With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued nine executive orders, six of which reversed orders from the Trump ...

Sometimes the orders are made during wartime or to avert a domestic crisis. In February 1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt ...

Executive orders allow a president to wield power without action from Congress. But there are also limits to what orders can achieve.

Other notable examples include President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1942 order authorizing the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Truman's 1948 executive order desegregating the U.S ...

The history of the executive order shows how far the U.S. has strayed from its own Constitution, which dictates that the ...

According to records at the National Archives, President Franklin Roosevelt issued 3,728 executive orders, the most of any president, as he dealt with the Great Depression and World War II.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. On his first day in the White House, he ...

The Federal Register tracks all executive orders signed by presidents beginning in 1937. The data does not include former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first-term executive orders. An ...

Executive orders are a key tool for any US president wanting to make their mark on government policy - and it appears that Donald Trump will waste no time on his return to the White House.

George Washington signed eight executive orders, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt did 3,721. Trump forecasted signing as many as 100 executive orders on his first day, possibly covering ...