Headline Roundup • January 20th, 2025
Trump to Sign Over 200 Executive Orders on Inauguration Day
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Incoming President Donald Trump will sign over 200 executive orders after his inauguration Monday afternoon, Fox News (Right bias) has reported.
The Source: Fox reported speaking to “a senior administration official” who said Trump’s orders “will fundamentally reform the American government, including the complete and total restoration of American sovereignty.”
The Report: Several of the orders will allegedly involve reinstating some policies from Trump’s first term that were undone by the Biden administration on Day One. Fox reported the orders will include: withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord again, giving TikTok more time to find a new owner, ending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the federal government, and suspending security clearances of the intelligence officials who “lied” about the Hunter Biden laptop.
For Context: On January 8, Trump reportedly told Republican senators he would sign over 100 executive orders on Day One. On Day One in 2021, President Biden signed 17 executive orders.
How The Media Covered It: The Independent (Lean Left bias) prominently noted that Fox reported the news first and that ABC News (Lean Left bias) confirmed it later. Al Jazeera (Lean Left bias) analyzed the executive orders issued by every U.S. president throughout history.
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Donald Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office, according to a report by Fox News Digital, later backed up by ABC News.
This record-setting first wave of policy priorities will focus on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, the network reports.
According to a senior administration official, Trump is set to sign multiple “omnibus” executive orders, each containing dozens of major executive actions.
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President-elect Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day—a massive, first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.
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