Trump’s Planned Executive Orders on His First Day in Office After Swearing-In

Two sources familiar with the planning said more than 100 such orders and directives could be released starting on Day One in what is known internally as a “shock and awe” effort.

Transition advisers have been preparing drafts for Trump to choose from. Decisions have yet to be made on which will be released on Monday and which in the days that follow.

Here is what we know about the executive orders so far:

IMMIGRATION

Many of the actions that Trump plans on his first day as president are aimed at ramping up immigration enforcement and following through on his pledge to deport record numbers of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Trump is expected to declare illegal immigration a national emergency to unlock military funds for border wall construction. He also signaled in a Truth Social post in November that he would shift military resources to assist with his deportation plans.

“We’re going to make it so if you’re illegal, you’re not coming in through a port of entry or even if you’re trying to come into a port of entry illegally, you’re not going to be allowed in,” Trump adviser Jason Miller told National Public Radio.

The U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 in the post-Civil War period, provides for granting citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”

Any move by Trump to end birthright citizenship would face a legal challenge.

“We have to end it. It’s ridiculous,” Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in December.

ENERGY

The transition team also recommends imposing tariffs on all battery materials globally, a bid to boost U.S. production, and then negotiating individual exemptions with allies, the document shows.

TARIFFS

Trump believes tariffs would help boost economic growth in the United States, although opponents warn that the costs would likely be passed along to consumers.

PARDONS

GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE

Trump said in a campaign video in 2023 that on his first day in office he would revoke the Biden administration’s policies that provide information and resources to those seeking medical care so they can align their bodies with the gender they identify with.

That care can include hormone therapy and surgery.

“On Day One, I will revoke Joe Biden’s cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care,” Trump said.

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS

Trump has vowed to sign an executive order ending transgender rights in the U.S. military and inside U.S. schools.

As for transgender athletes, he told a rally on Sunday that he would act on his first day to stop the participation of trans athletes in women’s sports.

DIVERSITY PROGRAMS

During his first term, Trump signed an executive order to curtail efforts to address racial disparities in the workplace, through programs including diversity training inside companies.

Biden reversed that executive order on his first day in office in January 2021, and Trump is likely to reinstate his original order early in his second term, and perhaps on his first day in office.

Trump has also criticized “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies inside universities.

DRUG CARTELS

Trump plans to classify drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations in an early executive order, Punchbowl News reported on Sunday, fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail to crack down on the sources of the lethal opioid fentanyl.

REQUIRING FEDERAL WORKERS TO RETURN TO THE OFFICE

Trump has railed against work-from-home arrangements for tens of thousands of federal employees, which were greatly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has vowed to end them.

In December, Trump said if federal workers refuse to return to the office, “they’re going to be dismissed.”

By forcing government workers back into the office Trump and his allies hope it could trigger large-scale resignations, which would assist in their goal of reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy.

(Reuters)