This order gives the White House direct control over agencies that Congress decided should be independent and insulated from politics, like the Federal Election Commission and Government Accountability Office. This order forces all rulemaking and other regulatory actions from independent agencies to go through the White House and Attorney General, which is not the current process. It threatens to hold up funding to independent agencies that don't implement “the Presidents policies and priorities.” It allows the White House to set performance standards for independent agency heads, which could create pretexts to unlawfully fire them. One concerning example might be the Federal Election Commission: this EO attempts to unlawfully change the definition of "agency" to include the Federal Elections Commission without Congressional approval.