A executive order promised by President Donald Trump to increase competition in the health insurance market is no substitute for repealing Obamacare, according to conservative health policy experts. Thwarted by the Senate on health care legislation, the president is turning Read More
Frustrated Trump threatens executive action on health care
Stymied by Congress and, arguably, his failure to manage difficult-to-corral congressional leaders, President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to threaten executive action on health care: – Since Congress can't get its act together on HealthCare, I will Read More
Trump Executive Orders Fall Victim to Legislating from the Bench
Thursday night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration. This is a deliberate attempt to shift control over immigration from the executive and legislative branches to the judicial branch Read More
Trump Executive Orders Fall Victim to Legislating from the Bench
Thursday night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration. This is a deliberate attempt to shift control over immigration from the executive and legislative branches to the judicial branch Read More
Christie: #2A Rights are “God-given” but “I can’t override the legislature”
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog This exchange from the Governor’s Tuesday town hall in Whippany should interest some of you, Save Jerseyans. Asked by an attendee if he would try to help expand gun rights by executive order, Gov. Read More
Court stops Rumana and Russo from running on party line (for now)
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Have you been following this one, Save Jerseyans? I suspect not unless you’re a party insider or a Passaic/Bergen area politico. The gist: two veteran incumbent Republican legislators aren’t officially endorsed by Read More
NJEA: No Pension Deal with Christie
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Morning rumors of a pre-budget address pension deal between the Christie Administration and the NJEA are apparently NOT accurate, Save Jerseyans. So says the NJEA. “We are very pleased that Judge Jacobson Read More
At 3rd A.C. Summit, Christie Declares ‘Nothing Is Unfixable’
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Thursday’s third Atlantic City “summit” culminated with an executive order – #171 – appointing an Emergency Manager (Kevin Lavin of FTI Consulting’s Global Restructuring business unit) and Special Consultant (Kevyn Orr, formerly Emergency Manager Read More
Pascrell’s Amnesty History is Off-Base
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Can we get something straight, Save Jerseyans? Ronald Reagan did NOT do in 1987 what Barack Obama did on Thursday night. That’s just not true, and it will never be true no Read More