Gallup: Few Major U.S. Political Figures Rated Positively on Balance
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have favorable ratings that exceed their unfavorable ratings by seven or eight percentage points. However, at least one in four U.S. adults are not familiar enough with Rubio and Jeffries to rate them.” - Gallup
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What we are slowly seeing across the two Trump terms is this concept of "rule by Party". You see, especially with Trump, rule by executive order, despite the responsibility of Congress. Congress is handing over their authority to the Executive branch in order to align to the party. A very scary switch if it continues to swing in that way across multiple administrations. Everyone is super happy with Trump doing it, but not so sure if they would have been equally happy from a procedural perspective if the Democrats had won and done the same thing pushing their agenda.
I don't disagree with reducing the influence of USAID, but only 6 months early, practically the entire Republican party, with the Democrats opposing, passed the funding bill for USAID. But with the shift in the party leadership, all of them, including Marco Rubio are towing in line with Trump that this is a wasteful institution. They didn't need Trump to dismantle the institution, they had the entire authority and the strength of votes to do it themselves.
So while 1 in 4 US adults are not as familiar with some of the people, I don't think the people matter, as much as the party.
While I LIKE Trump's orders, I DO NOT like that it's being done with orders.
But I equally don't like that government agencies (like Education, USAID, etc. etc.) are deciding how much to spend and what to spend it on.
Letting agencies have that much power is Congress abandoning their responsibility just as much as allowing the President to do it with Executive Orders.
I love the idea of a balanced budget amendment partially because it would force congress to debate and decide how much to spend on what.
Everyone is super happy with Trump doing it, but not so sure if they would have been equally happy from a procedural perspective if the Democrats had won and done the same thing pushing their agenda.
The Democrats did. Biden posted 162 executive orders and Trump has rescinded 62 I believe. Democrat FDR issued 3721. Clinton did 364 apparently. Obama issued 274.
I am not a big fan of them but both sides do them
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