Win or Lose on Tuesday, Trump Has a Plan to Keep Delivering for America
Reuters reports the White House has spent months mapping out what the President can do on immigration, tariffs, housing and spending without waiting on Congress. Democrats call it a power grab. Voters should call it what it is: a President who refuses to let Washington gridlock stop the work.
By Clara Hughes
Two days before Americans vote, the political class is busy predicting what happens if Democrats take the House. The President's team, it turns out, has been busy doing something more useful: making sure the work of the country does not stop, no matter what happens on Tuesday. According to a Reuters report published Sunday, President Trump's White House has spent months preparing for the possibility of a Democratic Congress, developing plans to keep advancing major parts of his agenda through executive power. Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and budget director Russell Vought have been working with the White House Counsel's Office since April to identify executive actions on immigration, tariffs, housing costs and federal spending that the President could take without congressional approval, Reuters reported, citing a White House official and two people familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity. That is not a scandal. That is a plan. And after decades of presidents who shrugged and blamed Congress when nothing got done, a plan is exactly what Americans should want from the man they elected. The White House, for its part, is not conceding anything. "This