https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/delivering-emergency-price-relief-for-american-families-and-defeating-the-cost-of-living-crisis/
I hereby order the heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker.
Checkmate, egg prices. 
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Say what you want about the guy but orange man really is doing what he thinks is best and is going hard right off the bat
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Even if you 100% disagree
with everything he does, it's nice seeing a politician 
actually 
try (even if unsuccessful) to keep his campaign promises
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not really i prefer they lie when running and do nothing once in
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I LOVE LYING
BUREAUCRATS
This is part of why Trump
won
What's the point
of electing representatives if they don't represent you
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they pretend to represent morons.
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Then be an authoritarian
There is no room in the idea of a democratic republic where
representatives don't represent you
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Yeah there is, I literally just did it
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"You" is doing a lot of work here. The representation is buried behind so many layers of abstraction, guesswork, compromise, and complexity that it's basically just theatre.
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Wrong
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On one hand I agree, it is nice seeing a politician pull through for once.
On the other hand, I suppose its easy to bring all your promises to fruition on day 1 if you're going to bypass the legislature via executive fiat
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The legislature has done this to themselves.
They can pass laws addressing this if they want. But they won't because they're lazy fricks.
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Democracy is unironically over if you can't pass a simple law to prohibit X without packaging it with gorilliions of dollars to teachers unions, Israel, or Ukraine.
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I understand the issues with line-item vetos and don't support them but I do think there should be some sort of limit on scope for bills from congress.
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Vetos used to be way higher in the past when there was lots of small bills, now it's all line item and even that's rare. Trump only vetod 12 things during his last tenure. Omnibus bills used to be a bad word, but now it's the only thing they do. Lets you pack in random gibs hidden in thousand page bills
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It's because the way the Senate works, they have to use reconciliation to sneak past the filibuster so they're only allowed to pass one bill per session or w/e, so they have to pack every single fricking thing in that bill.
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Toddler level view of civics
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How so?
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It's because Congress can't work together enough even in their own party to pass shit without an incentive—like "sure I'll support your funding bill for NASA to build an Alcubierre drive if you support my bill to give Corn Farmers a gorillion dollars or for a Trans Socialist Hiring program at the US Mint"
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!trekkies we're getting the good ending!!!
Thank god for wise bipartisan compromise
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The power of the purse belong to the legislature.
Congress should be the ones to pass a law that prices go down.
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Congresspeople only care about adding pork to budgets which benefit their locally community power players which keep them elected
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The States should pass such a law
. No 10th amendment respectors anymore smh
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What's that?
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Purses are for women and cute twinks
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The executive can't do anything to lower prices at all. The only way the government can lower prices is to change real market conditions by spending money, e.g. via subsidies, which needs action from Congress, not from the executive.
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Daddy should command the treasury to move all the decimal points to the left.
Imagine the campaign slogans: Demonrats gave you $5/gallon gas, we made it 0.60.
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Why .60 and not .50?
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Inflation has been in it's target and historically normal range for nearly a year. Congress can only make inflation worse, it's not something you can legislate lower.
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Well, it's hard to increase supply via legislation, but I'm sure there's things they could do to decrease demand.
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By taxes, and That is not popular
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Death camps
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Legislatures suck at doing so in a pareto improving way. They created most of it with rona stimulus.
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pareto improving
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I wasn't talking about inflation bb.
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ok so I think thats what Daddy is trying to explicitly avoid
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I don't get it
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Fiat is a shitty
Italian 
car sweaty 
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Fix It Again Trump
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there's no way the president of the united states drives a fiat
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The last thing I want is a politician I disagree with enacting his policies.
When a politicel I hate gets elected I cross my fingers so he or she will be all empty words.
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Well sure because your side lost
But I say again what's the point
of elected representatives if they don't represent their electors
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Illusion of choice and technocracy like God and the invisible hand intented !neolibs
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We haven't had any form of technocratic government since Clinton and it was declining from Carter on.
We need to ban democracy. Giving people the idea they know what's best for themselves was a mistake.
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And I guess all of Obama's legions of Harvard boys were just...what... secret Saul Alinsky radicals?
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Presidents don't pass legislation. It doesn't matter who is appointed as administrator of an agency if the agency doesn't have a legislative remit to act (or not act) based on le science.
Congress is too busy arguing about
s to pass much actual legislation. The legislation they do pass is either a religious text or the result of deep political compromise not actually accomplishing useful policy goals in an efficious manner.
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I want NBER to take their final form and become dictators of the world.
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And it will soon, once GPT-6 announces control of the US grid
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Democracy places incentives to not kill millions of people for dumb reasons and I value that over despots being more efficient when they aren't imploding
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Teaching their constituents a valuable lesson
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I'm still waiting for the wall. Goddarn you people are all like elderly people with dementia and no long-term memory so you're constantly just living in the moment. I envy you.
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Yeah personal politics aside, I've got to give it to him. Doing ANYTHING is better than all the usual lip service and half-hearted attempts we usually get.
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