‘Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch.
Trump’s latest order comes after he signed more than 200 executive orders within hours of reclaiming the presidency, including renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, repealing a ban on drilling for oil in the Arctic and declaring a national emergency at the border with Mexico.
The executive order from Trump announced that independent government agencies – including the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The order states: ‘For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President.’.
Fears of a ‘constitutional crisis’ in the United States are rising after President Donald Trump’s latest executive order.
