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The president executes (enforces, administers, carries out) the provisions of the federal law. In executing and enforcing the law, the executive branch also interprets it.

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Executive orders are directives, rules, or regulations that have the effect of law. The power to issue these orders, the ordinance power, it arises from two sources: the Constitution and the acts of congress. Executive privilege is the President's power to refuse to disclose information.

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The President names most of the top ranking of the Federal Government. Among these are ambassadors, Cabinet members, federal judges, and all officers in armed forces. The president then picks one of these appointments and is sent to the Senate. The first congress gave the president power to remove any officer he appointed except federal judges.

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The president has been given certain judicial powers. The Constitution gives the president the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the US.  A reprieve is the postponement of the executions of a sentence. A pardon is legal forgiveness of a crime. Clemency is mercy or leniency granted to an offender by a chief executive.

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The Constitution gives the president certain legislative powers. The President's legislative powers, which make him chief of party and chief citizen then in effect make him the nation's chief legislator.

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The president can veto the bill and then it is returned to the congress. Congress then can override that veto by a two thirds vote. A pocket veto is a type of a chief executive may use after a legislature has adjourned when the chief executive doesn't sign or reject a bill within the time to do so. Signing statements were used to point out constitutional or other problems the president saw in a newly informed law, or more often used to direct the manner in which a new law is to be enforced.