If it is worth doing, why do it in a panic a few days before Election Day?
Who says he’s doing it in a panic and since when is not doing it earlier a criticism for doing it now?
This move is along the arc of discussion set by the president when he ran for office in 2016.
It’s never too late to fulfill a campaign promise.
Who says it was “in a panic”? The President has talked about this for some time. Such moves by the Executive must be vetted by platoons of lawyers and that takes whatever time the lawyers decide they need.
It's a modest start. The draft rule probably took the bureaucrats a year to write.
He’s been working on it for a while. As with most everything government, it is a slow go.
It should have been completely stopped.