President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 18 to enable the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to have oversight of independent federal agencies.
Examples of independent agencies include the Federal Reserve, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the National Transportation Safety Board, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Federal Trade Commission.
The executive order cites the Constitution, which states that the president is in charge of the executive branch and therefore those under him answer to him.
The measure said that the independent agencies “currently exercise substantial executive authority without sufficient accountability to the president, and through him, to the American people” and that “these regulatory agencies have been permitted to promulgate significant regulations without review by the president.”…