According to an AFP analysis, Trump’s presidential decrees cover a wide range of areas, from the fight against the “woke” agenda and artificial intelligence to the classification of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
US President Donald Trump signed 221 executive orders this year with his favorite black pen. This is more presidential decrees than he signed during his entire first term, TASR writes, according to an AFP report.
According to an AFP analysis, the regulations covered a wide range of areas from customs, artificial intelligence, the fight against the woke agenda to the architectural style of federal buildings. Trump returned to the White House on January 20 of this year.
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Presidential decrees are legally binding in the United States without approval by Congress. It was Trump’s Executive Order 221 on Monday to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Trump’s three predecessors – Joe Biden, Barack Obama and George Walker Bush – signed an average of 30 to 40 executive orders a year. The only president who signed the decrees at a similar pace was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During his four mandates between 1933 and 1945, he signed almost 4,000 decrees, but this was in the context of the Great Depression and World War II.
Statistics and focus of regulations
Trump’s pace of signing regulations slowed in early October, and he signed only a few dozen by December. Between January and the end of April, however, it was 30 or more per month.
The AFP analysis shows that the majority (almost 60 percent) relate to the domestic agenda and less than 10 percent to the foreign one. The rest cannot be clearly classified. Social issues, culture, civil rights, education and health care dominate in particular. They make up roughly 30 percent of all revenues, thus overtaking, for example, trade, economy or investments.
