* Executive Order 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issues over a fifteen-year period.

National Defense Resources Preparedness Hyped-up response to the NDRP held that President Obama issued an executive order giving the President "unprecedented powers in time of national emergency." ...

Obama issues 'executive orders by another name' By issuing his directives as "memoranda" rather than executive orders, Obama has downplayed the extent of his executive actions.

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that codifies how US telecommunications networks will be kept intact in a national emergency or natural disaster.

President Obama's signature on an executive order that updates presidential authority to take control over national defense resources in time of emergency has legal minds wondering whether the ...

President Trump will continue a 2015 state of national emergency President Obama used to freeze assets of the Russian hackers who disrupted the election.

By mid-February 2025, Trump had signed 279 executive orders (220 in first term, 59 in second), surpassing Obama's 276 over two terms.

The continuation of the U.S. national emergency keeps in place sanctions and actions announced by Barack Obama in 2014.

President Donald Trump signed a record number of executive orders during his first week back at the White House.

The continuation of the U.S. national emergency keeps in place sanctions and actions announced by Barack Obama in 2014.