President Donald Trump signs an executive order to create the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, as White House staff secretary Will Scharf watches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON: Hours after he was inaugurated as the US president, Donald Trump got to work.
He signed a slew of executive orders, including granting pardons to over 1,500 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
Also signed were orders relating to his promised immigration crackdown, and the US' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement - again.
Denia Mendez from Honduras 32, next to her daughter Sofia 15, who have both been seeking asylum for the past thirteen months, reacts to an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), informing her that her appointment with CBP scheduled for January 21 was cancelled, on the inauguration day of Donald Trump's second presidential term, at a shelter, in Piedras Negras, Mexico, January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Cheney Orr. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. REFILE - CORRECTING NAME AND AGE FROM DENIA ALVARADO MENDEZ FROM HONDURAS, 36 TO DENIA MENDEZ FROM HONDURAS 32.
CORRECTS ID TO TIKTOK CEO - TikTok CEO Shou Chew, center, stands with Tulsi Gabbard, right, the nominee to be the next director of national intelligence, during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)
US President Donald Trump (R) and First Lady Melania Trump during the Commander-In-Chief inaugural ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
A supporter of imprisoned participants of the January 6, 2021 riot on the US Capitol, waves a Trump flag outside the DC Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. US President Donald Trump signed pardons on January 20 for some 1,500 participants in the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol by his supporters who attempted to overturn the 2020 election. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
Jared Kushner (C) and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as the next President of the United States in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2025. Trump, who defeated Kamala Harris, is being sworn in today as the 47th president of the United States, though the planned outdoor ceremonies and events have been canceled due to a forecast of extreme cold temperatures. SHAWN THEW/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING SPELLING OF LAST NAME FROM KUSNER TO KUSHNER
Migrants gather at El Chaparral border crossing after their CBP One app asylum appointment was cancelled on the day of U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration, in Tijuana, Mexico January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
