President Trump has since taking office leaned heavily on executive actions, the impacts of which are likely to be felt for years to come and will be harder to reverse for future administrations than those implemented by past presidents.

Within the first 100 days alone, Trump has already nearly surpassed the total number of orders that former President Biden signed throughout his entire term. These in theory should be the easiest for a successor to overturn, as they would only need to sign a new order to reverse them, unlike laws that Congress passes.

But with thousands of government employees being laid off and funding for certain federal agencies and programs being zeroed out, experts say Trump’s early actions could be longer-lasting than those of most of his predecessors.

“Most of his executive actions can be reversed in the letter of them,” said Hans Noel, an associate professor in the department of government at Georgetown University. “But if you created an agency in an organization and you’ve been building it up ... and then that goes away, then the expertise and all the building needs to start over again.”

Trump already seems on track to have among the highest number of executive orders signed if he keeps up his pace, with 147 orders signed as of Monday, according to the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

That’s almost more than the 162 that Biden signed in four years in office and more than two-thirds of Trump’s total from his first term. Other presidents from earlier in the 20th century still have considerably more, with Franklin Roosevelt holding the record with more than 3,700 across 12 years in office.

But Trump is currently on track for the fastest yearly pace since then.

Many executive orders that presidents sign are often symbolic, like Trump’s order in........

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