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At noon Monday, a new Donald Trump era begins.
A series of actions designed to reshape government policy will await signature as soon as the new president takes office. This is a dramatic show of power intended to set the tone for the next four years.
Trump doesn’t seem to be waiting until he arrives in the Oval Office to bring out his Sharpie pen. Some may be waiting for him at the Capitol immediately after being sworn in, after envisioning a campaign trail that included a “little desk” on the inauguration dais to sign the president’s orders.
But the new era will be felt far beyond the walls of the Capitol (the bitter cold expected means President Trump will be sworn in indoors) or beyond the Executive Mansion.
If the new president follows through on his campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants, immigration raids could begin almost immediately in major metropolitan areas.
On January 6, 2021, the defendants will wait in their prison cells for clemency, which President Trump has promised to sign as soon as he returns to power.
And leaders of foreign capital around the world will be watching anxiously to see how America’s new leaders begin to implement their plans for tariffs, land grabs, and an end to brutal wars. .
“It’s going to make your head spin to see what’s going to happen,” Trump once promised of his first-day plans.
For his supporters, the move will be a thrilling realization of his campaign’s populist, anti-immigrant themes. But for those opposed, they herald another dark moment and a call for legal action.
President Trump plans to issue dozens of executive actions within his first week in office (at least by his own account, more than 100 on his first day alone), a person familiar with his plans told CNN. Ta. Increased border security, regulatory chaos, and other top policy priorities. He is also exploring options to make TikTok available in the United States, an urgent task ahead of Sunday’s deadline to ban the app. “I’m going to make the decision,” he told CNN’s Pamela Brown by phone on Friday after the Supreme Court upheld the ban.
It is almost certain that some of the things President Trump promised during his campaign that he would do on day one will not come true.
But the scale of President Trump’s plan, if it comes to fruition, would go far beyond recent attempts by presidents to exercise authority and test the limits of the presidency.
In the eyes of Mr. Trump and his team, the flurry of action on his first day in office heralds a new administration that marks a sharp break from the chaos that dominated not only the past four years but also the early years of Mr. Trump’s first administration. It will become a thing. – around it.
This message calls for swift action on a larger scale and with better coordination.
“We want to come in and show how serious we are. Trump is back, it’s time to go. It’s kind of a shock to the establishment,” one of Trump’s advisers told CNN. spoke.
Preparations for Trump’s first day in office began long before he won last year’s election. Conservative groups have spent the past four years exploring the limits of executive power and exploring a wide range of policy options for Mr. Trump if he returns to the White House.
“This is the equivalent of sending George Patton to Europe to win World War II,” a second Trump adviser told CNN, adding that President Trump’s plan to stop World War II He described the “rapid and very intense” administrative actions being prepared. Term policy goals.
Planning for President Trump’s first day back in the Oval Office has become a top priority for incoming White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles these days. Mr. Wiles has studied what other presidents have done and charted a course for what Mr. Trump can and should do. Don’t do it in the first few hours after taking office.
Wiles was the first woman to hold that title and occupy a corner room in the West Wing, and has consulted with nearly every living former White House chief of staff. The Republican adviser also said that he worked with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson to strategize on “how the entire team would function as one.” “As soon as that happens, the clock on his term will start ticking,” he said. ”
During a meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill earlier this month, President Trump announced more than 100 plans for his first day in office, reflecting his pledge to strengthen immigration enforcement, improve border security and implement other priorities. He said he was preparing an executive order.
He vowed to work with Congress on the legislative agenda, indicating he would avoid doing so in his campaign pledge, and vowing to begin in earnest the approach he struggled with during his first term.
“We are all in agreement that we will get a result,” Thun told reporters after the meeting.
In addition to the documents the president-elect will sign immediately after Inauguration Day (formally nominating Cabinet members and other positions), President Trump plans to sign some executive orders before returning to the Senate for a celebratory luncheon. advisers said.
Afterwards, a signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in the Oval Office after the parade, which was moved indoors due to weather. It was newly renovated to suit his tastes for his second residence.
Amidst the president’s hectic activities, there is one event that is not expected to take place, unlike in previous years. It’s a press conference.
President Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, appeared on stage for the first time to lecture reporters about the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd and Cabinet nominees, an action he later said he regretted. .
On immigration, the most central theme of his political identity, Trump’s team is finalizing a strong order to be released just hours after the president-elect’s swearing-in, and Americans across the country are It is said that it will begin a crackdown on immigration that will affect the country. This was reported to two sources familiar with the discussions.
This series of actions represents a dramatic shift in immigration policy that will affect immigrants already living in the United States and those seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The plan also includes increasing the number of local ICE agents targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records who are eligible for deportation in metropolitan areas like Washington, D.C. Denver; sources say Chicago and others who may be encountered in the operation are also included.
“We’re going to see things like removal planes, reports of arrests, ICE actions in sanctuary jurisdictions,” one source told CNN, referring to the incoming administration’s deportation plans. “Once you get into the 30th and first 100 days, you start to see a steady drumbeat.”
Trump’s plan includes at least six executive actions, including cracking down on the U.S. southern border, rolling back Biden administration policies and doubling down on domestic enforcement, sources told CNN. The move is said to be a fulfillment of a promise made by President Trump during his campaign.
The president’s first-day executive orders also include the start of negotiations to reinstate a program known informally as Remain in Mexico that requires immigrants to remain in Mexico while processing immigration in the United States. It is.
His team is also preparing to begin negotiations to reimplement what was previously known as the Asylum Cooperation Agreement, the official said.
The agreement, which began during President Trump’s first term, marked a major shift in U.S. asylum policy, as immigrants who may have legitimate asylum claims could be sent to other countries to pursue their claims.
The new Trump administration will issue executive orders dismantling Biden’s energy policy, including one aimed at reducing regulation and oversight of fossil fuel projects, in his first days in office, according to people briefed on the effort. It is expected that a large number of such orders will be issued over the next few days.
The series of executive orders largely echoes actions taken by President Trump during his first term, with earlier actions establishing the administration’s broader focus on energy independence and economic growth.
President Trump is expected to instruct the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of the Interior to review all energy policies from the Biden administration, and these departments are expected to undergo major changes.
On his first day in office in 2021, Biden signed an order rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and praising public health and climate science. Over the next four years, the Biden administration promoted electric vehicles and supported regulations that would increase the number of EVs and fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles on the road.
President Trump said he would undo much of that work by withdrawing again from the Paris climate accord, rescinding Biden’s restrictions on drilling offshore and on federal lands, and rescinding orders to prioritize climate issues in foreign policy. It is expected. President Trump is also expected to reverse a moratorium on liquefied natural gas exports that Biden put in place in 2022 due to soaring energy prices.
The Trump campaign is also drafting executive order language that would halt offshore wind projects on the East Coast and create more permanent obstacles to offshore wind, which Trump has long loathed.
President Trump’s team is also considering an executive order to reauthorize the Keystone Pipeline permit, but construction of the pipeline has been halted indefinitely after years of legal and political uncertainty. Considering this, it is currently seen as a largely symbolic move.
President Trump is expected to impose new sanctions on Iran as incoming administration officials vow to return to “maximum pressure” on the regime. Restrictions on oil exports will remove about 1 million barrels of oil per day from the global market, putting some strain on supplies as President Trump calls for more U.S. production.
President Trump has signaled to his aides that he wants to impose widespread tariffs soon after taking office, posting on Truth Social that he would impose hefty tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico from day one. We are working on an approach and met last week to discuss how to proceed. Introducing smaller tariffs that would rise in stages if negotiations fail to meet the president’s demands is one option that has gained support, but it remains to be seen how quickly the team is prepared to introduce any policy. It is still unclear whether there are any.
The wide range of actions President Trump is planning will almost certainly fall short of the dizzying array of actions he promised on his first day in office as a candidate.
He vowed to end the Russia-Ukraine war before entering the White House. That goal seems unlikely, even as his team prepares for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
And the promise to abolish birthright citizenship requires changes to the constitution, which cannot be achieved overnight.
His pledge to pardon those charged or convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol also could be a complicated endeavor. Even Vice President-elect J.D. Vance recently acknowledged that criminals accused of violence should not be pardoned, saying there is a “bit of a gray area” in some cases.
Trump’s other first day of action includes imposing new high tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada (a step that could shock the North American economy) and ordering funding cuts to schools with mandatory vaccinations. There is nothing that will prevent us from fulfilling our commitments.
All these commitments are due on Monday.
