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The president's advisers are close to finishing a proposal that would allow him to enact new gun control measures without congressional approval, a top White House official has revealed.
The recommendations will be ready 'in short order,' Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said yesterday evening at a vigil to commemorate the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that resulted in 27 deaths, including the gunman.
According to the Associated Press, Jarrett indicated that advisers had determined how the president could unilaterally expand background checks using his executive authority.
The White House would not comment on the effort today.
The president's advisers are close to finishing a proposal that would allow him to enact new gun control measures without congressional approval, a top White House official has revealed
'At this point, I still don't have an update on the progress the administration is making on scrubbing the rules,' White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at his daily press briefing.
This was after he proverbially beat down Republicans in the legislative branch for attempting to attach ideological riders to a must-pass spending bill in order to 'sneak 'em through.'
Such 'ideologically motivated policies that wouldn't otherwise be able to pass Congress,' he noted.
One such measure that House Republicans wanted to tack on the bill was a National Rifle Association-backed proposal that pertained guns and felons' ability to purchase them.
Earnest indicated today that he was primarily referring to earmarks, which 'in some cases' benefit the 'biggest contributors to the Republican Party.'
But he's generically been jabbing Republicans throughout the process for trying to use the legislation as a vehicle for partisan proposals.
'We have been aggressively advocating to Republicans in Congress that they should focus on the budgetary priorities of the country and not try to advance ideological aspects of their agenda that have been stalled other places,' he said Tuesday afternoon.
Democrats have also tried to insert gun language into the massive spending bill.
Pushing what the administration has dubbed the 'no-fly, no buy' proposal, Democrats have sought to bar Americans on the FBI's terror watch list from purchasing guns.
The president's advisers are close to finishing a proposal that would allow him to enact new gun control measures without congressional approval, a top White House official has revealed.
The recommendations will be ready 'in short order,' Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said yesterday evening at a vigil to commemorate the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that resulted in 27 deaths, including the gunman.
According to the Associated Press, Jarrett indicated that advisers had determined how the president could unilaterally expand background checks using his executive authority.
The White House would not comment on the effort today.
The president's advisers are close to finishing a proposal that would allow him to enact new gun control measures without congressional approval, a top White House official has revealed
'At this point, I still don't have an update on the progress the administration is making on scrubbing the rules,' White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at his daily press briefing.
This was after he proverbially beat down Republicans in the legislative branch for attempting to attach ideological riders to a must-pass spending bill in order to 'sneak 'em through.'
Such 'ideologically motivated policies that wouldn't otherwise be able to pass Congress,' he noted.
One such measure that House Republicans wanted to tack on the bill was a National Rifle Association-backed proposal that pertained guns and felons' ability to purchase them.
Earnest indicated today that he was primarily referring to earmarks, which 'in some cases' benefit the 'biggest contributors to the Republican Party.'
But he's generically been jabbing Republicans throughout the process for trying to use the legislation as a vehicle for partisan proposals.
'We have been aggressively advocating to Republicans in Congress that they should focus on the budgetary priorities of the country and not try to advance ideological aspects of their agenda that have been stalled other places,' he said Tuesday afternoon.
Democrats have also tried to insert gun language into the massive spending bill.
Pushing what the administration has dubbed the 'no-fly, no buy' proposal, Democrats have sought to bar Americans on the FBI's terror watch list from purchasing guns.