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Ms. Wiles also addressed one open question about Mr. Trump, who will be term-limited:Will he continue to hold rallies, despite not running for office anymore? The answer seemed to be yes.
Ms. Wiles, according to the people in the room, said Mr. Trump’s final rally of this campaign, in Grand Rapids, Mich.,“wasn’t the last Donald Trump rally, but it was the last Donald Trump campaign rally.”
The use of executive orders by presidents has increased in recent years as the country’s polarization has led to a Congress frozen with division and inaction. Faced with little opportunity to change laws, presidents have sought to push the limits of the power of their office.
Blocked by Republicans in 2013, then-President Barack Obama tried to reshape immigration policy by issuing executive orders to protect so-called Dreamers, who were brought to the United States illegally when they were young children. When Democrats in Congress frustrated Mr. Trump’s agenda, he turned frequently to executive orders, as did Mr. Biden.
Exercising the power of the Oval Office can have immediate results for a president looking to quickly show voters he is taking action. Andthey can be effective in accelerating a government bureaucracythat otherwise moves slowly to carry out the nation’s laws.
But governing by executive power has its limits. By their nature, they are not permanent and can be undone by a successor almost as easily as they were put in place. Mr. Trump unraveled many of Mr. Obama’s executive actions, and Mr. Biden did the same to Mr. Trump’s.
Presidential proclamations and orders are also more easily subject to attack in the legal system.Many of Mr. Trump’s orders were quickly challenged in court, held up for months or even years by judges who deemed them unlawful efforts to get around the will of Congress.
Maggie Habermancontributed reporting from New York, and Michael D. Shear from Washington.
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