42 Executive Orders in One Week

 42 Executive Orders in One Week

The number of executive orders issued by Joe Biden in the first week – who once decried the legislative move as undemocratic and used by “dictators” – is more than double the amount of the past seven presidents combined.

In just seven days, Biden issued 42 executive actions. That’s ten times as many as Donald Trump and over eight times as many as Barack Obama. It is a whopping 22 times greater than Bill Clinton, and 42 more than Presidents Reagan and Bush.

As the left liked to say of Donald Trump: "This is not normal."

Joe Biden even recognized this on the run up to the Presidential election, calling the unilateral use of executive actions the hallmark of a “dictator.” Speaking at an October 15th, 2020 town hall with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, then-candidate Biden insisted that presidents who rule by executive order are undemocratic:

"I have this strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even say: 'Well if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something, things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator.'"

“We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” the president who’s relied on executive orders to pass his agenda added.