Obama White House veterans urge Biden to embrace executive action

Denis McDonough, professor of the practice of public policy and former White House Chief of Staff, shared insight on how President-elect Joe Biden might leverage executive power to implement key policies during his presidency.

“There is—as President Trump himself has demonstrated with the consent, quite obvious consent of Republicans in Congress—an enormous amount of leeway for the president to institute executive action on things like immigration and energy and climate policy,”

Originally published at npr.org on November 14, 2020.

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