New Deal
noun
: the legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
also
: the period of this program
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Additionally, Trump’s executive order to stop the spend-down of the Inflation Reduction Action, a significant element of the Green New Deal (or, as Trump styles it, the Green New Scam), will halt federal investment in green technology deployment.
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Michaela Rychetska and Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 13 Feb. 2025
Enacted in 1946 on the heels of the New Deal's expansion of governmental administration, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) became both the foundation and a guardrail for all regulatory actions coming from the executive branch.
—Christina Gatti, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
But Democrats — then known as the political party of free trade — had an enormous majority around the New Deal era and passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, granting the president the right to negotiate tariffs in certain cases, Cohen said.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
The executive order also terminates portions of Green New Deal, which were part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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Michaela Rychetska and Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 13 Feb. 2025
Enacted in 1946 on the heels of the New Deal's expansion of governmental administration, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) became both the foundation and a guardrail for all regulatory actions coming from the executive branch.
—Christina Gatti, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
But Democrats — then known as the political party of free trade — had an enormous majority around the New Deal era and passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, granting the president the right to negotiate tariffs in certain cases, Cohen said.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
The executive order also terminates portions of Green New Deal, which were part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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“New Deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/New%20Deal. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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