President Trump's flurry of executive actions and orders spark a critical question: Does he have the power he claims to have?

Trump on Monday signed an executive order to create Elon Musk's DOGE, with a mandate to improve federal IT systems.

Many of the actions were in the form of executive orders. These are directives issued by a president to subordinates in the executive branch ... ban travel to the United States by citizens ...

The legislative branch made the laws through a Congress of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The executive branch enforced the laws through a president, vice president ...

These could be understood as two different projects: One to reassert the president’s control over the executive branch (a power ... in a President of the United States of America.” ...