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President Trump’s expected executive orders
President Donald Trump salutes at his inauguration as the 47th president. Photo / Kenny Holston, The New York Times
The incoming president’s team said he would take unilateral action on a variety of fronts during his first hours in office, including 10 executive orders cracking down on immigration and immigrants.
President Donald Trump will begin issuing a barrage of executive orders including major steps to crack
down on immigration and dismantle diversity initiatives in the federal Government, his team told reporters, kicking off his presidency with a muscular use of power intended to signal a sharp reversal from existing policies.
Trump will also act unilaterally to end electric vehicle mandates passed by the Biden administration, walk back protections for transgender students and suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months, they said.
The flurry of executive actions is an effort to roll back many of former President Joe Biden’s most significant domestic policies, primarily on climate and immigration, while also reimposing a Trump agenda that would launch drilling and mining on natural resources and fundamentally upend the United States’ global role as a sanctuary for refugees and immigrants.
Trump has promised a burst of action once he takes office. At a dinner with donors Sunday night, Trump said that “within hours of taking office, I will sign dozens of executive orders – close to 100, in fact”. It is unclear if Trump will sign all of the directives on Monday afternoon (Tuesday NZ time), or if more are expected to follow in the coming days.
