{"id":2397330,"date":"2025-01-31T06:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/executive-actions-will-only-take-trump-so-far-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:54:14","slug":"executive-actions-will-only-take-trump-so-far-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/executive-actions-will-only-take-trump-so-far-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive actions will only take Trump so far &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexecutive-actions-will-only-take-trump-so-far-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2397330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the executive actions taken by President donald Trump as he began his second, nonconsecutive term in office. Supporters, including Republican senators and representatives,\u200b have lauded thes actions\u2063 as fulfilling campaign\u2063 promises. Trump has enacted significant\u2063 policies affecting \u200bimmigration, foreign policy, and governmental practices, such as withdrawing from \u200dthe Paris climate agreement and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/advocates-hail-scotus-decision-scrapping-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions\/\" title=\"SCOTUS decision ends affirmative action in college admissions, praised by advocates.\">eliminating affirmative action<\/a> in federal procurement. While some actions\u2062 are deemed impactful, others are criticized as trivial\u2062 or ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>The piece asserts that while Trump&#8217;s various executive orders give the impression of\u200c addressing \u200durgent issues,many are superficial \u2064in terms of policymaking. For example, his initiatives\u2062 to\u200b investigate\u200c past\u200d administrative misconduct and tackle the cost-of-living crisis might \u200bnot yield meaningful change.The\u200d article draws parallels with previous administrations,illustrating \u200cthat\u200b executive actions \u200coften result in minimal real impact due to the limited constitutional power of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 author,Kevin \u2062R. Kosar, emphasizes the\u2064 importance of legislative collaboration \u200cand cautions against \u2064the perception that the president alone can solve \u2064significant national problems. Instead, he argues that systemic complexities and institutional limitations\u200d require a more cooperative \u2064approach between the president and Congress to effectively address major challenges \u200dfacing the country.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Executive actions will only take Trump so far<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1929946\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/katie-britt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)<\/a> recently took to X to celebrate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of more than 600 illegal immigrants. &ldquo;Promises made, promises kept!&rdquo; she crowed, shortly after President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> took office for his second, nonconsecutive term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) struck a similar note that day when asked by the media about Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;avalanche&rdquo; of 200 executive actions. &ldquo;Trump 45 &hellip; Trump 47 &mdash; there&rsquo;s one thing I think everyone will notice &hellip; the theme: promises made and promises kept.&rdquo; Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marsha-blackburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Marsha Blackburn<\/a> (R-TN) joined the chorus, praising the president for stopping a wind turbine project and for deploying military troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Trump already has made progress on half of his major campaign promises, according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. That is quite an admission from a publication that spilled an enormous amount of ink to fact-check his campaign and previous presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, some of his actions were significant. Trump pulled America out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, exited the World Health Organization, abolished affirmative action in federal procurement, and ended the federal government&rsquo;s use of &ldquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion&rdquo; practices in hiring. Trump also sprang from jail the people incarcerated for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and directed agency heads to end telework arrangements as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Not all his executive actions are momentous. One of them required the U.S. flag to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day. Other orders would mandate new government buildings to be constructed as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-revokes-trump-anarchist-jurisdictions-order-restores-financing-to-portland-seattle\/\" title=\"Biden Revokes Trump \u2018Anarchist Jurisdictions\u2019 Order, Restores Financing To Portland, Seattle\">beautiful federal civic architecture<\/a>,&rdquo; and require the 20,310&prime; Denali, in Alaska, and the highest peak in North America, to be called Mount McKinley, after former President William McKinley, and other &ldquo;national treasures&rdquo; to be named after &ldquo;visionary and patriotic Americans in our Nation&rsquo;s rich past.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other executive actions dealt with personnel matters and will not have much effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>One memorandum transmitted nominations of various undersecretaries to the Senate for consideration. Another one designated certain current bureaucrats to act as the chairs of their agencies until said nominees were approved.<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of Trump&rsquo;s actions give the appearance of policymaking or problem-solving but may do neither. Trump ordered &ldquo;the end of the weaponization of government,&rdquo; which sounds nice but, in fact, would only investigate &ldquo;the previous administration&rsquo;s weaponization of the Federal Government against the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in the order would prevent current or future administrations from abusing power. There also is his memorandum to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">deliver emergency price relief&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and defeat the &ldquo;cost-of-living crisis.&rdquo; It directs agencies to study ways to lower the costs of housing, healthcare, and other goods and services and to report back to the White House. The president also has ordered the State Department to issue guidance to ensure it carries out an &ldquo;America First&rdquo; foreign policy, an undefined term. What any of these actions will achieve is anything but clear.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, Trump is not the first occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to take such executive actions. Shortly before he left office, President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment was now part of the Constitution and &ldquo;the law of the land,&rdquo; never mind that federal courts and the National Archivist have said otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, President Barack Obama responded to a mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school by demanding federal police trace any guns used in mass shootings. That this latter policy had no effect to prevent future shootings was no matter &mdash; it gave the appearance of doing something.<\/p>\n<p>And that is a big reason why presidents so often issue toothless executive orders and memoranda, according to University of Michigan Professor Kenneth Lowande, the author of <em>False Front:<\/em> <em>The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Presidents take action &mdash; even when it does nothing to affect policy &mdash; because our political system is not designed to let presidents solve major problems,&rdquo; Lowande writes.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution fractures governing power among the branches and assigns all legislative authority to Congress. The nation&rsquo;s chief executive must operate within the powers granted by the Constitution and federal law. &ldquo;Their first and most direct power,&rdquo; Lowande writes, &ldquo;is over the appearance of governing, not governing itself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet, Lowande points out, the media, public, and even legislators tend to look to the White House for solutions to public problems, which encourages presidents to act even if what they do is pantomime. And in those instances of a president trying to make substantive policy unilaterally, his efforts often get mired in court challenges. The day after Trump issued his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lefty-journos-melt-down-over-trumps-2nd-inauguration\/\" title=\"Lefty Journos Melt Down Over Trump&#039;s 2nd Inauguration\">executive order ending birthright citizenship<\/a>, for example, various parties filed against it, and a federal court stayed it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will appear before Congress on March 4 for what&rsquo;s effectively a State of the Union address. Quite probably, he will spend time claiming credit for his various actions thus far. Indubitably, he will declare there are other problems the government should fix and that he has solutions. But voters and the media they rely upon would be wise to remember that addressing immigration, the skyrocketing deficit, and other big problems requires the president and legislators to bargain out new legislation. Only then can all promises made be kept.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kevin R. Kosar (@kevinrkosar) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and edits<\/em> <em>UnderstandingCongress.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1929946\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1929946\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive actions have limits for Trump, as noted by Sen. 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