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To: defconw
-- Could he EO out all the parts he does not like. I would imagine that he might actually read this piece of crap bill! --

"Signing statements" are used to declare interpretation of statutes. I doubt he reads it himself - budget bills are dense legalese. Staffers read it and provide summary for the president. Going by how the politicians describe the laws, I am certain that it is not uncommon for a staffer to compose a misleading summary. I expect Trump does a bit of "spot checking" and demanding explanation.

The sheer volume of legislation and regulation is such that it is literally impossible to read all of it - probably literally impossible to read 5% of it, if all you did was read full time.

360 posted on 03/23/2018 6:20:05 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Probably right. If I were him I would task each staffer with so many pages and then demand a report on the pages they read.


385 posted on 03/23/2018 6:49:01 AM PDT by defconw (Because Americans are dreamers, too!)
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