President Donald Trump is steamrolling perceived obstructors to his second-term agenda, as evidenced by a string of high-profile firings within his administration and, most recently, the dismissal of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez.

The White House has defended Trump’s approach to dissent, contending that not only has the president chosen the best Cabinet and staff in history, but that some dissent is even encouraged.

“If we have an agenda that we're trying to implement and the people who are supposed to be implementing it don't agree with that agenda, that's not squashing dissent,” a White House official told the Washington Examiner. “There's a difference between ‘The White House wants X, Y, Z to happen and the agency comes back and says, "Hey,

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