During its first few weeks, the Trump Administration has unleashed a flurry of measures to radically reshape the federal government. Many of these moves are overtly unlawful. This paper identifies the legal problems with many prominent actions: closing federal agencies or departments and removing federal employees, ending the independence of independent agencies, placing employees on indefinite administrative leave, or pressing them to resign.^{[[2]](https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/many-trump-administration-personnel-actions-are-unlawful#_ftn2)}