Here Are Trump’s Expected Executive Orders

Here Are Trump’s Expected Executive Orders


President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday 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.

Mr. 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 of many of President 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.

Mr. Trump has promised a burst of action once he takes office this afternoon. At a dinner with donors on Sunday night, Mr. Trump said that “within hours of taking office, I will sign dozens of executive orders — close to 100, in fact.” It is unclear if Mr. Trump will sign all of the directives on Monday afternoon, or if more are expected to follow in the coming days.

Some of the orders he will sign will be challenged in court and others will be largely symbolic. But taken together, they will amount to a sharp turn in direction after the Biden administration, an effort to begin to make good on his campaign promises and initial steps toward breaking what he and his aides see as a “deep state” effort to thwart his agenda.

Top advisers briefed reporters on many of them. Here are some of the major elements.

  • Close the border to asylum-seeking migrants and end asylum and birthright citizenship. The president cannot change the Constitution on his own, so it’s not yet clear how Trump plans to end the guarantee of citizenship for those born in the United States, which is in the 14th Amendment.

  • Involve the U.S. military in border security. This would draw immediate legal challenges because of the strict limits in American law for how the armed forces can be deployed inside the country.

  • Declare migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency, which would allow Mr. Trump to unilaterally unlock federal funding for border wall construction, without approval from Congress, for stricter enforcement efforts.

  • Designate drug cartels as “global terrorists.”

  • Establish biological sex definitions for federal workers and as part of revised Title IX guidance to schools

  • Remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons.

  • Remove protections for transgender migrants in U.S. custody.

  • Direct federal agencies to begin an investigation into trade practices, including trade deficits, unfair currency practices, counterfeit goods and a special exemption that allows low-value goods to come into the United States tariff free.

  • Assess China’s compliance with a trade deal Mr. Trump signed in 2020, as well as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump signed in 2020 to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

  • Order the government to assess the feasibility of creating an “External Revenue Service” to collect tariffs and duties.

  • Declare a national energy emergency, which could allow him to unlock powers to speed permitting for pipelines and power plants..

  • Order the federal government to roll back regulations that impede domestic energy production.

  • Signal an intention to loosen the limits on tailpipe pollution and fuel economy standards.

  • Roll back energy-efficiency regulations for dishwashers, shower heads and gas stoves.

  • Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.

  • Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.

Mr. Trump vowed early Sunday to issue an executive order to give ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, more time to make a sale and satisfy a law that would ban it in the United States. The incoming White House officials previewing Mr. Trump’s executive actions on Monday did not address any executive action on the app.

Erica L. Green, Ana Swanson Hamed Aleaziz, Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer contributed reporting.



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Trump to issue 10 executive orders on immigration upon taking office

Trump to issue 10 executive orders on immigration upon taking office


President-elect Donald Trump plans to issue 10 executive orders related to immigration on Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the border, an incoming White House official said.

The executive orders will follow Trump’s promises on the campaign trail to issue mass deportations immediately after taking office.

Declaring a national emergency will allow the Department of Defense to deploy the military and the national guard to the border. Officials declined to elaborate on how many troops would be sent or the parameters of their actions, saying that it would be up to the Department of Defense to make those determinations.

The Trump administration also said it would end birthright citizenship, the right of children born in the U.S. to claim citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

The official said Trump intends to end the practice referred to as “catch and release.” Trump vowed in his first term to end the practice, but migrants were still released after crossing the border because of limits in ICE detention space.

The Trump administration will also reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy, which allowed Trump in his first term to keep migrants of all nationalities from crossing into the United States from Mexico until they had an appointment for asylum. The official did not detail whether that country had agreed to any terms on it.

The official also said they would continue building the border wall and suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months. 

The administration also intends to target drug cartels and what it called migrant gangs, referring specifically to MS-13 and Tren de Aragua. They intend to designate them as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, according to the official, which would make it illegal to anyone to provide aid or collaborate with the groups.

This is a developing story, please check back for updates.



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200 Executive Orders On Trump’s Day 1 Agenda

200 Executive Orders On Trump’s Day 1 Agenda


Donald Trump has invited a number of tech titans to attend the inauguration, joining more traditional guests such as his cabinet nominees. Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend as will Shou Chew, the head of Chinese social media giant TikTok, according to US media.

Trump has courted closer ties with the tech moguls, and his campaign benefited from disinformation spread on social media platforms such as TikTok, Musk’s X and Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram.

Outgoing president Joe Biden will attend the ceremony — despite Trump’s refusal to appear at Biden’s swearing-in when he beat Trump in 2020. All living former presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — will also attend, as will their wives, except for Michelle Obama.

Heads of state are not traditionally invited, but Trump has sent invitations to a handful of foreign leaders, including some who share his right-wing politics.  Far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend, her office confirmed Saturday.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Argentine President Javier Milei and China’s Xi Jinping have also been invited, but not all will attend. Xi sent Vice President Han Zheng in his place, who met Sunday with J.D. Vance, the transition office said. 



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What are executive orders and how is Trump using them?

What are executive orders and how is Trump using them?


WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using the fastest tool he has — the executive order.

An incoming president signing a flurry of executive orders is standard practice. Executive orders allow a president to wield power without action from Congress. But there are also limits to what orders can achieve.

A primer on how the presidential power works and its often fleeting impact:

What are executive orders?

Basically, they are signed statements about how the president wants the federal government to be managed. They can be instructions to federal agencies or requests for reports.

Many orders can be unobjectionable, such as giving federal employees the day after Christmas off. They can also lay out major policies. For example, President Joe Biden signed an order to create a structure for establishing regulations on artificial intelligence. But executive orders — and their policy sausage-making siblings, the proclamation and political memorandum — also are used by presidents to pursue agendas they can’t get through Congress.

New presidents can — and often do — issue orders to cancel the orders of their predecessors.

As the American Bar Association notes, the orders do not require congressional approval and can’t be directly overturned by lawmakers. Still, Congress could block an order from being fulfilled by removing funding or creating other hurdles.

How common are executive orders?

Throughout U.S. history, there have been several thousand executive orders, according to data collected by the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. George Washington signed eight executive orders, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt did 3,721.

During his first term, Trump, a Republican, signed 220.

Biden, a Democrat, signed 160 as of Dec. 20.

Executive orders are often about political messaging

Trump forecasted signing as many as 100 executive orders on his first day, possibly covering deportations, the U.S.-Mexico border, domestic energy, Schedule F rules for federal workers, school gender policies and vaccine mandates, among other Day 1 promises made during his campaign. He’s also promised an executive order to give more time for the sale of TikTok.

Trump has asked Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., to write an order stopping the development of offshore windmills for generating electricity.

Many of Trump’s measures are likely to draw Democratic opposition.

And in several major cases, the orders will largely be statements of intent based off campaign promises made by Trump.

There are limits to the power of executive orders

Both Congress and the courts can potentially block executive orders.

For example, Congress in 1992 revoked an executive order by then-President George H.W. Bush that would establish a human fetal tissue bank for scientific research by passing a measure that the order “shall not have any legal effect.” Congress can also deny funding to agencies and hamstring the enforcement of an order.

There are also legal challenges based on the argument that a president exceeded his legal authorities. When President Harry Truman tried to seize steel mills during the Korean War, the U.S. Supreme Court said he lacked the authority to take private property without authorization from Congress.





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Trump expected to sign dozens of immigration-related executive actions : NPR

Trump expected to sign dozens of immigration-related executive actions : NPR


In this aerial view, the U.S.-Mexico border ends with a gap on Sunday near Sasabe, Ariz. Although immigrant crossings are down sharply, the incoming Trump administration has vowed to complete the wall and "seal" the border completely.

In this aerial view, the U.S.-Mexico border wall ends with a gap on Sunday near Sasabe, Ariz. Although immigrant crossings are down sharply, the incoming Trump administration has vowed to complete the wall and “seal” the border completely.

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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to kick off a slew of executive actions related to immigration after his inauguration ceremony, beginning as soon as Monday.

Since the early days of the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has vowed to begin his second term with both new and old efforts to curb legal migration and deport those who are in the U.S. without legal status.

Last night during a rally in Washington D.C., Trump said he plans to sign executive orders quickly and launch “the most aggressive, sweeping effort to restore our borders the world has ever seen.”

“Very soon, we will begin the largest deportation operation in American history,” he added.

Incoming White House 'border czar' Tom Homan speaks during Turning Point's annual AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 22, 2024.

Incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan also said large-scale raids to deport and detain those without legal status are set to begin as soon as Tuesday, focusing on people considered a security or safety threat.

“While we hope for the best, we take Trump at his word. We are prepared to fight back against any cruel or violent attacks on immigrant communities in the U.S. or those fleeing to this country in search of safety and refuge,” said Kerri Talbot, co-executive director of the Immigration Hub, an advocacy organization.

The U.S. had seen an increase in border crossings under the Biden administration, at times reaching all-time highs. But Customs and Border Protection’s recent numbers have shown a sharp decrease in unauthorized apprehensions in the past six months.

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights (formerly known as CAIR Coalition) attorney, Atenas Burrola Estrada speaks during an presentation on immigration enforcement at a school in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2025.

Trump campaigned on border security promises, and he and his allies argue that his electoral win is an endorsement of his upcoming efforts on the issue. Republicans criticized Biden’s immigration policies, and lawmakers voted to impeach Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Still, the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds that Americans are evenly split on whether to mass deport people who are in the U.S. without legal status — though divisions fall along party lines.

With Republican control of the White House, Senate and House, Trump’s immigration policies are also a key priority to push through Congress.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas poses for a portrait at NPR Headquarters in Washington, DC, on Jan. 7.

Here are some of his promises:

These efforts may take time

Although Trump has reiterated these promises for over a year, they may take weeks or months to implement. Several actions will likely be the subject of legal challenges or need Congress to mobilize new funding that Trump currently does not have.

“We get into the big question marks. He’s talked about using, expanding, detention facilities. That will almost certainly happen,” Andrew Selee, president of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, said in an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition.

“But whether he’ll be able to use military bases or not, or other federal facilities — and whether he will try and use the military itself, and that would require going back to the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, and that will almost certainly be litigated in the courts.”

Detainees do a virtual visit with their attorneys or asylum officers during a media tour at the Port Isabel Detention Center hosted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Harlingen Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on June 10, 2024 in Los Fresnos, Texas.

In fact, even quickly scaling operations might be difficult for the new administration. An NPR investigation last year found that U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the agency responsible for removals, struggled to scale up to Trump’s immediate demands during his first term, which included attempts to increase deportations.

Congress must also provide the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies with the funding to execute the policies.

In their final budget request, the Biden administration asked for $19 billion to fund additional personnel, facilities, repatriation capabilities, and other enforcement resources along the southwest border.

Lawmakers are expected to take up border security funding as a part of a bigger budget-related measure later this year.



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Donald Trump plans blitz of executive orders for first days in White House – Financial Times

Donald Trump plans blitz of executive orders for first days in White House – Financial Times


  1. Donald Trump plans blitz of executive orders for first days in White House  Financial Times
  2. Trump Promises Shock and Awe on His First Day in Office  Bloomberg
  3. Trump’s first orders likely to include border, drilling, DEI policies  The Washington Post
  4. How do Donald Trump’s executive orders compare to all other US presidents?  Al Jazeera English
  5. Trump is about to be sworn in. Here are all the changes he has promised to make on Day One  Business Insider



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