Trump’s Attempt to Kill Presidio Will Fail Just Like Christie’s Attempt to Kill D&R Canal Commission
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
Caption: (Source: The San Francisco Standard)
Yesterday, Trump issued another illegal Executive Order which seeks to “own the Libs” and dismantle more entities of the federal government created by Congress, including the gorgeous Presidio Of San Francisco .
The move drew immediate condemnation and threats of lawsuits:
In a stunning executive order Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump attempted to make sweeping cuts to the Presidio Trust, the federal agency established by Congress in 1996 to oversee the 1,500-acre San Francisco park.
Trump just couldn’t help himself from sticking his finger in the eye of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco Libs. But he went much further, and attacked other “woke” entities, including:
- the Inter-American Foundation;
- the United States African Development Foundation; and
- the United States Institute of Peace.
(hit those links before they’re dead!)
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding? (take it away Elvis Costello!)
Trumps Order went even further and directed OMB and other federal agencies to recommend additional dismantling.
The Trump Order is titled:
In a cynical move, Trump tried to insulate his order from legal challenge, by limiting the dismantling to the “non-statutory components and functions” of each entity, but that is a transparent sham to appear to recognize Congressional powers.
Trump won’t get away with hollowing out federal entities created, given a specific mission, and funded by Congress.
I suspect that, at a minimum, the attack on the Presidio will be blocked by the courts as another blatantly illegal Trump move.
Trump’s wrecking ball reminded me of a virtually identical move by former NJ Governor Chris Christie (and recall that Christie was a Trump 1.0 Campaign “strategic advisor”).
Gov. Christie issued Executive Orders seeking to dismantle NJ State government entities, including the highly popular D&R Canal Commission!
We broke that story and helped expose and defeat some of that dismantling, including the D&R Canal Commission.
Unfortunately, quite a bit of damage was done and never restored.
Readers interested in the stunning parallels in Trump and Christie Executive Orders can read the following posts, with all the receipts:
Governor Christie held a press conference on Friday to announce the first round of what I will call his “government dismantling initiative” under Executive Order #15, which directed that:
8. The commissioner or head of each principal department in the Executive Branch (hereinafter referred to as “Cabinet Member”) is hereby directed to identify the State Authorities established in or allocated to such department and to provide a recommendation to the Governor’s Office not later than May 15, 2010, regarding whether each such State Authority should continue to exist or be eliminated.
There are 3 distinct activities underway that constitute the “Christie government dismantling initiative”
(Warning Note: the 3 activities are not to be confused with Christie’s radical: a) regulatory rollback initiative; or b) his race to the bottom initiative; or c) his privatization initiative; or d) his budget slashing initiative; or e) his attack on science; or ) his devaluing of human life; or g) his attack on government, public sector workers and unions initiative) or h) lax oversight that invites catastrophe; or j) failed federalism policy.
(read the entire post)
- Christie Plan To Abolish D&R Canal Commission Draws Fire
- Gov. Christie’s Retaliatory Massacre at the D&R Canal Commission
People need to rise up and engage in maximum civil disobedience and protest to shut down the Trump fascist coup.