Trump Keeps Using “National Security” to Do What He Wants

Source: www.motherjones.com · Section: politics · Bias: Left · Published: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:58:12 GMT

President Donald Trump has a favorite justification for everything he does: “It’s a national security matter.” After 9/11, the United States built a vast, powerful, and generally unchecked national security apparatus. Twenty-five years later, Trump is using agencies and emergency powers that sprung up in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks—and have never been abolished […]

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