Trump moves swiftly to implement new agenda

Trump praised Pete Hegseth during remarks at the Commander in Chief Ball tonight, saying that his nominee to lead the Pentagon would help him strengthen the U.S. military.

"We will again build the most powerful military the world has ever seen. We’re going to have it. You know, we did that four years ago, and then it was a little bit dissipated, but we’re going to do it again, but much bigger, much stronger than ever before," Trump said.

The Senate Armed Services Committee today advanced Hegseth's nomination to the full Senate on a party-line vote.

Earlier in his remarks, Trump spoke about being commander in chief for a second time.

"I’ve had no higher privilege in life than to serve as your commander in chief, not once, but twice," said Trump, who has faced criticism in the past for reportedly disparaging service members. Trump has denied making such remarks.

Trump signed an executive order halting offshore wind lease sales and pausing the issuance of approvals, permits and loans for onshore and offshore wind projects.

Trump’s order says the interior secretary will review federal wind leasing and permitting practices. The assessment will consider the environmental impact of onshore and offshore wind projects, the economic costs associated with the intermittent generation of electricity and the effect of subsidies on the viability of the wind industry, the order states.

Trump wants to increase drilling for oil and gas and has been hostile to renewable energy, particularly offshore wind.

Trump has signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.

It was not immediately clear how much assistance would be initially affected by the order. Funding for many programs has already been appropriated by Congress and obligated to be spent, if not already spent.

Among the blitz of executive actions Trump signed today is a memo allowing White House counsel to issue immediate top-secret security clearances for whomever Trump chooses for a period of six months.

He said the move was necessary due to "a backlog created by the Biden Administration in the processing of security clearances of individuals hired to work in the Executive Office of the President."

Trump has signed an executive order on immigration that simply restores what was in place when he took office in 2017.

Trump wants to end federal grants to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, or state and local governments that limit cooperation with immigration authorities. The White House maintains that sanctuaries are breaking a law that forbids interfering with federal law enforcement officers.

He also wants negotiations with state and local governments to deputize local police to enforce immigration laws, known as 287(g) agreements after a section of a 1996 immigration law.

The order restores deportation criteria to pursue everyone in the country illegally, not just those with serious criminal records, those deemed national security or public safety threats, and those who recently crossed the border.

After less than a week, Cuba is back on the U.S.' list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Among the 78 Biden executive orders and actions that Trump revoked was Biden's Tuesday memorandum removing Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. Trump first added the country to the list in January 2021, five years after former President Barack Obama had removed it.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced Trump's action, calling it an act of "arrogance and disdain for the truth."

"It is not surprising. His objective is to continue fortifying the cruel economic war against Cuba, with the goal of domination," Díaz-Canel wrote on X.

Cuba had announced that it would release more than 500 political prisoners after Biden removed it from the list. It is unclear whether the country still intends to release the political prisoners following Trump's decision.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former House speaker, slammed Trump's pardons and commutations related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In a post to X, she called his actions "an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution."

"It is shameful that the President has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who put their lives on the line to stop an attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power," she continued.

Pelosi added that people "must always remember the extraordinary courage and valor" of the officers who protected the Capitol during the attack.

It's a festive scene outside the D.C. Jail.

Over the past several hours, in frigid temperatures, about two dozen friends and relatives of people convicted of crimes related to their actions on Jan. 6 have been dancing around, waving flags, listening to music and occasionally taking calls from inmates inside the jail who could be released in a matter of hours.

The crowd is small but jubilant. They view this as a reckoning, not revenge. “We are so grateful for President Trump,” Suzanne Monk of the J6 Pardon Project said.

“Never seen a room so excited in my life,” a D.C. jail inmate told the crowd here over the phone tonight about watching Trump’s Emancipation Hall speech when he mentioned the pardons of those involved in the Jan. 6 riot.

Among the actions Trump signed tonight was a declaration of a national energy emergency to enable additional resource extraction, which he referred to as "a big one."

"That means you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem," Trump said. "And we do have that kind of an emergency."

The declaration permits Trump to boost U.S. energy production, including drilling in Alaska.

Trump signed an executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization, the global agency that came into the spotlight at the height of the Covid pandemic.

"Oh, that's a big one," Trump said as he took the black folder containing the executive order.

Trump then lamented how much funding the United States gives the WHO per capita and compared it with the amount of money sent by China.

"Seemed a little unfair to me," he said.

Trump signed an executive order tonight tackling the federal law banning TikTok, saying the order will give him the right to "either sell it or close it."

TikTok thanked Trump after it briefly went dark this weekend, crediting him with working to make sure the can remain accessible. Trump, now a proponent of the app, had previously denounced the app over national security concerns.

Regarding his change in position, Trump said when asked that it will "depend on the deal."

The president said that TikTok will be "worthless" if he does not approve the potential deal selling the app, and said he wants the U.S. to get "half of TikTok."

Trump said he is considering 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, the United States' top two trading partners.

Asked when he might impose the tariffs, Trump told a reporter in the Oval Office: "I think we'll do it February 1st."

Trump added that the reason for imposing tariffs was related to the fentanyl crisis.

Trump has revoked Biden’s landmark executive order on artificial intelligence.

Biden’s broad order, signed in October 2023, was aimed at addressing risks and opportunities around the rapidly expanding technology. It called for several safety measures, including federal guidelines for American companies that make AI content to “watermark” it to make sure it’s clear it isn’t made by a human. It also added funding for AI research and a federal AI hiring surge.

While AI safety advocates largely praised Biden’s order, some Republicans and conservative lobbyists opposed it for its regulation of AI companies, particularly their use of massive amounts of computing power.

Trump signed an executive order creating the "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE.

Asked whether Elon Musk, who is expected to helm DOGE, will get a West Wing office, Trump said he will get an office "for about 20 people that we're hiring to make sure these get implemented."

"We have a problem in this country. You sign an executive order and it doesn’t get done for six months," Trump said.

Trump this evening signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border, marking one of a flurry of executive actions he has taken so far as he attempts to stem the flow of immigration into the U.S.

"That's a big one," Trump said as he received and then signed the executive order.

Trump alluded to the executive order this afternoon, saying during his inaugural remarks as the 47th president that he intended to declare a national emergency at the southern border.

“Illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” he said.

Trump signed an executive order addressing birthright citizenship, though the text of the order has not yet been published on the White House website.

The move is almost certainly going to face swift legal pushback.

Trump, who has frequently criticized birthright citizenship on the campaign trail, called the concept "absolutely ridiculous."

Birthright citizenship is right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.

Trump signed an executive order tonight designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

When a reporter asked what he would do if Mexico is not on board, Trump said, "I don't know, you'll have to ask them."

Trump signed an executive order that an official said altered the U.S.'s refugee admissions program "to better align with American principles and American interests."

The text of the order has not yet been released.

Trump signed a pardon for about 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, he said.

He had often referred to them as "hostages." This appeared to be the first executive actions he took in the Oval Office.

Names of those pardoned have not yet been released.

Nayib Hassan, lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, told NBC News his client is being processed for release from federal prison because of an expected grant of clemency from President Trump.

Tarrio is serving a 22-year sentence at FCI Pollock, a medium security prison in Louisiana.

He was sentenced in September 2023 after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the highest profile Jn. 6 prosecutions.

“He is being processed out,” Hassan said.  “We do not know what type of clemency he is receiving."

The Anti-Defamation league said today that Elon Musk "made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute," as video and images of the gesture continued to spread across the internet.

"In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath," the group said in a post on X. "This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead."

The post comes as fallout from Musk's gesture made earlier today at a Trump rally spread quickly across social media, sparking celebrations from far-right extremists and condemnations from many on the left.

Musk, who did not respond to a request for comment, has in recent weeks embraced far-right European political groups including Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD). The AfD’s leader, Björn Höcke, has twice been found guilty by a German court of purposefully employing Nazi rhetoric, though he has appealed the rulings.

Earlier this year Musk responded to criticism that he was embracing fascism for pushing for the U.K. to revisit a scandal from more than a decade ago about men, some of them British-Pakistani, who groomed and sexually abused young women.

Trump signed an executive order requiring all federal workers to return to work in-person, ending remote work for federal employees.

President Donald Trump once again brought up whales in New England at an executive order signing ceremony.

It's a topic he's touched on recently, part of his long-standing opposition to windmills. He, like many others, has claimed that offshore windmills are responsible for whale deaths recently.

But experts, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, have been adamant that wind turbines are not leading to whale deaths.

After one recent whale death, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Executive Director Regina Asmutis-Silvia called it "beyond frustrating to have the integrity of our team challenged if our findings don't coincide with someone's political agenda," citing social media campaigns trying to link whale mortality and wind farms.

Read more about what scientists have said about offshore wind farm activity and whales here.

In his sixth executive order signing of the night, Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Treaty, which the U.S. rejoined in 2021.

"We're going to save a trillion dollars by withdrawing from that treaty," an aide said as he signed the order.

One of the other documents signed by Trump was a letter addressed to the United Nations saying that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty.

One of the executive orders Trump signed onstage addresses what Trump called a regulatory freeze that he said would prevent the issuance of new regulations for now.

Trump signed an executive order imposing a freeze on the hiring of new federal workers, with exceptions for some departments and agencies like the military.

"Could you imagine Biden doing this? I don't think so," Trump told the crowd after he signed the third order.

Trump signed his first executive order at the arena.

An announcer said that it rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions. The exact actions were not specified.

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The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting unanimously to give President Donald Trump the first member of his new Cabinet on Inauguration Day.

Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida, is among the least controversial of Trump’s nominees and the vote was decisive, 99-0. Another pick, John Ratcliffe for CIA director, is also expected to have a swift vote. Action on others, including former combat veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, is expected later in the week.

Trump announced at his rally some of the executive actions he plans to sign.

"First, I’ll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history," Trump said.

Trump said he would also issue a hiring freeze, "to ensure that we’re only hiring competent people who are faithful to the American public, and we will pause the hiring of any new IRS agents."

Among other actions, Trump will also be signing a presidential memo, he said, that directs his cabinet "to marshal every power at their disposal to defeat inflation and rapidly bring down the cost of daily life because your costs have gone through the roof in the last four years."

Trump kicked off his speech to supporters saying he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants today.

"We'll be signing pardons for a lot of people," he said.

The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday voted along party lines to send Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be defense secretary to the Senate floor as President Donald Trump tries to move quickly to get critical members of his Cabinet in place. 

All 14 Republicans on the committee voted in favor of Hegseth, while all 13 Democrats voted against him. Despite initial concerns about allegations of sexual assault, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement — all of which Hegseth has denied — not a single Republican senator has said so far they will vote no, meaning he is likely on track to be confirmed by the Senate.

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The Senate Intel Committee just voted 14-3 to report John Ratcliffe’s nomination to be CIA Director to the full Senate, according to a spokesperson for the committee.

Ratcliffe, the former Texas congressman who served as Trump's director of national intelligence during his first term, is expected to be confirmed to the new position in the coming days once the full Senate votes on his nomination.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., was asked by NBC News whether he will stay in the role.

“That’s my plan,” he said.

Trump and his close circle had planned to fire military leaders whom they viewed as too involved with diversity initiatives, specifically name-checking Brown. The president reconsidered that promise last month after Trump and Brown spoke at the Army-Navy football game.

President Donald Trump says he will again withdraw the United States, a top carbon polluting nation, from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.

The White House announcement, which came as Trump was sworn in Monday to a second term, echoed Trump's actions in 2017, when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris accord. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels or, failing that, keeping temperatures at least well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels.

The 2015 Paris agreement is voluntary and allows nations to provide targets to cut their own emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Those targets are supposed to become more stringent over time, with countries facing a February 2025 deadline for new individual plans. The outgoing Biden administration last month offered a plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035.

Trump signed a proclamation that flags must be at full height at every future Inauguration Day.

The proclamation came because former President Jimmy Carter's death had prompted flags to be at half staff.

Trump demanded they be moved up Monday.

The proclamation states: "By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in honor of Inauguration Day and everything good and noble that it represents about our Nation, our people, and our form of Government, I hereby order that, on this and all future Inauguration Days, the flag of the United States shall be flown at full-staff."

Claim: Discussing his desire for the U.S. to take back the Panama Canal, Trump said: “American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And, above all, China is operating the Panama Canal."

The Facts: Officials in Panama have denied Trump’s claims that China is operating the canal and that the U.S. is being overcharged. Ricaurte Vásquez, administrator of the canal, said in an interview with The Associated Press that “there’s no discrimination in the fees.”

“The price rules are uniform for absolutely all those who transit the canal and clearly defined,” he said.

He also said China was not operating the canal. He noted Chinese companies operating in the ports on either end of the canal were part of a Hong Kong consortium that won a bidding process in 1997. He added that U.S. and Taiwanese companies are operating other ports along the canal as well.

Vásquez stressed that the canal can’t give special treatment to U.S.-flagged ships because of a neutrality treaty. He said requests for exceptions are routinely rejected, because the process is clear and there mustn’t be arbitrary variations. The only exception in the neutrality treaty is for American warships, which receive expedited passage.

The first days of a new administration are regularly filled with shuffling of personnel, particularly at the top of federal agencies and departments, where previous heads have resigned and new leaders haven't yet been confirmed.

At the moment, the acting attorney general is James R. McHenry III, and the acting deputy attorney general is Emil Bove. McHenry previously served as the chief administrative hearing officer at the DOJ, and in the department's Executive Office for Immigration Review. Bove is a former assistant U.S. attorney who defended Trump in his hush-money case.

Trump's pick to lead the department, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, is still awaiting Senate confirmation but is expected to be confirmed.

Still in the Capitol, Trump signed his distinct signature on several cabinet and sub-cabinet level appointments.

The president signed these in batches, putting his signature on just one document with 47 sub-cabinet appointments.

Next to him, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joked, "but you don't have to sign it 47 times."

"That's important," Vance also joked when an aide handed Trump a document that the aide said contained, "31 acting designations and appointments to effectively take control of the government."

He also signed a proclamation ordering all future inauguration days including this inauguration day, that flags should be flown at full staff. Until this morning, the flag had been at half-staff to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died last month.

Trump and his new administration have prepared a list of pardons for people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Pardoning Jan. 6 defendants has been a frequent campaign-trail promise for Trump, who called the violent attack a “day of love” on multiple occasions. 

Notably, Trump could issue pardons for about 700 rioters who were convicted of a crime but never sentenced to prison or have completed sentences. A subset of those individuals will have their voting and gun rights restored once pardoned. 

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An asylum seeker waiting for their CBP One appointment with U.S. authorities shows an updated message on the CBP One app stating that all appointments have been canceled, on Jan. 20, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico.

“I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families,” said Trump. “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.”

“For this purpose, we are establishing the external revenue service to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury coming from foreign sources, the American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before to restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government,” he continued.

Pentagon officials were just notified that the Acting Secretary of Defense is Robert Salesses, the current Deputy Director of Washington Headquarters Services and Acting Director of the Facilities Services Directorate. 

Trump's nominee to run the department, Pete Hegseth, is still going through the confirmation process.

During his inauguration speech, Trump riffed on why he wanted to change the name of Mount Denali in Alaska back to honor President William McKinley.

But the state's two GOP senators don't back the idea.

An aide to Sen. Dan Sullivan told the Anchorage Daily News that the senator "like many Alaskans prefers the name that the very tough, very strong, very patriotic Athabaskan people gave the mountain thousands of years ago — Denali." And the Anchorage Daily News points out that Murkowski posted her support for keeping the name Denali on X last month.

The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.

A notice on the website of Customs and Border Protection Monday just after Trump was sworn in let users know that the app that had been used to allow migrants to schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available. The notice said that existing appointments have been cancelled.

The move adheres to a promise Trump made during his campaign and will please critics who say it was an overly generous magnet for more people to come to Mexico’s border with the United States.

The CBP One app has been wildly popular. It is an online lottery system to give appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings. They enter on immigration “parole,” a presidential authority that Joe Biden used more than any other president since it was introduced in 1952.

Trump's statement: “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” Trump said in his address. “It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury coming from foreign sources.”

Verdict: This needs context.

Analysis: Tariffs are taxes levied on imported goods coming into the U.S. for sale. While foreign companies pay the tariff at the border, economists largely agree that tariffs are typically passed down — at least in part — onto American consumers at the point of sale.

So while these import taxes may fill up treasury coffers, it is simultaneously costing American citizens: American consumers paid hundreds of dollars each year in higher costs as a result of the tariffs Trump enacted in his first administration, according to one analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Trump says he wants to send American astronauts to Mars, saying he “will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars” and “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.”

Billionaire Elon Musk of SpaceX threw his hands up in the air as Trump announced the U.S. would plant its flag on Mars.

In the first presidential speech of his second term, Trump lamented that the U.S. ever sold the Panama Canal to Panama.

The Panama Canal "has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States — the United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal."

Trump added, "And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back." The administrator of the Panama Canal denied that China was in control of operations.

This isn't the first time Trump has mentioned getting the Panama Canal back in U.S. control since he was elected in November. At a press conference at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, Trump did not deny that he would be willing to use military force to take back the canal.  

Trump vowed to “defeat what was record inflation.”

Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022 after rising steadily in the first 17 months of Biden’s presidency from a low of 0.1% in May 2020. The most recent data shows that as of December it had fallen to 2.9%.

But other historical periods have seen higher inflation, such as a more than 14% rate in 1980, according to the Federal Reserve.

The new Trump administration released its first official statement shortly after the swearing-in.

The statement breaks down the priorities into the following categories: Make America Safe Again, Make America Affordable and Energy Dominant Again, Drain the Swamp and Bring Back American Values.

Under making the country safe, the statement says: "The Armed Forces, including the National Guard, will engage in border security, which is national security, and will be deployed to the border to assist existing law enforcement personnel."

During his inaugural address, Trump promised to "end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private light."

He added that he will "forge a society that is colorblind and merit based" and "as of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female." 

Reviving a popular campaign trail refrain, Trump in his inaugural address promised to "Drill, baby, drill," a line met with cheers from his audience.

"I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill," Trump said.

Later in his speech, the president added that he would "end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers."

Trump announced that one of his first actions as president will be to declare a national emergency at the southern border. He said he will return to hardline immigration policies enacted during his first term and designate drug cartels as foreign terror organizations, using the law to take out what he calls "foreign gangs and criminals." Trump had teased a slew of orders on immigration and more leading up to his inauguration.

"All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places of which they came," Trump said. "We will reinstate my remaining policy in Mexico. I will end the practice of catch and release, and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

"As commander-in-chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions."

President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for all of his living siblings and their spouses minutes before he is set to leave office.

Biden said while none of those pardoned had committed any wrong doing, he was issuing them to protect them from partisan politics. The pardons came as he said in the Capitol Rotunda for the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump.

"My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics," he said in a statement. "Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end." 
 
"I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics.  But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families.  Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances."
 
"That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden. The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense." 

Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is stepping aside from Trump's advisory "Department of Government Efficiency," which he was expected to lead with tech billionaire Elon Musk, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Instead, Ramaswamy is expected to announce a bid for governor of Ohio early next week, the sources say.

“It became increasingly clear over last week that pursuing the governor’s race and running DOGE was not compatible. He’s leaving on good terms with Trump, Elon and the team,” one of the sources told NBC News. 

NBC News previously reported on Ramaswamy's interest in running for governor, a decision made easier by Gov. Mike DeWine's decision to tap Lt. Gov. John Husted to fill the Senate vacancy being left by Vance's elevation to vice president. But despite Ramaswamy's ties to Trump, other Ohio Republicans don't seem to be dissuaded from considering their own gubernatorial bids.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., denounced Trump's expected executive order to end birthright citizenship in a post this morning, calling the move "unconstitutional."

"Ending birthright citizenship is anti-America and unconstitutional. Plain and simple," Gallego said in the post on X.

Gallego conceded that "we need to address our broken immigration system and secure the border," but argued "executive actions like this run contrary to the ideals of what makes our country great, and I will do all I can to fight this un-American executive order."

According to the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship is required for “all persons born or naturalized in the United States."

President-elect Donald Trump has promised sweeping executive actions in a second administration.

On the campaign trail, he promised to implement mass deportations, impose tariffs on China, reverse President Joe Biden's orders on equity and roll back energy and climate measures, among other actions, "on Day 1."

While some of his pledges are feasible under executive power, many other will likely face legal and Constitutional challenges.

Read more here about executive orders, their limitations, which president signed the most and how recent commanders in chief rank in comparison.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali soon after taking office, Trump-Vance Transition Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Monday.

The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed as the "Gulf of America," which Trump hinted at earlier this month.

Alaska's Mount Denali, the highest mountain in North America, will revert to Mount McKinley — which it was called until 2015 when President Barack Obama changed the name to honor the indigenous name used by the Koyukon Athabaskans, the original inhabitants of Alaska.

In a first look at the executive orders Donald Trump intends to issue Monday soon after his inauguration, NBC News is reporting that they cover everything from the border wall to birthright citizenship.

Many of the orders will likely immediately face challenges.

Those 10 orders include, but are not limited to:

• Declaring a national emergency at the border so that the Department of Defense can deploy the military and the national guard to the border.
• End so-called "catch and release" policies.
• Reinstate the so-called "Remain in Mexico" policies. It is not clear if Mexico has agreed to participate.
• Continue building the border wall
• Suspend refugee resettlement for at least 4 months. 
• Designate cartels and migrant gangs, specifically MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
• End birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is a constitutionally protected right, according to the the 14th amendment. Any executive orders attempting to end are likely faces legal challenges.

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