US President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting on his first day in the new White House, the Associated Press writes.
According to media reports, Trump told Republican senators about his upcoming onslaught during a private meeting on Capitol Hill. Many of these orders are expected to be adopted on Inauguration Day, January 20, when he takes office.
Trump’s top adviser Stephen Miller told the party’s senators about the measures to secure the border and ensure immigration control that are likely to be adopted soon.
“There will be a lot of them,” said Senator John Hoeven.
Allies of the US president-elect have prepared a whole stack of orders that Trump could quickly sign on a wide range of issues – from the fight on the US-Mexico border to energy development, hiring rules for the federal Schedule F workforce, gender policy in schools and mandatory vaccines, as well as other promises made during the election campaign, the Associated Press writes.
While executive action is common on the first day of a new White House, when a new president puts his stamp on certain priorities, what Trump and his team are planning is an executive strike unlike any seen in modern times, as he prepares to wield power in untested ways that bypass the legislative machinery of Congress, the media emphasizes.