Trump is acting like a king, sidestepping Congress and ignoring checks and balances, and the Republican-controlled Congress is allowing itself to become irrelevant.
In 2025:
- Trump signed 225 Executive Orders in his first year in office, 3X more than any other president in the last 40 years
- Congress passed just 61 laws. Over the last 2 years, with MAGA House Speaker Mike Johnson at the helm, Congress has been barely active
- The 119th Congress was responsible for the longest government shutdown in US history
Note about source: For the last few years, Steve Rattner has been compiling an annual top 10 of “the year in charts” to provide a visual representation of key economic and political trends. Read the full article using this guest link. Sources: NY Times, Steve Rattner, Federal Register