Two executive orders were intended to further President Trump’s ideas of regulatory reform. In his last week in office, President Trump signed fewer than two dozen published “executive actions,” but they hit nearly all of the high-or, depending on your perspective, low-notes of President Trump’s agenda, including tough stances on China, law enforcement, and immigration, as well as opposition to abortion and support for school choice. The most apparent public impact of most executive “actions” is thus to underscore, implicitly or explicitly, what Presidents take to be their Administrations’ core values or policy priorities. Instead, presidential actions typically set in motion some further government activity that may eventually produce the public impacts a President desires. In the great majority of cases, executive orders, proclamations, and presidential memoranda have no direct, immediate consequences for the legal rights or responsibilities for anyone outside the government. The immediate public impacts of executive action are mostly symbolic. Looking at President Biden’s first week against the backdrop of President Trump’s last actually points to some important lessons about the powers and frustrations of the contemporary presidency. Such lessons emerge yet more pointedly when President Biden’s opening flurry of actions is viewed in tandem with the closing burst from President Donald J. These executive initiatives also provide important clues as to both the reach and limitations of presidential power.
The body of presidential initiatives emerging so quickly from the Biden White House is instructive, however, about more than just the ambitions of one particular President. But Democrats have pointed to widespread public support for President Biden’s commitments-support apparently unifying voters well beyond the Democratic base. Congressional Republicans lost no time in alleging an inconsistency between President Biden’s exhortations to unity and his running start with executive action in so many areas. Pages and pages of public “executive actions”-taking the various forms of executive orders, proclamations, or presidential memoranda-have signaled profound changes in policy from his predecessor.
Biden has launched his Administration with a pace of formal executive initiative not seen since the New Deal.
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