Via Washington Examiner:

A top White House official said the administration is planning “audacious executive action” throughout President Obama’s last year in office.

During a breakfast discussion Wednesday in Washington, D.C., White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough took some questions on the president’s final State of the Union address the night before.

One reporter remarked that unlike with previous State of the Union speeches, Obama did not announce any executive actions this time around, and asked McDonough if the president now has a more “constrained view” of the utility executive power because executive action can be undone.

“I think the speech itself was an executive action,” McDonough quipped, before dismissing the question by saying, “we’ll do audacious executive action throughout the course of the year, I’m confident of that.”