10-13-2017, 09:08 PM
President Trump has been busy signing Executive Orders over the last couple of days because he can't get the Congress, both houses of which are majority ruled by his own party, to put together or push through policies needed to turn his legislative campaign promises into realities.
It's ironic, but not surprising, that Trump is using Executive Orders far more than did Obama after having mocked Obama's competence for using them at all.
Anyway, President Trump couldn't get the Republicans to agree on a health care policy to replace Obamacare, so he signed EOs that remove some of the requirements on insurance companies, allow purchasing of policies across states, and remove government supplements to low income individuals on silver plans. It's now Trumpcare and Trump alone owns it, whether it's a success or failure.
President Trump also decertified the Iran Nuclear Agreement -- against the advice of his senior advisors and our allies, and despite the fact that all inspection bodies agree that Iran has been compliant with the terms of the agreement since its inception.
Trump, who calls the agreement 'the worst ever negotiated', wants there to be a forever clause, requirements regarding sponsoring groups labeled by the U.S. as terrorists, and restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program. I guess he could negotiate separate agreements on those topics and leave the working nuclear agreement as-is since he's such a great negotiator, but that's not happening.
Today Trump ordered the Congress to fix the Iran Nuclear deal or else he'd nix it altogether. I doubt he'll get the Republican Congress to agree and get the deal 'fixed' according to his definition. And, I doubt the deal will get nixed unless Trump is willing to lose key parts of his cabinet and key allies. But, I do think using the media to go through the motions on TV is an effective means by which to keep his core base loyal, even though it makes the U.S. unloyal when it comes to agreements and our partnerships with key allies.
The stock market and economy have been performing very well so far into Trump's presidency though. That's a good thing.
It's ironic, but not surprising, that Trump is using Executive Orders far more than did Obama after having mocked Obama's competence for using them at all.
Anyway, President Trump couldn't get the Republicans to agree on a health care policy to replace Obamacare, so he signed EOs that remove some of the requirements on insurance companies, allow purchasing of policies across states, and remove government supplements to low income individuals on silver plans. It's now Trumpcare and Trump alone owns it, whether it's a success or failure.
President Trump also decertified the Iran Nuclear Agreement -- against the advice of his senior advisors and our allies, and despite the fact that all inspection bodies agree that Iran has been compliant with the terms of the agreement since its inception.
Trump, who calls the agreement 'the worst ever negotiated', wants there to be a forever clause, requirements regarding sponsoring groups labeled by the U.S. as terrorists, and restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program. I guess he could negotiate separate agreements on those topics and leave the working nuclear agreement as-is since he's such a great negotiator, but that's not happening.
Today Trump ordered the Congress to fix the Iran Nuclear deal or else he'd nix it altogether. I doubt he'll get the Republican Congress to agree and get the deal 'fixed' according to his definition. And, I doubt the deal will get nixed unless Trump is willing to lose key parts of his cabinet and key allies. But, I do think using the media to go through the motions on TV is an effective means by which to keep his core base loyal, even though it makes the U.S. unloyal when it comes to agreements and our partnerships with key allies.
The stock market and economy have been performing very well so far into Trump's presidency though. That's a good thing.