Indeed, Obama issued 30 executive orders that amended or revoked existing ones, according to the National Archives. If Trump does reverse some of Obama’s executive orders, he wouldn’t be the first president to undo or modify a predecessor’s orders. The next most frequent category for all three presidents relates to government agencies and employees. Obama, Bush and Bill Clinton, for instance, all used executive orders most frequently to make changes related to government commissions, boards or committees. In terms of subject matter, Obama’s executive orders generally were comparable to those of his recent predecessors, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of National Archives data. (Presidents are required to count and publish executive orders but are not obligated to release memoranda or proclamations.) This analysis focuses on executive orders alone because of data limitations for other types of executive action. Obama, for example, recently used proclamations to create new national monuments in Nevada and Utah. Other types include presidential memoranda or proclamations, which also can result in significant policy changes. It’s important to note that executive orders are just one type of unilateral action presidents can take. Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge and Theodore Roosevelt also issued more than 1,000. Roosevelt, who issued 3,721, or 307 for every year of his tenure. Historically, the use of executive orders peaked under Franklin D. Overall, Obama ranks 16th among presidents in total number of executive orders issued and 21st in the average number issued per year. Bush issued and the lowest average since Grover Cleveland, who issued 32 per year during his eight nonconsecutive years in office, according to data from the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara. That’s slightly fewer than the 36 per year that George W. Obama issued 277 executive orders during his eight years in office, or 35 per year. The executive orders he did issue, however, face an uncertain future under President Donald Trump, who has characterized some of Obama’s orders as “illegal and overreaching.” (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)īarack Obama averaged fewer executive orders per year in office than any U.S. Obama signs an executive order in the Oval Office in March 2015.
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