Trump’s Team Keeps Tripping Over Itself In a Rush to Do It All

Donald Trump returned to the White House in January with a far more ambitious to-do list than he had the first time around. His desire to challenge or ignore constitutional limits on his power was spelled out in Project 2025, the far-right governing agenda he disavowed with a wink during the campaign and then immediately set in motion with a frenzy of activity that hasn’t let up.

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From Jan. 20 to Sept. 20, Trump signed 205 executive orders, an imperfect but useful yardstick of presidential productivity. Compare that with Ronald Reagan, another ambitious Republican president, whose count ...