President-elect Donald Trump is expected to sign a record number of executive orders on Monday after he takes the oath of office.
The topics are expected to include temporarily suspending the ban on TikTok, measures to toughen border security, stop diversity mandates in the federal government, multiple ones dealing with energy policy and to stop what he called the “over classification” of government documents.
“You are going to see something tomorrow. You are going to see executive orders that are going to make you extremely happy – lots of them, lots of them. We have to set our country on the proper course,” Trump said at a rally Sunday evening.
President Biden signed a total of 22 executive orders during his first week in office, marking a modern record at the time.
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“Somebody said yesterday, ‘Sir don’t sign so many in one day. Let’s do it over a period of weeks.’ I said, ‘Like hell we are going to do it over weeks.’ We are going to sign them at the beginning … we are doing them tomorrow,” Trump added.
As expected, some will deal with one of his top priorities: the border.
“The border security measures I will outline in my inaugural address tomorrow will be the most aggressive, sweeping effort to restore our borders the world has ever seen,” he told the crowd.
There will be multiple executive orders dealing with energy policy: opening up areas and easing permitting for oil and gas production, two Senate Republican sources familiar with the plans said.
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The president-elect also promised he would undo some of the recent executive actions President Joe Biden enacted. “Every radical, foolish executive order of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of when I take the oath of office.”
Trump told the rally he will pardon a number of defendants charged with the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
“Tomorrow everybody in this very large arena will be very happy with my decision,” referencing the Jan. 6 pardons.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser for Trump, teased on Sky News on Sunday that Trump could sign some executive orders inside the Capitol Rotunda shortly after being sworn in and then sign some additional actions later at Capital One Arena, where the presidential parade is now set to take place.
NewsNation partner The Hill contributed to this story.
