments, some agencies, including those with Trump’s cabinet picks at their head, told staff to ignore it.