He’s ready to get started. The Washington Times headlines: Trump has 100 executive orders ready for his first day back in the White House
The story reports:
“President-elect Donald Trump will unleash an onslaught of actions immediately after taking command at the White House on Monday, including sealing the southern border, barring transgender people from women’s sports and taking a sledgehammer to most of President Biden’s policies.
Republican senators who met with the incoming president at Mar-a-Lago said Mr. Trump has roughly 100 executive orders ready for Day One. This flex of power will quickly implement much of his agenda as Congress takes up his legislative priorities.
“I don’t think it’s hyperbole. Is it ambitious? Yes. But it’s absolutely doable,” said E.J. Antoni, public finance economist at The Heritage Foundation, who has analyzed past executive orders. “When you think about the amount of time his team has had to prepare those executive orders, it’s perfectly reasonable to think those orders will be on the Resolute Desk on the day of the inauguration.”
The stack of executive orders likely will face challenges in the courts and elsewhere. Politicians, advocacy groups and concerned citizens are expected to file lawsuits to prevent some of the orders from taking effect.
Government agencies must carry out the directives, but bureaucrats implementing the president’s agenda can delay their tasks.
During his first administration, Mr. Trump tackled that problem with an executive order stripping civil servants of their protections by classifying some as Schedule F, a new category. When Mr. Biden took office, he quickly authored a rule shielding federal workers from a revival of Schedule F.
Mr. Trump has pledged to bring back Schedule F through an executive order on his first day.
“Schedule F reform is the most important executive order Mr. Trump can sign,” Mr. Antoni said. “He was terribly undermined during his first administration, and this gives the executive branch the ability to clean house and get rid of a lot of those people.”
The rest of Mr. Trump’s executive orders will fall into two buckets: those aimed at expanding Mr. Trump’s MAGA agenda and those reversing or stopping Mr. Biden’s actions.
Mr. Trump has said he will use executive orders to roll back many of Mr. Biden’s climate-related policies. He has pledged to end the electric vehicle mandate, which caps tailpipe emissions so automakers are compelled to sell more electric and hybrid vehicles.
Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement is also a first-day priority. Mr. Trump made that move in 2017 when he took office, but Mr. Biden rejoined the deal on his first day.
Mr. Trump is also expected to issue orders lifting restrictions on fossil fuel production and expanding domestic oil drilling, including the reversal of offshore drilling bans that Mr. Biden imposed in his final days at the White House.
Other planned orders would overhaul immigration enforcement in the U.S. That includes restoring Mr. Trump’s travel ban, which barred people from predominantly Muslim countries, expanding it to include refugees from the war-torn Gaza Strip, and suspending refugee admissions into the U.S.
Stephen Miller, who will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, said Mr. Trump will issue a series of executive orders to begin “the largest deportation operation in American history.”
Mr. Trump has pledged to end what he calls “ridiculous” birthright citizenship, the principle that declares anyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen.
Birthright citizenship is explicitly guaranteed by the Constitution and can be changed only under specific circumstances, which do not include executive orders. He would need a constitutional convention or a two-thirds vote in Congress to change it.
Most immigration executive orders will restore the policies from Mr. Trump’s first administration, which Mr. Biden overturned on his first day in 2021.
“It’s going to be a bit of pingpong because Biden reversed a lot of Trump executive orders, and now Trump is going to reverse those reversals,” said Sharece Thrower, a Vanderbilt University professor who studies executive orders. “It’s basically Trump restoring his original executive orders.”
To try to lower Americans’ living costs, Mr. Trump will eliminate a slew of federal regulations that he blames for increasing the prices of consumer goods.
At a campaign rally in October, Mr. Trump said one of his first orders would be to direct every federal agency to “remove every single burdensome regulation.”
Mr. Antoni said removing red tape and reversing the Biden-era drilling bans could be enough to jump-start the economy.
The Biden administration added a record number of federal rules and regulations, more than 100,000 pages, to the Federal Register over four years. That exceeds President Obama’s record increase in federal red tape.
On the trade front, Mr. Trump plans to wield his pen to impose tariffs on imports, especially those from China. He said it would help keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S. He has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China.
Tariffs don’t need congressional approval and would likely be enacted through the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which empowers a president to impose tariffs on goods that could affect U.S. security.
Mr. Trump is also expected on Day 1 to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports in school and bar transgender people from serving in the military. The military ban was in place during Mr. Trump’s first term but was overturned by Mr. Biden through executive order.
Mr. Trump said he would convene a Food and Drug Administration panel to review whether hormone treatments for transgender people are linked to violent behavior or depression.
Not all executive orders will result in immediate action or any action at all. Several of Mr. Trump’s executive orders will signal the values he promised to uphold, such as parents’ rights.
The order would decry the Biden administration’s partnership with the National School Boards Association to investigate parents who spoke out at school board hearings.
“We’ll change that on the first day, I promise,” Mr. Trump said during the campaign.”
In short, change is not only coming, it’s coming on day one.
Biden has set a record for Executive Orders and is still pushing more and more Executive Orders out in his last few days as President. I am glad that we will have a real President who will quickly work on undoing Biden’s four years of destruction of our Nation.
I absolutely agree – “destruction” is an accurate description. Biden has signed things that he not only couldn’t read, but couldn’t possibly comprehend. He’s like a mannequin with additional disabilities.