Showing posts with label executive action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label executive action. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Trump aides exploring executive actions to curb voting by mail - POLITICO

This past spring, President Donald Trump began a full-fledged assault on voting by mail, tweeting, retweeting and railing about massive fraud and rigged elections with scant evidence. Then the Republican apparatus got to work backing up the president. ....
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-wants-to-cut-mail-in-voting-the-republican-machine-is-helping-him-392428

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Stop Kidding Yourself: This Is the Christian Right’s Presidency -- The Daily Beast

Make no mistake: the Trump administration is a Christian Right administration. Justifiably, Trump's personal and political antics are often the focus of media attention, but last week was the greatest policy setback for women and LGBT people in America in a decade, as the Trump administration quietly unleashed a barrage of executive actions on the eve of a three-day weekend, and the most anti-LGBT law in the country took effect in Mississippi. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-kidding-yourself-this-is-the-christian-rights-presidency

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Trump’s environmental assault met with immediate legal challenges

After failing to pass the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act last week, the Trump administration looked to get its agenda back on track on Tuesday, releasing a long-awaited executive order that directs federal agencies to begin dismantling the domestic and international climate policies of the Obama administration.

While the order itself represents a dramatic reversal in U.S. climate policy, the fight to implement its directives has just begun. Environmental groups responded almost immediately, filing a number of legal challenges aimed at slowing — or stopping altogether — Trump’s attempts to roll back climate action....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-environmental-legal-challenges-1360b6041754


Monday, January 9, 2017

Trump plans executive actions for ObamaCare repeal | TheHill

House Republicans are planning to get an ObamaCare repeal bill on President-elect Trump's desk by Feb. 20, while the administration moves forward with executive actions to start unwinding ObamaCare on day one. The Feb. 20 target was put forward by incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black (R-Tenn.), said Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), leaving a meeting with House Republicans and Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Wednesday. Pence said Trump plans to take executive actions to start unwinding ObamaCare on day one, but did not get into specifics....
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/312640-trump-plans-executive-actions-for-obamacare-repeal









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