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There, Musk, whom Trump has offered some sort of czarlike role as Cutting Government Guy, said he would identify “at least $2 trillion in cuts” in the role.

Still, the change means a growing role for Mr. Kushner, who is looking for a czarlike appointee to oversee the development of a vaccine and therapeutic treatments, as well as for top economic officials like Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, and the White House advisers Larry Kudlow and Kevin Hassett.

Navalny, by acting like an ordinary politician who seeks to win over voters rather than just relying on money and media support from the state, stands in open opposition to the Kremlin’s efforts to create what it calls “managed democracy” — an increasingly authoritarian system in which criticism is tolerated but only if it avoids challenging the czarlike president.

“Perhaps she’ll be confirmed,” Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, said after a long pause and a deep audible breath, “but she won’t be confirmed with my vote. That’s what my constituents want of me, to make a stand against someone who has basically taken the position that the executive branch has unlimited, almost czarlike powers.”

Earlier, Detroit’s pension funds had filed suit, challenging the measure that they say presents emergency managers with “czarlike powers,” and more suits have been threatened.