Who needs laws when you’re a dictator?
Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this point in his presidency than any new president taking office for the last seven decades, according to government records.
Trump has signed just five bills into law so far: three Congressional Review Act resolutions overturning Biden-era regulations, the Laken Riley Act and a stopgap funding bill needed to avoid a government shutdown last month.
Congress actually passed the Laken Riley Act before Trump took office, but the GOP leadership held it so former President Joe Biden wouldn’t be able to sign it into law.
Trump has been signing Executive Orders turning the country into a dictatorial hellscape but he’s also playing a lot of golf and threatening people. And he’s doing permanent damage in dozens of different ways to the country and the individuals in it. But the only silver lining in all this is that EOs can be reversed. If we make it through the next four years and can replace him with someone sane (both tall orders) The new president will have her work cut out for her.