Biden has a lot to get done if he wants to keep all of his campaign promises and unfortunately there is not a lot the GOP can do to stop him. The Dems have the majority in the House and technically the Senate too. But for some reason, Biden is not acting as if he has the majority. He is instead signing Executive Actions bypassing Congress and the Senate altogether. Liberals were at first excited to see all of Trump’s policies go but now after Biden signed Executive Action number 37, even they are starting to have some concerns.
“…this is no way to make law.”
“A polarized, narrowly divided Congress may offer Mr. Biden little choice but to employ executive actions or see his entire agenda held hostage. These directives, however, are a flawed substitute for legislation. They are intended to provide guidance to the government and need to work within the discretion granted the executive by existing law or the Constitution. They do not create new law — though executive orders carry the force of law — and they are not meant to serve as an end-run around the will of Congress. By design, such actions are more limited in what they can achieve than legislation, and presidents who overreach invite intervention by the courts.”
“Executive actions are far more ephemeral and easily discarded than legislation, which can set up a whipsaw effect, as each president scrambles to undo the work of his predecessor. Just as Mr. Trump set about reversing as many of President Barack Obama’s directives as possible, Mr. Biden is now working to reverse many of Mr. Trump’s reversals. With executive orders, there is always another presidential election just a few years off, threatening to upend everything.
This creates instability and uncertainty that can carry significant economic as well as human costs.”
Biden has even claimed that executive orders are not the way to go, he claimed a president who overuses them is a dictator.
“In 2019, candidate Biden was even more emphatic about the dangers of governing by White House edict, noting that there are things you “can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.”
Biden is going overboard with the executive orders and time will tell if he is planning to play more of a dictator role or if this is just his way of practically erasing Trump.
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