Weather forecast: A blizzard of executive orders

Trump reportedly plans to press the limits, leaving it to the courts to decide how far he can go

Trump at the signing of Executive Order 13780 in 2017. It temporarily banned the entry of foreign nationals from six Muslim-majority countries.(Sean Spicer photo)

President-elect Donald Trump plans to begin his second term in the White House with a blizzard of executive orders.

That’s the takeaway from a Wall Street Journal report last week on a meeting Trump had with Senate Republicans:

With the experience of governing and a better knowledge of the levers of power, Trump has drafted expansive plans for tariffs and border restrictions, the centerpieces of his 2024 campaign. He has already prepared roughly 100 executive orders, Trump told lawmakers in the meeting, and said he would press the limits of his presidential authority at times to go it alone on those issues, according to people who attended.

With his party controlling both houses of Congress, Trump will have a lot of leeway to set his own policies, and he is likely to use it in multiple ways, including intervening to pause the…