A BIG Stimulus Law….
A coming BIG Infrastructure Bill…
A coming BIG Family/Social Benefits Bill….
A good amount of regulations and policy changes Trump & Co. tried to pull off have NOT gone anywhere…
And the courts HAVE also acted as a brake against a runaway chief executive…
Without or with Republicans support?
Joe Biden and the Democrats are ramping BIG Government to return something to the ‘People’…..
In the end?
The American Governmental system IS a LOT stronger that Donald Trump…
Amen!
Trump’s failures to permanently change government policy were remarkably diverse. Even when his administration pursued classically Republican agenda items, such as cutting food stamps, and had lots of outside help from conservative advocacy groups, it ran into trouble. For a time, the Trump administration did significantly change the way food stamps worked. But in that realm, too, few of Trump’s changes stuck: Some were struck down by courts, and others were reversed by the Biden administration.
The Trump administration seems to have fundamentally underestimated the difficulty of changing U.S. government policy…
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Trump’s agencies wrote fewer rules than past administrations, including other Republican ones, says Susan Yackee, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who focuses on rule-making. Although many controversial regulations wind up in court, agencies typically win those cases, she told me. Here, too, the Trump administration was an outlier: It lost a lot….
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To Democrats, this all might look as though the system worked. Trump tried to do something and courts stepped in, thwarting him. But this might not be the last attempt to slash the number of Americans on government benefits. “The Republican Party seems to be in the thrall of President Trump right now,” says Jeffrey S. Lubbers, an administrative-law professor at American University. “If the Republicans win in 2024, I would think the nominee is going to be somebody who would want to start trying to put back in place some of the Trump things that have gotten struck down during the Biden administration.” Liberal lovers of regulatory procedure might find themselves torn: unsure whether to hope that the next Republican president will be someone who is good at rule-making or blessedly bad at it….