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Democratic and Independent members of the house have called on Biden to enact an executive order, to fix the price fixing that the grocery stores are complicit in perpetuating.
Maybe if Biden did what his party was asking for instead of resting on his laurels and coasting along, he would have more support. Instead of thinking he can predict public opinion, maybe actually listen to it.
The job doesn't end because you're tired of how hard it was, and is.
The President is not supposed to rule via executive orders.
It is the job of Congress to pass meaningful laws. The issue at hand is that Congress is broken and refuses to pass laws. One party blocks the other and nothing gets done without a majority or supermajority.
Corporations have captured all of congress via Citizen United and no meaningful laws will ever get passed to reign in price gouging or regulate the markets.
So stop blaming the President and vote for better state representatives and senators that represent your interests instead of corporations.
Article 2 of the constitution is all about Executive orders and when they're appropriate.
When congress and governmental bodies, such as this case the FTC, calls on the president to issue an executive order, that is the most appropriate use of an executive order, a function utilized by nearly all presidents dating back to Washington.
It's not ruling through executive orders, it's using executive orders when appropriate and this is a wholly appropriate situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order