WASHINGTON – Donald Trump plans to sign more than 50 executive orders on Monday, and possibly more than 100, on the first day of his second presidency, according to a person in his transition operation.
Trump, who is scheduled to be sworn in inside the Capitol at noon, intends to sign several of the orders in front of a crowd at an event at Capital One Arena in Washington later that afternoon. Events related to the inauguration were moved indoors due to bad weather in the country’s capital.
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Trump’s first wave of executive orders, some of which could be implemented later in the week, are expected to include a mix of campaign promises, reversals of outgoing President Joe Biden’s policies and a restructuring of the federal workforce.
The most anticipated action by many in Trump’s MAGA political base is an order declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a broader effort to crack down on illegal immigration and other cross-border crimes.
“You will see executive orders that will make [you] extremely happy, many of them. …We have to put our country on the right path,” Trump said Sunday at a rally at Capital One Arena. “When the sun sets tomorrow night, the invasion of our borders will be over, and all “Illegal border invaders, one way or another, will be back home.”
During his first term, Trump declared a national emergency to try to redirect Defense Department funds to building a border wall after Congress refused to give him the money he sought for the project. A federal court blocked his plan, which Biden overturned before the Supreme Court ruled on it.
Trump, who outlined his plans Sunday at a breakfast with several Republican senators, is also expected to cut funding for the climate-related provisions of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a move that could put tests a president’s power to unilaterally withhold funds approved by Congress.
The Embezzlement Control Act of 1974 requires the executive branch to spend appropriated funds, but Trump’s nominee to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget said at a confirmation hearing last week that he doesn’t believe the law be constitutional.
Trump has long promised to restore the “Schedule F” policy he announced toward the end of his first term in 2020. He would reclassify thousands of jobs in the federal civil service to make it easier to fill them with people committed to implementing your agenda.
Stephen Miller, the incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy, held a telephone briefing with Republican lawmakers about the upcoming orders on Sunday.
In a phone interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker on Saturday, Trump said he would sign “a record number of documents” after his inauguration speech.
Matt Dixon, Olympia Sonnier, Jake Taylor and Abigail Brooks contributed.
