Document shows Bernie Sanders's team preparing dozens of potential executive orders

[HerbChestnut]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/30/document-shows-bernie-sanders-team-preparing-dozens-potential-executive-orders/

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is considering dozens of executive orders he could unilaterally enact on a wide range of domestic policy issues if elected president, including immigration, the environment and prescription drugs, according to two people familiar with the campaign’s planning and an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post.

Sanders has risen in national and early-state polling in the final days before Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the first contest in the Democratic presidential primary, which has fueled concerns among some party insiders that he could win the nomination.

Summary of potential executive orders:

Declare a national climate emergency;

Ban U.S. exports of crude oil;

Allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada;

Cancel federal contracts for companies that pay their workers less than $15 an hour;

Direct the Department of Justice to legalize marijuana at the federal level;

Reverse existing rules that bar the U.S. from funding organizations that provide abortion services;

Immediately halt the construction of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall;

Lift the cap on the number of refugees the U.S. accepts each year; and

Release billions in disaster aid to Puerto Rico that the Trump administration has withheld.

All of this is aimed at reversing the Trump agenda.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Puh-leaze, enough with early no name state

polling being the end all be all indicator of the will of the nation.

No offense but who the F$&@ cares about Iowa and New Hampshire???

[Scurrilous]

9. It's being shoveled thick and fast.

Biden is up in 3 out of 5 of the latest Iowa polls and tied in 1. Average is basically unchanged. Sanders up a whopping .5%.

Bernie rising in National polls? Biden has been up in 14 straight latest and has always led average. Always. Since he announced.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/national/

The garbage begins w/ the campaign - look we're winning.

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Wait...wut?

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LOL He's up 4 at 538 Average. Biden in 2nd.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Sorry but LMFAO

The republican ads Sanders keeps handing to them smdh

[Scurrilous]

3. He forgot World Peace.

[George II]

4. Many of those aren't achievable in executive orders. This is just window dressing.

[highplainsdem]

6. Exactly.

[thesquanderer]

10. Which ones? (n/t)

[R B Garr]

5. LOL, most of the "Trump agenda" was reversing everything OBAMA did.

I doubt anyone thinks only Bernie wants to tackle the "Trump agenda",

[MineralMan]

7. Counting his chickens before the eggs are even laid.

[frazzled]

8. We can't continue to rule by executive order

Obama had to resort to it, wherever he could, in his second term when both houses of Congress were in Republican, obstructionist hands. They would nix anything he proposed, even if it was anointing sainthood on their mothers.
Then Trump came along and un-executive ordered every one of Obama's executive orders. (Or the courts ruled against them.)
And you think Sanders ruling by 4-year executive order is a good idea? (Or even that he is the only one who would be reversing all those Trump orders? They all would.)

Congress is supposed to be making the laws, with the executive branch putting pressure on them to do so, and negotiating with the parties. If we continue to legislate by executive order (and not everything can be done that way), we will just keep lurching from left to right to left to right. We need the force of legislation, sometimes not perfect because it has to be negotiated, but at least it's not fiat by autocrat.

[Skidmore]

11. This.

And good grief, we have bigger but problems with the Justice Department than lifting the ban on marijuana can solve. A transparent list of panderings with no regard for mending the systemic damage created by the Trump regime and restoring rule of law. We need a functioning Congress, both houses.

[msongs]

12. I alone can fix it. nt

[Gothmog]

13. Fred Guttenberg-sanders is again showing that dealing with gun violence is not a priority.

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