Trump gets a D- for shoddy work on refugee executive order

Published January 30, 2017 3:37pm ET



If you asked President Trump how he’d grade his performance during the first week of his administration, he’d likely give himself an A or a A-. After all, he hit the ground running and has gone to work right away at cutting burdensome federal regulations, inviting the company administering the Keystone XL pipeline project to send in a new application, and ordering Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to present a plan and any additional authority he may need to defeat the Islamic State.

Trump deserves nothing short of a D-, however, on his hallmark issues: decreasing immigration and toughening the screening and vetting process for those trying to enter from high-risk countries. The only reason he doesn’t get an F is because there weren’t any stampedes in airports.

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