ABC News Reports - Trump Day 1 Jan 21, 2025
President Donald Trump rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, and presidential memoranda as part of more than 200 executive actions on the first night of his second presidency.
 

There were a record 42 executive orders and 115 personnel actions on Trump's "historic first day," White House officials said.
 

Trump signed a regulatory freeze to prevent the issuance of any more federal regulations pending their review, and a freeze on all federal government hiring.
Trump signed a memo that requires all federal workers to return to in-person work, as well as a directive to every department and agency in the federal government to address the cost-of-living crisis.
 

Trump signed a letter to be delivered to the United Nations indicating the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty.
 

Trump signed an executive order intended to restore "freedom of speech" to federal employees and end what he called "federal censorship."
 

Trump signed an executive order to end what he called the "weaponization of the government" against the political adversaries of the previous administration. As described to ABC News by multiple sources earlier Monday, the order would not explicitly direct any criminal investigations, but would direct the incoming attorney general and the heads of all departments and agencies to review law enforcement activity and actions taken by the intelligence community over the course of Joe Biden's presidency -- a sign that Trump would seek to "investigate the investigators," as he has previously indicated he would.
 

Trump signed executive actions including a sweeping series of pardons for defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol -- commuting the sentences of 14 individuals and offering a "a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals" -- approximately 1,500 people -- "convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021."
 

Officer Fanone Brutally Assulted at the Capitol. (Click On Photo)

The commutations for those who attacked police goes well beyond what many of his allies anticipated he would be prepared to extend to the Jan. 6 defendants.
The 14 individuals that Trump identified that he was commuting sentences for are those convicted or otherwise charged with engaging in the separate seditious conspiracies mounted by leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to thwart the lawful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021 -- among the more grave and high profile charges brought in connection with Jan. 6 attack.
 

Trump signed orders related to immigration and transgender Americans, as well as actions aimed at the elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across federal agencies.
 

Immigration actions
 

Among the Biden-era executive orders Trump rescinded was one that created a task force that helped reunite families separated by Trump's Zero-Tolerance policy in his first term, which led to the intentional separation of thousands of children from their parents at the southern border.
 

Trump signed an order declaring a national emergency at the southern border and declaring an end to birthright citizenship, stating that the U.S. would no longer recognize the citizenship of a child in the U.S. if their parents were not citizens or permanent residents in the U.S. -- despite that being protected by the 14th Amendment.
 

On a call with reporters Monday morning, incoming White House officials previewed other executive orders and actions the new Trump administration planned to take relating to the border and immigration.
 

"We will protect the American people against invasion," one of the incoming officials said. "This is about national security. This is about public safety. And this is about the victims of some of the most violent, abusive criminals we've seen enter our country in our lifetime. And it ends today."
 

The orders would reinstate the "Remain in Mexico" policy, end the practice of "Catch and Release," and complete the building of the wall at the southern border, officials said.
 

They would designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, end the ability for migrants caught between ports of entry to claim asylum, and suspend the resettlement of refugees for at least four months, they said.
 

Officials also said Trump would order "enhance vetting and screening" of migrants and direct agencies to provide recommendations for suspending entry for migrants from "countries of particular concern."
 

He would also create Homeland Security task forces to target undocumented gang members and criminals, and restore the death penalty when a law enforcement officer is murdered by an undocumented migrant, officials said.
While one of the incoming officials said the call was a "preview" of the "actions to be taken today," it was not clear from the call that all the orders would happen Monday. In addition, many of the plans would require help from international partners like Mexico and would almost certainly spark legal battles.