By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-19 18:31:55 | Updated at 2025-01-19 20:41:19
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President Donald Trump is set to take sweeping executive actions after assuming office on Monday.
Trump has been vocal about his desire to get to work on Day One of his administration.
He will be sworn in on a bitterly cold day filled with fanfare and star studded performances.
Trump confirmed his immediate priorities are border security and rebuilding American energy production via 100 executive orders in a meeting with Republicans in the Senate last week.
The president-elect plans to announce at least 25 of those orders on day one of his second term in the White House.
He is likely to sign orders halting a nationwide TikTok ban and give pardons to January 6 rioters.
'We want to come in and show just how serious we are. Trump is back, it's go time. Like a shock to the system,' one Trump adviser told CNN.
'It's going to be the equivalent of sending George Patton into Europe to win World War II,' a second Trump adviser told the news outlet, describing the 'rapid-fire, very intense' executive actions that have been prepared.
Here are some of President Trump's top executive action priorities:
President Donald Trump is set to take sweeping executive actions after assuming office on Monday
He will be sworn in on a bitterly cold day filled with fanfare and star studded performances
Immigration
Trump said he will declare a national emergency in order to spring everything into action on the migrant crisis.
Announcing a deportation of any illegal migrant with a criminal record is first on his list.
'You'll see removal planes, reports of arrests occurring, ICE action in sanctuary jurisdictions,' one source told CNN. 'As you get into 30 days and first 100 days, that's where you'll see a consistent drumbeat.'
Axios reported that Trump is said to aggressively use laws on the books to give more assistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and will continue to build his border wall.
Trump also said he needed the help of Congress to approve of funds for detention centers to get at least 100,000 beds for those affected.
He also looks set to bring back the travel bans for what he calls 'terror-plagued countries,' the New York Post reported.
Other border policies Trump plans to enact early on include reinstating the 'Remain in Mexico' rule, ending migrant flights from the border, terminating catch-and-release and no longer letting migrants enter America via the CBP One app.
Trump confirmed his immediate priorities are border security and rebuilding American energy production via 100 executive orders in a meeting with Republicans in the Senate (pictured)
Trump said he will declare a national emergency in order to spring everything into action on the migrant crisis
He will also attempt to end so-called 'birthright citizenship' which would make it so that children born on American soil to illegal migrants are not automatically granted citizenship.
TikTok
Trump announced on Sunday he plans to issue an executive order on Inauguration Day that extends the TikTok halt deadline.
'I'm asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law's prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security,' he said on TruthSocial.
'The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.
'I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say up. Without U.S. approval, there is no TikTok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions.'
His comments came after The Supreme Court allowed the ban to go into effect in the United States on Friday.
The court handed down its decision after TikTok argued a law banning the app would violate their users' First Amendment rights.
Last year, Congress passed a law banning TikTok unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stakes by January 19, 2025.
U.S. officials raised concerns that the wildly popular app is a national security concern with the collection of Americans' data.
Energy
Another big priority from Trump will be reversing many of the Biden administration's clean energy policies, including a return to offshore gas and oil drilling, as well as at Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve as part of Trump's infamous calls to 'drill, baby, drill' on the campaign trail.
Trump is reportedly working on an executive order to halt offshore wind activities on the East Coast and considering to reauthorize a permit for the Keystone Pipeline.
He will also end Biden's electric vehicle mandate, which could potentially hurt DOGE co-chair and 'First Buddy' Elon Musk. Trump will also get rid of Biden's ban on exporting natural gases.
Cryptocurrency
Trump is planning to use his executive powers to reduce the regulatory burden faced by cryptocurrency companies and promote digital asset adoption in his first few days in office, sources told Reuters.
He is likely to sign orders halting a nationwide TikTok ban and give pardons to January 6 rioters
Trump, who courted crypto cash on the campaign trail with promises to be a 'crypto president,' is expected to sign an executive order creating a crypto advisory council, an idea he first floated in July.
Bloomberg News first reported on Thursday that Trump was planning to issue an executive order creating a crypto council, which would help advise the government on crypto-friendly policy. It could have as many as 20 members.
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