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After failing to win congressional support last year for revised immigration laws, raising the minimum wage and gun background checks, administration officials used today’s talk shows to signal a backup strategy of executive action, even as a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed 63 percent of Americans lack confidence in Obama’s ability.
“The president sees this as the year of action, to bypass Congress where necessary to lift folks who want to come up into the middle class,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Obama made clear he plans to look for opportunities to sidestep Congress in pursuing his agenda.
“Where Congress is debating things and hasn’t been able to pull the trigger on stuff, my administration is going to move forward,” he said Jan. 23 at the White House.
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