Trump to sign more than 200 executive orders on first day in office
by Oliver O'Connell, The Independent.com, Juanuary 20, 2025
Donald Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office, according to a report by Fox News Digital, later backed up by ABC News.
This record-setting first wave of policy priorities will focus on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, the network reports.
According to a senior administration official, Trump is set to sign multiple “omnibus” executive orders, each containing dozens of major executive actions.
“The president is issuing a historic series of executive orders and actions that will fundamentally reform the American government, including the complete and total restoration of American sovereignty,” the official told Fox News Digital.
Some will reportedly be signed at the Capitol after Trump takes the oath of office, others will be dealt with during the inaugural parade at the Capitol One Arena, and then more later at the White House.
The network’s White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich tweeted the following list of what the orders will do:
- Close the border to all illegal aliens via proclamation and declare a national emergency at the border
- Direct designations of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
- Re-institute “Remain in Mexico,” end “Catch and Release,” and direct the military to construct a new phase of the border wall
- “Fully unleash” Alaskan energy, terminate Biden policies that have “constrained US supply”
- Return federal workers to in-person work
- Strengthen control over senior government officials and implement a new merit-based hiring review
- Suspend security clearances for the 51 national security officials who “lied” about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election
- End all DEI programs across the federal government
- Establish a new Department of Government Efficiency hiring freeze
- Declare a national energy emergency and pause all offshore wind leases
- Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
- Direct all agencies and departments to remove all federal actions that increase costs for families and consumers
ABC News reports that other orders will designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, repeal rules on electric vehicles, and offset limits for offshore drilling on federal land.
During Sunday’s victory rally at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., the president-elect teased some of his plans — largely campaign promises made over the course of 2024 — and revealed that his staff tried to talk him out of signing so many executive orders on his first day in office and instead suggested spreading them out.
“Like hell we are,” Trump says he responded.
