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 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation's immigration policies Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall and block federal grants from immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities." 
 
 "We've been talking about this right from the beginning," Trump said during a brief signing ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security. 
 
 As of Wednesday afternoon, the White House had not circulated copies of the documents or briefed reporters on the details, as has been typical practice in past administrations. But Trump cast his actions as fulfillment of his campaign pledge to enact hard-line immigration measures, including construction of a wall paid for by Mexico. U.S. taxpayers are expected to pay for the upfront costs, though Trump continues to assert that Mexico will reimburse the money through unspecified means. 
 
 In an interview with ABC News earlier Wednesday, Trump said, "There will be a payment; it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form." 
 
 While Trump has repeatedly said the border structure will be a wall, his spokesman Sean Spicer said more generally Wednesday the president was ordering construction of a "large physical barrier." 
 
 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has insisted his country will not pay for a wall, is to meet with Trump at the White House next week. 
 
 The orders Trump signed Wednesday also increase the number of border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to be hired. And the president ordered the end of what Republicans have labeled a catch-and-release system at the border. Currently, some immigrants caught crossing the border illegally are released and given notices to report back to immigration officials at a later date. 
 
 Later in the week, Trump is expected to sign orders restricting the flow of refugees into the United States. His current proposal includes at least a four-month halt on all refugee admissions, as well as a temporary ban on people coming from some Muslim-majority countries, according to a source from a public policy organization that monitors refugee issues. The person was briefed on the details of that proposed action by a government official and outlined the plan to The Associated Press. 
 
 The public policy organization source insisted on anonymity in order to outline the plans ahead of the president's official announcements. 
 
 Trump campaigned on pledges to tighten U.S. immigration policies, including strengthening border security and stemming the flow of refugees. His call for a border wall was among his most popular proposals with supporters, who often broke out in chants of "build that wall" during rallies. 
 
 In response to terrorism concerns, Trump controversially called for halting entry to the U.S. from Muslim countries. He later turned to a focus on "extreme vetting" for those coming from countries with terrorism ties. 
 
 To build the wall, the president may rely on a 2006 law that authorized several hundred miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile frontier. That bill led to the construction of about 700 miles of various kinds of fencing designed to block both vehicles and pedestrians. 
 
 The Secure Fence Act was signed by then-President George W. Bush, and the majority of that fencing in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California was built before he left office. The last remnants were completed after President Barack Obama took office in 2009. 
 
 The Trump administration also must adhere to a decades-old border treaty with Mexico that limits where and how structures can be buil. The 1970 treaty requires that structures cannot disrupt the flow of the rivers, which define the U.S.-Mexico border along Texas and 24 miles in Arizona, according to The International Boundary and Water Commission, a joint U.S.-Mexican agency that administers the treaty. 
 
 Trump's order to crack down on sanctuary cities — locales that don't cooperate with immigration authorities — could cost individual jurisdictions millions of dollars. But the administration may face legal challenges, given that some federal courts have found that local jurisdictions cannot hold immigrants beyond their jail term or deny them bond based only a request from immigration authorities. 
 
 It appeared as though the refugee restrictions were still being finalized. The person briefed on the proposals said they included a ban on entry to the U.S. for at least 30 days from countries including Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, though the person cautioned the details could still change. 
 
 There is also likely to be an exception for those fleeing religious persecution if their religion is a minority in their country. That exception could cover Christians fleeing Muslim-majority nations. 
 
 As president, Trump can use an executive order to halt refugee processing. Bush used that same power in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Refugee security vetting was reviewed and the process was restarted several months later. 
 
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 Zoll reported from New York. AP writer Alicia A. Caldwell in Washington contributed to this report. 
 
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 Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States. 
 
 One hundred days ago, I took the oath of office and made a pledge: We are not merely going to transfer political power from one party to another, but instead are going to transfer that power from Washington, D.C., and give it back to the people. 
 
 In the past 100 days, I have kept that promise — and more. 
 
 Issue by issue, department by department, we are giving the people their country back. After decades of a shrinking middle class, open borders and the mass offshoring of American jobs and wealth, this government is working for the citizens of our country and no one else. 
 
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 The same establishment media that concealed these problems — and profited from them — is obviously not going to tell this story. That is why we are taking our message directly to America. 
 
 We have opened the White House doors to listen, engage and act. We’ve invited in labor leaders, factory owners, police officers, farmers, veterans and Democrats, Republicans and independents. 
 
 The change began with the termination of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a 12-nation pact that would have shipped millions more jobs to other countries. 
 
 But leaving the TPP was only the beginning. We have also launched an investigation into foreign trading abuses and taken steps to protect the production of American steel and aluminum. After years of federal contracts going to foreign bidders, we are ensuring that government agencies enforce “Buy American” rules and give preference to American companies — and that American companies hire American workers. 
 
 Crucially, to bring back our jobs, we are going to pursue a complete renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement: We’ve lost nearly a third of our manufacturing jobs in the 23 years since that terrible deal was approved. 
 
 At the center of our economic agenda, we’ve undertaken the most far-reaching effort in history to remove job-killing regulations. I’ve ordered that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. We’ve signed a record 13 Congressional Review Act resolutions to scrap job-crushing regulations, and I’ve signed 29 pieces of legislation in total — a mark not surpassed in the first 100 days since Harry S. Truman. 
 
 Those newly enacted laws include Veterans’ Choice legislation — which became law while at the same time we’ve increased by 42 percent the number of veterans approved to see the doctor of their choosing. And we’ve provided transparency by publishing all wait times at the Veterans Affairs health system online, backed up by a new Veterans Affairs Office of Accountability. 
 
 (Alice Li,Jayne Orenstein,Julio Negron/The Washington Post) 
 
 On energy, the change has been profound. We’ve canceled restrictions on the production of oil, natural gas and clean coal. 
 
 What we’ve accomplished on immigration and criminal enforcement is nothing short of historic. After decades of unending illegal immigration and mass uncontrolled entry, we’ve turned the tide as never before — illegal border-crossings are down 73 percent. Visa processes are being reformed to substantially improve vetting and screening, and we’ve launched prototypes and bidding for the border wall to stop the scourge of drugs, human trafficking and illegal immigrants from coming into our country. 
 
 Federal law enforcement has begun a crackdown on sanctuary cities that harbor criminal aliens — because we know the first duty of government is to protect American citizens. 
 
 The Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State, and the director of national intelligence, have formed an inter-agency group for the express purpose of dismantling transnational criminal cartels. The handcuffs have been removed from our prosecutors, and they’re targeting the drug dealers and gang members who prey on our citizens — and they’re working to eradicate the violent cartel MS-13. 
 
 The change on defense has been profound as well. The Defense Department has begun to rebuild and restore our military readiness. We’ve reasserted American leadership by holding the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria accountable for its monstrous use of banned chemical weapons against helpless, innocent civilians. Our successful missile strike enforced the red line that the previous administration drew but ignored, thus restoring our credibility with our friends and our deterrence with our foes. Finally, NATO countries are starting to pay billions of dollars more since I have made clear that the United States expects all of its allies to pay their fair share. 
 
 I delivered on one of my biggest promises, appointing and confirming a new justice to the Supreme Court who will be faithful to the U.S. Constitution. This is the first time a new justice has been confirmed in the first 100 days in 136 years. 
 
 As we’ve made these changes — on the border, on our economy, on our security — confidence has soared. And a survey of manufacturing reveals record-breaking optimism in the future. Consumer confidence hit a 16-year high . Thousands of new jobs are being re-shored back to America — including jobs at Ford, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Sprint, Intel and so many more. 
 
 We are proving that Buy and Hire American isn’t just a slogan — it’s now the policy of the U.S. government. It, along with the many other things we are doing, will Make America Great Again. 
 
 No longer will we listen to the same failed voices of the past who brought us nothing but war overseas, poverty at home and the loss of companies, jobs and our wealth to countries that have taken total advantage of the United States. 
 
 The White House is once again the People’s House. And I will do everything in my power to be the People’s President — to faithfully, loyally and proudly champion the incredible citizens who love this nation and who call this God-blessed land their home. ||||| President Donald Trump points to declines in illegal immigration, a new Supreme Court justice on the bench and rollbacks of policies set by his predecessor as examples of success within 100 days of his administration. 
 
 But he takes issue with the lack of credit he believes the media is giving him for his efforts. 
 
 "No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!," Trump tweeted April 21. 
 
 No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2017 
 
 While the Trump administration hasn’t accomplished more than past administrations in the first 90 days, as he falsely claimed, it has delivered on some campaign promises. 
 
 Here’s an overview of what Trump has done so far and how he fares on PolitiFact’s Trump-O-Meter, which tracks more than 100 promises he made on the campaign trail. 
 
 Promises Kept, and a Compromise 
 
 One of Trump’s most significant achievements so far has been the nomination and confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as a justice on the Supreme Court. But it did not come easy. 
 
 Democrats filibustered debate on Gorsuch’s confirmation, provoking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to invoke the "nuclear option" and change procedural rules so that a simple majority of votes (51) rather than a supermajority (60) would be needed to end debate and move toward a final confirmation vote. 
 
 Trump also moved on his pledge to sign a requirement that for every new regulation, two be eliminated, claiming that many regulations are wasteful and hinder businesses’ growth. 
 
 On the economic front, Trump directed the United States’ withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and successfully intervened to keep a Carrier furnace-manufacturing plant in Indiana rather than it relocating to Mexico (though jobs saved were fewer than what Trump claimed). 
 
 About a month into his presidency, Trump also nullified Obama-era gun control order that required the Social Security Administration to share records of individuals who get Disability Insurance benefits, information that would eventually show up on their background checks when they sought to buy guns. The Trump administration said it was getting rid of that rule because it "could endanger the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens." 
 
 Trump has made good on a campaign promise to place a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments. The ban is for executive branch appointees but includes a provision that would allow the president or a designee to waive the restriction. 
 
 We’ve rated as Compromise a similar promise to ban White House and Congressional leaders from lobbying government for five years. As a candidate, Trump said this would be reached through legislation. No such legislation has passed, but he signed an executive order to stop White House officials from lobbying. However, that restriction only applies to their former agency, and congressional officials are still not beholden to the five-year ban. 
 
 Promises In the Works 
 
 President Donald Trump signs Executive Orders in the Hall of Heroes at the Department of Defense Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Arlington, Va. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS) 
 
 Immigration 
 
 Through an executive order, Trump pushed forward one of his signature immigration promises: a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump insists Mexico will end up footing the bill, but the money still isn’t there, and the sovereign nation has not agreed to pay. It’s still to be determined if Congress will grant Trump $999 million for the planning, design and construction of the first installment of the wall (his supplemental budget request for fiscal year 2017), or the $2.6 billion requested for fiscal 2018, which would cover costs for the wall and other border security. 
 
 Trump also has expanded deportation priorities, giving immigration officials a longer list of categories of people who can be removed from the country. He also directed departments within his administration to enforce existing sanctions against countries that won’t take back their nationals. 
 
 Another executive order also paved way for the hiring of an additional 15,000 employees to carry out immigration laws. Trump’s order authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to hire 10,000 more U.S. Customs and Immigration officers and 5,000 more border patrol agents. 
 
 Trump has also spoken in favor of a merit-based immigration system and has met with Republican lawmakers who have introduced legislation that mirror his goal to limit legal immigration. A new "Buy American and Hire American" executive order directs his Cabinet to suggest reforms for the H-1B visa program that allows employers to temporarily hire foreign workers, advancing his promise to hire American workers first. 
 
 Defense 
 
 Before getting to the White House Trump did not want to talk about a plan to defeat ISIS because he feared it would tip off terrorists. But once he became president, he requested the Defense Department secretary create a preliminary draft of that plan. Trump received a framework in late February. 
 
 Trump has also sought money to rebuild what he’s called a "depleted military." His budget proposal for the Defense Department asks for an additional $54 billion above the budget cap, pushing forward his promise to end the defense sequester. 
 
 On an international scale, Trump has not backed away from his promise to get NATO allies to increase their defense spending. He’s highlighted this issue in meetings with Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general and with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 
 
 Other issues 
 
 The United States, Mexico and Canada still have not formally sat down for talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, but Trump’s administration is working on procedural steps to get there, his Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has said. 
 
 In contrast to the Obama administration that opposed the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline amid environmental concerns, Trump favors the pipeline, saying it would create 28,000 jobs. Within his first week in office, Trump signed a memorandum to allow the operator, TransCanada to re-submit a permit application for the pipeline to cross from Western Canada to the United States and transport more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day. The State Department issued that permit March 24. 
 
 Trump is also making headway on promises to scale back the Education Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, as his fiscal year 2018 budget request for both is 13 percent and 31 percent, respectively, below last year’s levels. 
 
 We’ll continue to monitor Trump’s actions and how they reflect his campaign promises. Take a look at more promises we’ve rated In the Works and at all the promises we’re tracking. ||||| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive actions on his first day in the White House on Friday to take the opening steps to crack down on immigration, build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and roll back outgoing President Barack Obama’s policies. 
 
 President-elect Donald Trump salutes the statue of Abraham Lincoln as he and his wife Melania take part in a Make America Great Again welcome concert in Washington. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 
 
 Trump, a Republican elected on Nov. 8 to succeed Democrat Obama, arrived in Washington on a military plane with his family a day before he will be sworn in during a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. 
 
 Aides said Trump would not wait to wield one of the most powerful tools of his office, the presidential pen, to sign several executive actions that can be implemented without the input of Congress. 
 
 “He is committed to not just Day 1, but Day 2, Day 3 of enacting an agenda of real change, and I think that you’re going to see that in the days and weeks to come,” Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said on Thursday, telling reporters to expect activity on Friday, during the weekend and early next week. 
 
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 Trump plans on Saturday to visit the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia. He has harshly criticized the agency and its outgoing chief, first questioning the CIA’s conclusion that Russia was involved in cyber hacking during the U.S. election campaign, before later accepting the verdict. Trump also likened U.S. intelligence agencies to Nazi Germany. 
 
 Trump’s advisers vetted more than 200 potential executive orders for him to consider signing on healthcare, climate policy, immigration, energy and numerous other issues, but it was not clear how many orders he would initially approve, according to a member of the Trump transition team who was not authorized to talk to the press. 
 
 Signing off on orders puts Trump, who has presided over a sprawling business empire but has never before held public office, in a familiar place similar to the CEO role that made him famous, and will give him some early victories before he has to turn to the lumbering process of getting Congress to pass bills. 
 
 The strategy has been used by other presidents, including Obama, in their first few weeks in office. 
 
 “He wants to show he will take action and not be stifled by Washington gridlock,” said Princeton University presidential historian Julian Zelizer. 
 
 Trump is expected to impose a federal hiring freeze and take steps to delay a Labor Department rule due to take effect in April that would require brokers who give retirement advice to put their clients’ best interests first. 
 
 He also will give official notice he plans to withdraw from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, Spicer said. “I think you will see those happen very shortly,” Spicer said. 
 
 Obama, ending eight years as president, made frequent use of his executive powers during his second term in office, when the Republican-controlled Congress stymied his efforts to overhaul immigration and environmental laws. Many of those actions are now ripe targets for Trump to reverse. 
 
 BORDER WALL 
 
 Trump is expected to sign an executive order in his first few days to direct the building of a wall on the southern border with Mexico, and actions to limit the entry of asylum seekers from Latin America, among several immigration-related steps his advisers have recommended. 
 
 That includes rescinding Obama’s order that allowed more than 700,000 people brought into the United States illegally as children to stay in the country on a two-year authorization to work and attend college, according to several people close to the presidential transition team. 
 
 It is unlikely Trump’s order will result in an immediate roundup of these immigrants, sources told Reuters. Rather, he is expected to let the authorizations expire. 
 
 The issue could set up a confrontation with Obama, who told reporters on Wednesday he would weigh in if he felt the new administration was unfairly targeting those immigrants. 
 
 Advisers to Trump expect him to put restrictions on people entering the United States from certain countries until a system for “extreme vetting” for Islamist extremists can be set up. 
 
 During his presidential campaign, Trump proposed banning non-American Muslims from entering the United States, but his executive order regarding immigration is expected to be based on nationality rather than religion. 
 
 Another proposed executive order would require all Cabinet departments to disclose and pause current work being done in connection with Obama’s initiatives to curb carbon emissions to combat climate change. 
 
 Trump also is expected to extend prohibitions on future lobbying imposed on members of his transition team. 
 
 ‘THE HIGHEST IQ’ 
 
 Washington was turned into a virtual fortress ahead of the inauguration, with police ready to step in to separate protesters from Trump supporters at any sign of unrest. 
 
 As Obama packed up to leave the White House, Trump and his family laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and attended a concert at the Lincoln Memorial. 
 
 Trump spoke earlier to lawmakers and Cabinet nominees at a luncheon in a ballroom at his hotel, down the street from the White House, announcing during brief remarks that he would pick Woody Johnson, owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League, as U.S. ambassador to Britain. 
 
 “We have a lot of smart people. I tell you what, one thing we’ve learned, we have by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled,” Trump said. 
 
 Trump has selected all 21 members of his Cabinet, along with six other key positions requiring Senate confirmation. The Senate is expected on Friday to vote to confirm retired General James Mattis, Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, and retired General John Kelly, his homeland security choice. 
 
 Senate Republicans had hoped to confirm as many as seven Cabinet members on Friday, but Democrats balked at the pace. Trump spokesman Spicer accused Senate Democrats of “stalling tactics.” 
 
 Also in place for Monday will be 536 “beachhead team members” at government agencies, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said, a small portion of the thousands of positions Obama’s appointees will vacate. 
 
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 Trump has asked 50 Obama staffers in critical posts to stay on until replacements can be found, including Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and Brett McGurk, envoy to the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State. 
 
 The list includes Adam Szubin, who has long served in an “acting” capacity in the Treasury Department’s top anti-terrorism job because his nomination has been held up by congressional Republicans since Obama named him to the job in April 2015. 
 
 The Supreme Court said U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath of office on Friday, met with Trump on Thursday to discuss inauguration arrangements. ||||| Republican presidential contender Donald Trump laid out a multi-pronged vision for his presidency on Saturday, saying in a speech that he opposed the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner while staking out opposition to China, illegal immigration and the current tax code. 
 
 In a high stakes speech billed as a "closing argument to voters," Trump used the speech to lay out a plan for his first 100 days in office, if he's elected. It functioned as a substantive laundry list of policies that the Republican vowed to address in the Oval Office, including ethics reform and stemming the flow of undocumented immigrants. 
 
 "On November 8, Amereicans will be voting on this 100 day plan to restore prosperity to our country, secure our communities and [restore] honesty to our government," Trump told an audience in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—an historic site where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Civil War address. 
 
 
 
 The GOP nominee struck familiar themes on a broad range of subjects, including tax reform, free trade and regulation that served as red meat to his base and a blueprint for his initial months in office. He also reiterated his support for building a wall on the border of Mexico, vowing that "Mexico would pay for a wall." 
 
 
 
 Down in most national polls and with his campaign overshadowed by accusations of sexual improprieties, the real estate mogul vowed to take a tough line on trade deals and struck a number of populist themes. He said he would brand China as a currency manipulator and would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 
 
 In addition, he vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare, which is currently in trouble as premiums soar and insurers bolt the insurance program. Trump also pledged to cancel "unconstitutional" executive orders issued by President Barack Obama, and said he'd find a suitable nominees for the Supreme Court. 
 
 On Friday, news broke that the cellular carrier AT&T and entertainment giant Time Warner were nearing agreement on a deal that could be announced this weekend. Trump said under a potential GOP White House, his administration would not approve the deal. 
 
 AT&T told CNBC it has no comments on Trump's remarks. 
 
 In a shift, Trump mostly refrained from directly attacking his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, but enumerated several policy differences between the two. His Gettysburg appearance came days after the final presidential debate, in which he pointedly lashed out at Clinton as a "nasty woman," reinforcing criticism that he was insensitive to women. 
 
 
 
 In that vein, Trump also vowed that he would sue the litany of women who have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behavior after the election, branding them as "liars." 
 
 "This is my pledge to you, and if we follow these steps we will once more have a government of, by and for the people, and more importantly we will make America great again," Trump stated. ||||| It was not clear whether the president would still sign an executive action to authorize renegotiation of Nafta, which he once called the worst trade deal ever signed by the United States. Washington must give Canada and Mexico six months’ notice before exiting the trade agreement, which came into force in 1994. Any action to that effect would start the clock. 
 
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 But the prospect of the United States’ pulling out obviously alarmed the Canadian and Mexican leaders and prompted their calls to the White House. 
 
 The Mexican peso plummeted in trading after news broke at midday on Wednesday that the White House had drafted an executive order withdrawing the United States from Nafta. Mr. Trudeau called Mr. Trump twice, on Tuesday and Wednesday, to discuss the sudden rupture in the trade relationship between the United States and Canada. 
 
 On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would impose a tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, in retaliation for what it said was unfair treatment of American dairy farmers. 
 
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 The president has repeatedly derided Nafta, describing it last week as “very, very bad” for the country, companies and workers, and he promised during his campaign that he would remove the United States from it if he could not negotiate improvements. 
 
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 The White House wants Congress to authorize those negotiations under legislation that would allow expedited approval of the reworked agreement, but talks between administration officials and congressional Republicans have moved slowly. 
 
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 While some of Mr. Trump’s senior advisers, notably Stephen K. Bannon and the economist Peter Navarro, are eager to take strong steps on trade policy, another group — which includes Gary D. Cohn, the head of the National Economic Council — has argued for a more cautious approach, concerned that larger steps could cause economic disruptions. 
 
 Lately, Mr. Trump has taken the stronger line, moving to reshape America’s economic relationships with foreign nations. The Nafta order would come on the heels of the announcement of the new tariffs on Canadian lumber and reviews of whether steel and aluminum imports are undermining national security. 
 
 “Nafta’s been very, very bad for our country,” Mr. Trump said last week. “It’s been very, very bad for our companies and for our workers, and we’re going to make some very big changes, or we are going to get rid of Nafta once and for all.” 
 
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 Walking away from Nafta would disrupt the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico, and strain broader relations among the countries. Over the last two decades, their economies have become increasingly intertwined. The volume of trade has multiplied, and the manufacture of many goods, notably cars, involves multiple border crossings and factories in all three nations. 
 
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 If the United States actually pulled out, experts said, trade with Canada would probably still be subject to a similar agreement between the two countries that took effect in the late 1980s and served as a model for Nafta. The Trump administration, however, could seek to withdraw from that agreement as well. 
 
 The shift in the rules governing trade with Mexico would be more significant. The two countries both take part in the World Trade Organization, but that allows much higher tariffs. Mexico, for instance, could impose a 37 percent tariff on American corn. The disruptions to manufacturing could also come at a hefty cost to consumers: Caroline Freund, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, has estimated that the cost of a pickup truck might increase by $3,000. 
 
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 Monica de Bolle, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, said: “It would be a very disruptive shock that would impact everybody. It would impact growth; it would impact companies and supply chains; it would impact workers; it would impact voters in Trump states. It’s just crazy to imagine that they would go that route.” 
 
 The suggestion of withdrawal, reported by Politico on Wednesday, raised anxieties in financial markets. The peso fell more than 2 percent against the dollar, and the Canadian dollar fell about 0.3 percent. 
 
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 “Scrapping Nafta would be a disastrously bad idea,” Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, said in a statement. “Yes, there are places where our agreements could be modernized, but here’s the bottom line: Trade lowers prices for American consumers, and it expands markets for American goods. Risking trade wars is reckless, not wise.” 
 
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 Both Mexican and Canadian officials have said repeatedly that they are ready to negotiate changes to the trade agreement. Written in the early 1990s, it is outdated in key respects: Its drafters, for example, did not foresee the rise of the internet. 
 
 “Canada is ready to come to the table at any time,” Alex Lawrence, a spokesman for the Canadian foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, told Reuters on Wednesday. 
 
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 In fact, the Obama administration negotiated changes to the deal as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a broader agreement that would have supplanted Nafta. Mr. Trump withdrew from that agreement as one of his first official acts. 
 
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 The Trump administration provided an indication of its own priorities in a letter circulated among members of Congress last month. While proposing some significant changes, such as strengthening the available penalties for breaches of the rules, it suggested that the administration was not seeking to alter the basic structure of the agreement, prompting relief both north and south of the United States. 
 
 The administration must send a final version of that letter to Congress to start another clock: a 90-day waiting period before negotiations. Starting both clocks would allow the White House to begin negotiations with Mexico and Canada while holding in hand the threat of walking away from the table. 
 
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 It is not clear whom that would hurt most. Mr. Trump has repeatedly denounced trade deficits as a major contributor to what he sees as the nation’s broken economy. 
 
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 But trade among the three North American nations is relatively balanced, particularly in comparison with trade between the United States and China. 
 
 The United States actually ran a trade surplus with Canada in 2015 and during the first three quarters of 2016, according to the most recent data available from the Commerce Department. American sales of goods and services to Canada exceeded purchases of goods and services from Canada, on average, by $1 billion a month. 
 
 The United States does run a monthly deficit of about $4 billion with Mexico, but even that is a small fraction of the roughly $28 billion monthly deficit with China. ||||| On the campaign trail, Donald Trump made bold economic promises for his first 100 days in office. 
 
 Now, as his 100th day nears on Saturday, it’s clear President Trump won’t be able to keep many of them. The most noteworthy perhaps is his pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare, which failed when he couldn’t bring Republican lawmakers to consensus. 
 
 Tax reform certainly won’t be passed before the 100-day mark, even if a rough outline is revealed Wednesday. 
 
 “Voters will recall that Trump had promised large tax cuts for the middle class, as well as tax deductions for childcare and eldercare—a proposal championed by his daughter, Ivanka. The President also backed away from a promise to call China a “currency manipulator” on day one. 
 
 But that’s not to say Donald Trump has completely reneged on his pledges to voters. Here are seven economic promises he did keep in the first 100 days. 
 
 1. Pulling out of TPP 
 
 It took only a matter of days for the President to fulfill this promise. On his third full day in office, Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. The pact, which was negotiated by President Obama’s administration but never approved by Congress, had included 12 nations bordering the Pacific including Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico, and others. 
 
 Critics on both the right and left argued hard that the deal would hurt U.S. manufacturers and could displace American jobs. Even Hillary Clinton, who had supported the agreement while serving as secretary of state in the Obama administration, argued against TPP on the campaign trail. 
 
 By the time Trump won the election, it was a surprise to no one that TPP would not be ratified by Congress. And now, without the U.S. involvement, the behemoth trade deal is essentially dead. 
 
 2. Hiring freeze on federal workers 
 
 In another one of Trump’s first actions as President, he followed through on a campaign promise to freeze hiring of federal workers. 
 
 The goal was to reduce the federal workforce through attrition, but it’s unclear yet if the impact has been significant. The White House lifted the freeze in mid April, with budget director Mick Mulvaney noting that the administration was replacing it with a “a more surgical plan” to reduce federal jobs. 
 
 “It does not mean that the agencies will be free to hire willy-nilly,” Mulvaney said. 
 
 3. Ban on lobbying by former administration officials 
 
 Indeed, Trump did pen an executive order banning executive branch officials from lobbying the U.S. government after they leave office. The restriction lasts five years, which is longer than the prior two-year ban imposed by President Obama. 
 
 The directive also imposes a lifetime ban on former White House officials lobbying foreign governments. 
 
 Trump had also promised to restrict congressional officials from lobbying the U.S. government for five years. As PolitiFact notes, federal lawmakers are already bound by law from engaging in lobbying activities for one to two years. Trump would have to convince Congress to override or amend that law if he wants to change the rules. 
 
 4. Refuse the $400,000 annual president’s salary or only take $1 
 
 President Trump gave his entire first-quarter salary, totaling $78,333, to the National Park service. Although his critics dismissed it as a publicity stunt, the gesture does fall in line with Trump’s campaign promise to refuse his presidential pay. 
 
 “It’s not as easy as you’d think” to give money to the government, Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer noted earlier this month, after he handed over a ceremonial check to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. 
 
 5. Lift roadblocks on the Keystone Pipeline 
 
 As promised, the Trump administration approved the construction of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. The State Department issued a permit to TransCanada on March 24, clearing the way for its construction after the Obama administration had blocked it. 
 
 However, the pipeline will not be required to use American-made steel as Trump had originally promised. 
 
 6. Lift restrictions on the energy industry 
 
 Last month, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order rolling back several of former President Obama’s signature environmental regulations. 
 
 The executive order immediately ended a moratorium on new leases for coal mining on federal land and initiated a formal review of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The review is the first step in a more lengthy process aimed at repealing or changing the rule, which is aimed at combatting climate change. 
 
 7. For every one new regulation, two will be repealed 
 
 When Trump met with business leaders during his first week in office, he told them his administration could cut regulations “by 75%, maybe more.” 
 
 Along with that goal, Trump signed an executive action on Jan. 30, ordering that for every one new regulation issued, federal agencies must identify two existing regulations to be eliminated Most regulations have to go through a lengthy review and comment process before they can be revoked, so the progress of his measure is difficult to measure at this stage in the game. ||||| WASHINGTON — On the morning of Jan. 21, 2017, his first full day in office, President Donald J. Trump will take a minute to settle behind the 19th-century Resolute desk, first used in the Oval Office by John F. Kennedy. 
 
 Then he will get very busy — if he follows through on his campaign promises for what he will do on his first day in office. 
 
 On Day 1, Mr. Trump has promised, he will redirect immigration enforcement, alter trade relations with China and other nations, relax restrictions on energy production, impose new rules on lobbyists, halt efforts to combat global warming, lift curbs on guns, push for congressional term limits and demand a new strategy for defeating the Islamic State. He may face some legal and procedural hurdles, but most of his Day 1 pledges involve issuing presidential directives, executive orders or memorandums that do not need legislative approval. 
 
 Although Mr. Trump and his top advisers have appeared to moderate some of his broader campaign pledges — they have suggested he might keep parts of the Affordable Care Act, delay building a wall along the border with Mexico and not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails — Mr. Trump has said nothing to indicate that he will not make good on his explicit Day 1 promises, many of which he delivered in his “Contract With the American Voter” during a speech in late October in Gettysburg, Pa.
– Donald Trump promises a busy first few days in office, with a series of executive actions ready to be rolled out within days. Some highlights: Day One may bring two major trade moves: Trump intends to give official notice that the US plans to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and that he wants to renegotiate NAFTA with Canada and Mexico, reports AP. Reuters reports executive orders are coming within days, and cites two: a directive regarding the construction of a Mexico border wall, and limitations on the entry of Latin American asylum seekers. "A senior GOP Hill aide said lawmakers anticipate that Trump will roll out multiple executive orders related to Obamacare. But the stresses they have not yet been briefed or given any heads-up about what is coming." See CNN. The Hill predicts "dramatic" funding cuts soon, and specifies five departments that will take a hit: Commerce, Energy, Transportation, Justice, and State. The New York Times rounds up all of Trump's "day one" promises from the campaign here, including a vow to lift restrictions on oil drilling. Trump plans to visit the CIA on Saturday after weeks of rancor between him and the intelligence community. He would attend the swearing-in of Mike Pompeo as the new chief, assuming the Senate confirms him on Friday, reports NBC News. Politico assesses the outlook for the first 100 days on some of the higher-profile issues, from a border wall to health care. On that wall, Trump can start aggressively, but "addressing larger immigration problems legislatively would require a vision that extended beyond fences and deportations." Read it here. ABC News' 100-day preview suggests a giant infrastructure bill might be one of the few initiatives that will get bipartisan support. Read it here.