Trump is set to sign a slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?

By COLLEEN LONG and BILL BARROW

WASHINGTON (AP) — Incoming President Donald Trump has been promising a flurry of enforcement enactment connected Day 1, and determination are executive orders already prepared for his signature. Those orders volition extremity diversity, equity and inclusion funding, ace down connected borderline crossings and easiness regulations connected lipid and earthy state production. The Republican has promised dozens of actions, though it’s unclear whether he’ll marque bully connected his pledge to bash them each connected his archetypal day.

Here’s a look astatine immoderate of Trump’s plans:

Immigration

Much of the enforcement enactment connected the borderline is ripped from Trump’s first-term playbook. He volition state a nationalist exigency astatine the U.S.-Mexico border, nonstop U.S. troops to assistance enactment migration agents and restrict refugees and asylum. He’s besides pledged to restart a argumentation that forced asylum seekers to hold implicit the borderline successful Mexico, but officials didn’t accidental whether Mexico would judge migrants again. During the erstwhile effort, squalid and fetid camps grew connected the borderline and were marred by pack violence. Trump is besides promising to end birthright citizenship, but it’s unclear however he’d bash it — it’s enshrined successful the U.S. Constitution.

The economy

Trump is acceptable to motion orders to easiness regulatory burdens connected oil and earthy state production, including an bid tied to Alaska. And he’ll motion a memorandum seeking a broad-based authorities attack to bring down inflation. But helium appears to beryllium holding disconnected astatine the infinitesimal connected his menace to contented tariffs connected China, Mexico, Canada and different countries. He besides appears to beryllium holding disconnected connected higher taxes connected imports, with an incoming authoritative pointing reporters to a Wall Street Journal communicative saying helium volition lone motion a memorandum telling national agencies to survey commercialized issues.

Diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender rights

Trump is rolling backmost protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs wrong the national government. Both are large shifts for the national argumentation and are successful enactment with Trump’s run way promises. One bid would state that the national authorities would admit lone 2 immutable sexes: antheral and female. And they’re to beryllium defined based connected whether radical are calved with eggs oregon sperm, alternatively than connected their chromosomes. Under the order, national prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims would beryllium segregated by enactment arsenic defined by the order. And national payer wealth could not beryllium utilized to money “transition services.”

A abstracted bid halts DEI programs, directing the White House to place and extremity them wrong the government.

Associated Press writer Geoff Mulvihill contributed to this report.

Originally Published: January 20, 2025 astatine 11:24 AM EST