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• Acting OMB Director Vought: Trump Keeps Promise to Tame Bureaucracy That Runs Roughshod Over Amer-

  10/9/2019, 3:39:15 PM ·

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  This week, the president will build on his success by signing two Executive Orders that will level the playing field for American families and small businesses and shine a light on the Federal bureaucracy that runs roughshod over American citizens.

  President Trump’s “Transparency and Fairness” Executive Order protects Americans against secret or unlawful bureaucratic interpretations of rules and guards against unfair or unexpected penalties for non-compliance. American families and entrepreneurs are not the enemy, and it is long past time D.C. stopped treating them as such.

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  President Trump’s “Bringing Guidance out of the Darkness” Executive Order stops agencies from skirting the laws that let the American public provide input on government rules that can limit their freedom. Too many agencies have found it easier to impose costly and excessive mandates through informal interpretations buried on their websites instead of going through the regular public review process Congress requires for agency rules.

• Excerpts from the White House’s Letter to House Democrats Regarding Their Unconstitutional Inquiry

  10/9/2019, 3:34:56 PM ·
  
  

   

  President Donald J. Trump Is Combating Bureaucratic Abuse and Holding Federal Agencies Accountable

  10/9/2019, 3:45:05 PM · 
  

  RESTORING TRANSPARENCY AND FAIRNESS: President Donald J. Trump is protecting Americans by restoring transparency and fairness to the bureaucracy.

  EXCERPT:
  • Today, President Trump signed two Executive Orders that will improve the transparency and fairness of government agencies and ensure that they are held accountable.
  • The “Improved Agency Guidance Documents” Executive Order requires agencies to put their guidance documents on easily searchable websites so individuals are able to access them.
    • To ensure Americans have their voices heard, the Order will also require government agencies to seek public input on the most important guidance they issue.
    • Americans will be able to ask agencies to withdraw guidance they believe is wrong.
  • The “Transparency and Fairness” Executive Order prohibits agencies from enforcing rules they have not made publicly known in advance.
    • The order also instructs agencies to offer opinion letters to individuals and businesses who request them, so people who want to comply with the law can learn how.

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Senate Dems Plead with Key GOP Senator to Probe Trump-Ukraine

As the investigation into President Trump’s push to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden intensifies on both sides of the Capitol, Senate Democrats are putting pressure on Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) to start doing something to get answers about a situation that is quickly becoming a U.S. foreign affairs crisis.

In a letter sent to Risch on Wednesday, all the Democrats on the committee, led by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), said the panel has a duty to “examine the serious questions raised by these events.”

“As the Committee charged with jurisdiction over U.S. foreign policy, it is incumbent on us to understand fully all the facts, including the circumstances surrounding the delay in U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, the early departure of the U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, the Department of State’s role in these matters, as well as the implications these events may have on U.S-Ukraine relations, and U.S foreign policy more broadly.”

The senators called on Risch to “promptly convene hearings”—mentioning specifically testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo—and use all of the committee’s powers to “fully examine these matters.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-dems-plead-with-key-gop-senator-to-probe-trump-ukraine/ar-AAIxcFq?li=BBnb7Kz