Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) heads to the Senate floor on Jan. 26, 2021.
On Thursday (Jan. 28), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized the new President Biden for signing executive orders like a “dictator” and running counter to his campaign promise to “build consensus. The new president has been signing executive orders like a “dictator,” running counter to his campaign promise to “build consensus.
In less than 10 days as president, Biden has signed at least 35 executive orders, most of which overturn former President Trump‘s “America First” policies, such as halting construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and revoking the Pentagon’s ban on transgender military service, prompting strong criticism from Congress and the media. The Senate is now in session.
On the Senate floor Thursday morning, McConnell criticized Biden’s premature reliance on executive orders, reneging on his promise to “build consensus” and “restore unity” that he claimed when he was a presidential candidate.
Just last October, incumbent Biden said you can’t legislate by executive action unless you’re a dictator,” McConnell said. Yet he himself signed more than 30 unilateral actions in one week.” He also criticized former President Barack Obama for “unilaterally imposing his will” through executive orders and memos.
McConnell also criticized Biden’s “Green New Deal” as “all wrong” for addressing environmental and national security issues and “won’t help American workers” if it If it goes on, these American workers will soon face unemployment.
“Deliberately putting our own people out of work, reducing our domestic energy security, raising costs and prices for working families – all of this will not have a meaningful impact on global temperatures,” McConnell said. McConnell said.
On the same day, the left-leaning New York Times also ran an article titled “Ease up on the Executive Actions, Joe,” noting that the large number of executive orders signed by Biden are “flawed legislative substitutes” and further stating that the president Biden argued that his approach was not to use these orders “as a stopgap to circumvent the will of Congress.
Biden argued that he was doing so to “undo the damage Trump has done. After signing the other two executive orders, he told reporters in the Oval Office that he is working to push Congress to approve the $1.9 trillion Communist China Pneumonia (COVID-19) aid package.
Asked if he was open to splitting up the rescue package, Biden instead responded, “No one is asking me to do anything.”
At a press conference Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked if the White House thought “signing an executive order is the best way to make policy” when Biden signed a record number of executive orders while bypassing meetings with members of Congress, and instead answered questions about the outbreak relief program. The White House has avoided answering questions about the Epidemic relief program.
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