Trump has 100 executive orders ready for his first day back in the White House
Donald Trump, the president-elect, will take a series of drastic measures as soon as he takes command of the White House, on Monday. These include sealing the southern border and banning transgenders from participating in women’s sports. He will also hammer away at most of the policies of former President Biden.
Republican senators who attended the Mar-a-Lago meeting with Mr. Trump said that Mr. Trump is ready to issue 100 executive orders on Day One. This will allow him to quickly implement his agenda when Congress tackles his legislative priorities.
“I don’t believe it’s hyperbole.” Is this ambitious? Yes. “But it’s definitely doable,” E.J. Antoni, a public finance economist from The Heritage Foundation who has studied past executive orders, said: When you consider the time that his team had to prepare these executive orders, it is reasonable to assume that they will be on the Resolute Desk the day after the inauguration.
The executive orders will likely be challenged in court and elsewhere. Political parties, advocacy groups and citizens concerned with the issue are likely to file lawsuits in order to stop some of these orders from becoming effective.
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The government agencies must follow the directives. However, bureaucrats who implement the agenda of the president can cause delays.
During his first term, Mr. Trump addressed this problem by issuing an executive order that stripped civil servants of protections, and classified some in Schedule F, a newly created category. As soon as Mr. Biden became president, he drafted a rule to protect federal workers against a resurgence of Schedule F.
On his first day, Mr. Trump pledged to reinstate Schedule F by executive order.
“The Schedule F reform is the single most important executive order that Mr. Trump could sign,” said Mr. Antoni. “He was badly undermined in his first administration. This gives the executive branch the power to clean up and get rid of many of those people.”
The remaining executive orders of Mr. Trump will be divided into two categories: those that are aimed at expanding the MAGA agenda, and those that reverse or stop Mr. Biden’s actions.
Mr. Trump said that he would use executive orders in order to reverse many of Mr. Biden’s climate policies. He has promised to end the mandate for electric vehicles, which limits tailpipe emissions to force automakers to sell more hybrid and electric cars.
The withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement is another first-day priority. When Mr. Trump took office in 2017, he made this decision, but Mr. Biden joined the deal on his very first day.
Mr. Trump will also likely issue orders to lift restrictions on fossil-fuel production and expand domestic oil drilling. This includes the reversal offshore drilling bans imposed by Mr. Biden in his last days as White House.
Other orders planned would overhaul immigration enforcement within the U.S. This includes restoring President Trump’s ban on travel, which excluded people from predominantly Muslim nations, expanding it to cover refugees from war-torn Gaza Strip and suspending refugee entry into the U.S.
Stephen Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff in charge of policy, has said that Mr. Trump is going to issue executive orders that will begin “the biggest deportation campaign in American history.”
Mr. Trump pledged to stop what he called “ridiculous” citizenship by birthright, the principle which declares that anyone born in America is an American citizen.
The Constitution explicitly guarantees birthright citizenship and it can only be altered under certain circumstances. These do not include executive order. To change the law, he would need either a constitutional convention in Congress or two-thirds of Congress.
The majority of immigration executive orders will restore policies that Mr. Trump’s administration implemented during his first term, but which Mr. Biden reverted on the first day of 2021.
Sharece Thrower is a Vanderbilt University Professor who studies executive order. She said, “It will be a game of pingpong, because Biden reversed many of Trump’s executive orders and now Trump will reverse those reversals.” It’s basically Trump restoring the original executive orders.
In an effort to reduce the cost of living for Americans, Mr. Trump plans to eliminate federal regulations that are responsible for raising prices on consumer goods.
In October, at a rally for his presidential campaign, Donald Trump stated that one of his orders would be “to direct all federal agencies to remove every single burdensome regulatory.”
Mr. Antoni stated that removing red-tape and lifting the drilling bans of the Biden era could be enough for the economy to take off.
Over four years, the Biden administration has added to the Federal Register a record-breaking number of federal regulations and rules, totaling more than 100,000 pages. This is more than President Obama’s record-breaking increase in federal bureaucracy.
Trump has plans to use his pen on the trade front to impose tariffs, particularly those that come from China. He claimed it would keep manufacturing jobs in America. He proposed a tariff of 60% on Chinese goods.
Tariffs do not require congressional approval. They would be implemented through the Trade Expansion Act of 1964, which allows a president to impose a tariff on goods that may affect U.S. national security.
On Day 1, Mr. Trump will also ban transgender women and transgender people serving in the military. The military ban was in effect during Mr. Trump’s first term, but was overturned through Mr. Biden’s executive order.
Mr. Trump announced that he would convene an FDA panel to examine whether hormone treatments given to transgender individuals are associated with violent behavior or depression.
Some executive orders may not result in immediate or any action. Many of Mr. Trump’s executive orders will reflect the values that he promised to maintain, like parents’ rights.
The order would condemn the Biden administration’s partnership with National School Boards Association in investigating parents who spoke up at school board meetings.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump promised to change the policy “on the first day”.
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