WASHINGTON, February 9. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump’s opponents from the Democratic Party believe that the actions of his administration are fraught with a large-scale constitutional crisis, the Washington Post (WP) reported.
According to the newspaper, as Trump and congressional Democrats "clash bitterly over spending authority, citizenship rules, control of the government and other fundamental powers, the president’s opponents are increasingly making a chilling accusation: that the country is in the grip of a full-blown constitutional crisis."
The WP noted that some of Trump’s adversaries compare the situation in the country to "the most perilous moments in American history, from the Civil War to Watergate," going as far as branding him a dictator. The newspaper emphasized that "Republicans dismiss such claims as melodramatic and overblown. Trump is simply acting on the mandate for change he received from the voters, they say, and Democrats are trying to recast a humiliating political loss into a tragedy for American democracy."
Democrats have also zeroed in on Trump putting tech billionaire Elon Musk in charge of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to spearhead his efforts to slash spending.
Entrepreneur and Musk’s close friend Shervin Pishevar wrote on the X social network that such criticism shows that in Washington, "they always underestimate the ones rewriting the script."
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two different storms backed by a majority of Americans - one political, one technological - but both are tearing through the same rotting structures," he concluded.