Donald Trump will declare an emergency at the US-Mexico border as one of a host of executive orders the incoming president is expected to sign on Monday and in the coming days.
Incoming White House officials have said the first wave of executive orders is said to cover a mix of campaign trail promises, reversals of outgoing President Joe Biden’s policies and restructuring of the federal government workforce.
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One of the most high-profile orders will be Mr Trump declaring a national emergency on the US-Mexico border as part of a wider crackdown on immigration and other cross-border crimes.
At a rally on Sunday, Mr Trump reportedly said: “You’re going to see executive orders that are going to make [you] extremely happy, lots of them … we have to set our country on the proper course.
“By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt, and all the illegal border trespassers will in some form or another, be on their way back home.”
Sky News’ US partner NBC News has reported Mr Trump is expected to sign more than 50 executive orders on Monday, and possibly more than 100, citing a person in his transition operation.
Border and immigration
On the border, Mr Trump is set to declare a national emergency.
This would in part redirect defence department funding to support US troops assigned to a mission on the border.
During his first term, Mr Trump did the same after Congress refused to give him the money to build a border wall.
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Energy and climate
However, the border emergency is reportedly not the only one Mr Trump intends to declare.
NBC News said he is expected to declare a second national emergency aimed at expanding the administration’s ability to improve domestic energy production.
Alongside that, he reportedly will: allow more drilling both offshore and on federal lands, end a freeze on liquid natural gas exports and cut off climate-related funding that was approved under the Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Biden.
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Government workforce
In another executive order, Mr Trump reportedly will implement Schedule F.
This eliminates job protections for potentially thousands of federal workforce positions, which could make it easier to fire them.
The Pentagon and military
Mr Trump intends to reverse an order by President Biden that allows transgender people to serve openly in the military in their self-identified gender.
The order also provided greater access to medical care and even support for gender transition.
Alongside that, NBC News said that Mr Trump would reverse two other decisions by the Democrat who beat him in the 2020 election.
One would change the location of the US Space Command headquarters, moving it from Colorado to Alabama.
The other would reverse a 2022 decision that provided paid leave and reimbursed transportation costs for troops and dependents who travelled out of state for abortion and other reproductive care.
TikTok and Hunter Biden
Mr Trump has said he would sign an extension for TikTok to find a buyer, to comply with the law that went into effect on Sunday.
Mr Trump would also reportedly suspend security clearance for 51 national security officials who signed a letter saying that Hunter Biden’s emails and laptop had the hallmarks of a Russian operation.
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