White House Vows
‘Audacious Executive Action’ by Obama in 2016
by Charlie Spiering 13 Jan 2016
President Obama is
not finished with executive actions, according to White House Chief of staff Denis McDonough.
“We’ll do audacious executive action throughout the
course of the rest of the year.
I’m confident of that,” he said during a Christian
Science Monitor breakfast with
reporters this morning in Washington D.C.
McDonough said he was “very mindful” that Obama was
running out of time in his last year of office and would do as much as he could
before leaving office.
The Chief of Staff adds he is reluctant to restrain
Obama’s “appetite” for action, especially after the president met with White
House staff to discuss his last year.
He recalled Obama urged staff to be infused with the
sense of possibility.
“I am going to be asking myself ‘Why not?’” Obama said,
according to McDonough’s recollection.
“That’s part of the way we approached last year … we feel
good about last year,” McDonough said.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough
is the chief of staff; former deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and was a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Human Rights Watch.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director
emeritus for Refugees International,
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a supporter
for the Center for American Progress,
and a benefactor for the Human Rights
Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights
Watch, and Refugees International.
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a director at Refugees
International, was a director at the Human
Rights Watch, and a reporter for the Christian
Science Monitor.
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