Mike Lee Outlines How To ‘Reign In The Executive Branch’ During RNC Remarks

3 months ago

At the Heritage Foundation's "Policy Fest", during the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) answered moderator questions on administrative powers.

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00:00And I think that is the hatred against Trump is that unlike every single president for generations

00:07He fought the administrative state more than anyone else and you might remember

00:12that the first impeachment against President Trump was because he disagreed with the

00:18Interagency consensus on foreign policy as my husband likes to say I don't remember voting for the interagency

00:25Consensus at any point but that is how seriously they view it as a threat

00:29they view themselves as the permanent ruling class of Washington DC and anyone who thinks that the

00:36Constitution which sets out actual elected positions to oversee the executive branch or to make our laws anyone who views it that way

00:42That's the actual threat. So final question

00:47Just real quick final question, is there anything that the

00:51Executive should do to rein in the exec to bring in the administrative state. Yes

00:55All right. So look first and foremost the the

00:58Chief executive the president the United States as chief executive officer of the US government

01:03First thing he can do

01:05Is is to put the right personnel in place so that we stop getting these ridiculous

01:11expansions of federal regulatory power look at how many aspects of your life are

01:17micromanaged

01:18In ways that they shouldn't be who misses real light bulbs, by the way, I'm sick and tired of the light bulbs that are terrible

01:26Me very much who misses shower heads that can do the job

01:32Washing machines

01:34Dishwashers, I mean everything all this minutiae in in your life

01:38That's micromanaged by executive branch pinheads and I say that with all due respect to pinheads

01:46Trump gets in there and this part of why the project 2025 is so important

01:50The personnel is policy and so if he starts on day one with the right personnel in charge

01:56You can have better policy

01:57But the other main thing that he can do and this is the far more important thing that he Trump can do as president. I

02:04hope

02:05And I'm going to continue to ask him to make passage of the reins act not just a top legislative priority

02:11but something that he will

02:14Attach to his agenda to such a degree that he's willing to say

02:18I

02:19Will not sign

02:21must pass legislative vehicle a B or C

02:24Unless you attach the reins act to it one good opportunity for that might well be the next debt ceiling increase package

02:31Which will come due shortly after he becomes president. We actually had a great chance

02:35I worked with the House Freedom Caucus and to work this in there in limit-save-grow

02:39Last year, we got it right to that point

02:43We had something Democrats wanted Wall Street wanted meaning to raise the debt ceiling

02:48We said okay if you're gonna do that you need to be some

02:52economically stimulative

02:53Measures and some fiscally restrained measures and the reins act got put in there

02:59We could have gotten that passed even with the Democratic controlled Senate and White House

03:04Had certain legislative leaders not decided to punt on second down

03:08But if under the leadership of President Trump if he were to say I'm gonna veto bill X unless it has the reins act in there

03:16We'll get it passed and remember this if he does that that's worth

03:23Everything else that is the reform in the administrative state because at that moment forward, it's not the administrative state

03:30It's legislators

03:32Elected to make law who are making the law and we've achieved a lot of the victory at that point

03:38Thank you very much. Senator Mike Lee

03:42Keep up the great work

03:45And

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