Grandiose narcissistic people like Trump can only relate to people who have a powerful need to subject their authenticity and to follow "dear leader" or in their minds...daddy. So Trump surrounds himself by strange people like Musk and Vance and Hegseth and Kennedy...
They are not about "we the people" they are about..."praise me daddy, hear me daddy, let me hurt those people for you daddy".

It has been the plan of the far right for a long, long time. They want to get rid of the FDR social safety net including Social Security, and to do that they need a time when America is broke and cannot pay the benefits. Capitalism is about the ruling class, always has been and will always be, as more and wealth gathers in fewer and fewer hands, for the rich to win votes they need America alienated and divided.
Cue Trump and his grandiosity.

Shutting down Congress is one thing, stopping a newly elected Representative is quite another. The first happens every few years, but the second, should never ever happen.

America would be far better off with Hegseth gone than with a tame media ignoring the graft and the grift.

Disgusting and inhuman, but then, that is what Trump is at his core.