Most executive orders are not about policy disagreements
Lots of them are don't even originate with the President, but they are a way of the President following a law passed by Congress
Which is to say the an executive order is the executive branch executing a law.
An EO becomes the published rules for the law and gets published in the Federal Register.
There's plenty of examples of executive orders agreeing with previous policy and extending it. For example Trump extended sanctions against North Korea and Venezuela in his first year, these built on executive orders levying sanctions.
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692 of March 8, 2015,
Most executive orders are commonplace.
Most executive orders are not about policy disagreements
Lots of them are don't even originate with the President, but they are a way of the President following a law passed by Congress
Which is to say the an executive order is the executive branch executing a law.
An EO becomes the published rules for the law and gets published in the Federal Register.
There's plenty of examples of executive orders agreeing with previous policy and extending it. For example Trump extended sanctions against North Korea and Venezuela in his first year, these built on executive orders levying sanctions.
This Trump EO, built on a 2015 Obama EO https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/08/29/2017-18468/imposing-additional-sanctions-with-respect-to-the-situation-in-venezuela
This Trump EO builds on a 2008 Bush EO and references 3 under Obama https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/25/2017-20647/imposing-additional-sanctions-with-respect-to-north-korea