Executive Actions

One can argue that bump stocks should be regulated in any case. But Obama’s miss is a reminder that people with evil intentions will always be one step ahead of the law.

Politico reports Sunday: “The push to block, rewrite and delay scores of Obama-era rules may be the [Trump] administration’s biggest untold success.”

President Donald J. Trump signed three new executive actions on Saturday afternoon, including a five year lobbying ban, reorganization of the National Security Council, and a plan to defeat the Islamic State.

President Donald J. Trump will meet Wednesday with at least two parents who each had a child killed at the hands of illegal aliens. The President is expected to sign executive orders related to illegal immigration and border security soon.

President Donald Trump plans to sign a flurry of executive actions on immigration today, traveling to the Department of Homeland Security to highlight his committment to border security. “Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow,” he wrote on Twitter on

President Donald Trump signed five executive actions Tuesday, moving forward the process to build the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, pushing for the companies to use pipes manufactured in the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump’s spokesman Jason Miller tells reporters that the policy team is looking at a number of different options on how to handle President Obama’s executive orders.

Deportations are down because of President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, because of sanctuary cities and because local authorities are refusing to honor federal immigration “detainer” requests, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified Thursday.

Democrats, immigration activists, and business leaders cheered President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. However, as quickly as Obama moved to block millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, a future president could not only revoke Obama’s orders but also implement dozens of pro-immigration enforcement actions that would make former executive amnesty cheerleaders grimace.

Standing in front of the Supreme Court Thursday, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) called on President Obama to nominate somebody to the Supreme Court who will repudiate his administration’s propensity for circumventing Congress with executive actions.

The Obama administration appears open to having the president use his executive authority to try to close the terrorist detainee facility in Guantanamo Bay, warning Congress to stop blocking his desire to close the facility.

Former Southern California Edison employees are suing the Obama administration over its H-4 visa rule that grants work permits to certain spouses of H-1B visa holders. They say the action negatively impacts the SCE workers because not only does it benefit their direct H-1B visa competitors but it also increases the labor pool with new H-4 visa holders.

As President Obama returns briefly to Washington from vacation, he prepares for a campaign-like swing through three states to promote his upcoming State of the Union address. Obama will hit Michigan, Arizona and Tennessee with a focus on economic issues.