As The Hill reported on Saturday, “President Trump paid a visit to one of his golf courses again Saturday, marking apparently his ninth visit to a golf course in the seven weeks since
he took office.” The site pointed out, “Trump has made several weekend trips to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., as well, calling the property the ‘Winter White House.’ ”
In February, numerous media outlets pointed out that Trump was spending on travel in a month nearly as much as what the Obamas spent in a year.
It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist,
described late last month as ‘the deconstruction of the administrative state.’”
Now, Trump and congressional Republicans have locked arms in an effort to ram through a disastrous Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan — attempting to cast doubt on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in the process —
that promises to be a boon to insurers and the rich and a bane to the poor and the elderly.
As Business Insider pointed out, as of March 6, “The 45th president has signed 34 executive actions so
far, with far-reaching effects on Americans’ lives.” These included “16 executive orders in 45 days.”
In addition, federal agencies and the Republican-controlled Congress have “delayed, suspended or reversed”
more than 90 regulations in the short time since President Trump took office, according to a tally by .
The Times’s report continued: “The emerging effort — dozens more rules could be eliminated in the
coming weeks — is one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades.
This doesn’t even include the travel and security costs of Trump’s children or the cost of Trump’s wife
and son remaining in Trump Tower in New York, at least for now, which is estimated to cost taxpayers hundreds of thousand of dollars a day.