Washington, United States: Rolling back Obamacare and industry regulations. Deporting undocumented immigrants. Scrapping trade deals. And of course, building that border wall.
It will be an extremely busy first day in the White House for Donald Trump if he lives up to his various campaign and transition pledges to undo the policies of Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency.
Some orders or guidance can be reversed with the stroke of a pen. Other policies will take months or longer to unwind. But he will be able to set efforts in motion on several fronts.
Trump has outlined dozens of actions he intends to take in the first hours of his presidency, but experts told AFP that the 70-year-old billionaire’s effectiveness will be limited, given that the executive office is just one branch in a government that includes Congress and the judiciary.
“He can’t just walk in there and do everything he wants to do on day one,” immigration attorney David Leopold told AFP.
