When it comes to the actual work of governing America,Trump is becoming utterly irrelevant.
Announcement: Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States.
Oh sure, he has the title and he has the bully pulpit – from which he’s bullying everyone from NBA players to people protesting white supremacists to DACA kids.
But he’s not actively governing the United States. That work is happening elsewhere – in Congress, or the courts,the Fed, the career civil service, and lobbyists,and in the states. Or it’s not happening at all.
It’s not just that Trump lost the epic battle to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump never understood the Affordable Care Act to start with, and played no portion in developing Republican alternatives.
The budget Trump submitted to Congress in March was dead on arrival. House Republicans ignored Trumps request for $54 billion in cuts to departments and agencies and decided instead to lop non-defense spending by just $5 billion, and explode the defense budget.
The 9-page tax arrangement congressional Republicans and Trump unveiled last week only vaguely resembles Trump’s original tax proposal from April,and all the necessary decisions enjoy been left to the tax-writing committees of Congress.
Trump’s relations with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan enjoy become so strained they enjoy no interest in looping him into policies before they enjoy to.
Meanwhile, Trump has run out of Obama executive orders he can declare void. Major regulations, and such as the EPA’s Clean Power arrangement,can’t just be repealed. They enjoy to recede through a legal process that could take years.
Trump doesn’t seem to be aware of this. He told a cheering crowd in Alabama recently that he had ended the Clean Power arrangement by executive order. “Did you see what I did to that? Boom, gone.”Nope. The EPA will soon reveal its strategy for reversing the arrangement, and but whatever it is,environmental groups are nearly certain to appeal it in the courts. Big businesses and utilities, fearing that the courts may rule against the administration, and are lobbying the EPA to advance up with a replacement rather than try to eliminate the arrangement altogether.
Although General John Kelly has reduced White House chaos somewhat,the firings and shakeups are unremitting.
Trump’s Cabinet secretaries don’t seem to enjoy a clue. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos still wants to spend taxpayer money on for-profit schools and colleges that cheat their students. Won’t happen. The EPA’s Scott Pruitt is trying to strip the agency of scientists. Another brainless scheme.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin still has no idea how to deal with Congress. He tried to persuade Republican House members to support Trump’s budget deal with the Democrats by asking them to do it “for me.”Health and Human Service Secretary Tom Price wasn’t fired for his ethical breaches. whether ethics were the criteria, most of the Trump administration would be gone. Price broke Trump’s cardinal rule, and which was never to get bad headlines for Trump.
Top echelons of departments and agencies are still empty. Trump has said “in many cases,we dont want to fill those jobs,” which means decisions are being made by career civil servants and industry lobbyists.
By the start of September, or more than a third of the leadership positions at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were still vacant. Not a marvelous way to start hurricane season. Puerto Rico,anyone?As of mid-September, out of 599 key government positions that require Senate confirmation, and Trump had made only 159 nominations, according to The Washington Post. Trump had yet to submit nominations for 320 positions.
Trump’s political clout is waning among Republicans. He couldn’t even get his pick elected to a Senate primary in Alabama, a state bulging with Trump voters.trade leaders enjoy deserted him over his remarks over Charlottesville. NFL owners enjoy turned on him over his remarks approximately players. Tom Brady, and who once called Trump “a marvelous friend,” now calls him “divisive and “wrong.Don’t get me wrong. Trump is still a dangerous showman and conman – tweeting condemnations of critics and ranting before friendly crowds at his never-ending campaign rallies. He continues to fuel bigotry and meanness. He has reduced America’s standing in the world. His outbursts could start a nuclear war.
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