NEW: Trump Plans To Sign Around 100 Executive Orders On Day One

President-elect Donald Trump indicated that he plans to sign upwards of 100 separate executive orders immediately after assuming office, according to reports from multiple U.S. Senators. Trump, who is set to be inaugurated for the second time on January 20, met with Senate Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday.

During a Thursday appearance on “Fox and Friends,” Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) revealed that Trump detailed his plans for executive orders to address key issues like border security and energy policy.  “The president was very clear, he just wants results,” Mullin said when asked about the ongoing budget negotiations on Capital Hill. “He also talked about his executive orders. He says, you know, he has almost 100 executive orders that will go a long way to securing the border again. And also put the energy sector back in play, and actually a ‘drill baby drill’ process where we become energy independent again. And all that can be done through executive orders. But as he said, it’s not permanent,” the Oklahoma senator continued, adding that Republican senators will need to deliver legislative wins to make sure Trump’s achievements are long-lasting.

“He threw that out — 100 — there could be like 100 EOs, yeah. I believe him,” Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told The Hill, seemingly reiterating what Mullin told Fox News. The incoming president communicated that “a-lot of” the orders would be related to curtailing illegal immigration, Cramer added. Stephen Miller — a senior Trump advisor who will have significant input on immigration policy — also spoke at the two-hour meeting and detailed a number of immigration-related executive orders that will take effect immediately.

Trump is widely expected to re-institute Title 42 policies, which allows the federal government to take emergency action in numerous ways, including to “stop the introduction of communicable diseases.” While the code has been in place for decades, The Trump Administration widely used it as a tool to curb illegal immigration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy allowed border agents to turn would-be asylum seekers away in order to curb the spread of infectious diseases.

Trump inspects border wall prototypes in San Diego during his first term in the White House

Elsewhere on the border front, President-elect Trump will be reintroducing the “Remain In Mexico” policy, which required perspective asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed. The Biden Administration has instead opted for a catch and release policy, under which illegal aliens are released and oftentimes transported to locations of their choosing within the U.S. interior. Since Joe Biden took office in 2021, 77 percent of asylum seekers have been allowed to remain in the country. The current backlog of asylum cases stands at 3.5 million, while the White
House has simply terminated thousands of cases in order to make the numbers look better. Once cases are closed, illegal aliens are no longer in “removal proceedings” and can no longer be subjected to deportation.

One of Biden’s first actions as president was to rescind former President Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy.

The asylum process itself has also been under intense scrutiny throughout the Biden presidency. International asylum law requires applicants to apply in the first safe country they enter, though this is not the case on the southern border, as “asylum seekers” have been showing up from all over the world. More than 10,000,000 illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden took office, a large number of them being “asylum seekers” from Africa, the Middle East, and dozens of additional countries that would require travel through dozens of international borders before reaching the United States.

Trump is also reportedly planning a number of executive orders aimed at immediately increasing U.S. energy production. The president-elect has long vowed to re-introduce the Keystone XL oil pipeline between the United States and Canada after it was discontinued by President Biden.

The oil pipeline has a long, back-and-forth political history. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama initially rejected permits to build the project. Trump reversed Obama’s decision in 2017, only for President Biden to immediately reverse it once again after taking office in January 2021.Biden’s decision to abandon the project caused project developer TC Energy, to move on, presenting an extra step for the president-elect once he returns to the White House, as he will need to work to secure another one. “It’s on the list of things they want to do first day,” one source familiar with the Trump transition team told Politico back in November.

Trump has also promised to do away with a number of President Biden’s policies relating to energy policy, including bans on offshore oil drilling. “Banning offshore drilling will not stand. I will reverse it immediately,” Trump said during a lengthy press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. “I will revoke the offshore oil, gas drilling ban in vast areas on day one.”

The president-elect has also vowed to scrap President Biden’s electric vehicle mandates, which required the federal government’s vehicle fleet to convert fully to an electric model by 2030.

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