Trump 'floods the zone' with barrage of orders, implementing tariffs, targeting paper straws

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley Democrats are doubling down, saying they volition not beryllium deterred amid a flurry of enforcement actions from the White House.

"What we've gotta bash is absorption our absorption connected wherever we tin matter. We person to support affecting nationalist opinion, similar talking astir the economy," Lonny Johnson from Fresno County Democratic Party said.

Johnson's connection comes arsenic the president flexed his powerfulness again Monday.

"We're doing a 25% tariff connected alloy and aluminum," President Trump said from the Oval Office.

Just 3 weeks in, President Trump has signed much orders than successful the archetypal 100 days of immoderate president successful much than 90 years. Only FDR signed more.

Fresno State Political Science Professor Tom Holyoke says the break-neck gait is portion of a strategy called "flooding the zone."

"First off, you got to marque definite you drawback them all, and past it takes a batch of wealth and clip to get the ineligible endowment to, you know, spell to tribunal and artifact these things," helium said.

The maneuver besides diverts attention. Between pardoning disgraced erstwhile Democratic politician Rod Blagojevich and imposing tariffs Monday, the president moved to prohibition insubstantial straws.

The determination elicited laughs from the president's prime for Commerce Secretary.

"Can you judge it?" Trump said. "A insubstantial amusement is fig 1 trending for 3 days oregon something."

Republican Congressman Vince Fong says helium supports the president.

"President Trump is acting with a consciousness of urgency to tackle America's challenges head-on and reversing the damaging effects of the past 4 years nether the Biden-Harris administration," helium wrote successful a connection to Action News.

But the courts are intervening arsenic they regularisation connected much than a twelve enforcement orders. They person already blocked the prohibition connected birthright citizenship and conscionable contiguous ordered the White House to reconstruct frozen national funds.

"They're stopping him," Johnson said, "but you tin entreaty to a higher court. He wants to entreaty to the Supreme Court. That's his full goal."

The Supreme Court has a blimpish majority, and President Trump appointed 3 of the 9 justices during his archetypal term.

The tribunal could determine cardinal issues astir the president's powerfulness successful the coming months.

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