This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, November 14th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

When your presidential legacy lives by the pen and the phone,

it may also die by the pen and the phone.

The latter part of President Obama's administration It may also die by the pen and the phone.

The latter part of President Obama's administration has been marked by not including Congress

in various decisions from clean power to deportations to Obamacare. Andrew Grossman, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute,

says much of that can be undone in President-elect Trump's first 100 days.

President Obama and Congress did not play nice after the election of 2010 and so President

Obama famously talked about soldiering on with a pen and a phone.

So what does that mean now that Donald Trump has been elected president?

It means everything.

You know, live by the pen and the phone, die by the pen of the phone.

The executive actions undertaken by the Obama administration

in lieu of working with Congress to pass legislation

are potentially all vulnerable to being undone by a Trump administration in fairly short order.

We're not talking months or years, we're talking a first hundred days agenda.

All right, so to begin, obviously the Affordable Care Act looms large and that is something that

Donald Trump campaigned on repealing.

That's something that the House and Senate have been very keen on doing.

They've passed repeal bills dozens of times, if not more than 100 times, to essentially get rid of the law, but what could President Trump as a regulatory

manner do to either speed that up or at least stymie efforts to keep the law around? There's a lot that can be done and the model for it really is what the Obama administration has done to date.

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