President Donald Trump's first hundred days: Rapid action brings ongoing legal challenges

In his first 100 days back in office, President Donald Trump has launched a blitz of executive orders that are testing the limits of presidential authority and the ability of the judicial branch to check those powers.

Trump promised on his first day back in office to act with "purpose and speed." Since then he has slashed federal agencies, disrupted foreign alliances, ramped up deportations and rolled out a tariff agenda that has rattled global markets, all via executive actions that have bypassed congressional approval.

Since reentering the Oval Office on Jan. 20, Trump has signed 181 executive orders and memorandums, according to media reports and data compiled by The American Presidency Project at the University of California — Santa Barbara, a figure unmatched by any of his predecessors. But the staying power of those orders remains to be seen, as the majority are being challenged in the federal courts.

Read more here

By Laura Figueroa Hernandez

laura.figueroa@newsday.com@Laura_Figueroa

Laura Figueroa Hernandez is the White House correspondent and previously covered New York City politics and government. She joined Newsday in 2012 after covering state and local politics for The Miami Herald.