While there has been much debate and protesting over the weekend and in the nearly week since its signing, this executive order ― and indeed this proposed policy revamp ― represents only a small part of a much broader problem: the rhetoric and actions of President Trump and his administration are fueling the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry that exists among Trump supporters.
While the U.S. has not allowed government funding for most abortion services overseas since the 1973 Helms Amendment, this executive order further restricts women's ability to receive complete reproductive care by withholding all funding if abortion is even mentioned during patient consultations.
"Basically, they have not had problems with this ever since," the executive assistant to the Attorney General, James E. Kennedy, reports.
It has now been over a decade since the executive order, yet the effect of this order on programs such as Superfund has not been critically examined.
Cognizant also drives accountability for talent throughout the management ranks, since the executive team cannot be the only ones focused on this issue.
The passage of time since the executive order was first issued might make that difficult.
Ever since, the Executive Order has been a source of continued Presidential shame.
What is most unsettling from this comparison is that the chance of listing for several marginalized and poor populations actually worsens for sites discovered since the executive order (Table 2).
In just four years since becoming chief executive, this 58-year-old prince of picayune has spruced up a very mediocre chain.
And put aside also some obvious legal impediments to applying it government wide, since (a) Executive Orders like this generally don't apply to independent commissions like the SEC, the FCC, the Federal Reserve, and others protected by statute from White House control and (b) most regulations, in varying degrees of specificity, are mandated by statute and cannot simply be repealed.
