GOP senator promises 'shock and awe' from Trump executive orders [View all]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 12 January 2025 20:55 GMT


“Shock and awe” is what the public can expect from President-elect Donald Trump’s first day in office when he issues a “blizzard” of executive orders set to re-shape U.S. policy on the economy and immigration.

Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming invoked the antagonistic military-strategy phrase while describing a preview of January 20, when Trump is sworn in. “When President Trump takes office next Monday, there is going to be shock and awe with executive orders,” Barrasso told CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday after meeting with Trump last week. “A blizzard of executive orders on the economy as well as on the border.”

It’s long been established that Trump will sign various executive orders to fulfill his campaign promises of closing the U.S.-Mexico border, beginning mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and reversing Biden-era clean energy policies and civil rights protections for LGBT+ people, among other actions.

Newly inaugurated presidents typically sign a series of executive orders within their first days in office, making good on their opening salvos for administration priorities after their campaigns. But as January 20 draws closer, it’s becoming clear that Trump intends to overwhelm the public and government with new, and potentially drastic, changes — what Barrasso described as “shock and awe”.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-barrasso-trump-executive-orders-shock-awe-b2678243.html