This still isn’t quite de-Americanized enough for me to track. He has the power to cut funding for whatever specific agency he doesn’t like? And they, knowing this, decide to sit on their hands for four years to keep their paycheques. Finance companies in turn, change policies, knowing that these agencies will not be enforcing laws for four years.

The recent change is that this free-for-all may be cut short? What am I missing here, this sounds like banana republic shenanigans.