THE MORNING RANT: Additional Executive Orders to Put Before President Trump

The cavalcade of Executive Orders being signed by Donald Trump, along with the personnel upheaval he is inflicting on the bureaucracy, has made the past seven days the most politically extraordinary week I’ve ever seen.

Ronald Reagan’s first 100 days as President can’t hold a candle to Trump’s first 100 hours of this term. Of course, Reagan took office in the era when overhauling government required laws to be passed by Congress. But President Obama famously arrogated lawmaking powers unto himself, because he had “a pen and a phone.” Congress has also long since outsourced its lawmaking powers to the federal bureaucracy, and since the Chief Executive (President Trump) is head of the Executive Branch bureaucracy, here we are.

As magical as the past week has been, President Trump will continue to have his all-powerful sharpie pen and phone for 207 more weeks, so let’s keep the Executive Orders coming!

Below are some additional Executive Orders that I’d like to see, which haven’t happened yet to my knowledge.

• Gas Cans: Repeal the EPA regulations that have rendered gas cans inoperable. Restore the freedom to manufacture and purchase traditional gas cans with vents.

• Corporate Average Fuel Economy: Terminate all automotive Corporate Average Fuel Economy (“CAFE”) regulations. Manufacturers and consumers will find the right balance between size, features, and gas mileage. Ironically (but consistent with government incompetence), the CAFE laws had the real-world effect of eliminating small pickups trucks.

• Regulatory Sunset: Declare a sunset date in the near future (perhaps 12/31/2025) for every federal regulation not specifically codified into a law passed by Congress or already eliminated / modified by an Executive Order from President Trump. If the federal agencies want the existing regulations extended further, they would need President Trump to attach his signature. If Congress doesn’t like this, then they can pass actual laws.

• PBS & NPR: Impound all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for violating its charter, which states that, “The Corporation may not contribute to or otherwise support any political party or candidate for elective public office.” NPR & PBS are now quite openly propaganda arms of the Democrat Party.

• NGOs: Impound all funding to domestic non-governmental organizations, and permanently ban the State Department from funding any foreign NGOs. There is no reason for the US State Department (and US taxpayers) to be funding LGBT inclusion activities for Bulgarian youths.

• United Nations: Defund the UN, which is an anti-semitic, anti-American, terrorist-enabling organization. (A UN facility was apparently used by Hamas to hold the Israeli hostages who were just released.) Related – strip all foreign UN staff and delegates of any privileges, immunities, and special perks.

• Federal Pensions: Move all federal employees from pensions to 401ks.

• Student Loans: Mandate that henceforth, any student loan originated by a university for the benefit of that university is fully guaranteed by that university. If President Biden had the authority to unilaterally waive repayment of student loans, then President Trump has the authority to unilaterally require a university’s guaranty on student loans going forward.

• NOAA’s Corrupted Temperature Records: Restore all historic NOAA temperature records to their original readings before they were retroactively adjusted by corrupt climate scientist for the purpose of artificially creating a record showing a warming trend.

• NOAA’s Ghost Stations: Prohibit NOAA from using “readings” from ghost stations. It’s beyond absurd, but NOAA is currently incorporating temperature readings from hundreds of “Ghost stations.” These stations don’t even exist any longer, so NOAA just fabricates an estimated temperature and incorporates it into their data base, which then shows a warming trend.

• EPA Regulations on New Semi-Trucks: Terminate the EPA regulations to take effect for 2027 year-model semi-trucks. The manufactures have been ordered to implement new mass-market technologies that are untested and still somewhat hypothetical. The EPA might as well have ordered them to spin straw into gold.

• Woke Capital: Prohibit investment management firms (BlackRock, State Street, etc) from casting shareholder proxy votes to advance a political agenda at the expense of its fiduciary responsibilities. Include punitive personal penalties for those investment fund executives who, as custodian of investors’ funds, use them for ulterior purposes. Black Rock and State Street executives should fear being lumped in with Enron executives in the public consciousness. They should also fear going to jail for fiduciary misconduct.

• Too Big to Fail: Order that any bank or financial services company that is “too big to fail” be broken up into smaller companies that are not too big to fail.

This is just a quick list I was able to jot down, but with a President seeking to make generational change via the power given him with Executive Orders, let’s keep the momentum going!

What are some other Executive Orders you’d like to see issued by President Trump?

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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