President-elect Donald Trump will sign roughly 200 executive actions, memoranda and proclamations on his first day in office, CBS News has learned, undoing Biden administration mandates and implementing his “America first” policies.
Trump’s plans include executive orders “unleashing American energy,” including actions to undo President Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, declare a “national energy emergency,” and encourage the excavation of America’s natural resources, an incoming White House official told reporters Monday morning. He also plans to sign a presidential memorandum on inflation.
And he plans to take action on getting “wokeness” out of the military, and to direct the military to begin construction of an Iron Dome-type missile defense shield, Trump said on Sunday.
He is expected to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies put in place by the Biden administration.
Trump aslo plans to make public the remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother, Robert Kennedy, as well as Martin Luther King, Jr, and other topics of high public interest.
Immigration
He plans to invoke presidential powers to begin a sweeping crackdown on immigration after his inauguration on Monday, tasking the military with border enforcement, designating cartels and gangs as terrorist groups, shutting down asylum and refugee admissions and attempting to terminate birthright citizenship.
Inflation
The incoming official had few details for reporters on the inflation memo and its efforts to lower prices. Inflation was a top issue for voters. The incoming official said the Trump White House would take an “all of government approach” to bringing down costs for Americans.
Energy
The executive orders related to energy are meant to unleash “affordable and reliable American energy,” the incoming official told reporters.
The incoming official said that natural resource production, like fossil fuel exploration, “is key to lowering costs for American consumers, both at the pump and the utility bills” and across the economy. This approach is also “key to restoring our national security and asserting American energy dominance around the world,” the incoming official said.
Trump also plans to sign an executive order focusing on Alaska’s natural resources, resource production incoming Trump officials said.
The national energy emergency will “unlock a variety of different authorities” that would enable the U.S. to quickly progress to producing more natural resources, creating jobs, and strengthening national security, the incoming official said.
