WashingtonDonald Trump intends to implement a series of executive actions in line with his campaign pledges within hours of becoming president, including enforcing more socially conservative health care regulations on the US military and initiating the mass deportation of individuals who are illegally present in the nation.
Trump planned to take a number of swift steps to signify a major split from President Joe Biden’s administration, which he believed was destroying the nation, according to more than six people familiar with transition planning who spoke to NBC News.
According to a Trump campaign staffer, Americans will witness the next Trump government implement changes at a rate beyond anything they have ever witnessed.
According to two people familiar with the preparations, Trump is getting ready to reverse certain regulations that Biden set in place on Day One. He intends to limit transgender service members’ access to gender-affirming therapy and stop paying for military members’ travel expenses when they seek abortion care.
However, preventing illegal immigration, which is the main focus of Trump’s campaign, is probably going to take up a large portion of the first day. After taking office on January 20, he is anticipated to sign at least five executive orders that address that issue alone, according to three Trump associates who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In comparison, he signed that many orders on all matters in the first week of his last tenure.
According to a prominent Trump ally, there will undoubtedly be a lot of progress on the immigration issue quickly, probably on Day One. In order to demonstrate that his campaign pledges were genuine, there will be pressure on him to put on a spectacular early performance.
“The American people can rely on President Trump using his executive power on day one to deliver on the promises he made to them on the campaign trail,” said Transition spokesman Karoline Leavitt in a statement.
In addition, advisers working out of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club or close-by offices in West Palm Beach, Florida, are planning to put a stop to the battles in Ukraine and the Middle East and get Trump back on the international scene after a four-year hiatus.
Trump said during the campaign that he would put an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours, a statement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has questioned.
Requests to host Trump’s first international visit are also being received by his transition team from other countries.
Trump has acted quickly to assemble a top White House team and the Cabinet to carry out his promises after winning a landslide victory on November 5.
He had appointed 32 individuals to high-level posts in his administration as of Wednesday, compared to just three during his 2016 transition. Four years prior, Biden had only selected one individual to hold a high-level position in his upcoming administration: Ron Klain, who was appointed White House chief of staff.
Trump might be in a better position than he was in his first run to both articulate and implement his program when he takes office.
Since leaving office, Trump administration graduates and allies have been working in Washington think tanks for years, creating policies that he will implement when he returns, forming a sort of government-in-waiting. Proposed executive orders have been prepared for the transition team to review by the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit founded after Trump left office and headed by several of his former appointees.
According to two people close to the transition, Trump’s eldest son is attending some sessions that are focused on selecting staff, while transition aides are going through dozens of draft orders.
According to the person close to him, Donald Trump Jr. was one of the people who privately expressed disapproval of rehiring Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state and director of CIA in the first Trump administration.
He believed that his foreign policy views were ideologically at odds. The individual claimed to be too internationalist and hawkish. Don feels that the best approach to safeguard his father’s interests is to have as many members of the administration who share his views.
Given the electoral calendar’s realities, Trump must act swiftly to implement his program. He is limited to one term per the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution. Congress will be concentrating on the 2026 midterm elections, which have the potential to weaken or even eliminate Trump’s slim GOP control.
Stephen Moore, a top economic adviser in Trump’s campaign, stated that it is important to understand that Trump is not an idiot. He is aware that he has no more than two or three years to accomplish anything. After that, he loses his appeal, and we begin discussing [the 2028 presidential election].
In reference to the champion thoroughbred racehorse, Moore continued, “He really wants to Secretariat right out of the gate.”
Announcement of new policies is simple when the starting pistol goes off, but it will take time to see them through to completion. Significant doubts exist about other aspects of Trump’s agenda, including as the tax cut package he pledged. Will Trump fulfill his pledge to remove taxes on things like Social Security benefits and tips?
Moore stated, “We don’t even know what will be in the plan.”
According to Trump ally and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., passing a tax cut will be such a difficult task that Trump must prioritize it after securing the border.
Gingrich claimed to have discussed making the tax cut plan the focal point of the incoming administration with Trump advisers.
Gingrich told NBC News, “You get overwhelmed by how many things you’re doing.” They must follow Ronald Reagan’s example and direct the entire Cabinet toward enacting the tax cuts.
People being deported on a scale According to Trump, calculating figures would be a logistical task that would take years to complete. He has much more in mind than what he did the last time.
Approximately 1.4 million people were deported by Trump’s administration during his first term. The Migration Policy Institute, an independent research organization, estimates that Biden will deport roughly 1.6 million individuals by the conclusion of his term.
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security in the Trump administration, stated that the president is making decisions about DHS and the border in general with clarity and purpose. Since it was a campaign pledge and polls, in my opinion, indicate that the American public disapproved of the Biden-Harris administration’s stance on the matter, it made perfect sense to assemble a team, act swiftly, and have that team begin to depart.
Kristi Noem, Trump’s nominee for homeland security secretary, will play a pivotal role in the endeavor. She hasn’t remotely handled a bureaucracy like the Department of Homeland Security, which employs over a quarter of a million people and whose portfolio also includes terrorism and cyber risks, in her capacity as governor of South Dakota.
Noem worked as a Trump campaigner, but a Trump associate was shocked that he chose her for the position. According to the source, Trump had not spoken well of her following the publication of her book in the spring, which disclosed that she had killed her dog, Cricket, because he was too aggressive.
According to the source, Trump was shocked that she would decide to write about the incident because of how emotionally attached individuals are to their pets. The person remarked he was shocked that she didn’t know what the response would be. Despite not being a dog lover, Trump says, “Good Lord!”
Trump promised mass deportations during his campaign, and his handling of a problem he claims threatens American sovereignty will be one factor in determining how he is evaluated. He will probably be mocked for not keeping his promise if the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States increases.
However, he faced harsh criticism for splitting up families who had entered the country illegally during his first term, and he risks a similar response if he adopts the same strategy in his second term.
According to a Trump supporter who has spoken with his transition team, “I don’t think there is any question that Trump won and won big on the idea that cracking down on illegal immigration is not just a priority, but the priority.”
Although the specifics of the strategy are still being worked out, another Trump friend stated that the emphasis will be on how to use executive order to speed up deportations.
This is what we are concentrating on. The individual stated, “This is what we ran on.” I believe a lot of what that looks like is still up for debate, but it will happen quickly.
One person involved in Trump’s transition stated that advisers are attempting to consider ways to return people who would be deported. It will be difficult.
Among the first people who could be targeted for deportation are those deemed to pose threats, possibly includingChinese menof military age who are living illegally in the U.S.
However, returning them to China would necessitate diplomatic discussions that would probably include compromise. Deporting individuals to foreign nations is another option that Trump advisors are considering.
As Trump navigates those issues, he has what his allies see as an advantage that all his predecessors lacked save for Grover Cleveland, the last president to lose an election and then return to the White House four years later. Trump in the 21st century and Cleveland in the 19th have time to reflect on what went well and what didn’t.
These are the only two guys who had four years to think about their first four years and then go back and play, Gingrich said.
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