Presidential Fiat or Congressional Neglect

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Nowhere in the Constitution are executive orders mentioned. Yet they have become the way our presidents govern.

President Biden is doing exactly what his predecessor, Donald Trump, did. And it is the same thing that Barak Obama, George Bush, and every president since Woodrow Wilson has done. The 20th and 21st century presidencies have decided to govern, to some degree, by executive order…