Project on Government Oversight - In the first few days of his term, President Donald Trump set in motion a literally record-breaking maelstrom of executive actions, touching everything from immigration to ethics to the federal workforce.It’s a lot to parse through...
What is clear is that Trump is testing the limits of presidential authority. His abuse of emergency powers to force his anti-immigration agenda and his effort to politicize the historically nonpartisan civil service is an unprecedented power grab in a system that has, over the past decades, readily lended itself to executive branch overreach.
We need to address the vulnerabilities in our system of checks and balances to prevent these and further abuses. That is the core focus of our issue roadmap for the 119th Congress, which we released this week. Congress must firmly reclaim its role as a check on the executive branch: Equilibrium is essential to protect our democracy.
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