Live Updates: Trump, Newly Inaugurated, Details Planned Executive Action
"In his inauguration speech, he promised to declare a national emergency at the southern border, as he did in 2019, among other plans. He is expected to sign close to 100 orders on his first day in office.

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President Trump is expected to sign as many as 100 executive orders within hours of taking office Monday afternoon. A desk for Mr. Trump to potentially sign some of the orders was set up at Capital One Arena, where Mr. Trump is scheduled to speak later in the day. The directives are set to address a broad swath of American life, touching on immigration, climate and energy policy, and diversity initiatives in the federal government.
After taking the oath of office, Mr. Trump said in his inaugural address that he would signorders declaring a national emergency at the border, allowing the deployment of troops, and a national energy emergency, allowing him to unlock powers to speed permitting for pipelines. Mr. Trump said he would also sign orders designating cartel organizations as “global terrorists,” and ending regulations enacted by the Biden administration aimed at encouraging the sale of electric vehicles.
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, just shared a warning on X to migrants thinking of crossing into the country: “All illegal aliens seeking entry into the United States should turn back now. Anyone entering the United States without authorization faces prosecution and expulsion,” he said. Earlier today, the Trump administration shut down an app that allowed migrants to schedule appointments to enter at legal ports of entry.
The term “expulsion” refers to the rapid removal of migrants at the border through a public health authority, known as Title 42. We know that Miller and other Trump advisers have for months considered using a public disaster rule at the border and have searched for diseasesthat they could use to justify the action. It is unclear if they will still try to use that public health authority to shutter the border or rely on another policy.
President Trump’s promise to end electric vehicles “mandates” using executive action on Monday reflects the view among Republicans that Americans are being coerced into giving up their gasoline cars. But no law or regulation forces anyone to buy an electric car.
Most Biden-era policies were incentives, including $7,500 tax credits for electric vehicle buyers and subsidies and loans that automakers and suppliers could use to build battery factories.
The Pentagon on Monday removed a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a corridor of the building filled with paintings of all of his predecessors.
The decision to take down the portrait was an early salvo by the new administration against a military establishment that President Trump has assailed for a variety of perceived offenses.
Sheriff Tom Schmerber, an elected Democrat in Maverick County, Texas, was watching on a television in his office near the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday as President Trump delivered his second inaugural address.
“It’s all about common sense,” Mr. Trump was saying, as he promised drastic changes to the nation’s immigration system.
President Trump said at his inauguration on Monday that he would sign a barrage of executive orders to grant his administration new powers to promote fossil fuels and to withdraw support for renewable energy, signaling that the United States government would no longer fight climate change.
Mr. Trump also intends to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on global warming, for a second time. He said that vast areas of public land and federal waters, including fragile wilderness in Alaska, would be thrown open for oil and mineral extraction. And he said he would repeal regulations aimed at promoting electric vehicles and stop new offshore wind farms from being built in federal waters.
President Trump said in his inaugural address on Monday that he would soon take steps to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, drawing visible laughter from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico,” Mr. Trump vowed, repeating a pledge that has irritated Mexico’s leadership.
Robert G. Salesses, a midlevel Pentagon official, will serve as acting defense secretary until a new secretary is confirmed by the Senate, the White House said on Monday.
The move to have a midlevel official take over, even temporarily, was unusual, but no Biden political appointees agreed to fill the job under Mr. Trump, Defense Department officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
The White House on Monday said that President Trump would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the pact among almost all nations to fight climate change.
By withdrawing, the United States would join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only four countries not party to the agreement, under which nations work together to keep global warming below levels that could lead to to environmental catastrophe.
James R. McHenry III, a career Justice Department official who serves in the immigration review section, has been named interim attorney general, according to a federal official with knowledge of the pick. He is not expected to serve long: The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Pam Bondi’s nomination out of committee on Wednesday and the full Senate could vote to confirm her shortly after.


A sense of hopelessness and confusion spread among migrants at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana on Monday as news came that the CBP One program had been abruptly canceled by President Trump. CBP One is an app that allowed migrants to schedule appointments at border ports of entry to present their asylum claims.
Dozens of migrants who stared at their phone screens trying to check whether their appointments were still valid found a crushing message: “Existing appointments have been canceled.”
“I am in shock,” said Maura Hernandez who received the news this morning as she arrived in Tijuana with her four small children from the state of Michoacán, one of Mexico’s most violent states. She had a scheduled appointment on Tuesday.
“I don’t know what is going to happen to us,” she said, adding that they had fled their homes amid rampant insecurity. “I had a whole plan and now life has made a horrible turn.”
Gustavo Selva from Venezuela had received the hopeful news of his scheduled appointment 21 days ago. Over the weekend, however, he received an email informing him it had been delayed until Feb. 9.
“We are so disappointed,” he said after reading the update on his phone.
By then he had already traveled to Tijuana from the southern state of Chiapas, where he had waited for seven months for his appointment to go through.
“We thought we could enter today without a problem; now we will be stranded here indefinitely,” Mr. Selva added.
Uncertainty and confusion reigned in this popular border crossing as more and more migrants read or heard the news, while many stayed in line saying they would wait until an immigration officer told them otherwise.
“This is so hard,” said Juan Antonio Nieto, who left El Salvador four months ago and had a scheduled appointment for Monday. “If the government does not let us in, we don’t know what we are going to do, we have no money to go back.
“But until someone tell us we can’t go in, we still have faith in God they will allow us in,” Mr. Nieto added.
A Mexican immigration officer said that as of 9:30 a.m. Monday morning, there had been “no logistical changes” to deal with migrants who had a scheduled appointment for today.”
Aline Corpus contributed reporting.

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Reporting from Panama CityIn a statement posted on X, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama said that he roundly rejected the statements President Trump made during his inaugural address, namely that China is operating the Panama Canal and that the United States plans on taking it back. “The canal is and will continue to belong to Panama and its administration will continue to be under Panamanian control,” Mulino said.
Nonprofit groups filed three lawsuits against President Trump’s administration minutes after he took office on Monday, arguing that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency was violating laws that require federal advisory committees to be open to the public and to include a diversity of viewpoints.
Mr. Trump’s new “department” is not actually an agency of government but rather an informal effort to slash spending and bureaucracy that is led by two wealthy supporters, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Those two have said they will work outside government and advise officials inside the new Trump administration.
The Trump administration on Monday abruptly closed down a government program created by the Biden administration to allow migrants to use an app to secure an appointment for admission into the United States through legal ports of entry, signaling the start of President Trump’s promised crackdown at the southern border.
Moments after Mr. Trump took the oath of office, an announcement posted on the CBP One program’s website declared that the app would no longer function and that “existing appointments have been canceled.”
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