President-elect Donald J. Trump will issue sweeping executive orders starting Monday, including major steps to crack down on immigration and dismantle the federal government’s diversity plan, his team told reporters. It represents a drastic reversal of existing policies.
President Trump would also take unilateral action to end the electric vehicle mandate passed by the Biden administration, roll back protections for transgender students and halt refugee resettlement for at least four months, they said.
The executive action rolls back many of President Biden’s most important domestic policies, primarily on climate and immigration, while also kickstarting drilling and mining for natural resources and an effort to reimpose the Trump agenda that fundamentally upends America’s global economy. no see. It will serve as a haven for refugees and immigrants.
President Trump promised explosive action once he takes office this afternoon. “I will sign dozens of executive orders within hours of taking office,” Trump said at a dinner with donors Sunday night. In reality, it is close to 100. It’s unclear whether President Trump will sign all of the directives Monday afternoon, or whether more directives are expected to follow in the coming days.
Some of the orders he will sign will be challenged in court, while others will be largely symbolic. But taken together, they represent a sharp about-face in the post-Biden administration’s efforts to make good on his campaign promises and an initial step toward breaking what he and his aides see as a “deep state” effort to thwart the Biden administration. It will. imitation.
Top advisors briefed reporters on many of them. Here are some of the key elements:
immigration and borders
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Close borders to asylum-seeking migrants and end asylum and birthright citizenship. Because presidents cannot change the Constitution on their own, it is not yet clear how Trump plans to end the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States.
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Involve the U.S. military in border security. This would raise immediate legal challenges due to the strict restrictions under U.S. law on how troops can be deployed within the country.
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Declaring the migration of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border a national emergency would allow President Trump to unilaterally release federal funding for border wall construction without congressional approval in favor of stricter enforcement efforts.
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Designate drug cartels as ‘global terrorists’.
federal workforce
Gender and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
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Establishes a definition of biological sex for federal employees and as part of revised Title IX guidelines for schools.
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Eliminate protections for transgender people in federal prisons.
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Eliminates protections for transgender immigrants detained in the United States.
tariffs and trade
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Directs federal agencies to initiate investigations into trade practices, including trade deficits, unfair currency practices, and special exemptions that allow counterfeit goods and low-value goods to be brought into the United States tariff-free.
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Assess China’s compliance with the trade agreement that President Trump signed in 2020 and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that President Trump signed in 2020 to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Order the government to evaluate the feasibility of creating a “Foreign Revenue Service” to collect customs and duties.
energy and environment
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Declaring a national energy emergency could give you authority to speed up permitting for pipelines and power plants.
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Order the federal government to roll back regulations that hinder domestic energy production.
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Indicates the intention to relax restrictions on tailpipe pollution and fuel economy standards.
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Roll back energy efficiency regulations for dishwashers, shower heads and gas stoves.
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Pioneer the Alaskan wilderness for more oil and gas drilling.
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Eliminate government-wide environmental justice programs aimed at protecting poor communities from excessive pollution.
TikTok ban postponed
On Sunday morning, President Trump vowed to issue an executive order giving TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, more time to sell and satisfy laws banning it in the United States. White House officials who previewed Trump’s executive actions on Monday did not mention any executive action on the app.
Erica L. Green, Ana Swanson Hamed Aleaziz, Lisa Friedman and brad plummer contributed to the report.
