Ted Cruz recently spoke seriously about what his first actions would be as president, most of them having to do with walking back President Obama’s executive actions.
During a phone interview with the Washington Post, the GOP presidential candidate declared that he would use his own executive power to undo Obama’s actions on immigration, the Iran nuclear weapons deal, and Obamacare during his first 100 days in office.
“If you live by the pen, you die by the pen,” Cruz said of Obama. “Everything put in place by executive order can be undone by executive order.”
Once in the White House, Cruz would direct his team “to engage in a careful, systematic review of each executive action and to rescind every one of them that exceeds the Constitutional and legal authority of the president.”
The Texas senator, who has been an outspoken critic of the president’s healthcare law, spoke passionately about scrapping the law and abolishing the IRS.
“I intend to do everything possible to make 2016 a referendum on repealing Obamacare and adopting a flat tax,” he explained.
The 2016 Republican contender also committed himself to stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which he claimed poses “the single greatest national security threat to the United States.”
Other issues worthy of the Cruz’s attention would be the Common Core education standards and Obama’s executive action on immigration reform.
Cruz, who officially announced his presidential campaign back in March, discussed his first days in office on a less serious note during a conversation with a local New Hampshire radio host last month.
“Let me start by saying if I’m elected, January 2017, I suppose the first thing I should do is send flowers and a note of condolences to all of the reporters and editors who’ve checked themselves into therapy,” Cruz joked.
