Out With The Old, In With the New: A Flurry of Recent Executive Orders May Greatly Affect the Construction Industry
New presidential administrations inevitably bring change. But the scale of change brought about by the flurry of Executive Orders issued by the Trump administration in its first days is unprecedented in recent memory. While not law, Executive Orders have significant influence on how the federal government operates as they express the policy of the president. Many of the recently issued Executive Orders express a desire by the new administration to break from past practices in significant ways, many of which could affect government contracting and funding practices. How long these changes will last and the form they will ultimately take are uncertain, but the immediate reality is that they represent a rapidly developing environment for the construction industry, particularly for those performing federally funded construction contracts.
