Trump’s executive order stripped agencies of their independence by making them directly accountable to a part of the presidency: the office of management and budget (OMB). The OMB is led by Russell Vought, founder of the rightwing Center for Renewing America (CRA) thinktank and one of the primary authors of the Project 2025 plan for an authoritarian takeover of government.
Who is “the media”? This sounds just as ridiculous to me as when conservatives say it. Reuters? AP? NPR? New Republic? The Atlantic?
Or are you taking only about Fox, OANN, etc?
There’s a wide swath of takes in the mainstream, and yes they skew wildly sometimes, but there is categorically no “The Media” monolith conspiring to do anything
Took the words out of my mouth.