This still isn’t quite de-Americanized enough for me to track. He has the power to cut funding for whatever specific agency he doesn’t like? And they, knowing this, decide to sit on their hands for four years to keep their paycheques. Finance companies in turn, change policies, knowing that these agencies will not be enforcing laws for four years.
replyThe recent change is that this free-for-all may be cut short? What am I missing here, this sounds like banana republic shenanigans.
So a lot of companies assumed that that was not going to change in the future, aka. that the Trump administration is final and democracy is finished in the USA; do I understand this correctly?
replyThese days democracies are a lot fuzzier and there are lots of degrees, many named flawed democracies.
replyAnd the current president still needs to hand over the reins peacefully so I wouldn't declare victory, yet.
> And the current president still needs to hand over the reins peacefully so I wouldn't declare victory, yet.
replySure, my point is about that basically companies already made decisions based on the assumption, that he will not do that.