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President-elect Donald Trump will quickly implement executive actions on immigration, energy policy and federal government operations to check off dozens of campaign policy priorities.
Trump and his advisers have pledged to issue more than 100 executive orders or related unilateral actions on his first day in office. Many of these orders will seek to reverse or eliminate those implemented by the Biden administration.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s new deputy chief of staff for policy, outlined some of those actions Sunday afternoon in a call with senior Republican congressional officials.
Two sources briefed on the call described it as a preview of what lawmakers should expect, rather than an in-depth policy briefing. Trump’s political operation is expected to provide more details to allies on Capitol Hill later Sunday, the sources said. They warned that the scale and pace of the hours leading up to the inauguration made communication and information fluid in the final days.
Miller, during the briefing with lawmakers, confirmed elements of a broad series of long-planned immigration actions, including Trump’s invocation of a national emergency at the border as a way to unblock funds from the Ministry of Defense for use by the administration.
Trump will also designate a series of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and order his administration to reinstate his first-term Migrant Protection Protocol policy, more commonly known as “Remain in Mexico.”
Trump will act to restore a series of immigration policy directives and actions from his first term that President Joe Biden rolled back on his first day in office in 2021.
The federal government and its operations will also be in focus during the first hours of Trump’s second term, with Miller’s planned actions including an executive order, known as Annex F, that would reduce or eliminate protections for employment of federal workers. Trump signed a version of the executive order shortly before the 2020 election, but it was rescinded by Biden.
Steps will also be taken to formally define the role and authorities of the Department of Government Effectiveness, led by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk’s operation, which works out of the Washington office of one of his companies, SpaceX, has quietly recruited and integrated the agency’s landing teams from the Trump transition operation in recent weeks.
Trump will sign executive orders repealing the federal government’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Miller told lawmakers, as well as steps to remove specific gender-related executive orders put in place by Biden.
Trump is also expected to declare a national energy emergency as part of a significant number of actions targeting domestic energy production and industries, authorizing rules and lands that operate in the sector, according to Miller’s briefing.