GOP grapples with potential executive overreach — by a Republican

Fifteen — that's how many executive orders it took President Trump to issue before congressional Republicans balked.

Lawmakers hate being cut out of the action, but as long as Trump was inking commands they agreed with, Republicans were OK with it. That changed Saturday when Trump issued a sweeping order that curtails travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Even many Republicans who supported more stringent vetting of Syrian refugees, tightening the visa waiver program, and taking a closer look at visitors from certain countries, were critical of Trump's actions.

Trump had already issued 14 executive orders before Saturday's, with little — if any — dissent from Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Republicans privately concede that although executive "overreach" was their chief complaint about Barack Obama, they were fine with Trump wielding the presidential pen as long they agreed with his policies.