Hail to the Chief

Or, Heil. Either one.

This is why "Executive Orders" are so prevalent now. The Executive Branch has control -- via Executive Orders -- over just about all the U.S. Government departments and branches, some of which were created by executive order. That's not to mention all the "special committees" shown itemized in the big box at the bottom.

As a 1998 insightmag.com article discusses, sure, Congress holds the purse strings and can fund or defund any of these branches underneath the Executive. But an Executive Order can overrule Congress, and if Congress tries to overrule the Executive Order, the President can veto, which would require a two-thirds vote in Congress to override.

The authors of the U.S. Constitution did in fact envision a strong, singular Executive, but the income tax enacted to pay for World War I has subsequently blown up the federal government to the point where now the President directs a legion of millions of federal employees and contractors. This upsets the balance of power envisioned by the Constitution framers, where the Judicial and Legislative branches (now meager in comparison to the Executive) were supposed to have kept the Executive in check.

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Not to mention, the Legislative branch is heavily weighted with panderers to the Executive branch and elitists who could give a rat's ass about the citizenry except when it comes to garnering their votes. And the judicial branch is composed of appointees by the head of the Executive branch.