Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

President Trump signed a "national energy emergency" that gives his administration new powers to boost fossil fuel development around the country.

The misuse of power under Donald Trump is to be taken for granted. Monday ’s list of executive actions on behalf of the fossil-fuel industry was entirely expected—this time around, there is no hesitation about withdrawing from the Paris climate accord (a decision that took four months in his first term),

Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy development and will cut into the Endangered Species Act