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The Week Magazine
March 8, 2018
In doing so, Trump neatly circumvents his own executive order banning such activities, and further muddies his promise to "drain the swamp." ... and at least 125 staffers from prominent conservative think tanks are now working in the federal government, many of whom are on teams to repeal Obama-era regulations.
OCRegister
March 8, 2018
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush issued an executive order banning new federal offshore leasing through 2000. ... And while President George W. Bush rescinded his father's original ban in 2008, President Obama issued new executive orders placing vast swaths of the Outer Continental Shelf off limitsÃâà...
RT
March 8, 2018
Obama also came to Washington with a promise to rein in lobbyists. “When I'm president of the United States, if you want to work for my administration, you can't leave my administration and then go lobby,” he said while campaigning in Iowa in August 2007. In practice, the executive order he signed in 2009Ãâà...
CBS News
March 8, 2018
Mr. Trump's executive order on ethics supplanted a more stringent set of rules put in place by President Barack Obama in 2008. Nearly 70 waivers were issued to executive branch officials during Obama's eight years, though those were generally more narrowly focused and offered a fuller legal explanationÃâà...
Nextgov
March 7, 2018
Since the 1970s, the office has been home to the president's science advisers, and under the Obama administration, held the federal chief technology ... Last year, he signed an executive order to reestablish the National Space Council and authorized Space Policy Directive – 1, which calls on NASA toÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 1, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration was drafting an executive order that would ban rapid-fire gun bump stocks .... "Although the Obama administration repeatedly concluded that particular bump stock type devices were lawful to purchase and possess, I soughtÃâà...
PolitiFact
February 19, 2018
"Trump declares globalist Soros as 'national security threat' using Obama's 2014 executive order," stated a Jan. 30 headline on the Conservative Daily Post. There is no evidence that Trump took any such action against Soros. The same story has been picked up by multiple websites. The Hungarian-bornÃâà...
RT
December 31, 1999
In a letter required under the National Emergencies Act, Trump notified Congress that the White House will continue treating the situation in Ukraine as “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” as defined by Obama's Executive Order 13660, datedÃâà...
