NYT Calls Biden Out for Excessive Executive Orders

The left-wing New York Times editorial board supported President Biden’s campaign and celebrated his victory, but mild criticism of his spate of executive actions drew a rebuke from Biden’s communications director Thursday morning.

Chummily headlined, “Ease up on the Executive Actions, Joe,” the editorial board admonished him against relying too heavily on executive orders. Biden has signed dozens since taking office last week, addressing issues from climate change to coronavirus to overseas abortions to cancelling the Keystone Pipeline.

“But this is no way to make law,” the board wrote. “A polarized, narrowly divided Congress may offer Mr. Biden little choice but to employ executive actions or see his entire agenda held hostage. These directives, however, are a flawed substitute for legislation. They are intended to provide guidance to the government and need to work within the discretion granted the executive by existing law or the Constitution … [T]hey are not meant to serve as an end run around the will of Congress. By design, such actions are more limited in what they can achieve than legislation, and presidents who overreach invite intervention by the courts.”