Prewriting Executive Orders as Strategy

A core tactic of the new administration is drafting executive orders, regulations, and implementation plans before taking office. Having a ready‑to‑sign policy stack lets a small team move rapidly to reshape agencies and budgets the moment power is obtained. — It shows that governance speed and scope now depend on pre‑election legal engineering as much as electoral wins, raising oversight and preparedness stakes for opponents and institutions.

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What we don't learn in "Original Sin"

2026.01.04 55% relevant

While not the article’s main claim, Yglesias’s emphasis on the lack of 'tick‑tock' makes visible the tactical advantage prewritten, centralized policy stacks give an administration; the piece connects to the broader theme that rapid, opaque administrative action (ready‑to‑sign orders, inner‑circle implementation) substitutes for open deliberation.

Who Is Russell Vought? How a Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-Chief

by Lisa Riordan Seville, Andy Kroll, Katie Campbell and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons 2025.10.17 100% relevant

The article reports Vought 'spent much of 2024 drafting the executive orders, regulations and other plans to use in a second Trump presidency.'