Biden builds on predecessors' efforts in grabbing power for the executive branch

Gene Healy is the author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, and he is a Cato Institute vice president and a former columnist for the Washington Examiner. His 2008 book renewed a long-running debate about the increased powers and growing public expectations of the presidency, a debate that has only increased since its publication in the waning months of former President George W. Bush’s administration. Bush’s successors, former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and now President Joe Biden, have, to varying degrees and in their own ways, only further concentrated executive power.