Trump takes control

Congressional Republicans are worried about the midterm elections, White House staffers their job security, but President Trump is moving full speed ahead.

Recent personnel and policy moves, combined with Trump’s usual freewheeling commentary at rallies and on Twitter, show a president shedding constraining influences in his second year of office right as Republicans are trying to defend their congressional majorities, with more to come.

Or as Trump himself put it after firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week, “I’m really at a point where we’re getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want.”