Trump’s first month in office sees him moving ahead on agenda with blazing speed

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Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 11.Kevin Lamarque/Reuters As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while redefining the U.S. role in the world. At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected, South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the firing of thousands of federal employees and potentially shutter entire agencies created by Congress. Those efforts have largely overshadowed Trump’s crackdowns...