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Benjamin Wofford, Washingtonian: While You Were Paying Attention to Ukraine, Here’s What Trump’s Appointees Achieved
We ranked the most overlooked deeds of the Trump government in 2019—and didn't even have to mention Ukraine.
In 2019, the Trump administration issued 44 executive orders, signed 94 bills into law and finalized more than three thousand new rules. One hundred judges were confirmed to the federal bench, the most of any year in Trump’s term. Simply put, it was a busy year in Washington.
But there were dozens of stories that flew under the radar—policy changes and personnel sagas, norms eroded and scores settled—that captured the essence of what happened in the marrow of Trump’s government. Often, these stories ran in parallel to the glitzier headlines that consumed Washington (SharpieGate, anyone?). But even as the Ukraine scandal unfolded and impeachment became a certainty, the Trump administration was leaving its mark on policy and government agencies in ways that often went unnoticed, and yet are likely to affect Washingtonians and the country for generations.
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WNU editor: The above columnist is no fan of President Trump, and is deeply unsettled that the Trump administration has been able to achieve its policy goals for 2019. But what he fails to point out is that many of the bills that President Trump signed into law this year were first approved by a Democrat Congress. As to his observation that President Trump has been successful in distracting everyone while he pursued his agenda, on that point I agree with him 100%. So this statistic should surprise no one .... Donald Trump doubled his tweets in 2019 (NYPost).
