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Executive orders used to set policy, fix grammar While they have the force of law, many deal with mundane matters Gregory Korte USA TODAY
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254th executive order of his presidency Friday — allowing the Peace Corps to change its logo. In his seven years in office, he’s also used executive orders to change the name of the National Security Staff to the National Security Council staff, to allow the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to also consider the role of nutrition and to prohibit government employees from texting while driving. And, showing that executive orders can attend to even the
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President Obama signed the 254th executive order of his presidency on Friday.
smallest details, Obama signed an executive order in 2014 to correct a typographical error in a previous executive order — which governed the format of executive orders. Executive orders are often thought of as the most muscular form of presidential authority. And in some cases, they are. Executive orders can declare national emergencies, impose sanctions on other countries, set federal purchasing policies and dictate the working conditions for 3 million federal employees.
But more often than not, they deal with more mundane matters of bureaucracy. “Particularly since Bush, this notion that every executive order constitutes an imperial power grab by the president — it just doesn’t match up with the facts on the ground,” said William Howell, a University of Chicago professor and author of Politics Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action. “It’s not all power grabs. A lot of it is v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B
HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY ZIKA ‘SCARIER THAN WE THOUGHT’
Virus linked to more birth defects, much unknown Gregory Korte @gregorykorte USA TODAY
Public health officials said Monday that they’ve learned a lot more about Zika since the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion to combat the mosquito-borne virus and are increasingly concerned about its potential impact on the U.S. “Most of what we’ve learned is not reassuring,” said Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought.” She said the virus has been linked to a broader array of birth defects throughout a longer period of pregnancy, including premature birth and blindness in addition to the smaller brain size caused by microcephaly. The potential geographic range of the mosquitoes transmitting the virus also reaches farther northward, with the Aedes aegypti species present in all or part of 30 states. And it can be spread sexually, causing the CDC to update its guidance to couples. Researchers still don’t know how many babies of women infected with Zika will end up with birth defects, or what drugs and vaccines may be effective. “This is a very unusual virus that we can’t pretend to know everything about it that we need to know,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “I’m not an alarmist and most of you who know me know that I am not, but the more we learn about the neurological aspects, the more we look around and say this is very serious.” The assessment, delivered to reporters at the White House on Monday, comes the week after the White House informed Congress that it was moving more
HOW ZIKA VIRUS SPREADS Zika virus is spread by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and possibly the Aedes albopictus. Where the mosquitoes can be found in the U.S.: Aedes aegypti mosquito areas
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ZIKA VIRUS SYMPTOMS About 1 in 5 persons exposed to the Zika virus become ill. Symptoms are usually mild and can last a week. Most common symptoms:
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uSummer is approaching and mosquito eradication efforts and vaccine research may not be able to catch up. uThere are 346 cases of Zika confirmed in the continental U.S., all in people who had traveled to Zikaprone countries. Of those, 32 cases involved pregnant women, seven were sexually transmitted. uThe mosquitoes transmitting the virus, the Aedes aegypti, reaches 30 states in the United States. uIn Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa, the virus is now being transmitted locally.
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The CDC’s Anne Schuchat and Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discuss Zika risk. than $510 million previously earmarked for Ebola prevention toward Zika prevention efforts. “We can’t just stop and wait for the money. If we don’t get the money the president has asked for, we’re not going to take it to the point we need,” Fauci said. “When the president asked for $1.9 billion, we needed $1.9 bil-
lion.” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the warning “hopefully serves as motivation for members of Congress to pay attention to this important topic.” The CDC said Monday it would give $3.9 million in emergency Zika aid to Puerto Rico.
uThe virus has been linked to a broader array of birth defects, including premature birth and blindness in addition to the smaller brain size caused by microcephaly. MOSQUITO PHOTO BY AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Trump change of tune: ‘I like Marco, I like Kasich’ Says he might even tap them for Cabinet Mike James and Kirsten Powers USA TODAY
Donald Trump says his campaign is about to head in a more congenial direction — and he might even name some of his rivals to his Cabinet. “Yes. I like Marco Rubio. Yeah. I could,” Trump told USA TODAY about a possible spot in his administration. “There are people I
have in mind in terms of vice president. I just haven’t told anybody names. ... I do like Marco. I do like (John) Kasich. … I like (Scott) Walker actually in a lot of ways. ... There are people I like, but I don’t think they like me because I have hit them hard.” With his campaign for the presidency in full swing, Trump said that he is open to forging new alliances. In an interview in New York with USA TODAY columnist Kirsten Powers, Trump said his battles with Rubio and other GOP rivals were part of “the crazy business” of politics. Several, he says, have reached out to make
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Donald Trump says he might name rivals to his Cabinet.
political peace with him. “People you see excoriating me on TV ... are calling my office wanting to get on the team,” Trump said. “I actually asked a
couple of them, ‘How can you do this after what you said?’ And they said, ‘No problem.’ ” Rubio and Trump engaged in some of the snarkiest back-andforth this campaign season. But Trump says he is willing to let it slide. “He made a mistake,” Trump said of Rubio. “He became Don Rickles for about four days, and then I became worse than Don Rickles.” Also Monday, Trump told Fox News that CIA Director John Brennan’s pledge not to allow waterboarding torture is “ridiculous.” His comments echo his Feb. 15 USA TODAY editorial in
which he spelled out his mission to use “enhanced interrogation techniques” against terrorists. Brennan has said he would not allow enhanced interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, even if a future president ordered it. In his editorial, Trump said he would “do whatever it takes” to protect the American people in the face of terrorism. “The enemy is cutting off the heads of Christians and drowning them in cages, and yet we are too politically correct to respond in kind,” Trump wrote. “I will do whatever it takes to protect and defend this nation and its people.”