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These orders are essentially as powerful as laws, and this is built into the Constitution. The power to create executive orders ends up being a form of de facto lawmaking.
Lastly, the President also appoints a lot of people. These appointees will be judges, or head departments, and the choice of appointee can go a long way to promoting the President's agenda on domestic affairs. As an example, let's talk about Betsy DeVos. Now, this is a person who was appointed to head the Department of Education, but whose views on the privatization of education differ rather starkly from the majority of the Department's staff and from its past leadership. The same can be said about the new head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, and his views on the environment. These appointees reflect the policy priorities of the current President. They are the leaders of these organizations, so they hold a tremendous amount of influence over the ways that these agencies are run. Those agencies, in turn, contribute a lot to domestic policy. The EPA is tasked with setting environmental policy -- and enforcing it. The Department of Education is intended to steward the education of Americans so that the country can continue to be an economic and scientific leader in this world. The effects of these appointees could be felt for generations to come, if they are able to fully implement their agendas -- the agendas of the President.
Then there is the informal power that the President has. The President's informal power derives from a couple of things. One is the rank of the office itself. The formal power that the President has, combined with the highly public nature of the role, means that the President controls a lot of the messaging in government. So when the President talks at length about this priority or that, then Congress is often under considerable pressure to bring about the outcomes that the President supports.
This public use of informal power is matched by behind-the-scenes use of the same influence. The President has an army of people working throughout government. They understand how the budget connects to policy, and how executive orders connect to policy. Thus, they have the power to basically create…
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