Fake news outlet CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta flubbed yet another major story Tuesday evening, completely missing a portion of President Donald J. Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress that zoned in on the administrative state.
Acosta falsely claimed on Twitter that President Trump made zero mentions of the “administrative state” in his speech—which received nearly universal bipartisan praise.
In fact, the president did address the administrative state. President Trump said:
We have placed a hiring freeze on non-military and non-essential Federal workers. We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials –- and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government. We have undertaken a historic effort to massively reduce job‑crushing regulations, creating a deregulation task force inside of every government agency; imposing a new rule which mandates that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated; and stopping a regulation that threatens the future and livelihoods of our great coal miners.
Acosta falsely claimed on Twitter that President Trump made zero mentions of the “administrative state” in his speech—which received nearly universal bipartisan praise.
In fact, the president did address the administrative state. President Trump said:
We have placed a hiring freeze on non-military and non-essential Federal workers. We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials –- and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government. We have undertaken a historic effort to massively reduce job‑crushing regulations, creating a deregulation task force inside of every government agency; imposing a new rule which mandates that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated; and stopping a regulation that threatens the future and livelihoods of our great coal miners.