Reject executive overreach, protect checks and balances

This executive order consolidates immense power in the presidency, undermining the system of checks and balances that is crucial to American democracy. Allowing the president to unilaterally control all executive agencies, set their priorities, review all their regulations, and dictate their interpretations of the law concentrates authority in an alarming way. Independent agencies were designed to operate outside of partisan politics and insulate important functions like regulating financial markets, telecommunications, and consumer protection from the whims of any single administration. Subjecting them to direct White House oversight and control politicizes their missions and erodes their ability to act as impartial referees. This represents a troubling erosion of democratic norms and a threat to the separation of powers. I urge you to reject this power grab and uphold the constitutional system of checks and balances that has safeguarded American liberty for over two centuries.