Newt Gingrich Makes "First Day" Promises
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WAUKEE, IOWA — Team Newt is using Monday's Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition gathering to bolster his social conservative and tea party cred by passing out a leaflet listing four executive orders that Gingrich thinks the next president should issue upon being sworn in.
Under a bold header of "On the First Day," Gingrich proposes to:
• "Eliminate the thirty-nine White House 'Czar' positions created during the current administration" (fact-checkers have taken issue with claims that put the number this high)
• "'Mexico City Policy' of Respect for Life" (to stop taxpayer dollars from used to fund abortions abroad)
• "Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Worker" (to let those in medicine to opt out of any procedure, including abortion, they found ethically or religously objectionable)
• "Respect Each Sovereign Nation's Choice of its Capital" (moving the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem)
Mindful of his own "testing the waters" legal status, Gingrich only writes that "whoever replaces President Barack Obama" should issue such orders.