What’s Trump got planned for executive orders?
Remember? Trump said he’d be a dictator, but only on day one, drilling and closing the border. During the campaign, the left parlayed that into the idea that Trump will be an actual dictator, and that he’s so bold and shameless that he even announced it!
Now his press secretary has said of these orders:
“There will be tens of them. I can assure you of that,” Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told Fox News on Sunday.
There’s a lot to do, and especially to undo. Some will no doubt be connected to the two things he mentioned, drilling and the border. Also deportations of illegal aliens, particularly people who have committed crimes or are otherwise under orders to be deported but haven’t been. And of course the J6 defendents.
What’s the history of day one executive orders, and executive orders in general? At the moment, the record for initial orders is held by none other than Joe Biden:
Since 1937, only three U.S. presidents have issued executive orders on their first day in office. This exclusive group includes Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton. …
The Federal Register tracks all executive orders signed by presidents beginning in 1937, excluding former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first-term executive orders. …
President Joe Biden holds the record for the most executive orders signed on the first day and first week in office. On his first day, Biden issued nine executive orders, six of which reversed orders from the Trump administration. These reversals included rescinding policies targeting communities that shielded undocumented immigrants from deportation and requiring the use of face masks in federal buildings and lands.
Biden’s use of executive orders during his first week in office was prolific, with a total of 22 orders signed.
During his presidency, Biden signed 160 executive orders. But that didn’t hold a candle to FDR, who signed a whopping 2,023 during his terms two and three; Truman, who signed 906; Clinton, who signed 364. George H.W. Bush had the lowest number since the count began in 1937: 46.
One of Trump’s executive orders will probably be to extend the TikTok cancellation window for 90 more days, in hopes of a sale.
NOTE: An early order of Biden’s took the Iran-backed Houthis off the terrorists list. Great. And now, in the last days of his presidency, guess what? This past Wednesday, Biden put the Houthis back on the list. One less thing for Trump to do.
I wonder how much more damage Biden and his team can do in under 48 hours remaining.
One of those Biden orders was to rescind Trump’s “Schedule F” order, which wouid have reclassified large numbers of federal employees and made it easier to fire them.
https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/what-is-schedule-f-and-what-does-it-mean-for-federal-employees-when-trump-returns-to-the-white-house/
Supposedly Trump plans to redo this order, but I’ve read that the Biden administration made some rule changes that will make it more difficult.
Just look up at the camera and say “Elections have consequences”
Hopefully, on his first day as President, Trump takes frequent brief breaks to avoid writer’s cramp.
Has to be a few, ok many people sweating it out hoping for one of those blanket pardons.
One executive order should be all others signed since Jan 20, 2020 are null and void.
Somewhere I picked up the idea that Biden had signed 30 EO’s on his first day.
I guess if the fancy folders they use to sign those things is 0.75″ thick and he signed 22 of them, that is still a stack 16″ high. I think it looked like more in the photo I recall seeing.
They could have added extra folders later for photographic effect of Biden hard at work on his first day.
@SKip: “One executive order should be all others signed since Jan 20, 2020 are null and void.”
Initially I liked that idea. In turn it led me to think it might be even better if all EO’s signed by a given president sunset at the end of his term. But then I realized that some of them are useful as deeper guidance and instruction to the Executive Branch employees on how they are expected to do their jobs (to address enforcement of existing legislation) rather than what they should be doing (that might be in violation of said legislation). These EO’s would reasonably be useful across different administrations.
[Yes, I suppose it can get fuzzy between how and what.]
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Now we are seeing he may/will sign up to 200 EO’s tomorrow. But that probably is the equivalent of 3 to 4 hours of signing, etc. Presumably with breaks at intervals?
Perhaps part of the thinking is with such a shotgun overload out of the opening day, there will be so many issues that the media cannot properly distort all of them, and maybe even that a few will escape court filings that they might otherwise have faced with a more relaxed rate of EO releases.
A lot of the chatter since the election has been along the line that Trump’s four years out of office enabled him to be much more prepared for going back, and I think that has some value.
Some of the remarks I saw after Biden’s first day noted that Democrats are always ready to go when they win, and Republicans are always surprised.
Trump and his coalition are much better prepared this time around with personnel, plans, policies, and hopefully legislation waiting to be introduced.
Not that it erases the damage Biden Inc. did during that hiatus, but since that’s the reality we live in (as opposed to the fantasy realm of the Democrats), it’s good that some use was made of the time.