Trump's First 100 Days: An Increase In Executive Power

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I cover the White House.

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  This week on the pod, we're doing something a little different.

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  taking a look at some of the policies and decisions President Trump has made in the first 100 days of his second term.

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  Today,

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  how the president has used executive power to push through his agenda and reshape the government.

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  Throughout his times in office, Trump has cast himself as being on one side of a battle,

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  a fight to wrest control from unelected bureaucrats and put it in his hands.

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  My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy and we will restore true democracy to America again.

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  The idea of a more powerful president acting unilaterally has been a cornerstone of what's called the unitary executive theory.

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  In short,

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  it argues that any power undertaken by the executive branch is controlled by the president and the president alone.

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