Be Wary of Executive Orders
Adam Brandon is a strategic advisor to The Independent Center. He has a Center bias.
Getting Congress to accomplish anything seems like an almost impossible task. By nearly every measure, the 118th Congress from 2023 to 2024 was one of the least effective in history. The reasons for this dysfunction are many: political polarization, hyper-partisanship, razor-thin majorities – you name it.
For the President of the United States, one solution is a frequently manipulated tool: executive...