President Donald Trump wasted no time signing an executive order Monday that aims to give him more control over the federal workforce – whom he has long vilified as the “deep state.”

Here's what to know about executive orders as President Donald Trump plans for several on his first day in office.

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using the fastest tool he has — the executive order. An incoming president signing a flurry of executive orders is standard practice.

Here's what an executive order is, how it works, and its limitations in the U.S. government, as President Trump prepares to use them on his first day back in office.

Biden's order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public.

President Donald Trump has promised a range of executive orders as he takes office. How do they work for presidents?

The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.

The order is one of several energy-related executive actions Donald Trump will take as soon as he is sworn into office.

Some federal departments have more than half their staff working remotely—meaning Trump's new executive order is a problem.

Donald Trump, returning to the White House after a first term that saw him issue 220 executive orders, has guaranteed to continue the trend of bold, unilateral action. Touting to enact stricter border policies,