President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday challenging the independence of the nation’s major trade, communications and financial regulators, setting up a potential Supreme Court fight that could give him significantly more power over those agencies’ decisions,

The Trump administration has taken another step to centralize the executive branch with a new order that “reins in independent agencies.” | The White House's latest executive order would give the president greater control over federal agencies typically shielded by cross-term leadership appointments and dismissal protections.

The president has already challenged statutory protections against summarily firing officials overseeing such agencies without cause.