Trump’s biggest agenda failure
October 16, 2017
By Steve Berman
Everyone goes after the big F’s: Obamacare repeal, the wall, Dreamers, and Iran. I don’t think any Republican president, honestly, would have fared much better on those topics. Immigration reform is a problem that couldn’t be solved by eight years of Reagan or twelve years of Bushes. Even if President Trump rescinded DACA and decertified the Iran deal in his first month in office, lawsuits, Congressional gridlock, and all the other roadblocks to implementation would still haunt these efforts.
Inciting Justice Anthony Kennedy to delay his retirement could be seen as a major fail, but it pales in comparison to the biggest problem Trump has.
Personnel is policyThis mantra isn’t new. In January 2001, Heritage Foundation fellow Robert Moffit quoted Seth Harris, President Clinton’s senior policy advisor at the Department of Labor. “Personnel is policy,” isn’t just government-speak. It’s how the executive branch functions, and always has since 1789. Stewart Lawrence gave similar advice to Trump in February. And just a few days ago, a letter signed by dozens of Washington beltway leaders urged the Senate to get on with the task of acting on Trump’s executive and judicial nominees.
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