Trump Adviser Reveals Executive Orders Slated for Day One

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - JANUARY 07:  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 07, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, making him the only president other than Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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President-elect Donald Trump is gearing up to sign a flurry of executive orders on his first day back in office.

Stephen Miller, the incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy, briefed Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Sunday afternoon about the top items on Trump’s agenda for the coming days.

“Went over the executive actions that will be taken tomorrow. Will be a very busy day!” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told the Daily Beast.

The 47th president is expected to sign at least 200 executive orders largely focused on implementing his border control promises and undoing President Joe Biden’s directives across government reform, energy, and DEI, sources said.

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Trump will declare a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, allowing him to secure additional Pentagon funding and deploy military forces. He is also expected to build more infrastructure at the border and relaunch the Remain in Mexico program, which requires non-Mexican asylum seekers to await their U.S. court dates in Mexico.

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Government reform is also a top priority for Trump, with executive orders expected to cover Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, DEI in the private sector, and the Schedule F category that eliminates job protections for federal workers.

Trump is also expected to halt spending on the Green New Deal and other climate-related projects from the Biden administration, declare a national emergency related to energy, open up offshore drilling, and target regulations around electric vehicles.

Incoming Trump administration officials described many of these orders as “moving targets” that have yet to be finalized, according to Punchbowl News.

At a candlelight dinner with campaign donors on inaugural eve, Trump vowed to undo the Biden administration’s orders.

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“With a stroke of my pen, I will revoke dozens of destructive and radical executive orders and actions of the Biden administration,” he said.

“By this time tomorrow, they will all be null and void,” Trump added, prompting applause from the crowd.

Earlier on Sunday, Senator Ted Cruz predicted that we would see a “different Donald Trump” from the one inaugurated in 2017.

“The Trump team today is coming in with a much greater awareness of the challenges of the deep state, the challenges of of embedded bureaucracies that that in the first term really resisted a lot of what he wanted to do,” he said. “I think they’re much more effectively going to be able to turn the battleship in a direction that I think the American people expect.”