Rep. Ken Buck: ‘Attacking rural Colorado is not unifying’
Critical of Biden, Pelosi in call
The unity promised by President Joe Biden’s inaugural address was fleeting, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-windsor, said Thursday during a media call.
“Attacking rural Colorado and rural America is not unifying,” Buck said. “It’s not just the scope, its the pace.”
Biden’s first day in office was marked by nine executive orders and the next by eight more. From a 15-page climate order, to requiring masks be worn in federal buildings and on federal lands, a policy on transgender persons serving in the military, immigra- tion policies and a most recent order repealing the expansion of apprenticeships in America, plus many more orders, the President’s pen has been busy.
“Clearly, we have too much legislation now and in the past from the executive branch,” Buck said.
But what legislation could Congress pass to stop a president from such action?
“That legislation is called the Constitution,” Buck said. “Congress has abdicated responsibility it has been given.”
He finds National Guard troops settled in the Capitol for more than a month and a fence erected surrounding it as anything but unifying for the countr y.
“Troops are still here. The fence with razor wire on top is still here,” Buck said. “I think its because they want to create an image.”
He has previously said that image might help Democrats with fundraising.
As to whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-calif., or Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have commented as to the reason troops are still assigned and the fence remains in place: “They certainly haven’t to me,” Buck said.