Karoline Leavitt is slated to hold her first White House press briefing at 1pm ET, the AP reports.

Jonathan Lemire: “Trump’s ubiquity is also a deliberate strategy, several of his aides and allies told me. Part of the point is to send a message to the American people that their self-declared ‘favorite’ president is getting things done. The person at the Palm Beach meeting and another Trump adviser, who also requested anonymity to describe private conversations, told me that the White House’s flood of orders and news is also designed to disorient already despairing Democratic foes, leaving them so battered that they won’t be able to mount a cohesive opposition.”

“Trump’s actions in his first week have been a mix of signal and noise, of distraction and seriousness. He has taken some defeats. But Trump has succeeded, at least, in creating a stark contrast with the quiet of his predecessor, and in (yet again) shifting the nation’s political discourse back toward him. And compared with 2017, the resistance has been far more muted.”

“I will do everything I can to challenge the Impoundment Control Act in court, and if necessary, get Congress to overturn it. I will then use the president’s long-recognized impoundment power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings.”

— Donald Trump, quoted by Roll Call, on June 20, 2023.

Playbook: “What we are witnessing is nothing short of a revolution inside the U.S. government, with unknown numbers of civil servants either being removed from their jobs or effectively facing some kind of loyalty test if they wish to stay on.”

“But let’s also be clear: Amidst the liberal outrage, it’s important to remember that this was all spelled out by Trump long in advance. Throughout the election campaign, he told America repeatedly that he would reshape the federal government, root out (and even prosecute) his enemies, pardon supporters who were convicted of violent crimes, slash government spending programs en masse and ax huge numbers of federal jobs. And then he won 77 million votes to do exactly that. Those accusing Trump of being anti-democratic might note that this is largely democracy in action.”

“Career lawyers and staff at the Department of Justice say the rush of changes in the first week of the Trump administration make them feel like they’re under siege,” Politico reports.

“Even as the moves followed through on vows Trump made on the campaign trail to remake the department under his vision, the swift action still took staffers by surprise.”

Said a former DOJ official: “It is a flat-out purge of individuals who this administration must view either of suspect loyalty, or have worked on matters they just did not like… We are in the early phases of what to me is just looking like a wholesale politically-inspired demolition of the Department of Justice in key places.”