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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps ex-Breitbart advisor Bannon is drafting executive orders and basically winging it
Two of Donald Trumps senior advisors neither of whom has any previous government or legal experience have reportedly been writing executive orders without any input from the agencies they would effect.
Aides told Politico that Steve Bannon, the presidents chief strategist, and Stephen Miller, the senior White House advisor for policy, have made almost no effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they wrote executive orders.
Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart, and Miller, a Republican political operative whos written most of Trumps major speeches, are writing many of the orders based on ideas that came from transition officials or landing teams who werent working in the White House.
The orders have come so quickly, and from seemingly out of nowhere, that aides sometimes arent even sure which actions Trump will sign until they cross his desk.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trumps-ex-breitbart-advisor-bannon-is-drafting-executive-orders-and-basically-winging-it-report/
blueseas
(11,575 posts)What???
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)How is any of this legal and constitutional? It's obvious that the mad king does not even know what he is signing. Is it just me, or does this have to stop right now?
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)The executive branch of government has been outsourced to Heritage Foundation. They have been writing documents since their inception 1973. They, are the steady stream of radical executive orders.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)malaise
(269,172 posts)Hope he signs one for the insane so we can remove him
Don't know whether to laugh or cry
underpants
(182,883 posts)to point out group think and yes men.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)The "empty vessel" they are filling seeks approving headlines and praise from the "alternate media" which these same guys created for their agenda.
Conservative Republican right-wingers play a long game.
It took three decades to take down Hillary - but they did it.
Ms. Toad
(34,092 posts)at yesterday's presser, and that he didn't know where they came from.
No one clued him in to Bannon's activities.
underpants
(182,883 posts)We saw this a bit during the W years and in Congress from time to time. When we need junkies hear "the government doesn't do anything" we understand it as "the government isn't doing what WE want" but they actually appear to think this stuff is just for show.
BTW by all accounts as miserable of a person as he is, Bannon is regarded as being pretty bright.
Ms. Toad
(34,092 posts)Spicer essentially accused the press of pulling stuff out of their rear end (Twice in the last 2 days you have asked me about documents that didn't come from the White House.)
My guess is they did come from the Breitbart wing of the White House and Spicer just didn't know about it.
underpants
(182,883 posts)These are supposed to go through reviews and consultations on legality, feasibility, and implementation but that's almost impossible at this pace. Add in that they have a skeleton crew of temps filling in positions.
The EO on Obamacare said "ease the burden", no one knew what that meant.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Author and take him to a baseball game.
Initech
(100,104 posts)At least his benefitted mankind. These are about the worst thing to happen to America.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)He completely agrees with the goals and methods proposed by Aleksandr Dugin, "Putin's Rasputin", who IMO is the architect of this whole mess.
IMO the channel for EOs goes something like this: Dugin -> Putin -> Heritage Foundation -> Bannon.
Bannon is executing a Russian disruption operation.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)going to be challenged in court on the grounds that they're UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
I mean, on what grounds can he send the feds into Chicago? On what grounds can he defund the NEA? On what grounds can he silence the free speech of government workers?