President Donald Trump’s official 2017 presidential portrait.
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Donald Trump plans to sign more than 50 executive orders on Monday, the first day of his second term as president, and may even sign more than 100, according to a person in his transition department.
Trump is scheduled to be sworn in Inside the Capitol At noon, he planned to sign several orders in front of a crowd at a later afternoon event at Capital One Arena in Washington. Inauguration-related events were moved indoors due to inclement weather in the capital.
Trump’s first wave of executive orders, some of which could come later this week, are expected to include campaign promises, reversal of outgoing President Joe Biden’s policies and restructuring of the federal workforce.
For many in Trump’s Make America Great Again political base, the most anticipated action is an order declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a broader effort to combat illegal immigration and other cross-border crime. part.
“You’re going to see a lot of executive orders that you’re going to be very happy about… We’ve got to get our country on the right path,” Trump said Sunday at a rally at Capital One Stadium. “By the time the sun sets tomorrow night , incursions on our borders will cease and all illegal border crossers will make their way home in some form.”
During his first term, Trump declared a national emergency in an attempt to divert Department of Defense funds to build a border wall after Congress refused to give him the funding he needed for the project. A federal court blocked his plan, and Biden withdrew it before the Supreme Court ruled.
Trump laid out the broad outlines of his plan at a breakfast with several Republican senators on Sunday, where he is also expected to cut funding for climate-related provisions of Biden’s inflation-reduction bill – a move could test the president’s power to act unilaterally.
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires executive branch expenditures to be appropriated, but Trump’s nominee to head the White House Office of Management and Budget said during his confirmation hearing last week that he did not believe the law was constitutional.
Trump has long promised Reinstate “Schedule F” Policy He announced it in 2020, towards the end of his first term.
Stephen Miller, the incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy, held a telephone briefing with Republican lawmakers on Sunday about the upcoming order.
In a phone interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Saturday, Trump said he would sign “record Number of documents after the inaugural address.”
