Republican’s team aiming to keep enemies on the back foot with flurry of orders
US president Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump was roughly eight hours into his second term in the White House when he sat down in the Oval Office before an eager pack of reporters, took up his familiar Sharpie-brand pen and opened the floodgates.
Prompted by White House staff secretary Will Scharf, Trump began signing a series of executive orders – one to end what he called “the weaponisation of the federal government”, another to wipe away large chunks of his predecessor’s work by rescinding dozens of orders signed by Joe Biden, plus more orders upon more orders that reimplemented policies he’d tested out during his first term, or trying out new and aggressive theories of presidential power to accomplish long-held goals that eluded him over his initial four years in office.
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