President Biden is moving aggressively to turn the page on the Trump era.
A week into his presidency, Mr. Biden has issued a raft of executive orders and other actions. Already, he has committed to rejoining the Paris climate change agreement, ended the Muslim travel ban, canceled the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, rescinded funding for and halted construction on the wall at the southern border, reaffirmed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, mandated mask-wearing on federal grounds, moved to end the federal government’s reliance on private prisons, reversed the ban on transgender military service and called for agency assessments aimed at advancing racial equity — just to name a few. The coming days will bring more such action.
These moves are being met with cheers by Democrats and others eager to see the legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency dismantled posthaste. Republicans, meanwhile, are grumbling about presidential overreach and accusing Mr. Biden of betraying his pledge to seek unity.
In other words, things are going the same way they often do in Washington. “There’s a sort of tribalism when it comes to the use of executive orders,” observes John Hudak, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. “When your party’s in the White House, it’s the greatest thing on earth. When your party’s out, it’s undemocratic. It’s basically Satan’s pen.”
But 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.
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Woah. Joe has eliminated the need for Congress and Senate. They can all go home and get a real job. From now on, whatever Joe’s handlers desire, they’ll put an executive order paper in front of the old senile bag, and have him sign it. Great. Government made simple. There is no more a need for any opposition whatsoever. Pervert Joe has turned into a useful idiot for team Obama. As soon as his usefulness is over, they will throw the old bag under the bus so fast, he won’t know what hit him. It will be time for Queen Kamala to be coronated, as the first American/Indian/African/Malaysian/Filipino female as POTUS. Yippee.
Let’s just enjoy the dems eating each other up. The president (I mean dictator) biden can’t take just a little criticism from this friends at the times. Living in that basement for so long. away from prying eyes, did him no good actually. It should have been a dead giveaway what he was up to in planning this disaster.
The unity Biden was talking about was about making the entire county united all the way to the left.
no more two parties. Just one political party and one power: the democratic left. That is his vision of unity.