President Trump published an executive decree on Tuesday that seeks greater authority over regulatory organizations that Congress has created as independent of the Direct White House control, part of a wider offer to centralize the power of a President on the government.
The ordinance obliges independent agencies to submit their proposed regulations to the White House for examination, affirms the power to prevent these agencies from spending funds on projects or efforts that conflict with presidential priorities and declare that they must accept the interpretation of the President and the Ministry of Justice of the Act as binding.
“This is a movement of power on independent agencies, an administration structure that Congress used for various functions dating back to the 1880s,” said Peter Mr. Shane, who is a legal academic in residence New York University and author of a casebook on the law of separation of powers.
The order follows Mr. Trump’s dismissals of independent agencies in defiance of the statutes which prohibit their withdrawal without reason before their conditions are increasing. Collectively, the movements constitute a major front in the assault of the president against the fundamental form of the American government and its efforts to grasp part of the constitutional power of the congress.
The directive applies to various executive branch agencies that Congress has established and empowered to regulate aspects of the economy, by structuring them by civil servants whom the president would appoint to fixed conditions but whose actions he would not control directly daily.
These agencies include the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Labor Relations Board. However, the ordinance only applies to a particularly powerful agency, the federal reserve, covering the questions related to its supervision and its regulation of Wall Street, but exempting its decisions related to monetary policy, as increase and lower interest rates.
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