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What Can the President Really Do?
The president of the United States is a powerful position – but the power is very specific.
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What Can the President Really Do? The president of the United States is a powerful position – but the power is very specific. By Gabrielle Levy
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Oct. 31, 2016
By Gabrielle Levy
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Oct. 31, 2016, at 8:48 a.m.
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Without cooperation from the Supreme Court or Congress, the president wields little power from the Oval Office. ( Ron Edmonds/AP)
Presidential candidates make lots of promises: to repeal unpopular laws, to overturn controversial Supreme Court rulings, to lower taxes, to eliminate debt. But what can a president actually accomplish? There are stark limits to executive power. In fact, there's not very much a president can do without cooperation from Congress or the Supreme Court.