Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to make the government efficient in the first place, ending a patronage ...

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On his first day back in the Oval Office, Donald Trump issued 51 executive orders, 12 memorandums and four proclamations, according to the White House website.

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Each president has signed at least one, according to the American Presidency Project, with each president since Chester Arthur signing over 100. In his first presidency, Trump signed 220 executive ...

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Andrew Johnson signed 79 — Ulysses Grant, 217 — Rutherford B. Hayes, 92 — James Garfield, 6 — Chester Arthur, 96. After Arthur, here would never be a time when a president would issue ...

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