US President-elect Donald Trump will sign more than 200 executive orders soon after taking office after his swearing-in ceremony on Monday. These will include legally binding orders and other presidential directives. Many of the orders will also repeal policies adopted by the outgoing President Joe Biden’s administration. That is, by virtue of this order, a president can make policy changes without a vote of lawmakers in parliament.
However, these orders have to be implemented within the ambit of the law and sometimes some of these orders may be challenged in the courts. This can be especially the case when it comes to policies like immigration.
Republican Donald Trump has pledged to unilaterally act on mass immigration deportations, ease environmental restrictions, and more through his presidency. He will take this step by signing a series of executive orders to fulfill them.
Trump told supporters at a victory rally the day before his inauguration on Monday that he would begin work with “historic speed and strength” after taking the oath of office. “You will see an executive order that will make you happy,” he assured supporters.
Trump said that through these executive orders, the country’s crisis will be solved and America will be guided in the right direction. And within a few hours of taking the oath, Trump also said that every aggressive and reckless executive order of Biden’s administration would be canceled. In the first term, Trump signed 220 executive orders. Some of these orders were challenged in court. And when Biden became president, he signed 160 executive orders. And before that, Barack Obama and George W. Bush signed 277 and 291 executive orders respectively during their two consecutive terms in office.