Despite Claims, Trump Has Signed No Major Bills
June 23, 2017 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
President Trump has claimed that never has there been a president, with few exceptions, “who’s passed more legislation, who’s done more things than what we’ve done.”
He’s tweeted this morning that, “I’ve helped pass and signed 38 Legislative Bills, mostly with no Democratic support, and gotten rid of massive amounts of regulations. Nice!”
However, of those 38 bills, 15 of them involved rolling back regulations put in place during the final days of the Obama administration. These resolutions were passed using the rarely used Congressional Review Act and only required a simple majority for passage in the Senate. Another five involved naming something, five were about encouraging an agency to try something new, five were personnel related and several were budget related. The only really important bill was one that kept the government funded through September.
None of them could be considered major pieces of legislation.
Trump’s boast that he signed 38 bills is also a poor benchmark, as NPR notes:
< Measuring laws passed by counting rather than by significance is pretty meaningless… But by way of recent historical comparison, Presidents Jimmy Carter (52), George H.W. Bush (41) and Clinton (41) had all signed more bills into law than President Trump by this point in their presidencies. >
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https://politicalwire.com/2017/06/23/despite-claims-trump-signed-no-major-bills/
