discredit the Hunter Biden laptop prior to the 2020 election. Declared a national
energy emergency to lower costs and help fulfill his promise to “Drill, baby, drill!” Directed federal workers to cease remote work and report to their offices. Halted funding and
support for gender surgery for minors and related care. Pulled the plug on his
predecessor’s costly electric vehicle mandate. “His ideas are absolutely
precedent-setting,” says author and longtime political strategist Dick Morris, “and move well beyond what a president normally does throughout his term — let alone in the first few days.”
TRUMP GOES SUPERSONIC Trump’s bid to seize the second-term momentum was like a sonic boom breaking above the National Mall, sending bureaucrats scrambling for cover.
But to the “woke”
politicos on the left, it was an autocratic assault. New York Times columnist Charles Blow, for example, wrote of “a flurry of provocations,” and “attacks on the rule of law and raw exertions of power.”
One tactic to try to slow
down Trump’s runaway policy freight train that
One tactic to try to slow down Trump’s runaway policy freight train that soon emerged: the courts.
soon emerged: the courts. The ink was barely dry
on the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship — the policy that children of illegals born in the United States automatically become American citizens —
before five Democrat state attorneys general filed lawsuits challenging the order as unconstitutional. It is widely believed the issue is destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. Other lawsuits have
been filed to block Trump’s
Trump’s Policies Gain Double-Digit Approval
Q
uinnipiac reports President Donald Trump began his second term with a
46% approval rating — fully 10% higher than when he began his first presidential term.
Immigration
National Security Economy
Foreign Policy Energy Taxes Trade
National Debt Healthcare
Medicare & Social Seccurity Abortion
LGBTQ+ Rights
effort to fire federal workers who refuse to comply with his directives. Democrats, however, face the danger that the legal counterattack will backfire if the conservative majority Supreme Court rules in Trump’s favor, establishing adverse legal precedents. After Trump’s directive
ordering staff to stop working remotely and
Continued on page 65 Even more worrisome for Democrats —
voter approval of Trump’s policy stances is even stronger. A recent Morning Consult poll found Trump
enjoying 56% approval on immigration, 55% approval on national security, and 53% on the economy. He was also well above water on energy, taxes, and trade. That suggests Trump may be able to
hold onto strong voter approval numbers as he aggressively enacts his agenda — and possibly even improve them.
Approve
56% 55% 53% 52% 51%
50% 50% 49% 47% 46%
42% 37% Don’t Know/No Opinion
8% 11%
11% 11% 13% 12% 13% 15%
14% 15%
13% 20%
36% 34% 36% 36% 36% 37% 37% 37%
38% 39%
44% 43%
Disapprove
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