A magical phrase behind the Donald Trump party

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It was placed in the order was a phrase that was increasingly known to me in the last seven months, because I read the piles of annoying documents issued by the administration, trying to understand what he was doing.

“Discretion awards must, where applicable,” read “, demonstrated pre-presidential policy priorities.”

This phrase and variants, come a lot. Appeared everywhere from the description of the White House Scheduling Office President (that works on “Create an agenda that strategically progresses presidential priorities,” obviously) on the site on which the coastal guard explains that its secretary is assigned to “fully harmonize the service to perform presidential priorities.”

“It became a type of all purpose catches this administration,” says Zachary’s real San Francisco, and also claims that he also claimed that it was an unite executive power to direct how different agencies perform their functions. This fits into the general style of this administration.

Examples abound. A February executiveFor example, he said that the director of the Management and Budget Office (OMB) “re-examine the obligations of independent regulatory compliance regulatory and priority regulatory agencies.” An April Memo From the officials of the OMB administrator, the Office of Information and Regulatory (OIRA), which takes place to apply the account when submitted by a significant regulatory action in OIR for review: “Excellent reviews review consistency materials, priority for consistency and analytical branches.”

What exactly are the presidential priorities disappeared; The emphasis of the president of the paper vapors, however, put them in asking about what happens when they are in conflict with those of others – including the authors of the Constitution.

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The conversation about the presidential priorities are certainly not encouraged with the President Donald Travel. His predecessors, including administrative and Obama administrations, used phrase and set priorities for part of the federal government they have monitored the central part of the President of the Job.

This does not mean that there is nothing new in the expansive use of phrases and its variants, or that there is no problem defining the work of officials in the entire enforcement as the intuit priority of a man who can focus on a particular day BARELA CRACKER logo, Roger Clemens’ Fame Caseor his Longtime quarrel with Rosie O’Donnell.

“Agencies such as coastal guards have a strategic priority setting process,” says Jodi Freeman, professor at the Faculty of Law at Harvard. “It’s usually not a bunch of officials who sit and wonder what the president thinks today. It’s really strange teaching.”