President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at his rivals in his first television interview since taking office as the 47th president of the United States. Trump sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity and offered scathing criticism of former President Joe Biden and former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. In his first days in office, Trump continued to take sweeping executive actions, including ordering the closure of all executive branch offices of diversity, equity and inclusion and ordering furloughs for all employees who work in those offices.
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Asked what it would be like to return to the Oval Office, the president said it would take "a lot of work" to reverse the tenure of his Democratic opponent and that a lot of things shouldn't happen under Biden.
"We're not going to have inflation, we're not going to have the disaster in Afghanistan, we're not going to have the death of so many people in Israel on October 7th, we're not going to have the war in Ukraine going on," Trump said.
In his inaugural address, Trump promised a return of "national unity." But for much of the week, the returning president continued to attack foes who had lost power. He called former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming a "crying lunatic."
--Philip M. Bailey and Francesca Chambers
Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday that would end automatic citizenship for children of foreign parents, regardless of whether they are here legally.
On Tuesday, a coalition of 18 states sued Trump and federal agencies in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, claiming the order was unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a separate legal challenge in New Hampshire on behalf of immigrant advocacy groups on similar grounds.
They say it would upend a fundamental aspect of the United States of America: Anyone born here is from here.
The executive order, titled "Protecting the Value and Meaning of U.S. Citizenship," would prevent federal agencies from issuing Social Security cards, passports or welfare benefits to U.S.-born children, a sweeping reinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, which The amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
—Lauren Villagran
Within hours of taking office, Donald Trump began issuing a slew of executive orders and directives.
Trump signed a raft of executive orders in marker pen, many of which he has long vowed to implement, such as declaring a state of emergency at the southern border and pardoning some 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. people.
But what is an executive order? This is a directive signed by the President of the United States on how the federal government should operate.
The orders harness the power of the law and range from federal employee holidays to major policy initiatives. The president can use executive orders to establish new committees or executive-wide policies.
—Anthony Robledo and Sibley Meyers-Osterman
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