Biden’s About To Reach 100th Executive Order Landmark — Here’s How Much It’s Costing
(ReliableNews.org) – President Biden might be struggling with many things, but he can still manage to sign executive orders. Since taking office, he’s issued almost a hundred of them — at a staggering cost to American taxpayers. The president’s fondness for ruling by decree could also make inflation worse, according to experts.
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In just over 18 months in office, President Biden has issued 99 executive orders, most of them in his first year. The last president to start his term with such a flurry of EOs was Gerald Ford in the 1970s. Now, Biden has signed more than Abraham Lincoln (48), Andrew Johnson (79), Rutherford B Hayes (92) or Chester A Arthur did in their entire presidencies — and he still has 2.5 years to go.
The problem with Biden’s executive orders isn’t the number of them, though; it’s the cost. Matthew Dickerson of the Heritage Foundation says the ones he issued last year cost taxpayers more than $500 billion. In addition, the controversial student loan forgiveness program, could add $1 trillion to the national debt.
Dickerson pointed out that none of this spending has been debated or voted on by Congress; it’s just Biden spending vast amounts of money with the stroke of a pen. He warned the president’s spending “by fiat” could have a significant effect on inflation, and right now, that’s the last thing our economy needs.
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