Fellow Conservative,

We’re coming up on the end of the October recess and Congressmen and Senators will return to DC on Tuesday.

But the Administration never goes on recess and has taken noteworthy action these past two weeks.

Presidential Actions

The Trump Administration has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to enforce our immigration laws and fight the bloat of government regulations and has taken important actions as of late:

Immigration. Last week, the Trump Administration took executive action to require immigrants to prove they can pay for their own health care. Tim Chapman commented:

Heritage Action polling reveals that voters' top concern with immigration is a drain on our welfare and social programs, particularly health care. As we welcome people to our country, it’s important they contribute to our nation, not deplete our resources. Heritage Action applauds the Trump Administration for providing a much-needed reform to our broken immigration system.

Deregulation. The Founding Fathers would be aghast at the number of unelected bureaucrats in our government issuing rules and “guidance on rules” with which Americans must somehow comply.

When President Trump took office, he promised to ease the burden on Americans and businesses by eliminating two regulations for every one new one. The Trump Administration has exceeded that goal with a ratio closer to 14 to 1.

This week, the President signed an executive order to protect Americans against secret bureaucratic interpretations of rules and helps guard against unfair penalties for non-compliance.

The President signed a second executive order to stop government bureaucrats from using a loophole to create pseudo-regulations. Agencies are required to go through a public review period when proposing a new regulation, but many agencies choose to skirt this process by issuing informal “guidance docs” instead of writing new regulations, denying citizens their right to participate in the process.

You can read more about these deregulatory actions here.

Rein in Government Spending Increases. President Trump also signed an executive order this week requiring departments and agencies to pay for administrative actions that increase mandatory spending with a corresponding decrease. This “pay as you go” requirement is common sense and a step in the right direction. However, there is still more that can be done to tame spending, as outlined by Heritage’s Blueprint for Balance.

Still No Vote to Open an Impeachment Inquiry

The House has still not held a formal vote to open an impeachment inquiry. When opening the impeachment inquiries into Presidents Nixon and Clinton, in both cases, the entire House voted to do so. This makes sense, because the Constitution gives the power of impeachment to the House, not the Speaker of the House. The House must vote to delegate its powers to a committee, otherwise those powers reside within the full House.

So why won’t Pelosi just hold a vote? 31 Democrats in the House sit in districts that President Trump won in 2016. First and foremost, Pelosi wants to retain her Speakership after the 2020 election, and so she is trying to protect members of her caucus from having to go on record with their support of an impeachment inquiry that the American people clearly don’t want.

The Founding Fathers never intended for impeachment to be used like this, as a tool to settle policy disputes, undo a past election, and to influence the next one.

Ironically, some of the very people who warned against abusing the impeachment power are now the ones politicizing it for their own gain—

Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler has gone from saying it “must never be a narrowly voted impeachment” to saying that it doesn’t even need to be voted on.

We never thought we’d say these words, but it looks like Chuck Schumer was right.

Action Item: This week, call your member of Congress and tell them to “oppose the impeachment inquiry and focus on the issues that matter.”

Liberals’ Court-Packing Scheme

Progressives are increasingly calling for Congress to pack the Supreme Court with liberal, activist judges. They argue that the court is failing to promote a progressive agenda and that the next time there is a Democratic president, liberals should rewrite the law, add more seats to the Supreme Court, and have the President fill them. Americans shouldn’t let them.

In a recent Fox News op-ed, Tim Chapman explains the Left’s plan of court-packing the Supreme Court making it a “political football:”

Packing the court would have disastrous consequences for both the judicial system and our democracy. It would make the court a political football that changes with the whims of the presidency and party in power. It would also make every presidential election a life-or-death contest.

America’s social fabric can’t survive a vote on who has the right to reshape the Supreme Court, nor should it have to.

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Thank you for your activism!

Tim, Jessica, and the Heritage Action team

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