What executive orders will Trump sign today?
Trump is signing more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office—a massive, record-setting first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, according to Fox News.
Here's a look at some of Trump's plans:
America First
What we know:
Trump will sign an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. And the highest mountain in North America, now known as Denali, will revert back to Mount McKinley, its name until President Barack Obama changed it.
The renaming is to honor "American greatness," according to a preview of the orders posted online by Trump's incoming press secretary.
MORE: 'Mt. McKinley' name drama explained
President Trump delivers inaugural address: Full speech
President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural address inside the Rotunda. During his address, he promised a "revolution of common sense" as Republicans assume unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.’ In his first remarks as the 47th president, he declared that the "golden age of America begins right now." "From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world," he said.
Immigration
Much of the executive action on the border is ripped from Trump's first-term playbook. He will declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents and restrict refugees and asylum. He's also pledged to restart a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait over the border in Mexico, but officials didn't say whether Mexico would accept migrants again. During the previous effort, squalid and fetid camps grew on the border and were marred by gang violence. Trump is also promising to end birthright citizenship, but it's unclear how he'd do it — it's enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
He ended the CBP One app, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants.
The economy
Trump signing orders to ease regulatory burdens on oil and natural gas production, including an order tied to Alaska. And he'll sign a memorandum seeking a broad-based government approach to bring down inflation. But he appears to be holding off at the moment on his threat to issue tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada and other countries. He also appears to be holding off on higher taxes on imports, with an incoming official pointing reporters to a Wall Street Journal story saying he will only sign a memorandum telling federal agencies to study trade issues.
Diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender rights
Trump is rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government. Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign trail promises. One order would declare that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. And they’re to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes. Under the order, federal prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims would be segregated by sex as defined by the order. And federal taxpayer money could not be used to fund "transition services."
A separate order halts DEI programs, directing the White House to identify and end them within the government.
Pardons in the Jan. 6 US Capitol attack
Trump also is promising to pardon those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, but he didn't mention that in his inaugural speech.
In remarks to an overflow crowd after his inaugural address, he didn’t include the pardons in his speech. "It’s action not words that count, and you’re going to see a lot of action," he said.