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He is only using available funds for immediate relief in this so called pandemic to stop citizens from being thrown out and have no income whatsoever...........FEMA FUNDS..........that in the middle of a Hurricane no one says their are illegal......the comparison is that the EO process has become a way of doing things and yes, that does lead to a dictatorship. i didn't like it when obama did it, i don't like it when trump does it.DACA was not a natural disaster..........not a emergency declaration to U.S. citizens...........it was a POLICY ORDER via EO...............I suppose one could also argue that Democrats are hypocrites also for condemning them. I've noted for years that anything one refuses to condemn will only get worse.
Yes, Trump is a huge hypocrite but others can't really expect him to not do things they supported others doing.
Democrats didn't support the use of Executive Orders either, but with the Republican House and Senate left little choice. Republicans held a pubically stated position that they wouldn't pass any legislation or approve any judges so that Democrats would have "nothing to run on", and that they would do everything possible to thwart the President's agenda whether or not it was good for the country. This was in the middle of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression (prior to this one), shows that Republicans really don't care about what happens to the American people, as long as their donors get their tax cuts.
I notice how quickly they jumped to give aid to the children of Flint Michigan the moment Trump was elected, after doing nothing for 4 years while the children of Flint were exposed to toxins in their water supply, long after the damage to their young bodies was done. Now they'll be decrying the number of these children who fail to become "productive" citizens due to the lead in the water they drank while growing up.
Democrats never said a work about Obama's EO's. Trump can use the same excuse you made for Obama.
From the Brookings Institute in 2014.
Obama's Executive Orders; A Reality Check | Brookings
President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 28 drew greater attention to the use of executive orders. But how many executive orders has Obama issued, and how does he compare with previous Presidents? John Hudak explores data on the use of executive orders over time.www.brookings.edu
Once Skeptical of Executive Power, Obama Has Come to Embrace It (Published 2016)
Mr. Obama will leave the White House as one of the most prolific authors of major regulations in presidential history.www.nytimes.com
Trump is Temp relief using Disaster relief and the Defense Production Act to protect AMERICAN CITIZENS from an Act of Nature.
NO COMPARISON.
we're breaking ourselves and this country by our one-sided bullshit and refusal to work together.
Just because this is not a hurricane doesn't make it ILLEGAL.............Temp measure using LEGAL POWERS......He is NOT doing something LIKE DACA which in essence CHANGED LAWS.........
Which laws were changed in these EO's for temp relief from a disaster.