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🎧 Trump revokes 78 Biden administration executive actions just hours after inauguration

💬 And within hours of entering the top office President Trump was quick to flex with his presidential powers with a flurry of executive initiatives.
Our Kim Bo-kyoung covers a few of them.

Right after being sworn in as the 47th U.S. President, Donald Trump wasted no time in signing a number of executive orders.
At the Capital One Arena in Washington, he revoked what he called 78 "destructive and radical" executive actions made by the previous administration.
One of which was directing the U.S. to again withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.
This is the second time he's done so, having exited it in his first term in 2017, only for then-President Biden to rejoin the agreement in 2021.

“But I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair one-sided Paris Climate Accord grip of. The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”

At the Oval Office, he signed several orders including a far-reaching immigration agenda.
Just hours after his inauguration speech where he emphasized prioritizing a crackdown on illegal immigration, he signed an order declaring a national emergency at the southern border.

"We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country."

He also came up with new strategies, like ending birthright citizenship, and halted a Biden-era application the CBP One, which has been used by nearly a million migrants to enter America.

In terms of trade, Trump did not immediately impose tariffs on other countries, but said his administration is considering imposing 25-percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting February first.
He did order federal agencies such as Commerce and Treasury departments and USTR to review existing trade agreements. and recommend any necessary or appropriate revisions to secure or maintain what he called “reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions” with partner countries under free trade agreements.

Trump also took aim at electric vehicles, revoking Biden's 2021 executive order that sought to ensure half of all new vehicles sold in the States by 2030 were electric, and again, reversed Biden's decision to remove Cuba from a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.

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