WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders from day one in the new White House, amounting to a shock-and-awe campaign on border security, deportations and a flurry of other policy priorities.
Trump told Republican senators about the coming attack during a private meeting on Capitol Hill. Many of the actions are expected to start on Inauguration Day, January 20, when he takes office. Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller outlined to Republican senators the border security and immigration enforcement measures likely to start soonest. Axios first reported on Trump and his team’s presentation.
“There will be a substantial number,” said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.
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Allies of the president-elect have prepared a stack of executive orders that Trump could quickly sign on a wide range of issues — from U.S.-Mexico border control to energy development to federal Schedule F personnel rules, gender policies in schools and vaccination mandates. among other first-day promises made during his campaign.
While executive actions are common on the first day of a new White House, as a new president puts his stamp on certain priorities, what Trump and his team are planning is an executive blow unseen in modern times as he prepares to to exercise power in untested ways. , bypassing the legislative machinery of Congress.
Some may be meaningful, others may be more symbolic messages of the new president’s direction.
Senators who briefed Trump and his team during a lengthy session at the Capitol this week expect the new administration to reverse many of the Biden administration’s executive orders while introducing its own proposals.
Completing the U.S.-Mexico border wall, establishing immigration detention facilities where migrants can be housed until deportation are all part of the mix — about $100 billion in proposals, senators said, targeting the incoming administration. Trump and the Republican Congress are trying to finance. as part of their major budget reconciliation legislation.
Senators expect Trump to return to many of the same U.S.-Mexico border measures in place during his first term — including those requiring migrants to register in other countries or remain in Mexico, rather than entering the U.S. , while their claims are being processed. – as well as massive enforcement actions to deport those currently in the US without legal permission.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who led negotiations on border security and immigration in the last Congress, said he expects the Trump team will initially focus on an estimated 1 million migrants who he said most recently entered entered the country and were convicted. crimes or who have been determined by the courts to be otherwise ineligible to reside in the United States
“That’s the low-hanging fruit,” Lankford said. “People who have recently crossed, people who were legally present and committed other crimes, people whose court has ordered them removed – that’s well over a million people. Start going through that process.”
Trump himself once mused during the presidential campaign that he would have a “little desk” in the Capitol on Inauguration Day, where he would sit and quickly sign his executive orders.
While there are no public signs he is considering, Republican senators plan to welcome Trump to the building after he takes the oath of office. The new president typically signed the paperwork necessary for formal cabinet appointments and administrative choices.
Many of Trump’s picks for top administration jobs will be confirmed by the Senate next week. Traditionally, the Senate begins voting on a president’s nominees as soon as he takes office, and some are even confirmed on Inauguration Day.
“That would be nice,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who said senators are still waiting on background checks and other paperwork for many of Trump’s picks. “We’ll see.”
