Trump aides privately plot a flurry of moves in their final 10 weeks

[Klaralven]

On Monday, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows gathered senior aides on a call.

One of his goals: to plot the conservative policy moves they could push through in their final 10 weeks on immigration, trade, health care, China and school choice.

Even as President Donald Trump refused to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, Meadows was asking aides on the call to give him three goals by the end of the week that could be accomplished by Biden’s inauguration, according to two people briefed on the conversation. Since then, staffers have compiled a list of roughly 15 moves they could make through executive orders, executive actions or finalizing agency rules that they plan to pursue in the coming days, according to interviews with three administration officials.

On immigration, they are seeking to finalize a rule related to making the standards stricter around H-1B visas, which allow U.S. employers to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialty occupations. And a potential school-related executive order would seek to give Covid-19 relief money to parents in public school districts shut down by the coronavirus, allowing them to use the funds for private or parochial schools.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/trump-lame-duck-concession-436146

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Push through?"

Biden will only rescind 100% of Trump's EO's on Day One.

[Mike 03]

2. Watch out for Stephen Miller's immigration agenda

That's one that worries me. Also: deregulation, environmental policy ("Heck, let's sell off the national parks!&quot

If I ran an agency affected by this "flurry" of changes, I might tell my people to "sit tight", like Mattis used to do at DoD. Just slow roll it until Trump is gone.

I know we knew this was coming, but it still pisses me off enormously. It demonstrates utter contempt for norms, and for our new President and VP.

I really hope John Yoo isn't involved in this, because his whole raison d'etre is that he can craft Executive Orders that are very difficult to undo. That is how he caught the White House's attention in the first place.

[Tanuki]

3. Apparently, trying to control the raging covid pandemic and its mounting death toll is not

a priority for them.

[crickets]

12. 👆

[C_U_L8R]

4. Lazy Trump never did the real work of passing actual legislation

His vainglorious EO's will not live long past his own misadministration. And like him, will be soon forgotten.

[we can do it]

5. Doesn't Meadows have covid?

[dware]

10. Yes, he tested positive for Covid.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. These can all be easily undone

once Biden takes office.

[TigressDem]

7. OMG

[Demsrule86]

8. And on day one...Biden rescinds them.

[IronLionZion]

9. Let's win the Senate and pass real laws

not easily overturned executive orders.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. It's busy work. Like what teachers used to give kids the last week of school