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The president of the United States has allocated by Congress. Yet Donald Trump has done just that. He has also begun such as the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, USAID, and even the Department of Education. 

He has created an entire agency—the —out of thin air, something presidents have no authority to do, and empowered it with wide-ranging authority to dig into the public’s private data and slash whole sections of the federal government workforce. Trump has even tried to revoke , which is constitutionally protected.

Ultimately, he is doing what he promised he would: undermining the U.S. Constitution to expand his own power. The question is, what recourse do we have? And is it too late to save U.S. democracy?

Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown University and author of , spoke with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about Trump’s attacks on the U.S. Constitution.