The Obama executive orders would literally come in and say, the statute now says this. Well, Congress has to change the statute. He would just change statutes, like total words and definitions. President Trump has not done that. At least the executive orders that I've read. He directs certain things to happen under federal law. And then you can read many of them, they say, as appropriate under federal law, instead of we're just going to change the law. (07:16–07:21)
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Asserts that Trump has not changed statutes through executive orders.
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