Trump plans to pass several executive orders and fulfill several promises as soon as he takes office. What’s first on his agenda?

From The Epoch Times. Based on his campaign trail statements, President-elect Donald Trump is poised to sign a flurry of executive orders as soon as he regains power on Jan. 20, 2025. …

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Throughout Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, which he began in late 2022, Trump has stated that he plans to begin tackling numerous issues on “day one,” ranging from border security to the economy.

He has repeatedly made pledges that would make for a busy first day in office in 2025. …

It’s anyone’s guess how many executive orders Trump might sign during his new administration’s first day—which is a short one. His second presidential term begins when the day is half over.

Under the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, executive power transfers to the newly elected president every four years at noon on Jan. 20.

But executive orders are among the most important documents a new president can sign.

These orders, which have been used by almost every U.S. president, carry about the same weight as federal law. And they remain in effect unless Congress overrules them, a court overturns them, or a future president revokes them. These orders also signal what the new president’s priorities will be. …

Here are a few of the many executive orders and initiatives that Trump has pledged for his upcoming term.

An order closing the border would be “done in the first hour of the first day” under his new administration, Trump said during an October campaign stop.

“On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program … in the history of our country,” he said at one of his final campaign events in Pittsburgh on Nov. 4, a day before the election. “I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded … and we will put the vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail.” …

Economy and Energy

When it comes to the economy, Trump says reducing the cost of energy is key to lowering the prices that people pay for essentials such as gasoline and groceries.

He has pledged to implement policies that encourage the production of fossil fuels. “We will frack, frack, frack, and drill, baby, drill,” Trump said during an Oct. 29 speech in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He said he would encourage those processes beginning on “day one,” but it was unclear whether an executive order would be used for that purpose.

However, Trump did say he would sign an executive order “directing every federal agency to immediately remove every single burdensome regulation driving up the cost of goods.” …

Funds Halted for ‘Inappropriate’ Curricula

More than a year ago at the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Washington, on Sept. 15, 2023, Trump said, “On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing Critical Race Theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”

Order to End ‘Mutilation’ of Youths

In a policy video posted to social media on Jan. 31, 2023, Trump outlined a wide-ranging plan to halt “chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth.”

“On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden’s cruel policies on so-called ‘gender-affirming care’—ridiculous—a process that includes giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance, and ultimately performing surgery on minor children,” Trump said.

“I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.” …

Reversing the Electric Vehicle Mandate

The Biden administration has pursued policies intended to reduce Americans’ reliance on fossil fuels such as gasoline. Those policies included an executive order that “sets an ambitious new target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles,” the White House said in August 2021. …

Trump has repeatedly pledged to immediately terminate Biden’s mandate on electric vehicles. …

Protection of Free Speech

Shortly after Trump announced his candidacy in 2022, he unveiled his plan for protecting free speech.

“Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens,” he said. …

Dismantling Bureaucracy

In March 2023, Trump released a 10-point plan “to dismantle the ‘deep state’ and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption.”

The first point of the plan calls for reissuing his 2020 executive order that restores the president’s authority to “remove rogue bureaucrats,” he said in a video.

The 2020 order would have created a “Schedule F,” to make it easier to get rid of certain government employees. The new category would encompass positions that are “of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition.” …

Trump, in his 2023 video, vowed to revive that 2020 order and “clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.” …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – This file has been extracted from another file, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71898270)