Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Michael McArthur, Vice President and group editor of the opinion sections of Gannett, the parent company of USA Today.

This is a bonus episode of the excerpt, highlighting the series from USA Today's opinion team that's known as Forum.

It features views from across the political spectrum on issues that Americans

are starkly divided on. Today, we're hearing from a few folks about their feelings on how President

Trump has used executive orders. Since entering office, Trump has signed more than 100 executive

orders and shows no signs of letting up. Is there a right amount? Let's listen to what a few people

in different places from across the country had to say. As soon as another president comes in,

they're going to write new executive orders. And so they're going to upend anything that has

already been done, which President Trump has been doing. He's upended a lot of things.

And now when a new president comes in, he's going to do he or she will do the same thing.

And it's just going to continue to happen over and over.

Kelly Kinnettkar is 58 and lives in Beaumont, Texas.

She wants to see Congress do more legislating.

There is a process in place for creating laws and those kinds of things.

And executive orders, I think, should be used sparingly.

Do I think that President Trump is using his executive orders for the right things?

Definitely not.

I'm particularly incensed about the executive orders getting rid of

DEI because I just think that that is something that a lot of people don't even understand.

They don't even really know what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean, and they're just,

they're using it as quotas, which has nothing to do with that. So that's been a real

frustration for me. Other executive orders related to the environment or related to tariffs,

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