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.

WASHINGTON—President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to give his political appointees far-reaching control over government agencies that Congress established to operate with some independence of the White House,