After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president, he outlined some of the main priorities he planned to enact through executive orders, ranging from deportations and border controls to renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump’s use of executive orders isn’t new — the orders are a tool incoming presidents often use when they first take office.
The signed statements typically outline how the president wants the federal government to be managed, through instructions to agencies, requests for reports, and in some cases major policies reforms.
Here’s some of the major executive orders Trump will sign on his first day.
Leading up to his inauguration, Trump said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, something he made clear he plans to do with an order on Monday.
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Whether he’ll be able to unilaterally make the change is debated, according to the Associated Press, and …