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A quick guide to every executive action Trump has taken

A quick guide to every executive action Trump has taken

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President Donald Trump signs the executive order halting immigrants from some Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.

President Donald Trump's first week in office was filled with a flurry of action, and he's $4.

The 45th president has signed 19 executive actions so far, with far-reaching effects on Americans' lives.

While many of them have been billed as executive orders in the popular vernacular, $4 were technically presidential memoranda or proclamations.

The three types of executive actions have $4, with executive orders holding the most prestige:

  • $4 are assigned numbers and published in the federal register, similar to laws passed by Congress, and typically direct members of the executive branch to follow a new policy or directive.
  • $4 do not have to be published or numbered (though they can be), and usually delegate tasks that Congress has already assigned the president to members of the executive branch.
  • Finally, while some $4 - like President Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation - have carried enormous weight, most are ceremonial observances of federal holidays or awareness months.

Scholars have typically used the number of executive orders per term to measure how much presidents have exercised their power. George Washington only signed eight his entire time in office, according to the $4, while FDR penned over 3,700.

In his two terms, President Barack Obama issued $4, a total number on par with his modern predecessors, but the lowest per year average in 120 years.

Here's a quick guide to the executive actions Trump has made so far, what they do, and how Americans have reacted to them:

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