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The cynical part of me says this is a political stunt to make the Biden administration cancel this order making them "weak on China".
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
The cynical part of me says this is a political stunt to make the Biden administration cancel this order making them "weak on China".
- splintercell 6y agoObama administration did some ridiculous environmental regulations this way which Trump rolled back and looked bad.
- papito 6y agoWhich ones? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/02/climate/environmental-rules-reversed-trump-100-days.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/02/climate/envir...
- stronglikedan 6y agoUsually people are referring to the Paris Climate Agreement in this context.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoIt could actually work in their favor. Tag the old admin with being unreasonable, but still get some, albeit minor, concession.
- bovermyer 6y agoThis is an often-used tactic. First-term outgoing executive declares a bunch of policies last-minute that his supporters love, incoming executive cancels all of them. Since the policies were untested, they became symbolic rather than a demonstrably failed experiment. When the first executive tries for a second term later, they can use this as an example of how they tried to do X, but their replacement didn't even give them a chance. I've seen this exact thing done many, many times, and not just in the American presidency.
- kevingadd 6y agoEconomic and political disasters often trail policy changes by months or years as well so no doubt the next administration will be taking the blame for lots of other stuff this admin intentionally screwed up in their last year.