Are Dueling Executive Orders Really A Good Way To Run The Country?

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Joe Biden spent the last few days of his presidency signing a plethora of executive orders designed to cement his legacy and impede Donald Trump’s ability to carry out his agenda. Within 24 hours of taking office, however, Trump signed his own mountain of executive orders, intending to override Biden’s agenda. Are dueling executive orders the wave of the future for the leader of the free world? ABC News correspondent Sarah Isgur says Americans on both sides of the aisle should be worried if that becomes the case. Speaking on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program, Isgur says we all should be concerned with the precedent Biden and Trump may have set.

“I actually think this is a really important point,” Isgur explained to host Larry Mendte. “If you like what Donald Trump is doing right now, it should still concern you that a single person in our government has the ability to change so much of our law in a 24-hour period, and vice-versa. If you liked what Joe Biden did, it’s already been wiped out in 36 hours. Nothing about Biden’s economic agenda, regulatory agenda, any agenda that you like, is going to survive past this presidency. That’s not the way it was supposed to work- Congress was supposed to do this stuff, and I think the presidency has gotten way out of whack and Donald Trump’s first 24 hours really prove it.”

One of the few upsides to the executive orders, Isgur contends, is that they may indicate which way the rudderless Democrat party heads as it tries to regroup after the 2024 election results: “I’m always curious where people see the political benefit, sort of where the mainstream Democrat is, according to Democratic politicians who want to appeal to that person… so keep an eye not only on which E.O.’s are drawing lawsuits, but who is actually doing the suing, and it will tell you a lot about where our politics have shifted post-2024 election.”

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