executive branch
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More than any other chair since Arthur Burns, who led the Fed under President Richard Nixon, Powell faced an extreme amount of pressure from the executive branch.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
The geopolitical bottleneck has a clearance condition: a stable, predictable export framework that both the executive branch and Congress are willing to enforce consistently.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Under US law, the president, vice-president and most other high-ranking members of the executive branch cannot directly or indirectly ask the IRS to terminate an investigation.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
The executive branch is its own little mess.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
And his conduct in providing clandestine instructions to Adams’s cabinet undermined the constitutional authority of the executive branch in ways that would have landed him in jail in modern times.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
