Press reports frequently describe these efforts as designed to “tie Biden’s hands.” As a practical matter, such restraints rarely last. Many of the other foreign-policy measures the Trump administration is set to enact, particularly the sanctions on Iran, look less defensible. ground troops in Afghanistan to between 1,500 and 2,000 and focusing their mission on special operations against ISIS and other terrorist threats. As long as he has a plan to figure out how he's going to deal with ISIS." Indeed, Biden himself has called for reducing the number of U.S. His response was short and to the point: "Yes, I do. When the troop-cut proposal was first floated back in September, Biden was asked if he supported the idea. troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq is hard to fault as an abuse of unwritten transition norms-even if his refusal to concede and to coordinate with the Biden team clearly do. interests suffer when policies are initiated and then quickly reversed.īy that measure, Trump’s decision to reduce U.S. That’s not because they have an obligation to adopt their successor’s policies. During a transition, outgoing presidents ideally should consider whether their decisions will be sustained by the new administration.
Of course, the fact that Trump can exercise his powers as he sees fit is not to say he should. Indeed, it’s easy to generate examples of lame-duck presidents making major foreign policy moves, some of which conflicted with what the incoming president hoped to do. No outgoing administration is required to act as a caretaker for an incoming administration. The lame-duck presidency is a political concept and not a constitutional one. Trump is well within his rights to take any of these steps. troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq, imposing new sanctions on Iran, and further limiting economic ties with China. To judge by recent news reports, it is set to take a range of significant foreign-policy steps over the next two months. If so, that message has failed to reach the rest of his administration. President Donald Trump’s light daily schedule has sparked talk that he has lost interest in his job.
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