The last thing our economy needs
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Not sure if this table will show properly but shows executive orders by recent president. First column is total over the president term, second column is avg. # per year. Since President Carter, President Trump is the highest.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-orders
Gerald Ford 169. 69 2.45 11798 - 11966
Jimmy Carter (D) 320 80 4.00 11967 - 12286
Ronald Reagan (R) 381. 48 8.00 12287 - 12667
I 213 53 4.00 12287 - 12499
II 168 42 4.00 12500 - 12667
George Bush (R) 166 42 4.00 12668 - 12833
William J. Clinton (D) 364 46 8.00 12834 - 13197
I 200 50 4.00 12834 - 13033
II 164 41 4.00 13034 - 13197
George W. Bush (R). 291. 36 8.00 13198 - 13488
I 173 43 4.00 13198 - 13370
II 118 30 4.00 13371 - 13488
Barack Obama (D) 276 35 8.00 13489 - 13764
I 147 37 4.00 13489 - 13635
II 129 32 4.00 13636 - 13764
Donald J. Trump (R). 220 55 4.00 13765 - 13984
Joseph R. Biden (D) 122 47 2.58 13985 - 14106 -
The problem with these types of analyses is that they don't look at what the EO supposedly did. Are they policy decisions? Are they memoranda? Are they proclamations?
Since President Carter, President Trump is the highest.
Yeah, but look earlier - Roosevelt (almost one per day), Hoover, Hilson, Harding have higher per-year numbers.
Trump trails Ike, Nixon and Ford.
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The problem with these types of analyses is that they don't look at what the EO supposedly did. Are they policy decisions? Are they memoranda? Are they proclamations?
Since President Carter, President Trump is the highest.
Yeah, but look earlier - Roosevelt (almost one per day), Hoover, Hilson, Harding have higher per-year numbers.
Trump trails Ike, Nixon and Ford.
@George-K @jolly. I guess it was to say that Presidents have been issuing executive orders for a long long time. To say that President Biden loves to overstep his executive authority, could probably be said for any president. I think that they all develop a "god complex" and think that they alone know what is best.
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All of which completely misses the point when you factor in that recently these executive orders have been attempts to overstep their authority and bypass the legislative process.
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All of which completely misses the point when you factor in that recently these executive orders have been attempts to overstep their authority and bypass the legislative process.
@Mik said in The last thing our economy needs:
All of which completely misses the point when you factor in that recently these executive orders have been attempts to overstep their authority and bypass the legislative process.
That was implicit in what I was trying to say.
Also, if we had a congress which doesn't need a spine transplant, perhaps this would be curtailed.
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Biden loves overstepping his executive authority. Trump and Obama did this as well, so it's not new, but they think being the President is the same thing as being the sole governing authority and king.
@89th said in The last thing our economy needs:
Biden loves overstepping his executive authority. Trump and Obama did this as well, so it's not new, but they think being the President is the same thing as being the sole governing authority and king.
I think we do it to ourselves by accepting things like “the Trump economy” or “Biden economy”.
We seem to have some natural desire to put a guy at the top.
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25 EOs specifically tied to COVID.
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I would say that "almost" every decision by a politician is done with an eye on the ballot box.
Some relatively recent executive orders
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay (Note: pay raises for certain govt employees)
Combatting Anti- Semetism
Establish a Task Force for Missing and Murdered American Indians
Commission on Law Enforcement
Protecting and Improving Medicare for our Nations Seniors
Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans
etc
