Now that Bannon’s real purpose for the Trump administration is out of the closet and in full view of the American people, the question arises whether that program of destruction is illegal, and possibly unconstitutional. The cabinet positions and agencies under attack were created by Congress and along with their creation were general and specific duties and powers granted to the executive branch by Congress. These are embedded in statutory provisions passed and periodically amended and are the law of the land. To the extent that these statutes are constitutional, and most have been found to be so, they impose a duty on the president and executive officers to carry out that intent, to spend money on furthering the goals set by the legislature. Bannon's promises to do the opposite of that, and is, I submit, in gross violation of the laws of this country. This applies to Trump and to his cabinet appointees.
In turn, these actions amount to the President and his staff overruling and refusing to carry out the statutorily enacted will of Congress in an area of government that is left completely in the hands of Congress by article I of our constitution. These action, then, amount to a coup of one branch of government over another.
Trump and his allies claim that the election of Trump is a signal that the American people want this deconstruction of the so called administrative state. However, no such signal exists because changes in statutory law comes from elections to Congress. If the statutes are changed relating to the EPA, Health and Human Services in the direction Trump wishes, then, what he is doing would be proper, but until the laws are changed, Trump’s actions are illegal and an unconstitutional usurpation of the powers given to Congress alone when they adopted the Constitution