By The Opinion
Dec 13, 2024, 11:46 AM EST
The elected president Donald Trump will implement at least 25 executive orders on his first day in officewhich will be about immigration, energy and other issues.
“A big stir,” the president-elect told his team about what he wants to cause from January 20, 2025, when he takes office.
“The American people can count on the president Trump uses his executive power from day one to fulfill promises that he did to them during the campaign,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Reuters.
The agency’s report indicates that two sources confirmed Trump’s plan on executive orders, something that is not unusual from the first day of a president, but the Republican seeks to break a record.
President Joe Biden, for example, issued 17 executive orders on his first day in office in 2021, focused on undoing policies in Trump’s first term.
Some of the president-elect’s orders may also be to reverse President Biden’s policies that do not require congressional approval.
After the inauguration, Trump will implement more executive orders, in an effort that is coordinated by Stephen Miller, who will be a senior White House adviser.
During Trump’s first term, Miller was the creator of immigration policy that included the separation of children from their parents at the border under the “zero tolerance” program.
“It is expected that the orders […] focus primarily on reversing what Trump sees as Biden’s overly permissive border policies and on prevent new waves of migration along the southern border of the United States with Mexico,” the report says.
Immigration agents will have “more freedom to arrest people without criminal records” to process them for deportation.
An order is also expected to “send more troops to the US-Mexico border and restart construction of the border wall,” it states.
On NBC News, Trump announced a few days ago his plan to try to end birthright citizenship, particularly for children of undocumented immigrants.
Reuters indicated that other orders will be on energy production, as well as withdrawing federal funding from schools that teach “critical race theory” and also withdrawing protections for transgender people.
Other orders, it was indicated, will be on the structure of government and hiring, such as determining whether the State Department has hired personnel based on merit or considering race or gender.
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