As The Hill reported on Saturday, “President Trump paid a visit to one of his golf courses again Saturday, marking apparently his ninth visit to a golf course in the seven weeks since<br />he took office.” The site pointed out, “Trump has made several weekend trips to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., as well, calling the property the ‘Winter White House.’ ”<br />In February, numerous media outlets pointed out that Trump was spending on travel in a month nearly as much as what the Obamas spent in a year.<br />It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist,<br />described late last month as ‘the deconstruction of the administrative state.’”<br />Now, Trump and congressional Republicans have locked arms in an effort to ram through a disastrous Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan — attempting to cast doubt on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in the process —<br />that promises to be a boon to insurers and the rich and a bane to the poor and the elderly.<br />As Business Insider pointed out, as of March 6, “The 45th president has signed 34 executive actions so<br />far, with far-reaching effects on Americans’ lives.” These included “16 executive orders in 45 days.”<br />In addition, federal agencies and the Republican-controlled Congress have “delayed, suspended or reversed”<br />more than 90 regulations in the short time since President Trump took office, according to a tally by .<br />The Times’s report continued: “The emerging effort — dozens more rules could be eliminated in the<br />coming weeks — is one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades.<br />This doesn’t even include the travel and security costs of Trump’s children or the cost of Trump’s wife<br />and son remaining in Trump Tower in New York, at least for now, which is estimated to cost taxpayers hundreds of thousand of dollars a day.
