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A Thumbnail Review of U.S. Admin47 Policies & Economics, June 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-06-14

A Brief Thumbnail Review of United States 47th Presidential Administration Policies & Economics

Prompt Critical, June 14, 2025

Outline:

1. Introduction:

2. DOGE: The So-Called Department of Government Efficiency:

3. Trade & Tariffs, Reserve Currency, The Triffin Dilemma, Tribute Economy:

4. Treasury, Tax Cuts, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Deficits, National Debt, Interest Rates, Reserve Currency, Bond Buyer’s Strike:

5. Immigration, Human Capital Flight, “Brain Drain,” Technology Exploitation, Claimed National“Exceptionalism”:

6. U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Project 2025, Unitary Executive:

7. Cryptocurrency Policy, Stable Coins:

8. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy: “AI First”, Live in Governance Without Testing:

9. Destruction of GSA TTS 18F and the EOP U.S. Digital Service, Apparently to Replace U.S. Government Technology Talent with Presumed Right-Wing Ideologues:

10. Conclusion: Admin47 is an Inconsistent Administration with Conflicting Goals Causing Substantial Collateral Damage to the Public:

11. Technofeudalism:

12. Unrestrained Income Disparity & Inequality Has Impacted Democracy:

13. Admin47 Arrogance Towards the Citizenry; Impacts on Small Business & Retirees:

1. Introduction:

As of June, 2025, the United States 47th Administration (“Admin47”) of the sitting President Of The United States (“POTUS47”) has been leading the nation for almost 4 months, making unprecedented changes in U.S. governance, economics, finance, and social policy despite winning only a sub-majority plurality in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.(1) It now seems relevant to review these recent changes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election "Trump won the national popular vote with a plurality of 49.8%"

As of mid-2025, POTUS47 himself has preferred to spend his days signing executive orders—161 in the first 168 days(2-4)—orders which are undoubtedly mostly written by others-such as those following the Project 2025 agenda,(5) playing golf(6), watching Fox news, posting Truths on Truth Social(7-9), and avoiding security briefings,(10) while he has delegated many major functions of his Administration to others.

2. President Trump signed 161 Executive Orders in the first 168 days of his Second Administration. https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders/donald-trump/2025

3. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-orders/

4. https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

6. https://trumpgolftracker.net/

7. https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/?

8. https://www.trumpstruth.org/

9. https://www.thetrumparchive.com/

10. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-daily-intelligence-briefings-2080737

2. DOGE: The So-Called Department of Government Efficiency:

POTUS47 delegated improving U.S. “government efficiency” to technology entrepreneur Elon Musk,(11) who supported 2024 Republican political campaigns that won the 2024 election with more than a quarter billion dollars.(12) Musk, who grew up in South Africa before immigrating to Canada—where he obtained citizenship because his mother was a Canadian citizen, and on to the U.S. to start and run technology several companies, and became “the richest man in the world” based on the valuation of stock he retained in his many companies, may NOT know a lot about U.S. Government politics, for instance, in late 2024, NOT understanding why the U.S. could NOT simply choose to not pass a budget for several months until Admin47 began,(13-14) a failure to understand the fiscal sociopolitical realities of an extended government shutdown.

11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

12. List of Companies and Executives Who Have Donated to Donald Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957 Published Feb 07, 2025 / Updated Apr 29, 2025

Below are a list of companies that have either donated to Trump's presidential campaign or the Presidential Inaugural Committee: Elon Musk: $290 million; Timothy Mellon: $150 million; Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment & Research: $106 million ...

13. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-congress-government-funding-bill-doge-mike-johnson-ramaswamy-2024-12

14. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-december-2024-social-security-tsa-donald-trump-what-to-know/

Musk proposed and was publicly sanctioned by the authority of POTUS47 to lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” (“DOGE”),(15) notwithstanding Musk’s NOT having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold a position that was clearly as powerful as a U.S. Cabinet head (in that DOGE unilaterally destroyed U.S. Government agencies created by the U.S. Congress, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)(16)), as is required by the U.S. Constitution Appointments Clause,(17) and impounded agency Congressionally-appropriated funds in violation of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act(18-19)--thus at USAID allowing grain needed by starving people in foreign lands to rot in ports and letting African people to catch or die of AIDS for lack of medicine, a task during which Musk posted that he "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper"—confessing his direct involvement.(20) Further, many of the DOGE workers had previously worked for Elon Musk at Tesla or xAI or for Peter Thiel—who had co-founded Paypal with Musk—at Palantir.(21-24) Senate confirmation of Musk under the Appointments Clause may have been problematic, as he had numerous business interests with the U.S. Government, had previously been denied a security clearance by the U.S. Air Force for access to information on USAF satellites that his SpaceX rockets launched,(25) had numerous foreign contacts including a factory in China and communications with Russia(26), and a reputed history of drug use.(27-28)

15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development

17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointments_Clause

The Appointments Clause appears at Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 and provides:

“... and [the President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”

18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Impoundment_Control_Act_of_1974

19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_funds

20. https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5261847-usaid-went-into-the-woodchipper-and-were-all-paying-a-price/

21. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

22. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/

23. https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

24. https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-elon-musk-trump-staffers-tracker-update

25. https://biztechweekly.com/elon-musks-security-clearance-hurdles-drug-use-and-foreign-ties-complicate-access-to-classified-information/

26. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/tech/elon-musk-tesla-leaves-china-intl-hnk/index.html

27. https://deadline.com/2025/06/musk-drug-use-new-york-times-1236420382/

28. https://www.vice.com/en/article/elon-musk-drugs-report/

While POTUS47 clearly publicly sanctioned Elon Musk’s leadership of DOGE, that relationship was never clarified, presumably because that delegation of power was an apparent violation of the Constitutional Appointments Clause.(29-31) When pressed, they renamed the U.S. Digital Service,(32) created within the Executive Office of the President during the Obama Administration as a White House department to fix the healthcare.Gov web site, as the United States DOGE Service,(33) with Elon Musk as only a temporary advisor to the Administration, though it seems likely that the head of the US DOGE Service was in control. Soon, dozens of employees of the former U.S. Digital Service resigned,(34) and more were fired.(35)

29. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/doge-administrator-elon-musk-00204639

30. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/judge-questions-constitutionality-doge-elon-musk-00205866

31. https://www.unchartedblue.com/who-the-hell-is-the-administrator-of-doge-we-still-dont-know/

32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#United_States_DOGE_Service

34. https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

35. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service#2025_restructuring,_mass_firings,_resignations_from_DOGE_actions

Musk used the claim that he could purportedly cut $2T, later reduced to $1T,(36) from the U.S. Federal budget to obtain authority from POTUS47 to access U.S. Government data (beginning with accessing the data of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)(37-38)) and to cut funding and staff at many U.S. Government agencies, including many that regulate his own businesses,(39-41) while in fact these cuts created little net savings to the U.S. Government deficit.(42-43) Musk-owned companies(44) that might be subject to U.S. Government regulation include Tesla(45)—the electric car and battery company, SpaceX(46)—a principal NASA space launch contractor for the International Space Station (ISS) and the owner of the 7000 satellite Starlink(47-48) constellation and Internet downlink company, xAI(49)—which in late 2024 stood up Colossus(50), the largest Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputer in the World, with its Grok(51) Large Language Model (LLM)(52) chatbot—powered by 35 methane gas turbines supplying as much power as would be used by 280,000 homes,(53-54) X(55)—the social media platform formerly known as Twitter—which may potentially add an on-platform cryptocurrency, the Neuralink(56) brain interface, and The Boring Company tunneling company.(57)

36. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5318072/how-much-money-has-doge-saved-budget-deficit-congress

37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management

38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach

39. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-trump-doge-conflicts-of-interest

40. https://abcnews.go.com/US/musk-works-slash-federal-spending-firms-received-billions/story?id=118589121

41. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-conflicts-of-interest-tesla-spacex-starlink-south-africa-russia-taiwan-ukraine-doge-trump/

42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#Savings_announcements

43. https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-savings-how-much-2075246

44. https://builtin.com/articles/elon-musk-companies

45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.

46. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

47. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

48. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/starlink-elon-musk-space-internet/682705/

49. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

50. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)

51. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)

52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

53. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/climate/xai-musk-memphis-turbines-pollution

54. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582

55. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

56. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink

57. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company

3. Trade & Tariffs, Reserve Currency, The Triffin Dilemma, Tribute Economy:

In the face of the current U.S. economic situation, POTUS47 delegated his trade policy to those following the ideas of Peter Navarro(58) and Stephen Miran.(59-60) On “Liberation Day”,(61) POTUS47 invoked purported “reciprocal tariffs” against most nations in the World—tariffs that were NOT at all non-reciprocal, but rather were based on historic trade imbalances—which they purported to be harmful, but which, in fact, are a consequence of the privilege of the U.S. Dollar being the World reserve currency,(62) whose demand had allowed the U.S. to enjoy exceptionally low interest rates at the cost of expensive domestic prices and high cost of manufacturing, a problem of reserve currencies known as The Triffin Dilemma.(63) The formula(64-65) used by Admin47 to calculate these punitive “reciprocal” tariffs greatly impacted poor countries like Lesotho (which is landlocked inside South Africa(66)—where the trade deficit is reputedly driven by its export of jeans and diamonds),(67) Bangladesh, and Viet Nam, countries which have a trade imbalance with the U.S. because they do NOT buy U.S. products because they are too poor to afford them, thus crippling the ability of these poor countries to export their commodities to the U.S., but which also targeted a number of sparsely inhabited islands with little U.S. trade.(68-69) Further, these tariffs caused supply chain disruptions and cost increases that particularly impacted Mid-Cap(70), Small-Cap, and Micro-Cap American business, and undoubtedly drove many “mom and pop” businesses and “side-gig” web stores out of business, when they were no longer able to source and ship affordable products from low cost manufacturers in China and the Third World. Notably, Stephen Miran, Admin47 Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, believes that the U.S. Dollar is over-valued(71-72) and should be devalued.

58. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro

59. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miran#Economic_views

60. https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump-economic-advisory-team

61. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_tariffs

62. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/dollar-worlds-reserve-currency

63. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma

64. https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/presidential-tariff-actions

65. https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/

66. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho

67. https://www.economicsobservatory.com/liberation-day

68. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reciprocal-tariff-chart-2054514

69. Trump's economic philosophy: A real plan or simply chaos? | Business Beyond |

DW News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1J0ElT70P4

70. Mid-Cap means Middle Size Market Capitalization, e.g. $2-10B in the United States; Small-Cap means $0.25-2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization

71. https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

72. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_Accord

POTUS47, who has personally long operated using monopolistic tactics in resource-constrained competitive business environments (namely, the New York City real estate business, where the supply of land is limited) rather than in unconstrained co-operative business environments (e.g. in international trade, where monopolies tend to be avoidable through alliances), considers himself to be a “dealmaker”, and has, in setting himself up to adversarially negotiate trade tariffs between the U.S. and the rest of the World, attempted to create a tributary economy,(73) where those engaging in trade need to pay tariffs to the U.S. Government in return for their ability to do business, unless they seek his personal favor in a transactional tributary deal to obtain a tariff exemption from him. POTUS45’s claim of an economic “emergency” in order to usurp the U.S. Congress’s Constitutional tariff power,(74-77) which allowed tariffs and economic disruption and the unilateral impairment, if not destruction, of many U.S. small businesses, is arguably a violation of the U.S. Constitutional Separation of Powers Doctrine,(78) as the tariff power is reserved in the U.S. Constitution to the U.S. Congress. Notably, reducing the efficiency of U.S. domestic business, particularly Mid-Cap, Small-Cap, and especially small business, due to supply chain disruption, disruption of expected profits, consequential loss in stock valuation, and therefore loss of capital funding, uncertainty in materials pricing, an inability to plan due to regulatory uncertainty, and uncertainty in pricing, may cause a substantial decrease in availability and increase in prices for goods and services that is literally inflationary.

73. Richard Wolff: Trump Will ERUPT When He Realizes This https://youtu.be/W68PjKmgBR8?t=1500

74. https://www.usconstitution.net/executive-tariff-authority/

75. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-constitution-and-tariffs

76. https://www.usconstitution.net/constitution-and-trade-policies/

77. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause

78. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers

4. Treasury, Tax Cuts, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Deficits, National Debt, Interest Rates, Reserve Currency, Bond Buyer’s Strike:

POTUS47 delegated his Treasury policy to Treasurer Scott Bessent.(79) Notably, when the POTUS47-named “Liberation Day” effected so-called “reciprocal” tariffs that devastated trade between the World and the U.S., it knocked trillions of dollars of value off multiple national stock markets worldwide,(80-81) an aggregate short-term mostly transient loss estimated to be about $10T, resulting from reduced future expected corporate earnings due to trade tariff price disruptions and supply chain impacts. The decreased the need for the U.S. Dollar as a medium of exchange in international trade plus a reduced willingness to invest in the Dollar in the face of the increasing U.S. National Debt together reduced the strength of the U.S. Dollar (as measured by U.S. Dollar Index DXY)(82) by about 5% over the next 2 months. Subsequently, foreign investors shunned buying the U.S. Treasury T-bills needed to refinance the $37T U.S. National Debt,(83) even as POTUS47’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”(84) planned to add about $3T to the national debt by extending the Admin45 tax cuts for the wealthy,(85-87) leading to a Moody’s credit rating downgrade(88) for U.S. Treasury bonds. Interest rates on T-bills at auction spiked at one point from about 4.5% to about 5.1%(89)—which we may imagine may have been a “hair on fire” moment for a treasurer seeking to refinance a national debt heading towards $40T, before the tariffs were postponed and the stock market made a rapid partial recovery. With the U.S. National Debt at about 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and getting worse, with the interest payments on the U.S. National Debt soon to exceed the budget of the U.S. Pentagon to become the largest item in the U.S. National Budget, the result was an effective bond “buyer’s strike” on the U.S. T-bill in the face of potential future U.S. insolvency or currency debasement, as the U.S. Federal Reserve was forced to buy its own T-bills, effectively creating a stealth quantitative easing.(90-92) Notably, the COVID-19 era quantitative easings cost the U.S. Dollar a significant decrease in value due to a short term spike in inflation into the high single-digits following the temporary taxpayer payments used to keep the U.S. economy running during the 2020 COVID lockdown,(93-95) while the increased financial liquidity from the individual payments that of COVID quantitative easing flowed up to corporations led to a rise in the stock valuation of certain computer technology firms, e.g. the “Magnificent Seven” technology companies,(96) many of which benefited from supporting increased work-at-home needs when few other business were doing well.(97) In addition, as the U.S. Congressional House Republican caucus, rejecting Democratic input, unilaterally wrote the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Admin47 2026 budget that through deficits threatened to drive the U.S. National Debt into interest runaway, the price of Gold has risen during Admin47 some 26% from $2700 to $3400 per ounce(98) as central banks around the World, e.g. the BRICS group—Brazil, Russia, India, China, & South Africa, collected hard assets in possible preparation for an alternative reserve currency of their own,(99) while the Gold-to-Silver Ratio (GSR) spiked over 100, with many Silver futures standing for delivery, beginning a Silver bull run in early June spiking Silver to the highest prices since 2011.(100) Notably, weakening the U.S. Dollar due to trade disruptions, fiscal irresponsibility in the U.S. budget, and threatened debasement of the U.S. Dollar by quantitative easing or monetization of the debt may cause higher interest rates that are literally inflationary.

79. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent

80. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_stock_market_crash#Initial_downturn

81. https://www.businessinsider.com/treasury-yield-bond-market-us-deficit-debt-trump-tax-bill-2025-6

82. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/TVC-DXY/

83. https://www.usdebtclock.org/

84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

85. https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/by-the-numbers-house-republican-tax-agenda-favors-the-wealthy-and-leaves

86. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/politics/house-tax-spending-cuts-bill-explained

87. https://taxfoundation.org/blog/one-big-beautiful-bill-pros-cons/

88. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/moodys-rating-downgrade-economy/story?id=121944070

89. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moodys-downgrade-rattles-stocks-but-not-republicans-pushing-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-144448482.html

90. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantitative-easing.asp

91. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_States

92. https://dailyhodl.com/2025/05/24/fed-quietly-buys-43600000000-in-us-treasuries-in-alleged-stealth-qe-operation-after-china-abruptly-dumps-billions-in-bonds/

93. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932023_inflation_surge#Fiscal_and_monetary_policy

94. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/fed-response-to-covid19/

95. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/quantitative-easing-generates-more-inflation-conventional-monetary-policy

96. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Seven

97. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/if-you-invested-these-5-tech-companies-during-covid-pandemic-heres-how-much-youd-have

98. https://goldprice.org/

99. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#BRICS_Contingent_Reserve_Arrangement

100. https://silverprice.org/

5. Immigration, Human Capital Flight, “Brain Drain,” Technology Exploitation, Claimed National “Exceptionalism”:

POTUS47 delegated his immigration policy to his White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller,(101-102), whose personal nonprofits were once funded by Elon Musk;(103-106) Miller and his wife escorted Elon Musk around Washington while he was working on DOGE.(107) Miller’s policies included “other”-ing, scapegoating, revoking immigration status, or initiating programs to deport millions of undocumented and recent immigrants and asylum seekers, some to countries where they had never been before or did not speak the language, some to prison cells in what are effectively death camps with no sentence term and from which there is no exit, many without lawful due process such as Habeas Corpus,(108) a tenet which has existed in English Law since Clause 39 of the Magna Carta of 1215,(109-110) while banning travelers and immigrants from a number of mostly third-World countries. Notably, reducing the population of low-wage migrant and casual labor in U.S. agriculture, construction, and food service results in increase production costs and an increase in retail prices that is literally inflationary.

101. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)

102. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Miller

103. https://www.wired.com/story/katie-stephen-miller-elon-musk-takeover/

104. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/elon-musk-wsj-trump-stephen-miller-donations/

105. https://newstracs.com/the-wsj-reports-elon-musk-gave-50-million-to-stephen-miller-linked-nonprofit/2024/10/15/

106. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/style/stephen-miller-wife-trump-musk.html

107. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-trump-wife-musk-b2761614.html

108. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus The first purpose of Habeas Corpus is to properly establish identity of the incarcerated person. For example, a family may have some siblings born in the U.S. and some not, so that the right to deport the individual is dependent on which sibling has been siezed.

109. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta#Use_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies_and_the_United_States

110. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/magna-carta/british-library-magna-carta-1215-runnymede/

Stephen Miller’s policies have threatened millions of foreign students at U.S. universities,(111-112) consistent with his numerous xenophobic and anti-minority policies, perhaps rooted in a false self-serving belief that American Exceptionalism and the benefits accrued from it have been rooted in the centuries of effort and “values” of Western Wypipo(113), rather than on the alternative explanation that this American Exceptionalism is because, since at least the beginning of World War II, in policies lead by “the Greatest Generation” and their “Cold Warrior” successors, the U.S. Government and its “Deep State” military-industrial complex have run arguably the best technology exploitation (theft) operation in the World in order to provide the technological support needed for the operations of the American Empire in all domains, including nuclear, air, space, marine, intelligence, cyber, communications, power, and logistics.

111. 'Scary and stressful': Indian students reconsider plans for US education https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8re8vy4g14o

112. https://apnews.com/article/international-student-trump-visa-green-card-239e24aa76d8f8920b4fd3d986b8f4c3

113. https://afropunk.com/2017/03/wypipo-explained/

In the nuclear field, the U.S. benefited from the immigration of a group of expatriate Hungarians, mostly ethnically Jewish physicists and mathematicians who in the 1930s were fleeing extinction by the German National Socialist regime, a group of emigrees who are often called “the Martians”(114), including Edward Teller,(115) Physicist—later called “The Father of the H-Bomb”, Leo Szillard(116)—who, knowing atomic weights and E=MC^2, realized, when told of the fission of Uranium, that “that means that we can build an atomic bomb”, Eugene Wigner(117)--a reactors expert and later Nobel prize winner, John Von Neuman(118)—inventor of the digital computer and later Chief Scientist at the U.S. Department of Defense, & Theodore von Karman(119)—a jet flight expert and founder of Aerojet and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

114. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)#Men_included_in_the_description

115. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

116. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard

117. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner

118. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

119. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n

The book Hitler’s Gift reviews contributions of expatriate German scientists who emigrated during World War II to England and the U.S.--including about 20 Nobel Prize winners.(120-122) Similarly, Operation Paperclip(123-127) vacuumed up many hundreds of German technologists out of post-WWII Europe, creating a “brain drain” from Europe to the United States to deny that expertise to the Soviets. The U.S. prosecuted the Cold War against the Soviet Block using satellites and ICBMs launched by rocket technology developed by Verner von Braun and the Peenemunde Germans(128-131) building boosters at NASA Marshall, Huntsville, AL as part of the “space race” to the Moon, rocket technology adapted to carry nuclear weapons developed with the support of expatriate European ethnic Jews such as Edward Teller, Teller who subsequently designed the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)(132) of the Regan Administration(133) that ran the Soviet Union economically bankrupt: In short, the U.S. is a nuclear superpower, and the one that “won” the Cold War without planetary destruction, specifically because they were an equal opportunity technology exploiter, and because the dangers of the era required that very intelligent people control the key critical aspects of American governance.

120. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/55/4/78/440400/Hitler-s-Gift-The-True-Story-of-the-Scientists

121. Hilter's Gift: Scientists Who Fled Nazi Germany

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1119874/

122. https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Gift-Scientists-Expelled-Regime/dp/1559705647/

123. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

124. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight#Antisemitism_in_pre-World_War_II_Europe_(1933%E2%80%931943)

125. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-america-stole-all-nazi-germanys-technology-after-war-175533

126. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/project_paperclip_nazis_in_america

127. Operation Paperclip: Unserved Justice For National Interests https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4957375

128. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde_Army_Research_Center

129. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170629-the-german-village-that-changed-the-war

130. https://wsmrmuseum.com/2020/07/27/von-braun-the-v-2-and-slave-labor/4/

131. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13197751/Nasa-nazis-huntsville-alabama-space-race-germans.html

132. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative#Lead_up_to_SDI

133. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan

One might infer that, in contrast to Stephen Miller, Elon Musk supports the H1B foreign worker visa(134) program because he knows that the success of his technology businesses—which require space launch, navigation, & landing vehicles, satellites, space life support, exotic power sources, artificial intelligence, big data storage, satellite communications, robotics, vehicle dynamics and navigation, neuroscience, organizational behavior, and logistics--needs the best expertise in the World, trained wherever, working wherever, such as may be necessary to perform the tasks at hand, irrespective of earthly borders, because Musk wants to go to Mars—and do so within his lifetime. If Admin47 is allowed to destroy American universities and exclude raw foreign talent, the risk is that the unintended consequence may be that language of Mars and software used may be Mandarin or Hindi rather than English.

134. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa

6. U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Project 2025, Unitary Executive:

POTUS47 has delegated key policies of Admin47 to Russell Vought,(135) head of the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB)(136), who had previously held that same position during Admin45.(137) Between these administrations, Vought was the principal author of “Project 2025” developed by the Heritage Foundation, which calls for policies such as strengthening the “Unitary Executive” model of the U.S. Presidency,(138) an idea which has long been promoted by the Federalist Society.(139) Many of POTUS47’s Executive Orders mirror or partially mirror Project 2025 agenda items.(140-141)

135. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought

136. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget

137. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/key-project-2025-authors-now-staffing-trump-administration-rcna195107

138. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

139. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory#Growth_of_presidential_powers

140. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

141. https://time.com/7209901/donald-trump-executive-actions-project-2025/

7. Cryptocurrency Policy, Stable Coins:

POTUS47 has delegated his cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence (AI) policies to David O. Sacks.(142-143) While at Stanford, Sacks had written a book with Peter Thiel titled “The Diversity Myth”, criticizing multiculturalism and “political intolerance” on campus.(144) Sacks later worked with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel while at Paypal.(145) Sacks is involved with the GENIUS Act, the U.S. Congress bill to require U.S. Dollar denominated stable coins to be backed by U.S. assets such as Federal Reserve T-bills, which might create an additional market for U.S. Treasury debt.(146-150) Coincidentally, POTUS47’s self-named meme coin cryptocurrency has earned him hundreds of millions in patronage and fees, for which he held a dinner so that the contributors could meet and position themselves on a patronage leader board.(151)

142. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks

143. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5025686-trump-names-david-sacks-as-ai-crypto-czar/

144. https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Myth-Multiculturalism-Political-Intolerance/dp/0945999763

145. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

146. https://hgbr.org/david-sacks-introduces-genius-act-to-lead-u-s-crypto-regulation/

147. https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/06/hawley-breaks-with-gop-as-senate-backs-bailout-for-crypto-investors/

148. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/genius-act-crypto-regulation-bill/story?id=121981442

149. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/05/20/genius-act-consumers-cryptocurrency-stablecoin/83744669007/

150. https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2025/05/23/why-us-crypto-czar-david-sacks-backs-genius-act-stablecoin-bill/

151. https://apnews.com/article/trump-crypto-projects-industry-scam-memecoin-0e2d7ca5170bf594d44a391884ec52b3

8. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy: “AI First”, Live in Governance Without Testing:

As for AI policy, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” has proposed to preempt states from regulating AI for ten years,(152) which might even be construed to preclude states from regulating the use of (purported) “AI” computer programs to (continue to) price-fix rental property rents(143-154) against the interests of the lower class U.S. public. Relevant to the potential for adverse impacts of AI on the public, such as through developing models using on biased data, training on flawed datasets, internal model bias, AI hallucinations, or implicit or explicit discrimination, DOGE, run by Elon Musk, who through his company xAI owns the largest AI computer in the World and has developed the Grok LLM chatbot, used AI in its destruction of the U.S. Federal “Administrative State”,(155) to reduce the size of the Federal workforce,(156) to look for evidence of Federal employee “disloyalty” in their emails(157) (a use of government resources that might effect retaliation or viewpoint discrimination(158) that might possibly be reviewed as a violation of the Hatch Act(159) or of First Amendment(160) rights), to process tax returns,(161) to downsize the Department of Education,(162) and to cut Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contracts using a flawed analysis.(164-164) In fact, it has been speculated that the Liberation Day “reciprocal” tariffs list was created by using the list of Internet domain names, which is why tiny and even uninhabited islands were targeted for such high tariffs despite their insignificance.(165) It has even been suggested that AI was used to write some POTUS47 Executive Orders.(166)

152. https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-05-23-ten-sneaky-sleeper-provisions-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/

153. https://www.levernews.com/republicans-aim-to-enshrine-rental-price_fixing/

154. https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

155. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/gsa-chat-doge-ai/681987/

156. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-used-meta-ai-model-review-fork-emails-from-federal-workers/

157. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/doge-team-using-ai-to-scour-personal-data-to-root-out-trump-disloyalty-report/ar-AA1FlL4p

158. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewpoint_discrimination

159. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act#Recent_Hatch_Act_incidents

160. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Freedom_of_speech_and_of_the_press

161. https://fedscoop.com/irs-cuts-ai-tech-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent/

162. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/

163. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-flawed-ai-veteran-affairs-b2765364.html

164. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia

165. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/3/2314432/-Lazy-tech-bros-and-Krasnov-Kidz-chose-Trump-tariff-targets-by-using-their-internet-domains

166. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-accused-of-using-ai-to-compose-garbled-executive-orders/ar-AA1xHuwJ

9. Destruction of GSA TTS 18F and the EOP U.S. Digital Service, Apparently to Replace U.S. Government Technology Talent with Presumed Right-Wing Ideologues:

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS)(167) director Thomas Shedd,(168-69) who formerly worked for Elon Musk as a Tesla engineer, has proposed an U.S. Government-wide(170) “AI First” policy,(171) deployed AI at a number of U.S. Government agencies,(172) and is expected to create an AI.Gov website.(173-174) Notably, the well-respected GSA TTS 18F information technology group(175) was summarily eliminated (as was most of the Executive Office of the President, U.S. Digital Service) in the DOGE reorganization by email at 1am on March 1, 2025; an Elon Musk retweet alleged that it was a “far-left agency.” Given Admin47 policies on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI),(176) and AI Czar David O. Sacks’ writings criticizing multiculturalism and “political intolerance” on campus, one may wonder if anti-DEI policies may be hard-coded into Federal AI brain-ware models, e.g. through an explicit prohibition of consideration of “race”, notwithstanding the fact that race has been a major factor in U.S. society for over 350 years.

167. https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/about-us/tts-history/

168. https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-announces-new-commissioners-tts-director-and-general-counsel-01242025

169. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shedd

170. https://natlawreview.com/article/white-house-unveils-government-wide-plan-streamline-ai-integration

171. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lieutenant-gsa-ai-agency/

172. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)_deployment

173. https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/

174. Archive of apparent draft AI.Gov web site: https://archive.is/xxbeV

175. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F

176. Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/

In evaluating POTUS47’s understanding and oversight of AI policy and cybersecurity, it seems relevant that, while POTUS47 has a long history of using social media (e.g. X/Twitter & Truth Social), little public evidence has been demonstrated that POTUS47 uses email, understands cybersecurity issues, or even uses, or has ever used, a personal computer. Notably, POTUS47 signed a Presidential Memorandum that designated Chris Krebs,(177) the former Admin45 Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), as “a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government authority”(178) and pulled his security clearance in apparent retaliation because Krebs said that the 2020 election, which POTUS45/47 lost, was “the most secure in American history”,(179) leading to a Presidential act targeting a U.S. citizen civilian that raises numerous U.S. Constitutional issues,(180) apparently intended to enforce a counter-factual public narrative and enforce Administration compliance with Admin47 political dogma.

177. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Krebs

178. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

179. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/04/trump-signs-order-targeting-former-cisa-head-chris-krebs/404445/

180. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/18/the-cybersecurity-risk-of-ignoring-trumps-attack-on-chris-krebs/

10. Conclusion: Admin47 is an Inconsistent Administration with Conflicting Goals Causing Substantial Collateral Damage to the Public:

In conclusion, POTUS47 has delegated powers in Admin47 to different constituencies, and has let each constituency optimize toward their own ends, which sub-optimizes the overall Administration to less than optimal overall efficiency. Disruptive trade policy, exclusionary immigration policy—including against students, medical professionals, and researchers, lenient fiscal policy, and trying to “destroy the administrative state”(181-182) are policies that tend to interfere with each other. In addition, most of them increase business costs and friction, and raise interest rates and inflation, which generally tends to destabilize the ability of the U.S. to repay its National Debt, thus threatening monetization of the debt, and debasement of the currency, and a precipitous fall from national “greatness.”

181. https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ungoverning-an-unfamiliar-name-for-an-unfamiliar-danger

182. https://www.amazon.com/Ungoverning-Attack-Administrative-State-Politics/dp/0691250529

Notably, given the number of billionaires holding government positions in Admin47,(183-185) which is around a dozen, many of these policies severely impact the ability of Mid-Cap, Small-Cap, and Micro-Cap businesses to operate and compete within the U.S. and World economy,

notwithstanding the fact that it is said that small business is the “backbone of america,”(186-187) “creating two-thirds of all new jobs in recent decades,”(188) which may result in a significant decrease in the diversity of American small business.(189) This constitutes a non-debated decision in American society effected by a non-majority plurality to unilaterally tip the balance of commerce in the U.S. towards big business and multinationals and against American small business and the gig worker.(190) Notably, if the U.S. Congress wished to change U.S. tariff policy, it has the authority to do so under the U.S. Constitution Tax and Spending Clause.(191)

183. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/how-many-billionaires-are-in-trumps-administration-and-what-is-their-worth

184. https://cepr.net/publications/the-trump-administration-government-by-billionaires-for-billionaires/

185. https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-tapped-unprecedented-13-billionaires-top-administration-roles/story?id=116872968

186. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/05/07/small-businesses-are-the-backbone-of-america-but-right-now-tariffs-are-breaking-their-backs/

187. https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/smallbusiness/kathuria.pdf

188. https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/small-business

189. Sudden environmental change tends to create a loss of biodiversity. This holds for the business environment.

190. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig_worker

191. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause

Meanwhile, a number of large U.S. multinational corporations have decided to expand elsewhere in the World, presumably in significant part due to the increased customs friction of trans-shipping product through (in and out of) the U.S. John Deere is moving to service South American business by building a plant in Mexico, and Walmart, Ford, and Apple are expanding overseas,(192-193) while Mattel may choose to remain international.(194-195)

192. 5 Major US Companies Just Told Trump They Are Leaving the US Market | The Real Cost of Tariffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M6AveF6AlU

193. Watch out for rumor Amazon announced it's leaving the US https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazon-leaving-america/

194. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/mattel-ceo-toy-manufacturing-trump-tariffs.html

195. Watch: Trump misspeaks and calls toy firm Mattel a country https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn4q950zxgqo

11. Technofeudalism:

Some of the most successful tech bros in American society have created, own, and set the rules in their own virtual cloud environments in cyberspace, in which they can charge admission fees, ground rent, and sales commissions, creating a economic wealth stream for themselves that Yanis Varoufakis(196) calls “technofeudalism”,(197) in some ways a return to the feudalism of the Dark Ages.

196. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

197. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism

12. Unrestrained Income Disparity & Inequality Has Impacted Democracy:

In the face of increasing income disparity in the U.S., three tech bro’s(198) now own as much wealth as the lower half of the U.S. public.(199-200) Contributing to the political consequences of this outcome is the failure of campaign finance reform with the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision,(201-202) which classified money as free speech in politics—in an era when a handful of people have a major fraction of the wealth in American society, and the Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity decision, giving the POTUS immunity for criminal acts committed during their Administration in their official capacity,(203) such that U.S. Constitutional violations are now being effected by the Admin47 on a daily basis and treated no worse than jaywalking.(204)

199. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_Americans_by_net_worth

200. https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-richest-americans-hold-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-of-country-study-finds/

201. https://inequality.org/article/bernie-3-billionaires-more-wealth-half-america/

202. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

203. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained

204. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States

205. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

13. Admin47 Arrogance Towards the Citizenry; Impacts on Small Business & Retirees:

Admin47 has arrogated to itself the authority, if not the right, to tell others who they are, who is worthy and who is unworthy, who is to be favored and who is to be oppressed, and to choose winners and losers in American society and the World economy. The ability of Small-Cap and Micro-Cap businesses to operate effectively has been impacted by Admin47 tariff and economic policies, as have billions of dollars of retirement investments, and the resulting financial dislocations and expected currency debasement are particularly harmful to the 60 million Americans who are older than age 65.(206) As one multi-billionaire tech bro recently said, “The most effective way for social change is humiliate your enemy and make them poor.”(207-208) During Admin47, many ordinary Americans are being humiliated, and many more are being made poor.

206. https://equable.org/liberation-day-pension-losses/

207. Alex Karp, Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Palantir, 5/22/2025, The Economic Club of Chicago, https://youtu.be/lvLxM6kQK7Y?t=405

208. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

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