Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) today criticized President Obama’s recent string of executive orders aimed at providing economic relief to certain sectors of the public.
In a statement, the Republican presidential candidate accused Obama of ignoring the Constitution by issuing orders intended to lower loan payments for students and mortgage payments for homeowners, and help put returning veterans back to work.
“The current administration has unabashedly stated that Congress’s unwillingness to pass the president’s jobs bill means that the president will act unilaterally to enact provisions of it piecemeal through Executive Order,” Paul said. “Obama explicitly threatens to bypass Congress, thus aggregating the power to make and enforce laws in the executive. This clearly erodes the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances. It brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship.”
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