Trump’s Governing Agenda: It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint

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Trump’s Governing Agenda: It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint

February 21, 2017 by Brandon J. Weichert 7 Comments

 

The agents of the status quo are at it again. CNN host Fareed Zakaria’s recent op-ed in the Washington Post excoriates President Trump for his administration’s “lack of forward movement.” Zakaria took to the Post’s pages to compare Trump’s administration with the motion of a rocking horse. Zakaria cautioned Trump’s supporters not to “confuse motion and progress”and followed up with the cloyingly pedantic question, “What has he actually done?”

 

In just a month, the president has pushed through executive orders that begin the process of lowering taxes, repealing Obamacare, and protecting Americans from terrorism (to say nothing of the Trump economic rally after he won the election). While most of his actions have been controversial and necessarily limited without further implementation by Congress, they are simply laying the groundwork for the legislation that ought to follow.

 

Shocking though it may seem, President Trump has only been in office for about a month and has some regard for the constitutional separation of powers that limits the scope of his executive privilege. Yet, as Zakaria points out Trump “has dominated the news nearly every day.”