Over the past week, a growing number of Republicans have sounded the alarm about the number and content of executive orders issued by President Biden.
‘What did Joe Biden do in his first week in office? “He has signed an executive order terminating the Keystone pipeline and destroying 11,000 jobs,” Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News.
“The scale of Joe Biden’s executive orders and their impact on Americans is strong,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Said last week.
Senate Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Exploded Biden because he had ever issued more executive cars than anyone in such a short period of time. More than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone. Secondly, these are not just normal executive bikes, they literally go on the wish list from the far left and everyone looks down. ”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Spoke out in particular about her opposition to Biden’s executive orders.
Would anyone please hide Joe’s pens at the White House?
– Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) 26 January 2021
Biden actually had a record pace for executive orders and signed more than 40 of them in his first week in office. Most, however, were written to stop those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. It put an end to the travel bans of some Muslim countries, a reversal in Trump’s immigration enforcement policy, the re-accession of the Paris climate agreement, the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline permit and an end to the policy to ban transgender people serving in the U.S. military.
After years of complaints that former President Barack Obama used executive orders as an end to a stuck Congress, Republicans were silent when Trump did the same. It is not surprising that the pace of Trump’s executive orders has increased after Democrats once again took control of the House of Representatives, thus blocking his prospects for passing legislation. By the time his term ended, Trump had signed 220 executive orders in one term. Obama, by comparison, signed 276 over his two terms. From a historical perspective, both are pale in comparison to the 3,721 issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 12 years in office, although the nature of the orders and the debate over whether it was better left to Congress to to legislation, has also changed. time. Roosevelt’s key initiatives, including social security and most New Deal programs, have been enacted by law.
With the U.S. Senate evenly divided when Biden took office and the debate raging over whether the Democrats would want to end the Senate filibuster to pass its agenda, the president’s barrage of executive orders predictably praised Democrats and the condemnation of the Republicans aroused.
But when Trump signed his own executive orders with a Sharpie, the criticism from members of his own party was difficult to detect.
In May, Cruz issued a statement praising Trump for his executive order seeking to amend a federal law that protects tech companies from charging their users content.
“This executive order is an important recognition that we can no longer afford to leave Big Tech unhindered,” Cruz said.
When Trump signed a 2017 executive order to repeal an EPA clean water regulation, Cotton applauded him.
“President Trump has promised America’s farmers that he will relieve them of the onslaught of the past eight years, and that’s a good way to start,” Cotton said in a statement.
Rubio responded to Trump’s executive order banning Chinese telecommunications company Huawei from selling equipment in the US, saying the president ‘deserves huge credit’.
“I support the president’s executive order and Secretary Ross’ decision to issue a denial of export rights against Huawei,” Rubio said in a statement.
When Trump signed an order in September making it mandatory for U.S. hospitals to provide life-saving medical care to severely premature babies, those born with disabilities or those who survive late abortions, Steve Scalise, R-La. , a statement issued in which he “increased President Trump’s executive order taking further decisive action to protect life.”
A bill to achieve the same has failed in Congress.
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