Joe Biden Has Issued 42 Executive Actions In One Week, A Practice He Called ‘Dictator’ Behavior at a Town Hall in October

According to The National Pulse, “In just seven days, President Biden issued 42 executive actions.

That’s ten times as many as Donald Trump and over eight times as many as Barack Obama. It is a whopping 22 times greater than Bill Clinton, and 42 more than Presidents Reagan and Bush. . . .

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Joe Biden even recognized this on the run up to the Presidential election, calling the unilateral use of executive actions the hallmark of a “dictator.”

Speaking at an October 15th, 2020 town hall with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, then-candidate Biden insisted that presidents who rule by executive order are undemocratic:

I have this strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even say: well if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something, things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator.

“We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” the President who’s relied on executive orders to pass his agenda added. . . .

As American University History Professor Allan Lichtman noted: “He’s on a record pace, and not by a nose. But by several lengths.” . . .

The topics of the executive orders range from race to immigration to climate change but share a common goals: to completely erase the legacy of President Trump. . . .

Here is a list of Biden’s Execution Actions:

• ‘Executive Order on Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.’ Promotes socialized healthcare.
• ‘Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad.’ Forces U.S. taxpayers to fund foreign abortions.
• ‘Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.’ Destroys jobs in oil and gas.
• ‘Executive Order on Establishing President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.’ Empowers bureaucrats.
• ‘Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking.’ Emboldens scientists who lied during coronavirus crisis in 2020.
• ‘Paris Climate Agreement.’ Hands authority over U.S. emissions to foreign bureaucrats.
• ‘Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.’ More job destruction.
• ‘Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” Supports the false, Black Lives Matter premise that America was founded in 1619 by slaves.
• ‘Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.’ Promotes transgenderism.
• ‘Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.’ Pays lip service to racial equality.
• ‘Executive Order on Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities.’ Forces prisons to be run by government, not private enterprise.
• ‘Memorandum on Redressing Our Nation’s and the Federal Government’s History of Discriminatory Housing Practices and Policies.’ 
• ‘Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships.’ Commits federal agencies to “engage in regular, robust and meaningful consultation with Tribal governments.”
• ‘Executive Order on Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform.’ Pushes transgenderism in the military.
• ‘Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.’ Continues Trump-era policies on buying American for the federal government.
• ‘Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce.’ Attempts to enforce a $15 minimum wage.
• ‘Executive Order on Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic.’ Calls for relief but provides $0.00 for it.
• ‘Pausing Federal Student Loan Payments.’ Pauses student loan payments while working people still have to pay theirs.
• ‘Extend Eviction and Foreclosure Moratoriums.’ Extends the existing nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures until at least March 31.
• ‘Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Non-Immigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus Disease.’ A “xenophobic” travel ban (in Biden’s own words).
• ‘Memorandum to Extend Federal Support to Governors’ Use of the National Guard to Respond to COVID-19 and to Increase Reimbursement and Other Assistance Provided to States.’ Spends government money on Biden’s use of the National Guard.
• ‘Executive Order on a Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain.’ Unclear.
• ‘Executive Order on Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats.’ Adds a layer of bureaucracy to coronavirus testing.
• ‘Executive Order on Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19.’ Promotes the same “therapeutics” the media once called Trump crazy for supporting.
• ‘Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats.‘ Adds more bureaucracy to the government’s pandemic response.
• ‘Create more vaccination sites.’ 
• ‘Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers.’ Directs schools to be reopened, which the left resisted under Trump.
• ‘Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety.’ Adds bureaucracy for workplace standards.
• ‘Executive Order on Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel.’ Requires mask-wearing in airports, on planes, trains and other spaces. Also demands paperwork to prove foreign travelers have tested negative.
• ‘Executive Order on Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery.’ Prioritizes minorities and puts white Americans to the back of the line for pandemic response.
• ‘National Security Directive on United States Global Leadership to Strengthen the International COVID-19 Response and to Advance Global Health Security and Biological Preparedness.’ Meaningless bluster.
• ‘Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing.’ Demands mask wearing everywhere for 100 days.
• ‘Letter to His Excellency António Guterres.’ Stops the United States’ withdrawal from the corrupt World Health Organization, and appoints the lying Dr. Fauci as head of the delegation to the WHO.
• ‘Executive Order on Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government to Provide a Unified and Effective Response to Combat COVID-19 and to Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security.’ Creates the position of Covid-19 response coordinator, another bureaucratic post.
• ‘Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census.’ Attempts to hand areas with high levels of non-citizens more political representation in Congress.
• ‘Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.’ Hands more money to illegal immigrants.
• ‘Proclamation on Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United States.’ Enables radical jihadists to enter America.
• ‘Executive Order on the Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities.’ Undoes Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement.
• ‘Proclamation on the Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Southern Border of the United States and Redirection of Funds Diverted to Border Wall Construction.’ Seeks to create open borders.
• ‘Reinstating Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians.’ Extends deferrals of deportation and work authorizations for Liberians with a haven in the United States until June 30, 2022.
• ‘Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel.’ Requires executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge barring them from acting in personal interest and requiring them to uphold the independence of the Department of Justice, however Janet Yellen has already breached this with no comeuppance.
• ‘Modernizing Regulatory Review.’ Replaces one bureaucracy with another. . . .

Psaki Defends Executive Orders: Part of Unifying the Country Is Addressing the Problems Americans Face

According to CNS News, “White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday defended President Joe Biden against criticism over his record-breaking number of executive orders, saying that “part of unifying the country is addressing the problems that the American people are facing.”

Psaki was asked at a White House press briefing whether the White House thinks executive orders are the best way to make policy considering that another president can undo them with the stroke of a pen in four years.  . . .

Editor’s Note: Full Transcript Below:

First, the president put forward a large and bold COVID release package – $1.9 trillion – that is meant to address the challenges that the American people are facing and the dual crises that the country is facing from the pandemic to an economic recession as a result. That package has the support of the majority of Americans, according to every poll that we have seen publicly released.

So I would say first that part of unifying the country is addressing the problems that the American people are facing, and working to reach out to Democrats and Republicans to do exactly that, and that’s what he’s doing. He is calling — he’s had calls with Democrats and Republican members of Congress, many of them.

He’s doing more calls today, but he’s doing calls regularly throughout the week and has done them back to when he was inaugurated and even before then, but he’s also calling Democratic and Republican mayors and governors to talk to them about what their needs are on the ground.

So his objective as president is to deliver on what he promised in his inaugural address, govern for all of the American people by focusing on addressing the issues that people are facing that aren’t just hitting blue states or red states, aren’t just hitting Democrats or Republicans, but are crises that we all are facing, and I think the polls will tell you that people are responding to that.

In terms of executive actions, he also ran with a commitment to take steps immediately to address the pain and suffering that the American people were feeling, and that includes overturning some of the detrimental, harmful, and at times immoral policies and actions of the prior administration, but he’s the first to tell you as he’s said many times publicly, he is not going to take executive action alone.

That’s why he’s put forward a number of packages that he’s actively working with members of both parties to move forward on.

Psaki was asked if the issue is that Congress is so broken that President Joe Biden needs to work quickly unilaterally to get things done and whether the president supports reconciliation that Senate Democrats are talking about right now.

Well, I didn’t say that that was his point of view. Those are your words, not mine. I would say his view is actually that these policies, the policies in his COVID release package are policies that are not Democratic or Republican. Everybody wants their kids to go back to school. Everybody thinks that there should be more shots in the arms of Americans.

Everybody thinks that the American people should get more relief and a bridge in this period of time that is such a challenge, so what he is saying is here’s my proposal. Here’s how I think. Here’s how economists, medical experts, health experts think that we can address these crises we all agree are impacting all of our constituents across the country. Let’s have a conversation about it.

That’s what he’s doing. At the same time, he’s not going to delay action that would help bring relief to the public and help bring access to affordable health care to the American people, help ensure women have access to reproductive health as well, so you know, there are a lot of steps he has taken over the past couple of weeks.

He is not going to delay actions that require immediate action, that he can — that he can bring that relief immediately, but he’s also going to work with congress. He’s proposed multiple bills to do that.

When asked whether Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) saying that Democrats will move ahead with or without Republicans undermines Biden’s calls for bipartisanship and whether the White House is urging Democrats to give it more time, Psaki said that “reconciliation is a parliamentary process” and a way to get legislation through.”

“It’s a way to get relief to the American people. The president wants this to be a bipartisan package, regardless of the mechanism. Republicans can still vote for a package, even if it goes through with reconciliation. There’s no blood oath that anybody signs. They are able to support it, regardless and He wants us to be a bipartisan package. He is listening to Democrats and Republicans. We all are, to ensure that that’s what it looks like at the end of the day,” she said. . . .

“I don’t think that’s true. We refute that notion. These challenges that the American public are facing are urgent. People don’t know how to plan to have food on their table now. They’re worried about whether their children can go back to school in a couple months now,” the press secretary said.

“They are worried about getting the vaccine now, and those are issues that Republican elected officials are hearing. Democratic elected officials are hearing from their constituents, and we’re confident that people are going to listen to them and come together to support a bipartisan bill,” she said.

Blackburn: Biden ‘Restricting Our Freedoms’ with His Executive Orders

According to Breitbart, “During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends Sunday,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sounded off on President Joe Biden’s executive orders upon immediately entering office. Some of the orders include rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and halting the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Blackburn advised that Biden’s orders curry China’s favor “by restricting our freedoms.” She added that Republicans can fight his orders by “playing block and tackle,” which she explained is filing legislation to prevent it. . .

She later added, “Here is what we know: his actions this week have adversely impacted one million jobs either eliminating or adversely impacting — opening the border to drug cartels, to labor gangs, to gangs, to human traffickers, sex traffickers; making certain that fuel that you’ve got that crude in Canada that is going to be heading over to China and then sold back to us. These are things that do not help the U.S. economy.” . . .

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