RE: How do Trumps EO's Stack up to past presidents.
Here are Trumps EO's. Everyone of them are perfectly within his right, as he is either undoing something Obama did, or doing something Obama did. Because of that, none of them should be controversial to anyone who didnt get butthurt at Obama doing the same thing.
Since taking office, President Trump has looked to fulfill some of his campaign promises by using executive orders.
1. An order directing the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law.
Because the democratic congress gave wide latitude to the Treasury to come up with implementation regulations, a new Treasury is allowed to come up with their own. Dont like it? Then be a man and write the damned regulations in the bill instead of just pawning it off on the Treasury. Perfectly legal
2. A memorandum instructing the Labor Department to delay implementing an Obama rule requiring financial professionals who are giving advice on retirement, and who charge commissions, to put their client's interests first. Basically undoing an Obama EO. Perfectly legal.
3. An order instructing agencies that whenever they introduce a regulation, they must first abolish two others. Perfectly legal, and needed in order to get rid of mounds of unneeded regulation that does nothing but costs money to businesses.
4. A memorandum to restructure the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. Nothing wrong with this, and perfectly within his right.
5. A memorandum directing the Secretary of Defense to draw up a plan within 30 days to defeat ISIS.Perfectly within his right, and Obama should have done this. Obama may have done this, and just didnt like the plan they came up with.
6. An order to lengthen the ban on administration officials working as lobbyists. There is now a 5 year-ban on officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government, and a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.glad its an EO. If the democrats ever take the whitehouse back over, watch them roll this one back so that they can start rebuilding their swampity swamp swamp.
7. An executive order imposing a 120-day suspension of the refugee program and a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from citizens of seven terror hot spots: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan. if you are butthurt over this, and said nary a word when Obama did it, then you are simply a hyprocrite. He's perfectly within his legal authority to do this.
8. Two multi-pronged orders on border security and immigration enforcement including: the authorization of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; the stripping of federal grant money to sanctuary cities; hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents; ending “catch-and-release” policies for illegal immigrants; and reinstating local and state immigration enforcement partnerships. basically undoing Obama policy and EO's. Perfectly legal
9. A memorandum calling for a 30-day review of military readiness. This is not only perfectly legal, but really necessary after Obama gutted the military.
10. Two orders reviving the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access piplines. He also signed three other related orders that would: expedite the environmental permitting process for infrastructure projects related to the pipelines; direct the Commerce Department to streamline the manufacturing permitting process; and give the Commerce Department 180 days to maximize the use of U.S. steel in the pipeline. Some of these orders simply undo Obama's stupidity, and th eorder to US maximize steel use in the pipeline is even more #WINNING
11. An order to reinstate the so-called "Mexico City Policy" – a ban on federal funds to international groups that perform abortions or lobby to legalize or promote abortion. The policy was instituted in 1984 by President Reagan, but has gone into and out of effect depending on the party in power in the White House.Why democrats keep insisting that american taxpaer fund abortions is beyond me, but glad to see Trump looking out for babies and the american taxpayer. Perfectly legal
12. A notice that the U.S. will begin withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Trump called the order "a great thing for the American worker." and it is a great thing for the american worker, as we will get a better deal. And perfectly legal, because Obama decided not to send it to the Senate. Stupidity has consequences.
13. An order imposing a hiring freeze for some federal government workers as a way to shrink the size of government. This excludes the military, as Trump noted at the signing. Perfectly legal and needed. Drain that swampity swamp swamp
14. An order that directs federal agencies to ease the “regulatory burdens” of ObamaCare. It orders agencies to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement” of ObamaCare that imposes a “fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications.” Although Obama did things with OBlundercare that was illegal under law, what Trump did here was perfectly legal.
Now, I'll try to get a list from Obama and show the stark difference in the early EO's. So far, Trump has done nothing illegal, and nothing thats even considered controversial as far as legality.
(This post was last modified: 02-04-2017 11:21 AM by UofMstateU.)
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