Trump signs few laws in first 100 days as he pushes to expand executive power

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : "President Trump looks forward to signing his one big beautiful bill very soon to codify the rest of his critical and commonsense agenda -- once Congress sends it to his desk.
74% : "In 100 days, President Trump has already made historic progress toward Making America Great Again by securing the border, restoring energy dominance, and tackling the Biden inflation crisis," White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement.
56% : If we don't have the guts to pass laws, then yes, I support him doing that," he said of Trump relying on executive action.
55% : By this time during his first term, Trump had signed 30 bills into law.
55% : Three of the bills Trump signed this year were measures to terminate regulations established by Biden, which the GOP fast-tracked under the Congressional Review Act.
55% : What's unusual is the extent to which Trump is doing it, and the level of acquiescence he has received from his party in Congress.
44% : Meanwhile, Trump's administration has sought out existing laws to reinterpret to advance his goals, drawing a wide array of legal challenges.
44% : In his opening months, Trump and his party have shown little inclination to work across the aisle.
43% : Biden tried to do it to forgive student loan debt, only to be blocked in court.
42% : " "I would say that that is the most fundamental institutional objective of Donald Trump and his administration," he said.
42% : In October 2018, when Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, Trump signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to combat the opioid epidemic, which passed the House and Senate with broad support from both parties.
41% : In 2020, Trump helped negotiate and signed into law the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, replacing the long-standing free-trade deal known as NAFTA.
40% : "Trump was an outlier within his own party in 2017.
39% : Instead of relying on members of the Republican-controlled House and Senate to pass laws to give him new authorities, Trump has sought to bypass Congress by invoking or repurposing existing laws to carry out his agenda since taking office in January.
38% : " Trump has made a bet that Republicans will protect him from Democratic attempts to assert congressional power and limit his actions.
37% : "President Trump has taken it to a wholly different level," Galston said.
37% : "This administration is shutting everyone out -- choosing chaos and partisan retribution over action that would actually make life more affordable." "In 2017, we worked together on issues like criminal justice reform.
36% : Trump came into office with a limited legislative agenda of additional funding for immigration enforcement, new policies to expand domestic energy production, an expansion of the military and cutting taxes.
31% : "It's extremely disappointing that Trump 2.0 has shown zero interest in bipartisan governing," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., who voted for the opioid, criminal justice and USMCA bills, and is now running for governor.
28% : Trump has so far signed just five bills into law -- fewer than any president in the first 100 days of an administration since at least Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s, according to an NBC News analysis of data in the congressional record.
28% : Trump gained Senate approval for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., winning votes from senators who were openly uncomfortable with them.
25% : Trump is expected to soon sign a sixth bill into law, the "Take It Down Act," which criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual, sexually explicit images and videos, including those generated by artificial intelligence.
25% : And working with celebrity Kim Kardashian that year, Trump ushered a criminal justice reform package through Congress and signed it into law.
21% : For their part, Democrats say Trump has shown no desire to work with them.

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