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Executive Overreach – Biden Signs 17 Orders

Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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First day in office, Biden signed 17 executive orders. They are not good for unity, restoring trust, or soothing fears Democrats plan to “run the table.” Frankly, they are executive overreach.

Biden’s orders – sure to be challenged – are significant.  He was not renaming the Rose Garden for pansies, not announcing a pardon for America’s turkeys, or a new National Unity Day.

Many orders upend longstanding laws, reverse regulations, and push limits on executive action. There is more. He knew this was his plan while quoting Lincoln, talking peace, said saying his “soul is in it.” One wonders, in what?  If these were ready to be signed, whither the harmony?

What do these orders do?  Rather than pausing to explain and move legislation, he shouted “pull” and started signing. His orders command “immediate termination” of funding for the popular border wall, “putting an end to a key Trump campaign and administration promise.”  His order includes “immediate pause” in construction, redirection of funds – somewhere.

He revokes Trump’s immigration law enforcement priorities, ordering agencies to set “civil immigration enforcement policies that best protect the American people … in line with our values and priorities” – as if protection of borders, treaties, citizenship, health and safety, avoiding COVID, homelessness, sanctuary cities, drug trafficking and election concerns are not “in line with our values and priorities.”

He suspends deportation, ends third-country aid, undermines deterrence of caravans, restarts a citizenship for Americans illegally here before adult age, and rather than working with Congress, dispenses with them.  Boom-tick, simple scribble, done.

Metrics of concern vetting for possible terrorists from countries with metrics “concern” –identified during Obama – Biden plays the demagogue, ending Trump’s “Muslim ban,” which was never a Muslim ban.  He has staff say no more “religious animus and xenophobia.”  So, vetting for Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Iran is lifted.

The State Department is ordered to restart visa processing.  Look up those countries, terrorism indicia.  Non-partisan assessments of terror sponsorship pop these countries. Ironically, Trump’s State Department defended Chinese Muslims, saying their mistreatment – based on their Muslim faith – was genocide.  If this is unity, one wonders what disunity looks like.

Contrary to common understandings of law, historical precedent, concerns about resource distribution and electoral representation, Biden also ordered the Census to include non-citizens, including illegal aliens.  The decision reverses standing policy. It also casts a long shadow.

In another executive order – ignoring Chinese influence at the World Health Organization (WHO) – Biden “re-engaged” WHO.  As American tax dollars go there, one wonders. Without legal review, congressional dialogue, or transition discussions – which last month – Biden “re-entered” the flawed, income redistributing, highly questionable Paris Climate Accord, disregarding calls for legal review. Textually, the accord is anti-Western – ah, well.

For good measure, Biden revoked a range of Trump’s presidential proclamations, saying they “do not serve the U.S. national interest.” More seriously, assuring high energy prices, less energy independence, lower energy employment, angering tens of millions of Americans and Canada, Biden unilaterally revoked the permit for completing the Keystone XL Pipeline. Ah, well.

In an Orwellian twist, Biden dispatched staff to say the move was “imperative” to “address the climate crisis,” create “good union jobs” and promote “climate justice.”  The truth is opposite.  Cheap oil for Americans, will simply go to foreign markets – and get burned.  “Good union jobs” were and will be killed by that pipeline revocation.

And, okay, call me ignorant.  For the life of me, I wonder on “climate justice.”  What a word! Is that equality between clouds and sun.  What would America’s Founders, so intent on real justice, or Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Bentham, or Mills say? They would be stumped.

The idea is that different people – “groups of people,” you know identity politics – get more and less rain, wind, sun, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.  This inequality is America’s fault, all man-made factors, carbon. As America is rich – having nothing to do with our noble history, hard work, struggling economy – we must pay.  Yeah, okay.  Watch for climate privilege” next.

What else? Biden signed orders creating an “us and them” in housing, demanding “affordable housing,” delayed payments, no evictions.  On one hand, that appeals during COVID; on the other one wonders how, like shuttered small businesses, those who live on rents survive?  Presumably, more rent-payers vote Democrat than rent collectors.  Wither harmony?

Biden pushed student debt cancellation.  Okay, two-edged sword.  Education depends on access, which requires loans if a student believes in himself, aims to learn and rise economically.  But what lesson is taught by ending responsibility for debt, and what do the lenders get, and who repays the loan?  Answer:  You, taxpayers under a heap of debt.  Easy answer, but right?  No.

Other orders hit “racial justice and equity,” interesting as West Coast cities are attacked by ANTIFA.  One order redefines “equity” (equality), as if a new word.  It lists identity groups, really voting blocks, that Biden will now help.  Uniting Americans? Hard to see that.

Add reversal of Trump’s regulatory relief, framed as regulatory “freeze” – but truthfully, a freeze on regulatory reduction, Orwellian twist on words.  The irony is that reduced federal regulation created the best US economy in 70 years and helped every demographic.

Then – you knew it – Biden went for social engineering in the military, putting readiness – as defined by those responsible for assuring it – below access to service by the “transgender community.” Hmmm.  The natural extension is subordination of readiness-centric discriminators, weight, height, strength, intellect, age, mental fitness, moral character, psychological fitness (e.g., for security, spec-ops, submariner) to social equity.  Wars are not won on equity; they lost for readiness.

Likewise, Biden sidelined historic policy blocking US dollars for foreign non-government organizations promoting abortion, the Mexico City policy or Hyde Amendment.  Biden – putatively a practicing Catholic, albeit condemned by cardinals – greenlighted abortions on taxpayer dollars.  That will also be challenged, but it does not spell unity.

One must ask – is this how a “unifying” president acts, on a dubious mandate?  How a president seeks to lower the temperature, assuage fears of those who doubt him, did not vote for him?  One wonders what the future holds.  This is overreach.  Let us hope listening, respect – start soon.

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Lee S McQuillen
Lee S McQuillen
3 years ago

I went to college in my 40’s and was around many just out of high school. I would hear them discuss how horrible a particular professor was and in the next breath talk about all the parties they had gone to in the last week and were planning on attending. The professors weren’t horrible – they just expected students to be there to learn and to complete the necessary work. I often wondered how many of the young students were paying for the college themselves. This was a community college so didn’t have the horrendous fees the others do. My life experience, of which I have much, has taught me that if you don’t pay for it, you don’t appreciate it. Thus, student debt should not be forgiven (those before had to pay theirs) and college should never be free.

Deb Atkins
Deb Atkins
3 years ago

Biden Is not my president, never ever…

Carol
Carol
3 years ago

He can sign as many EO as he wants since they’re not real and have no meaning. They are fake just like he is. Signing with left hand Biden was right handed. Signature is not Biden’s. Oval Office is not real either. Wake the hell up!

Pat R
Pat R
3 years ago

My comment to the last sentence of this article — DON’T COUNT ON IT.

Jeff
Jeff
3 years ago

What do you expect from an illegitimate president? One who was elected from ballots hidden under tables and trucked in at 4 in the morning.

Angela
Angela
3 years ago

We can wait till it gets worse, or do something now. But what, they’re corrupt and nothing seems to bother them. They just do what they want.

Judith Dorson
Judith Dorson
3 years ago

I sure hope the folks that said anybody but Trump are taking a long hard look at what they have done to their country!! And when they decide he’s not fit to serve we will have lefty Kamala to deal with. That should keep you awake nights!

Miranda
Miranda
3 years ago

The majority of Americans did not vote for all this crap. We need a president for the USA; instead we have a fake potus for the globalists, illegal immigrants. Does the bidding for CCP, Iran, Russia.
No. We do not have a “Climate crisis” we have ABUSE OF POWER CRISIS.

Rachael
Rachael
3 years ago

We can also thank the Rhinos for doing nothing. So much evidence of corruption especially Obamagate and they are still sitting on it. This is the most corrupt gov and just like any other time it carries on to take advantage of the people who pay for their lavish lifestyles while sticking it to them!

JC Pearce
JC Pearce
3 years ago

Doesn’t anyone remember how Democrats spent 4 years attempting to block EVERY Executive Order issued by President Trump by finding a Federal Judge to issue an injunction against it? And doesn’t anyone remember that President Trump appointed three Supreme Court Justices and 234 Federal Judges to their places on the bench? And doesn’t amyone remember that 34 of our 50 states have Republican governors and legislatures? So WHY is nothing being done in response to the hideous and destructive EOs being issued by Biden?! PLEASE! SOMEONE TELL ME!

Debbie
Debbie
3 years ago

All just to overturn everything Trump did..not for the good of the country but because of pure hatred!!

Jeannie Huppert
Jeannie Huppert
3 years ago

Did you see the one about when biden signed ANOTHER of 30-some exec. orders, & he SAID, “WHAT AM I SIGNING?”

Al
Al
3 years ago

i guess we have heard the last of the illegal actions of biden and his son ! another political crook gets away with something if you and i did would be put in jail for ever. another crooked public servant that screwed us !

Never Biden
Never Biden
3 years ago

So will we charge Biden with the impeachment that he so richly deserves ? No. We are a
gutless nation and will let him and the dims destroy us. Why ? None of us value our nation.
So we will get what the dims give us. Easy. Right ? Just sit back and be destroyed along
with the future of your children and grandchildren. Are we happy now ? We are finally over
4 years of Trump’s populism. We never believed that America ( not america but the US) was
ever great. How dare we think that obscene idea . We are a worthless nation and should
ask the UN to take over our county. Our govt should resign and be replaced by a UN
commission to reform north america. I feel so guilty.

Never Biden
Never Biden
3 years ago

Biden knows what to do . He follows Obama/Hillary orders and is a good soldier. Not a leader.
He dosen’t know why but will sign any order to shut down big oil. The dims can’t stand the idea
that the US is the is a net oil exporter. They crave petroleum dependence on Russia/OPEC. They are determined to revive OPEC to get us to $6.00 per gallon gas. They want you to move out of your home so they can give it to illegals. Biden has shown us in less than a week that he has no
plan to provide the Trump vaccine to any of us. Millions, probably 10 million, will die due to his
intentional plan to kill us. He is a communist who wants to wreck us and we deserve it because we
voted for him. Biden is an ordinary communist. We willfully gave him the power. Enjoy it.

Danny Estridge
Danny Estridge
3 years ago

The only thing I can say is Thank God I’m old. Biden is a shell of himself, thought he was kinda cool when I was stationed at Dover AFB, but now? He never did anything in the Senate, he was Oblama’s yes boy, he fought to keep his son out of jail, so far. Outside of his first two weeks of screwing Americans, what has he done? Increased pollutions, cost over 10,000 jobs, not including jobs supporting those jobs. I can go on and on, right now I’m trying to decide if I should learn Chinese or Russian, he’s that big of a sell out. I wouldn’t have to worry if Trump hadn’t did the Operation Warp Speed. If Trump hadn’t did that, at least I could look forward to a quicker death, instead of a death by a thousand cuts. Thank God I’m old.

M. Beaumont
M. Beaumont
3 years ago

The results will be, higher fuel and energy prices, thousands of good jobs lost = reduced tax dollars and lower income for those effected. Higher taxes for the rest of us to make up for loses. Stifeling of free speech, a weaker military, open borders, millions of illegals flooding our southern border and all in his first week. God help us as to whats to come. Sounds like George Orwell’s 1984. We have gone from Make “America Great” to “Make America a Third World country”. I don’t know how long Freedom loving Americans can put up with this Democratic Socialism, or more like Communism.

Centurion
Centurion
3 years ago

biden takes “I have a phone and I have a pen” to a whole new level.

gin
gin
3 years ago

I can’t find my comment. Perhaps Amac has joined the cancel culture? The people who are against love of God, neighbor, and laws, are Satan’s minions. God who owns this universe, is allowing Satan a time to prove what he thinks is true, that is that he is greater than God. At this time, as predicted many times 1000, to 2000 years ago, things controlled by lawless ones and the ultimate lawless one, Satan, will get worse as we head into the tribulation period. The only way to be saved from this time is to claim Christ Jesus as your savior. All you need to do is ask as He is waiting for you. You have free will, so you have to make the choice. We would not have come to this point if most people had loved God and their neighbor as them selves. The behavior of people and nations is predicted, and Jesus said,
So also, when you see all these things, you will know that He is near, right at the door.”

Jim
Jim
3 years ago

Just another spineless politician ruled by the democrat left spineless republicans failed to mount a real challenge over the years. The dems had a plan employed by the CCCP. A journey of a thousand miles because with one step. The republicans failed to challenge at any point, even when they had someone with guts in office.

VikkiC
VikkiC
3 years ago

Biden reminds me of trying to align Trump with “he whose name must never be mentioned….” But Biden is really the Voldemort character!!

Richard P Wildhirt
Richard P Wildhirt
3 years ago

He’s just selfish. He’s doing what he wants to do. But just like any other selfish child, he needs to be disciplined.

‘Nonymous
‘Nonymous
3 years ago

So he’s overreaching. Impeach him! Oh that’s right, we no longer control the senate, and the house was taken over by the darkside a long tome ago. So, who or what is left to enforce the constitution, our inalienable rights and all else that we cherish in this land?

Linda
Linda
3 years ago

I comment at the risk of having the brown shirts breaking in my door but I will not be silenced. This only shows us who is the true president….Obama. Every President cleans house of his predecessor’s policies, that’s not unusual but they don’t usually do damage to the country in the process. Everything O’Biden is doing is anti-American. Hours after taking office he tries to start a war. That’s normal for a democrat. Now, he’s coming after everyone who is a conservative or a Christian, even the Libertarians! This means, the USA is no longer alive nor well. China is calling all the shots. O’Biden are the puppets doing the will of their leader. Did you notice when O’Biden was sworn in he didn’t say he would protect the country from enemies “foreign and domestic”? He left that out because he is the enemy from within.

Moonpup
Moonpup
3 years ago

Every time I read of another “Executive Order” being signed, I’m reminded of Colonel Blake and Radar O’Reilly, “What am I signing, Radar? Uh, well, it’s concerning that thing you don’t want to know anything about, sir. You know, the reason why you’re not here today?”

David Pittman
David Pittman
3 years ago

Nailed it

Walter
Walter
3 years ago

Biden is corrupt. I guess no one will look into the collusion of HB and China. What ever happened to the Navy LT business partner of the Biden’s with China. The Navy LT named JB as getting laundered money. So we know Biden is in bed with China our number one enemy. China has paid the Biden’s off why isn’t this front page news. Why are non citizens in our country and included in our census. This violates are voting rights of American citizens. NO legitimate IDs and mail in votes that’s how Biden won the election-this is a joke. And an old Vet I believe the The military should take a stand and honor their oath to defend our Constitution. Where are the military leaders. You can’t just obey a traitorous president. Biden will bankrupt America. We should not be paying for other countries BS. We have helped out so many countries over the years, I recall back to WWII that this has ben taken for granted. Many Americans are not working now thanks to China unleashing the worldwide virus. Our money needs to be with America not given away by the Communist Democrats. Oh, who is in charge of the Congressional Finance section, the man who spent his honeymoon in Russia-what a Joke!. If China is the only country who had financial growth last year, maybe they should share their wealth with the rest of the world. Biden and Harris are not that smart so who bought and paid for our Great Country?

Joe Tyler
Joe Tyler
3 years ago

just what I expected. How can so may people not see what will happen. I am 79 yrs.. old and really feel sad for my children and grand children. ASmerica , for them, will never be the same again.

VikkiC
VikkiC
3 years ago

If he is going to govern by executive order, we are paying congressional members $75,690,000 to sit on their butts doing nothing!! Just think how much PPP and unemployment that would support!! What a travesty this presidential administration is going to be…and Psaki can take a flyer too. She isn’t worth the gunpowder to blow her up! And isn’t it interesting that Biden has a press conference, but no one is allowed to ask questions at the end? Talk about transparency…

Judith
Judith
3 years ago

You are right. He just read from the list and signed his name. I don’t think he had anything to do with it

Cj Schutte
Cj Schutte
3 years ago

They are trying to erase Trump from the past four years. He isn’t writing any executive orders. They are coming from Obama and Susan Rice. This goes very deep. The same way it did with Obama’s presidency. Obama was a nobody before he ran for President and people fell for charismatic speeches. Which was all BS. I don’t know who they are and that’s what is really scary. Who is running the the show???

Gussy
Gussy
3 years ago

All of this kabuki theater is simple – he must erase any thing named Trump or of Trump from the land. Then historians can simply skip over the four years of Trump as just some aberration in the nation’s history.

jrhs
jrhs
3 years ago

no details of each of the 17 – just a overarching analysis. It does not help me to form an opinion on the individual EOs. Can’t use this to assist me in developing a point by point note to my dem rep.

Steven Huskey
Steven Huskey
3 years ago

President or dictator?

Bev Davis
Bev Davis
3 years ago

He lied to the people and the ones that voted for him were to blind and stupid to see it. He is out to destroy this country and is on the way to make it a communist country. He care nothing about the people only about how he can line his pockets with more money. There will not be any unity with this country. We the people need to pull together and gain control of our country in a legal way and not by violence. People may not have like the way trump talked but he did a lot of good for this country. Now we have an idiot as president that is going allow illegals into this country so that we the people can support them and they will get more help then us american.

Stephen Eugene Canty
Stephen Eugene Canty
3 years ago

This is ignorant and illiterate; not worthy of any comment.

Charles Radliff
Charles Radliff
3 years ago

Biden is calling for unity, which means he is really calling for capitulation

Kenneth
Kenneth
3 years ago

The Swamp establishment is bordering on pure insanity and Biden will unwittingly lead the parade beaming and posturing with every step. Sadly, our parents and grandparents, the final guardians of personal freedoms, humility and the national heritage of honor and decency have left the scene. We are now witnessing the sorry excuse of governance by the boomer, gen x and millennial entourage. Covid appears to have them all by the tail…..

Jeanne
Jeanne
3 years ago

The only person that Biden is listening to is Obama.

John K Sprauer
John K Sprauer
3 years ago

We are headed for civil war!

Graham Sutton
Graham Sutton
3 years ago

Comrade Feely Gropey will attempt to make America a third world country.

Bob Al
Bob Al
3 years ago

Most won’t want to hear this: why would only the presidential election be illegal. What about other national and local elections?
Personally, I hold the GOP accountable and to a large part Donald Trump himself for the results. From the very beginning it seems his staff recommend he tone down his tweets, he didn’t. The GOP did not get behind him 100%, to their credit, the dems were behind their candidate or gave that appearance anyway.
I believe BOTH PARTIES are guilty of watching out for their party and not America and that folks is on us. We don’t know who the people running for office are and then don’t hold them accountable.
These next two years will be difficult, but I believe if sane minds work for what’s best for the country will make the necessary changes.
Think God, think country, then what is the best for all people.Talk to your kids, grandkids, your neighbors, friends. We can find that middle ground and learn to work for the best of people.
Most important stand for freedom; without that, nothing else matters.

David P Nelson
David P Nelson
3 years ago

This Administration is not looking out for America. We are in for a very bumpy road ahead.

John A. Fallon
John A. Fallon
3 years ago

Welcome to the “MACHINE WORLD” the MATRIX IS HERE TO STAY, THE MACHINES RULE, “THEY” WILL DECIDE ELECTIONS FROM NOW ON AND WE NO LONGER GET TO DECIDE WHO REPRESENTS US, the socialist/dems will destroy AMERICAS energy independence and give huge contracts to chinajoes BUSINESS PARTNERS in china and ukraine(all those trips by chinajoe and hunter) you did not think it was for the best interest of AMERICA did you? the biden crime family will make themselves filthy rich while driving law abiding, honest, hard working real AMERICANS into third world poverty, are you still happy with the voter fraud?

Kevin Haynie
Kevin Haynie
3 years ago

We need Conservative Lawyer groups to immediately file lawsuits on every one of these as well as the unconstitutional junk legislation now being churned out of Pelosi’s House of Psychopaths.

Phil Hammersley
Phil Hammersley
3 years ago

Biden, like all DIMMs, wants to give taxpayer money to already wealthy groups. Colleges, for the most part, have huge endowments yet charge students exorbitant prices for an indoctrination, not an education. Planned “Murder” already gets 1.5 million taxpayer dollars every day and Senile Joe (or his handlers) want to give them more. And I understand that he is going back to Obama’s practice of giving fines levied on “violators” of regulations to left-wing groups instead of the Treasury. The lead counsel for PBS, which gets tax dollars, wants kids of MAGA people to go to re-education camps!

Ed J
Ed J
3 years ago

Well, well, well … Does anyone really expect something positive will ever be done by the Clown Prince of the Demsheviks? Stupor Hero Joe is, and always has been, part of the problem, not part of the solution. And he has proved this in spades repetitively since his inauguration.

As I have stated previously more than once, the Demsheviks’ motto is “We will snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory!” So, folks, let’s just sit back and put together an office pool betting on what the next folly is that will be coming out of the Dark House on Pennsylvania Avenue.

As a footnote, I expect that Pseudo-Messiah Joe (self-anointed as our nation’s “Savior” when actually he is “Divisive Joe”) is so proud of himself at this point that he has extensive self-administered kissing hickies up and down the inside of both his arms, complemented with self-administered contusions on the backside of both his shoulders where he has been patting himself so vigorously, while saying all the while “What a good boy am I for doing so much for America.” The only appropriate response to all this is to go HORF (i.e., initiating an extreme reverse peristalsis event).

GreggT
GreggT
3 years ago

Correct….if it’s not on MSNBC and CNN…..it did not happen.

Terry
Terry
3 years ago

Not sure he read them before signing. He just signed what people put in front of him. He kind of acts like a puppet.

Anthony Dell'Isola
Anthony Dell'Isola
3 years ago

Unfortunately, this is what everyone voted for, or did we! What a fraud!

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