‘Perpetual crisis mode’: how Trump uses emergency declarations to push radical agenda

President's dubious claims of emergency' threaten civic and political norms in authoritarian style, experts warn

Donald Trump's drives to pursue his radical policies on immigration, tariffs and energy may seem at first to have little in common beyond a shared Maga political agenda.

But Trump has made spurious or thinly documented claims of national emergencies" to justify harsh illegal immigrant measures, sweeping tariffs and massive energy deregulation, say legal scholars, watchdog groups and Democrats.