Correction Please!
Lame Duck Runs Amok With Last-ditch Regulations
Item: After Election Day and before Inauguration Day for the new president, Barack Obama was busy trying to “Trump-proof the White House,” noted an article by the McClatchy news service. Among other actions, as Anita Kumar wrote in the piece dated December 8, 2016, he put appointees on boards and in offices and “churned out rules, regulations and policies several times a week.”
Obama has been, as she wrote, “trying to put the people and policies in place that he wants to outlast his presidency in the final weeks before Donald Trump takes over. And his supporters want more, way more. Every president tries to push through last-minute policies before their time in office comes to a close. But this year has a more frantic feel as special interest groups push Obama to do more, not just because the president-elect is of a different party but because few people know what he will do.
“‘People are, as you can imagine, they are getting quite desperate,’ said Rena Steinzor, a member of the Center for Progressive Reform, a liberal advocacy group, who is pressing Obama to act. ‘Filling boards and doing whatever he can to establish protections that Trump would have to unwind is a good strategy.’”
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