alt Hacker NewsVoters wanted a better economy first, not pardons for drug traffickers and violent offenders.
This could have waited until after the midterms.
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It was one signature? Doesn't seem like a big time sink. Many of these early actions were prepared prior to inauguration.
It seems like the voters that were being referred to value restoring rights. How can something immediately achievable be balanced with "the economy", a thing so broad and deeply systemic?
He also signed this executive order
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/deli...
>This could have waited until after the midterms.
He promised to pardon the rioters during the election and it didn't hurt him. I think he decided it wouldn't hurt him (and Trump cares bout that first) and if he thought about the midterms ... maybe won't hurt then either.
Congress isn't directly involved in any of this anyway.
The leopards will be feasting the next 4 years.
Eh, lowering the price of eggs is not as easy so
> This could have waited until after the midterms.
On the contrary, he can just bury it in the first 48 hours. This will fade into the background soon enough but that group is kept happy.