NEW YORK, January 21. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has rescinded 78 executive orders and memorandums by former President Joe Biden, CNN reported.
According to the TV channel, when addressing his supporters in the Capital One Arena sports and entertainment venue, Trump signed a number of decrees annulling Biden’s executive actions. The new US president reversed a total of 78 executive orders and memorandums from the previous administration, CNN noted.
Following the signing, the US leader threw the pens he had used to sign the papers at the crowd, the channel said.
On his first day in office in 2017, Trump only signed one decree, which focused on the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Republican Donald Trump won the US presidential election on November 5, 2024, beating the Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris, who served as the US vice president under the previous administration. Trump’s first term lasted from 2017 to 2021. He has become the second US president after Grover Cleveland (the 22nd and 24th US president in 1885-1889 and 1893-1897) to take office with a four-year break. Trump previously served as the 45th and now has become the 47th president of the United States.