All posts tagged "Executive Orders"

President Donald Trump has signed more than 300 executive orders since coming into office — and a New York Times reporter thinks he knows why.

According to opinion writer Carlos Lozada, Trump "favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking." After all, "Why bother assembling legislative coalitions when you can just write, 'By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered' and then tack on whatever you like?" he asked.

Lozada has read through every single Trump orders so far, and found that they laid bare "the assumptions, obsessions and contradictions of the man signing them." ...

The dozens of executive actions Donald Trump issued during the first week of his second presidency certainly upset the Washington apple cart, but whether they can all survive legal challenges that would make them a fixture of American policy remains to be seen, according to analysis in Politico.

"[M]any of Trump’s early actions took Biden-era policies directly to the paper shredder with rapid fallout or led to the immediate dismissal of some federal workers, for instance," wrote reporters Irie Sentner and Megan Messerly. Although some of his actions "are within the power of the president," others "don’t do much other than signal the president’s agenda, and a few are unlikely to survive legal battles," they wrote.

According to the article, several executive actions have brought about immediate change: Trump's halting of federal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs; U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization; and the Inflation Reduction Act spending freeze. But others face legal challenges that may relegate them to merely "symbolic" actions on Trump's part....