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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House Shelves 'Evil Genius' Idea
January 15, 2018 at 8:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Jonathan Swan: Last year, the head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Andrew Bremberg, told senior administration officials and Hill staff about an idea he had to tie the hands of future Democratic presidents. The idea would be for Trump to introduce a series of hardcore left-wing regulations e.g. on climate change, the environment, labor and health care. Then, the Republican-controlled Congress would disapprove of these regulations using a law called the Congressional Review Act. That would bar future administrations introducing substantially similar regulations.
Trump administration officials are no longer seriously entertaining this idea, largely because Bremberg and others have recognized that its politically infeasible. Republicans only have a one-vote margin in the Senate, and theres no way Mitch McConnell would waste precious floor time on such a moonshot.
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White House Shelves 'Evil Genius' Idea (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,582 posts)1. There's a lot of evil going around, but not much genius.
pandr32
(11,551 posts)2. Perfectly put--dead on the money
brush
(53,738 posts)3. Speaking of McConnell and the repug majority, don't they have to get 60 votes now since they've...
already used up their reconciliation (51 votes) chance?