If you listen to liberals, you’d think Donald Trump was Ebenezer Scrooge, trying to figure out ways to make the lives of Americans even worse. But Hank Berrien over at the DailyWire has some interesting news to combat that wildly inaccurate stereotype:
President Trump issued an executive order regarding Christmas that gives federal employees something they haven’t been given since 1935: the day before Christmas as a paid day off when Christmas falls on a Wednesday.
Here’s the official announcement of the new policy, which is sure to spread Christmas cheer, far and wide, for all to hear:
All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Tuesday, December 24, 2019, the day before Christmas Day. The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on Dec. 24, 2019, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need.”
The last time president to do this was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Berrien also notes that Trump has taken up “Christmas” as a political battle:
Trump has taken great pride in defending the value of Christmas; as a presidential candidate in December 2015, he told Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, “You know, you go from one thing to the next to the point where it’s not politically correct to say ‘Merry Christmas’ to anybody, or you go to stores and you don’t ever see the word ‘Christmas’ anymore.”
At the Values Voter Summit in September 2015, Trump said, “The word Christmas. I love Christmas. I love Christmas. You go to stores, you don’t see the word Christmas. It says ‘Happy Holidays’ all over. I say, ‘Where’s Christmas?’ I tell my wife, ‘Don’t go to those stores. I want to see Christmas. I want to see Christmas. Other people can have their holidays but Christmas is Christmas. I want to see ‘Merry Christmas.’”
Looks like he’s winning. Thousands of people will have a better season thanks to him.
Merry Christmas to all!
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