HOUSTON – President Trump has started his administration by doing some things he said he would do. He signed an executive order to help ease the process to get rid of the Affordable Care act. He also picked a fight with the media over its coverage of his inauguration and the Women’s demonstrations a day later. Trump supporters have liked his feistiness on that front but UH Professor Brandon Rottinghaus says it can be double edged sword.
“He has his core supporters and there are people he cares about who are going to vote or not go vote,” he said. “There is still a need for him to talk to the American people more broadly because he needs that persuasion to be successfully transitioned to legislative process but he also needs there to be some representation.”
Mark Jones, Ph.D. is a Political Science Professor at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and tells Khambrel Marshall the Trump transition seems to be going well but has not been as productive as the previous one.
"Certainly we haven’t seen the level of cooperation we saw in 2008/2009 when George W. Bush and President Obama really engaged in a cooperative productive transition where they really worked as a team to sort of steer the country through the crisis the country was facing at the time.”
Much more from these political experts on this week’s Houston Newsmakers. Including links to these sites, what the Obama administration called Exit Memos from Cabinet heads: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos
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A similar analyses by NPR of the Obama end of term:
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510491692/the-america-donald-trump-is-inheriting-by-the-numbers
Also
The upcoming dedication of the Crime Stoppers of Houston Dave Ward building to celebrate 36 years of solving and preventing crimes in the Greater Houston region. Rania Mankarious is the Executive Director and says what has made Crime Stoppers so impactful is the community realization of the impact crimes has on everyone.
”We’re all realizing that no matter what your story is in Houston, no matter where you wake up, or where you go to school, no matter where you work, crime is an issue,” she said. “It (crime) doesn’t care about race, it doesn’t care about gender it doesn’t care about orientation, it doesn’t care about affluence. We’re all a target and it affects us all! ”
Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall, every Sunday Morning at 10am right after Meet the Press on KPRC Channel 2.
More information
- Mark Jones, Ph.D, Political Science Fellow, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, 713-348-2107, www.bakerinstitute.org/experts/mark-p-jones/ Twitter:@MarkPJonesTX
- Brandon Rottinghaus, Ph.D., Political Science Professor, University of Houston, 713-743-3925, www.uh.edu/class/political-science/faculty-and-staff/professors/rottinghaus/ bjrottinghaus@uh.edu
- Rania Mankarious, Executive Director, Crime Stoppers of Houston, (713)-222-TIPS or 713-521-4600 www.crime-stoppers.org Twitter: @CrimeStopHou