President Donald Trump signed more than 20 executive orders and actions on Inauguration Day – more than any previous US president.
The directives ranged from pardoning or commuting sentences for nearly everyone convicted in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, to halting the ban on TikTok and pulling the country out of the World Health Organization.
He started. 78 Repeal of Executive Orders Passed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, it includes efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, protect federal lands from oil drilling and lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Other measures targeted the country’s relationship with immigration, its economy, the environment and even gender roles as Trump moved toward fulfilling many of his “one day” promises.
According to data from American Presidency Project of the University of California, Santa BarbaraThe majority of former US presidents did not sign executive orders on their first day in office.
Six of Trump’s executive orders deal with immigration. In the National Border Emergency Declaration, the Trump administration vowed to use the military to implement its pledge to crack down on illegal immigration, transnational gangs and drug trafficking, and mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. He has expressed his intention.
The majority of Trump’s orders will affect the federal government and its workforce. Trump Signed an executive order Directing department heads to return federal employees “to work in person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis” immediately, with exemptions permitted.
Trump also announced that the federal government recognizes only two genders – male and female.
According to the incoming White House official, the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies will be tasked with implementing the directive, which applies to passports, visas and other government documents.
History of Executive Orders
Presidents often use executive orders to establish councils and commissions, set broad administration policy on hiring or procurement, or grant federal employees a day off.
They are also numbered and published in the Federal Register. The State Department began numbering executive orders in 1907. The American Presidency Project.
Executive orders may be repealed or modified by an act of Congress, a court order, or another executive order.
Lauren Villagran, Elizabeth Weiss, Gregory Court, Contributing to USA Today
