President Trump’s Coronavirus Executive Orders Signal a Huge Change in American Government

Ken Briggs
4 min readAug 14, 2020

Last week, our system of government changed fundamentally. Last week, the President usurped the power to control taxes and spending without the input of Congress.

President Trump after signing Executive Orders on Transparency in Federal Guidance and Enforcement. Oct. 9, 2019

President Trump issued a series of four “emergency” executive orders to provide coronavirus relief to individuals and businesses. Two of them were…

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Ken Briggs

Engineer, tech co-founder, writer, and student of foreign policy. Talks about the intersection of technology, politics, business, foreign affairs, and history