Throughout this century, presidents have often pushed aggressively to extend the boundaries of executive power. When it comes to the thorniest issues confronting his administration, the instinct from Biden and his White House is often to speak about what he cannot do, citing constraints imposed by the courts or insufficient support in a Congress controlled by his own party though barely. Biden, who served for 36 years in the Senate, is an institutionalist to his core and has tried to operate under the constraints of those institutions unlike his predecessor, Donald Trump, who repeatedly pushed the boundaries of executive power. Is Biden constrained by law or hiding behind institutions that has led to poor performance during his tenure as a president ?

