In the past, executive orders have been used to racially integrate the armed forces, to forbid people from hoarding gold and to take steel mills under federal control. "You are limited by what the law allows, but the good news for presidents is that the law allows quite a lot," Andrew Rudalevige, Thomas Brackett Reed professor of government at Bowdoin College, said in an interview, predicting that a Biden presidency will include "pretty aggressive use of executive actions." However, a president has significant discretionary powers through executive orders, memoranda and proclamations, while the complexities of American law allow wiggle room for creative interpretations. With Congress required to sign off on budget increases, Biden's multitrillion-dollar big-ticket policies - a carbon tax, expanded government health programs, universal child allowance, infrastructure investment and COVID-19 relief packages - will be difficult to achieve without bipartisan support. 5 runoff election, Biden faces the same legislative hurdles as Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama and is expected to continue the recent tradition of using executive actions to realize parts of his policy agenda. Unless the Democrats overturn two Senate seats in Georgia in a Jan. President-elect Joe Biden will become arguably the most powerful man in the world in January, but in America, the checks and balances the country's political system is famed for will severely restrict him.īitter partisanship has left Congress gridlocked for over a decade, prompting presidents to lean increasingly on their executive powers to attain their goals.
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