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Executive Orders
president biden
Jan. 20, 2021
What Did President Biden’s Day-One Executive Orders Achieve? The U.S. is now back in the Paris climate accords, border-wall construction has been halted, and there is a mask mandate on federal grounds.
By Charlotte Klein
What We Know About Trump’s New ‘Executive Orders’ The president’s power grab is more likely to deliver a constitutional crisis than economic relief during the pandemic.
By Chas Danner
coronavirus stimulus
Aug. 7, 2020
Stimulus Talks Have Become a Huge Mess As bipartisan stimulus talks break down, Trump moves toward highly controversial executive orders that will invite court challenges.
By Ed Kilgore
How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Kill Obamacare The new rules are designed to dramatically increase premiums in the Obamacare marketplaces — potentially inducing their collapse.
By Eric Levitz
President Trump Signed Order to Ban Transgender People From Joining Military Trump follows through on his tweets, but leaves the status of openly transgender active service members up to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
By Jen Kirby
Trump Executive Order Aims to Relax Ban on Political Activity by Churches The move is a symbolic victory for Christian conservatives, but it wouldn’t actually change the law.
By Margaret Hartmann
White House Reports Trump Has Used His Pen a Lot in First 100 Days In an effort to bedazzle Trump’s first 100 days, the White House offers bean-counting estimates of how many meaningless laws and orders he’s signed.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Mulls Rollback of Obama’s Crackdown on Corporate Tax Avoidance Trump’s new nationalist motto: “Buy American, Hire American, But Feel Free to Relocate Overseas for Tax Purposes.”
By Eric Levitz
Trump Makes Labor-Law Violators Eligible for Federal Contracts Again The Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule bars serial labor-law violators from receiving federal money. Trump just overturned it.
By Eric Levitz
Nazi-Affiliated Hungarian Group: Sebastian Gorka Swore a Loyalty Oath to Us Gorka’s consistently shady ties to anti-Semitic and racist Hungarian political organizations continue to dog him.
By Jesse Singal
White House Won’t Appeal Travel-Ban Case to Supreme Court But they may write a new, similar order, instead. (So much for “SEE YOU IN COURT.”)
By Eric Levitz
last night on late night
Feb. 1, 2017
By Tolly Wright
White House Considers Deporting Legal Immigrants for Being Poor A draft executive order would allow the government to deport visa holders who receive public benefits.
By Eric Levitz
executive orders
Jan. 31, 2017
State Department Staffers Rushed Visas Through Before It Was Too Late At a time when President Trump seems intent on irking as much of the world as possible, this is a somewhat heartening story.
By Jesse Singal
Trump Could Still Undermine the Obama LGBTQ Order He Just Reaffirmed Some good news for progressives — but beware a “religious liberty” order.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Signs ‘Nonsensical’ Rule to Curb Regulations The president’s latest executive order calls for the removal of two regulations for every new one adopted.
By Adam K. Raymond
scary things
Jan. 28, 2017
Judge Blocks Part of Trump’s Ban on Citizens From 7 Muslim Nations and Refugees The hastily planned executive order, which has upended the lives of countless U.S. visa holders, has failed its first legal hurdle.
By Chas Danner
Trump Signs More Vague Executive Orders, Wants Non-Secret Plan to Defeat ISIS The pen-happy, plan-lite president has signaled his desire to combat lobbying, be ready for cyberattacks, and have a strategy about ISIS.
By Chas Danner
Trump’s Executive Orders Were Brought to You by Breitbart Trump’s flurry of orders were penned by the Bannon wing of the White House, with little consultation from cabinet agencies or Congress. And it shows.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Prepares to Radically Reduce American Funding of the United Nations Trump’s executive order would cut U.S. funding of international organizations by 40 percent, devastating U.N. peacekeeping and refugee aid efforts.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Revives the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines by Executive Order But it’s not clear that the White House’s support will be enough to get those oil pipelines built as planned.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Resents Obama for Acting Like He’s Still the President The president-elect sees Obama’s final executive actions as unfair attempts to undermine his agenda.
By Eric Levitz
Obama Plans to Shame Corporate America Into Paying Women Equally Large companies will now have to report how much they pay employees by race, gender, and ethnicity.
By Eric Levitz
executive orders
July 21, 2014
By Maggie Lange
Obama Will Ban Gay Job Discrimination by Himself The White House is drafting an executive order, since Congress won’t pass ENDA.
By Joe Coscarelli
let’s get graphical
Jan. 15, 2013
Obama: Fewest Executive Orders in Over 100 Years Fewer than Reagan. Fewer than Bush. And the other Bush.
By Dan Amira
