In order to signal a dramatic departure from current policies on issues such as immigration, the environment, and diversity initiatives, US President Donald Trump issued a large number of executive orders at the beginning of his presidency, according to The New York Times.
The rush of executive actions was an attempt to reverse many of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s most important domestic policies, mainly on immigration and climate change, while simultaneously reimposing a Trump agenda that would begin mining and drilling on natural resources and fundamentally upend the United States’ role as a refuge for refugees and immigrants worldwide.
In a speech on Monday night, Trump also declared that he was rescinding almost 80 “disruptive, radical executive actions of the previous administration.”
