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There's a lot of really scary stuff in there: - Cancel payments to U.N. climate change projects - Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation - Drastic tax cuts - Massive immigration changes
On the bright side, this is a sure-fire recipe for deadlock.
Whatever you think about Trump or the policies in that document, it's clearer and more concise than anything I've seen from an elected official.
> FIRST propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact. I'm really concerned he might be assassinated.
Constitutional amendments need a 2/3 majority in the House and Senate to officially be proposed (except when proposed through a constitutional convention, which hasn't happened since the original constitution was written), and must be ratified by 3/4 of states to take effect. So, this won't happen unless there's suddenly a bi-partisan consensus that term limits are needed. (Also, congresspeople are unlikely to be wil…
> FIRST propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact. I'm really concerned he might be assassinated.
Constitutional amendments need a 2/3 majority in the House and Senate to officially be proposed (except when proposed through a constitutional convention, which hasn't happened since the original constitution was written), and must be ratified by 3/4 of states to take effect. So, this won't happen unless there's suddenly a bi-partisan consensus that term limits are needed. (Also, congresspeople are unlikely to be wil…
I'm worried about 18F/USDS/etc. because of the freeze on federal hiring. Partly I have friends there, but mostly, those organizations need to exist if government is going to be effective. They're getting things done, and they're also taking business away from government contractors who don't get things done (i.e., saving significant taxpayer money).
Trump has expressed a preference for private industry to do things for the government, because they do it better. Accenture, Deloitte and KPMG are prolly the federal IT of the future
He's calling executive actions unconstitutional. Let's hope he sticks to that.
Whatever you think about Trump or the policies in that document, it's clearer and more concise than anything I've seen from an elected official.
"I will light our capital city on fire" is even more clear and concise. Perhaps you're optimizing for the wrong metric.
Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying. Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. The scariest things for me are the backing out of cli…
He's calling executive actions unconstitutional. Let's hope he sticks to that.
And this post has been censored from HN's liberal agenda! edit: right after people started calling "them" out, it was unflagged.