ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - In his first few hours back in the White House, President Donald Trump planned to issue a large number of executive orders to both push his policy vision forward and reverse mandates put in place by his presidential predecessor, Joe Biden.

Trump’s administration said he plans to issue around 100 executive orders in the first few days he is back in the Oval Office, covering everything from policy at the southern border to diversity programs in the government.

Rapid-fire executive orders — which carry the same weight of authority as a law passed by Congress — is not uncommon for incoming presidents.

“They all do it. Every president in the modern era has done it,” said Eric Segall, a professor of constitutional law with Georgia State University. “That is not inconsistent with how our country has been running for a very long time.”

But executive orders are at the mercy of the judicial branch and are, many times, challenged in court.

“They can and will be challenged in court,” Segall said.

Trump has promised his most fervent executive action on immigration. He plans to declare crossings at the southern border a national emergency, allowing him to utilize the U.S. military. He also plans to end birthright citizenship, which could be complicated as that right is enshrined in the Constitution.

Trump also plans to retool a litany of existing policies on LGBTQ issues and American trade and energy policy.

He will immediately end all diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the government, establish biological sex definitions for federal workers and as part of revised Title IX guidance to schools, and remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons and for transgender migrants in U.S. custody.

Trump also intends to declare a national energy emergency, which could allow him to unlock powers to speed permitting for pipelines and power plants while ordering the federal government to roll back regulations that impede domestic energy production to bring down prices.

Here is a list of all the executive actions President Trump is proposing in his first few days in office:

Immigration and the border:

• Close the border to asylum-seeking migrants and end asylum and birthright citizenship. The president cannot change the Constitution on his own, so it’s not yet clear how Trump plans to end the guarantee of citizenship for those born in the United States, which is in the 14th Amendment.
• Involve the U.S. military in border security. This would draw immediate legal challenges because of the strict limits in American law for how the armed forces can be deployed inside the country.
• Declare migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency, which would allow Trump to unilaterally unlock federal funding for border wall construction, without approval from Congress, for stricter enforcement efforts.
• Designate drug cartels as “global terrorists.”

Federal work force:

• End remote work policies and order many agencies back to the office four to five days a week.

Gender and diversity, equity and inclusion initiative:

• Establish biological sex definitions for federal workers and as part of revised Title IX guidance to schools
• Remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons.
• Remove protections for transgender migrants in U.S. custody.

Tariffs and trade:

• Direct federal agencies to begin an investigation into trade practices, including trade deficits, unfair currency practices, counterfeit goods and a special exemption that allows low-value goods to come into the United States tariff free.
• Assess China’s compliance with a trade deal Trump signed in 2020, as well as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump signed in 2020 to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
• Order the government to assess the feasibility of creating an “External Revenue Service” to collect tariffs and duties.

Energy and the environment:

• Declare a national energy emergency, which could allow him to unlock powers to speed permitting for pipelines and power plants.
• Order the federal government to roll back regulations that impede domestic energy production.
• Signal an intention to loosen the limits on tailpipe pollution and fuel economy standards.
• Roll back energy-efficiency regulations for dishwashers, shower heads and gas stoves.
• Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
• Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.

Delaying the ban on TikTok

Trump vowed early Sunday to issue an executive order to give ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, more time to make a sale and satisfy a law that would ban it in the United States. The incoming White House officials previewing Trump’s executive actions on Monday did not address any executive action on the app.

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