This is a little misleading because roughly half of these orders were reversing odious Biden directives on ESG, racial preferences, expanding government health care coverage, allowing men to play in women's sports and so on.
We're happy that Trump has done so. But we're also concerned that the trend over the past few decades has been to empower the Executive Branch to make laws with a president's stroke of the pen. Call us old fashioned, but that's supposedly why we have Congress.
The most worrisome example that we've mentioned before is the president unilaterally raising taxes/tariffs to as high as 125% without explicit congressional approval.
Could a president Gavin Newsom declare a climate "emergency" and assert the power to raise income taxes to 80%?
So much for checks and balances.
This sets an extraordinarily dangerous precedent for the future of limited government and conservatives may rue the day.
