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Through a panoramic series of actions, President Donald Trump is transforming the federal government into a vast machine for rewarding his allies and punishing those he considers his adversaries.

Trump is using executive orders , federal investigations and regulatory decisions to deploy federal power against a stunning array of targets, ranging from powerful institutions such as Harvard and Columbia universities and major law firms to individual critics from his first term and former President Joe Biden’s top White House aides. Simultaneously, Trump is rewarding allies with presidential pardons , commutations, government contracts and the termination of federal regulatory or criminal investigations.

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