The left-wing New York Times editorial staff supported President Biden’s campaign and celebrated his victory, but light criticism of his wave of executive action on Thursday morning provoked a reprimand from Biden’s communications director.
The editors told him head on, “Accelerate executive actions, Joe,” that he did not rely too much on executive orders. Biden has signed dozens since its adoption last week, addressing issues ranging from climate change to coronavirus to overseas abortions to the cancellation of the Keystone pipeline.
“But this is not a way to legislate,” the council wrote. ” A polarized, narrowly divided Congress offers Mr. Pray little choice but to take executive action or take his entire agenda hostage. However, these guidelines are a deficient substitute for legislation. They are intended to provide guidance to the government and to work within the discretion conferred on the executive by the existing law or the Constitution … [T]hey is not meant to serve as an end to the will of Congress. By design, such actions are more restrictive than legislation can achieve, and presidents who issue too much invite court intervention. ‘
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Indeed, executive orders can be erased with a dash from the next president’s pen, as former President Barack Obama saw with his successor Donald Trump, and now Trump with Biden.
‘To address the excesses of Mr. Undoing Trump is necessary, but the legacy of Mr. Biden will depend on his ability to hammer out agreements with Congress, ‘the board wrote.
While the newspaper put together its critique sympathetically, communications director Kate Bedingfield cried foul on Twitter.
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‘Since NYT editor criticizes President Biden over it [morning] “because I acted quickly to reverse the worst actions of the Trump Admin, I can not help but remember that they encouraged voters during the pre-election to consider what a president can achieve through action,” she tweeted. . ” So my question is what action did the president take to reverse Donald Trump’s executive orders, would they want to see him not continue? ‘
Bedingfield added “naturally” that the Biden government is pursuing its agenda through legislation. For the first time in a decade, Democrats have full control over Washington with small majorities in the House and Senate.
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Although it cast its support behind Biden in the general election, the Times editorial did not endorse Biden for the Democratic nomination. Instead, both Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., And Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Choose who would win a joint zero by-election.