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As roy moore officially loses, why the Republican Party isnt done with its roy moore problem. This is greater than judge moore. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. As the first year of the donald Trump Presidency draws to a close the president and his allies are trying to sell a message theyve gotten more done than anyone could have possibly imagined, starting with all those bills the president has signed. You know, one of the things that people dont understand, we have signed more legislation than anybody, broke the record. We have more legislation passed, including the record was harry truman, thats a long time ago, and we broke that record. That claim is almost cartoonishly false. According to govtrack, trump has signed the fewest number of bills into law than any firstyear president dating back to eisenhower. Is they han half as many bills as clinton and george hartsfieldjackson w. Bush did at this point. This decide controlling both houses of congr
A consultant to president Richard Nixons Reelection Campaign committee. As roy moore officially loses, why the Republican Party isnt done with its roy moore problem. This is greater than judge moore. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. As the first year of the donald Trump Presidency draws to a close the president and his allies are trying to sell a message theyve gotten more done than anyone could have possibly imagined, starting with all those bills the president has signed. You know, one of the things that people dont understand, we have signed more legislation than anybody, broke the record. We have more legislation passed, including the record was harry truman, thats a long time ago, and we broke that record. That claim is almost cartoonishly false. According to govtrack, trump has signed the fewest number of bills into law than any firstyear president dating back to eisenhower. Is they han half as many bills as clinton and george hartsfieldjackson
In February 2017, Steve Bannon, then chief strategist of the Trump White House, pledged that the new administration would commit itself to “the deconstruction of the administrative state.” President Donald Trump was too inept to make much tangible progress on that front during his presidency. But in appointing three right-wing justices to the Supreme Court, Trump improved substantially the likelihood that it would fulfill Bannon’s promise, and the current docket furnishes the high court with thr