.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump brags to faith community about made-up accomplishment.
In the early 1950s, when lawmakers were adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and changing all American money to include the phrase “In God We Trust,” Congress also created an official annual Prayer Day for the nation. As regular readers may recall, Congress, under pressure from the religious right, changed the law in 1988 to set the National Day of Prayer as the first Thursday in May.
“I said I was going to do that….That was one of the things I said. They took away your voice politically and these are the people I want to listen to politically but you weren’t allowed to speak. They would lose their tax-exempt status. Well, it would be a big thing, except Trump didn’t get rid of the Johnson Amendment. He keeps telling people that he did, but this accomplishment only exists in his mind.
In response to demands from some of his far-right supporters, Trump tried to get Congress to eliminate the Johnson Amendment. That effort failed. The president later issued an executive order, encouraging the Treasury Department to be lenient in enforcing this part of the law, but Trump can’t “get rid of” tax law provisions he doesn’t like without congressional approval. His executive order had little practical meaning.
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