President Trump signed an executive order requiring all agencies, including independent ones like the FTC and FCC, to submit proposed regulations for White House review. The action significantly impacts how these agencies operate, as it removes their traditional autonomy. The order also empowers the Office of Management and Budget to alter agency funding and enables presidential and attorney general interpretations of the law. Critics view this move as a significant overreach, compromising the checks and balances that define the U.S. government structure and allowing Trump to exert greater control over these independent entities.
“This is a power move over independent agencies, a structure of administration that Congress has used for various functions going back to the 1880s,” said Peter M. Shane.
The executive order and Trump's firings of independent agency leaders constitute a major front in the president's assault on the basic shape of the American government.
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