OAN Staff James Meyers
8:10 AM – Friday, January 10, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump gave Senate Republicans a preview of his initial agenda on Wednesday night during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, revealing a list of 100 executive orders prioritizing border security and domestic energy production.
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During the meeting, Trump was joined by some of his top aides, including homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, according to the New York Post.
The 78-year-old Trump said that he’s anxious to enact policy immediately upon taking office on January 20th, even joking that he would sign “four or five different documents” at a “very tiny little desk” placed on the Capitol steps right after he is sworn in.
Trump has also said he will sign at least 25 executive orders on the first day of his second term, calling on his previous statements during his campaign.
When it comes to immigration, the first priority will be to deport migrants who have committed crimes, he’s said, while adding that Congress needs to approve funding for at least “100,000 beds” for detention centers.
The military will be asked to provide planes to transport migrants out of the country, but will not be out on the streets making arrests, incoming Border Czar Tom Homan has added.
Trump has also said his executive actions will reinstate the “remain in Mexico” rule for asylum-seekers, stop all migrant flights from the southern border region, end the practice of catch-and-release, restore a travel ban for “terror-plagued countries,” suspend refugee admissions and stop migrants from entering the country using the CBP One mobile app.
The incoming president also said he will end automatic U.S. citizenship on children of illegal immigrants born in the United States.
“On Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic US citizenship,” Trump said in a video posted in May of 2023.
However, the announcement is likely to be challenged in court, since the 14th Amendment states that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
As for energy, throughout his campaign, Trump has promised to do away with the majority of Biden’s policies, after he recently said that he would reverse the incumbent’s ban on offshore gas and oil drilling.
“Banning offshore drilling will not stand. I will reverse it immediately,” Trump said at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. “I will revoke the offshore oil, gas drilling ban in vast areas on day one.”
Additionally, other executive order promises have included scrapping Biden’s electric vehicle mandate and halting a ban on natural gas exports.
“I want to be a dictator for one day because I’m gonna get going with ‘Drill, baby, drill,’” Trump said on the campaign trail. “After that, I’ll never be a dictator.”
Trump has also said he wants to reopen Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Rescue for drilling operations, which is part of his promise to lower energy prices by 50% in 18 months.
The President-elect has also said he will issue mass pardons to those arrested in connection with the January 6th protest.
Additionally, the 47th president has also promised to fire special counsel Jack Smith, who had been pursuing several legal cases against him, but Smith announced that he would be resigning from his post before he takes office.
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