Amid mounting criticism of his record-pace executive order blitz - including from liberal media outlets like the New York Times - President Biden refused to take questions from reporters Thursday as he signed two more such actions.
In a bid to undo many of the initiatives of the previous Trump administration, Biden has signed a record 40 executive actions in his first week in office.
A polarized, narrowly divided Congress may offer Mr. Biden little choice but to employ executive actions or see his entire agenda held hostage," the Times editorial board wrote in an op-ed published Thursday.
At a briefing Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back on questions from reporters suggesting that Biden's slew of executive actions went against his own calls for "Unity" in Washington.
Psaki said Biden had made clear that he didn't believe executive action should be used for everything, but claimed the president needed to move quickly to undo the signature policies of the Trump administration.
"Any historian will tell you that he walked into the presidency at one of the most difficult moments in history that required additional executive action in order to get immediate relief to the American people," she said, adding that Biden believed in working with Congress and was going to "Use the levers that every president in history has used."
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell last week said Biden's EO blitz was the "Wrong direction," while even Biden himself appeared to be against presidential overuse of executive actions.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/biden-refuses-questions-as-executive-order-criticism-grows/
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