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President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction while freeing him to return to the White House without the threat of a prison time or a fine.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day 1 of the new White House, in what amounts to a shock-and-awe campaign on border security, deportations and a rush of other policy priorities.
Trump told Republican senators about the planned onslaught during a private meeting on Capitol Hill. Many of the actions are expected to launch on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, when he takes office. Trump top adviser Stephen Miller outlined for the GOP senators the border security and immigration enforcement measures that are likely to launch soonest.
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Axios first reported on Trump and his team's presentation.
"There will be a substantial number," said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.
Allies of the president-elect have been preparing a stack of executive orders that Trump could sign quickly on a wide range of issues — from the U.S.-Mexico border clampdown to energy development to federal Schedule F workforce rules, school gender policies and vaccine mandates, among other Day 1 promises made during his campaign.
While executive actions are common on the first day of a new White House, what Trump and his team plan is an executive punch unseen in modern times as he prepares to wield power in untested ways, bypassing the legislative machinery of Congress.
Some could be significant, others could be more symbolic messages of the new president's direction.
Senators briefed by Trump and his team during a lengthy session at the Capitol this past week are expecting the new administration to rollback many of the Biden administration executive orders while putting his own proposals in place.
Finishing the U.S-Mexico border wall, setting up immigration detention facilities where migrants could be housed until they are expelled are all part of the mix— some $100 billion in proposals, senators said— that incoming Trump administration and the GOP Congress are working to fund as part of their big budget reconciliation legislation.
Senators expect Trump to revert back to many of the same U.S-Mexico border measures in place during his first term— including those that require migrants to apply in other countries or remain in Mexico, rather than enter the U.S., while their claims are processed— as well as massive enforcement actions to deport those in the U.S. without legal authority.
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Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who led negotiations on border security and immigration during the last Congress, said he expects the Trump team to focus initially on an estimated 1 million migrants who he said most recently entered the country, were convicted of crimes or who courts otherwise determined are ineligible to stay in the U.S.
"That's the low-hanging fruit," Lankford said. "People that recently crossed, people that were legally present and committed other crimes, people that the court has ordered them removed— that's well over a million people. Start working through that process."
Many of Trump's choices for top administration jobs are going through Senate confirmation hearings this coming week. Traditionally, the Senate begins holding votes on a president's nominees as soon as he takes office, with some even being confirmed on Inauguration Day.
"That would be nice," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who said senators are still awaiting background checks and other paperwork for many of Trump's picks. "We'll see."
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Here are the people Trump picked for key positions so far
President-elect Donald Trump
Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
Pam Bondi, Attorney General
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security
Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services
Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Labor Secretary
Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development
Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation
Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture
Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce
Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary
Tulsi Gabbard, National Intelligence Director
John Ratcliffe, Central Intelligence Agency Director
Kash Patel, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director
Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Paul Atkins, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator
Elise Stefanik, Ambassador to the United Nations
Matt Whitaker, Ambassador to NATO
David Perdue, Ambassador to China
Mike Huckabee, Ambassador to Israel
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ambassador to Greece
Steven Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East
Keith Kellogg, Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia
Mike Waltz, National Security Adviser
Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
Tom Homan, ‘Border Czar’
Rodney Scott, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner
Billy Long, Internal Revenue Service commissioner
Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administration administrator
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services administrator
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to advise White House on government efficiency
Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget
Kari Lake, Voice of America
Additional selections to the incoming White House
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