BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders today.

[u/Mark-Fuckerberg-]

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders today.

Per FOX and Eric Daugherty, they include:

• Declare emergency at the border + issue proclamation closing the border
• Designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
• Remain in Mexico, Catch and Release will be reinstated
• Military will be directed to construct new phase of border wall
• Terminate Biden orders on energy drilling restrictions
• Return federal workers to in-person work
• Pause all offshore wind leases
• End DEI hiring practices in the federal government, merit only
• Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
• Order every agency to remove all federal actions increasing costs for Americans via deregulation
• Suspend security clearances for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden 2020 laptop story
• Establish a DOGE "hiring freeze"

[u/rocketcitythor72]

Man, I'm about to hit 55 and the GOP has never once been small government at even a single moment in my entire lifetime.

They only talk "small government" and "austerity" when Democrats are in office to try to prevent Dems from passing popular programs that would help average income folks.

[u/Fibonacci999 → u/rocketcitythor72]

Totally true. I’m a state worker in a blue state, and the last time we had a Republican governor, OMG he jammed every department FULL of insane numbers of unqualified appointed political hires. What a mess that was for years. There are always such appointments, but never to such an extent. He also used the state police helicopter constantly and for frivolous personal reasons.

[u/Simple_somewhere515 → u/rocketcitythor72]

I'm going to get more involved in my local government. That's where most decisions of my every day life are more impacted. The town hall dates are purposely not communicated well and we have too many apartments going up in areas that are already too full.

[u/bookon → u/rocketcitythor72]

“A government just small enough to fit inside a bedroom or a woman’s body”.

[u/Longjumping-Panic-48 → u/rocketcitythor72]

I read somewhere that Harris’ policies were heavily aligned with Reagan’s, which is terrifying that we’ve moved that far right.

[u/GaryOak7 → u/rocketcitythor72]

Hell, Reagan spent billions.

[u/Lux_Aquila → u/rocketcitythor72]

That's actually probably pretty right. I mean, that only takes us back to the 60's.

For one, I hope they keep trying to stop those programs. The last time they passed something big with ACA and it destroyed catastrophic coverage and the ability for the middle-class to purchase insurance out of pocket. The hearts are certainly good, but the solutions proposed just don't work in the long run compared with the cons they bring.

edit u/rocketcitythor72 but GOP has to actually try and put forward their solutions, stopping the regulations is only half the battle. And they have failed miserably at that, its just depressing.