In what could be one of his most laughable statements of his political career, President Obama has cautioned President-Elect Donald Trump not to overuse the Executive Order. This is the same President who bragged he could do anything he wanted with his phone and his pen. Suddenly the use of the executive order is a bad thing, Mr. President?
As Written By UPI and reported by Breitbart:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) — With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don’t rely too heavily on executive orders.
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it’s preferable to work with Congress.
“Keep in mind, though, that my strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done,” Obama said from the Cabinet Room in the White House. “In my first two years, I wasn’t relying on executive powers, because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise and a legislative solution to some of the big problems that we’ve got — a classic example being immigration reform, where I held off for years in taking some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution — one that, by the way, did pass through the Senate on a bipartisan basis with our help.”
In 2014, Obama signed executive orders that shielded millions living in the country illegally from deportation.
The 44th president is aware that the executive orders by the 45th president can undo his achievements over eight years in office…..
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Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders – Breitbart
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