Toby Keith performs at a pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (Associated Press) 
 
 Toby Keith performs at a pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (Associated Press) 
 
 Toby Keith performs at a pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (Associated Press) Toby Keith performs at a pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump campaigned on a detailed and extensive to-do list for his first day in office. A day before his swearing-in, his team was being coy about when and how he plans to cross items off it. 
 
 As he's assembled his new government, Trump has backed off some of his promised speed, downplaying the importance of a rapid-fire approach to complex issues that may involve negotiations with Congress or foreign leaders. On others issues, he's affirmed his plan, indicating significant policy announcements may be teed up in the first hours and days of the Trump administration. 
 
 On Thursday, transition spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump would issue two executive orders on trade soon. On his Day One list, Trump said he would formally declare the United States' intention to withdraw from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which he vigorously opposed during his campaign as detrimental to U.S. businesses and workers. He also promised to declare his intention to renegotiate the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement or withdraw from the deal. 
 
 "I think you will see those happen very shortly," Spicer said. 
 
 Other issues likely to see early action include energy, where he's likely to undo regulations on oil drilling and coal, and cybersecurity, where he has already said he will ask for a report on the strength of the nation's cyber defenses within 90 days of taking office. 
 
 He's also made broad promises to upend immediately President Barack Obama's immigration policies, although some of those vows may be difficult to keep. 
 
 The president-elect has said he sees Monday as the first big workday of his administration, his effective Day One. Trump said at his first post-election news conference last week that people would "have a very good time at the inauguration" but his team planned "some pretty good signings on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, and then, also the next week." 
 
 The real estate mogul is expected to sign some paperwork on Friday. He must formally nominate members of his Cabinet, in order to allow some of them to be voted on by the Senate. The transition team has also said he may sign executive orders — some logistical, others focused on his agenda — that will kick off his administration. 
 
 "Specifically we've focused in the president-elect's direction on a Day One, Day 100 and Day 200 action plan for keeping our word to the American people and putting the president-elect's promises into practice," Vice President-elect Mike Pence said during a briefing with reporters on Thursday. Pence, who chaired Trump's transition team, added: "We are all ready to go to work. We can't wait to get to work for the American people." 
 
 Trump's Day One plan was an ambitious and specific list. It includes proposing a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, imposing a hiring freeze for federal workers, and beginning to remove immigrants who are criminals and living in the country unlawfully. 
 
 The list includes "cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama." Given Trump's objections to many of Obama's policies, that category could involve some dramatic changes. 
 
 Among those would be cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has protected about 750,000 young immigrants from deportation. The program also offered those immigrants work permits. 
 
 If he makes good on his promise to terminate the program, Trump could choose to immediately cancel the deportation protection and revoke the work permits, or he could opt to block new enrollment and allow those already approved to keep their work permits until they expire. 
 
 Trump has said he plans to focus immigration enforcement efforts first on criminals, a group he said could including 2 million to 3 million people. 
 
 Trump also pledged to "move criminal aliens out day one" in operations with state, local and federal authorities. That promise will be harder to keep on his first few days in office. Jurisdictions around the country objected to helping enforce federal immigration laws. He will also face a shortage of jail space. The government has enough money to keep 34,000 people in immigration jails at a time and has recently detained more than 40,000 people because of a surge of immigrants arrested at the Mexican border last year. 
 
 Also on Trump's list was labeling China a currency manipulator. But Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last week that he no longer planned to do that on the first day. "I would talk to them first," he said. 
 
 If Trump opts for a slower pace, it may be because he is still setting up his administration. He is awaiting confirmation of Cabinet choices and staffing federal agencies and has left vital spots such as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers unfilled so far. Instead of unveiling an updated series of policies, Trump devoted part of his transition to meeting with prominent CEOs and touting jobs announcements by their companies. His team has also spent weeks reviewing Obama's executive actions to determine which ones can be eliminated quickly. 
 
 Trump's team also faces the daunting process of naming a Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Trump has said he will announce a nominee in about two weeks. 
 
 Trump's promises of swift changes have been cheered on by congressional Republicans, who have seen their agenda blocked by Obama for the past eight years. Pence and Trump aides have shared some details for the first few days with House leadership and told lawmakers to expect the incoming president to move quickly to undo Obama's legacy. 
 
 "There is a call of history and that calls us to put America back on the rails again," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, "and we've now been delivered the tools to do this by the voters." 
 
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 Associated Press writer Alicia A. Caldwell contributed to this report. 
 
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 Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned. 
 
 
 
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 The changes they propose are dramatic.The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies. The departments of Transportation, Justice and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has helped staff the Trump transition.Similar proposals have in the past won support from Republicans in the House and Senate, who believe they have an opportunity to truly tackle spending after years of warnings about the rising debt.Many of the specific cuts were included in the 2017 budget adopted by the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), a caucus that represents a majority of House Republicans. The RSC budget plan would reduce federal spending by $8.6 trillion over the next decade.Two members of Trump’s transition team are discussing the cuts at the White House budget office: Russ Vought, a former aide to Vice President-electand the former executive director of the RSC, and John Gray, who previously worked for Pence, Sen.(R-Ky.) and Speaker(R-Wis.) when Ryan headed the House Budget Committee.Vought and Gray, who both worked for the Heritage Foundation, are laying the groundwork for the so-called skinny budget — a 175- to 200-page document that will spell out the main priorities of the incoming Trump administration, along with summary tables. That document is expected to come out within 45 days of Trump taking office.The administration’s full budget, including appropriations language, supplementary materials and long-term analysis, is expected to be released toward the end of Trump’s first 100 days in office, or by mid- to late April.Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Trump’s choice to head the Office of Management and Budget, has not yet weighed in on the proposed spending reforms because he is still awaiting confirmation by the Senate.Mulvaney voted for the RSC budget offered as a more conservative alternative to the main House Republican budget in 2015. The House did not vote on the RSC budget for fiscal year 2017.The preliminary proposals from the White House budget office will be shared with federal departments and agencies soon after Trump takes the oath of office Friday, and could provoke an angry backlash.Trump’s Cabinet picks have yet to be apprised of the reforms, which would reduce resources within their agencies.The budget offices of the various departments will have the chance to review the proposals, offer feedback and appeal for changes before the president’s budget goes to Congress.It’s not clear whether Trump’s first budget will include reforms to Social Security or Medicare, two major drivers of the federal deficit.Trump vowed during the campaign not to cut Medicare and Social Security, a pledge that Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), his pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, told lawmakers in testimony Wednesday has not changed.Yet it could be very difficult to reduce U.S. debt without tackling the entitlement programs. Conservative House budgets have repeatedly included reforms to Medicare and Social Security, arguing they are necessary to save the programs.The presidential budget is important in setting policy and laying out the administration’s agenda, though Congress would be responsible for approving a federal budget and appropriating funds.Moving Trump’s budget through Congress could be difficult. In 2015, with the GOP in control of the House, the RSC budget failed by a vote of 132 to 294.Moderate Republicans and Democrats on the Appropriations Committee are likely to push back at some of the cuts being considered by Trump.But they seem likely to have the support of Mulvaney, a conservative budget hawk who backed the RSC budget.“Mick Mulvaney and his colleagues at the Republican Study Committee when they crafted budgets over the years, they were serious,” said a former congressional aide. “Mulvaney didn’t take this OMB position to just mind the store.”“He wants to make significant, fundamental changes to the structure of the president’s budget, and I expect him to do that with Vought and Gray putting the meat on the bones,” the source added.The Heritage blueprint used as a basis for Trump’s proposed cuts calls for eliminating several programs that conservatives label corporate welfare programs: the Minority Business Development Agency, the Economic Development Administration, the International Trade Administration and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. The total savings from cutting these four programs would amount to nearly $900 million in 2017.At the Department of Justice, the blueprint calls for eliminating the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Violence Against Women Grants and the Legal Services Corporation and for reducing funding for its Civil Rights and its Environment and Natural Resources divisions.At the Department of Energy, it would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.Under the State Department’s jurisdiction, funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are candidates for elimination.Conservatives allied with fiscal hawks such as Pence, Paul and the Heritage Foundation say the time is long past due to get serious about cutting the federal deficit.“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation. ||||| 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. ||||| Donald Trump’s presidency will ultimately be measured by whether he can transform the bombastic, details-free campaign style that propelled him to victory into substantive policy actions that look like success to the American people. 
 
 The obstacles are already piling up: Building the U.S.-Mexico wall requires money that isn’t there. Repealing Obamacare is an easy vote, but Republicans are thoroughly divided about how to replace it. Pulling out of a trade deal takes little more than a signature. But negotiating new ones — on Trump’s terms — will require more diplomatic skill and compromise than Trump has shown at any point during his remarkable run for the presidency. 
 
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 The barriers to real policy success are innumerable and unpredictable. From tax reform to national security challenges to economic uncertainties, Trump’s campaign promises have run into trouble with his own party — even his own Cabinet members — before he even takes the oath of office. 
 
 One hundred days is an arbitrary period of time to assess a new presidency — blame FDR and the New Deal for that one. Nonetheless, POLITICO assigned its policy reporting teams to handicap the road ahead for the first 100 days of the Trump administration, identifying the policy ideas, the leaders and the obstacles that will be used to define success or failure of the new White House. 
 
 HEALTH CARE 
 
 The vision: Trump has promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which he has repeatedly called a “disaster.” He says he’ll replace it with cheaper and better insurance for “everybody.” But Trump splits with congressional Republicans who want to overhaul Medicare by partially privatizing it. He sides with Republicans on proposals to turn Medicaid, the health care program geared to the poor, into lump-sum state payments — an idea that Democrats abhor. He also wants to allow government health programs to negotiate drug prices, a stance sure to alienate Republicans and the powerful drug lobby. 
 
 Key leaders: Trump; Vice President Mike Pence; House Speaker Paul Ryan; Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary; Seema Verma, Trump’s pick to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Trump has promised executive actions on Day One to begin rolling back Obama’s health law. Many health officials also expect action in the near term to prop up the Obamacare exchanges so they don’t implode during the transition period. The timeline for congressional action on repeal-and-replace legislation is extremely iffy: Trump has indicated his administration would submit its own plan “almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter” when his pick for secretary of Health and Human Services is confirmed. 
 
 Obstacles: Devising a plan that satisfies conservative Republicans implacably opposed to a major federal role (or expense) in health care, while winning over at least eight Senate Democrats needed to pass legislation, will be daunting — especially without upending his own base by taking health coverage away from 20 million people, including many of his voters. 
 
 TRADE 
 
 The vision: Trump has promised to revive the U.S. manufacturing sector, beef up the enforcement of existing trade deals and punish companies that move jobs overseas. His top priorities include pulling out of trade agreements like the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration negotiated and hoped to get ratified before leaving office, and renegotiating NAFTA. Trump and members of his incoming Cabinet say they’re not against trade but see a need for stronger deals, preferably bilateral agreements. 
 
 With a triumvirate of China hawks leading his trade policy, Trump is pledging to challenge China’s use of tariffs, subsidies and other barriers to gain an unfair trade advantage. Trump also says he wants to cut the U.S. trade deficit by boosting exports and reducing imports, and he wants to slap hefty tariffs on imports of products from companies that move factories elsewhere. 
 
 Key leaders: Leading Trump’s trade policy will be trade attorney Robert Lighthizer as U.S. trade representative, economics professor Peter Navarro as head of the newly formed National Trade Council and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as Commerce secretary. While USTR traditionally takes the lead in negotiating trade policy, Trump has said that Ross, at Commerce, will be the chief architect of his agenda. 
 
 Trump has named Jason Greenblatt, his longtime attorney, to serve as “special representative for international negotiations,” a role the president-elect said would include helping negotiate trade deals around the world. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is also expected to focus on trade deals in his role as senior adviser. 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Trump says his Day One agenda includes dropping out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Tight on its heels will come the renegotiation of NAFTA, though Trump and his trade advisers have yet to get specific on what exactly they would like to change about the pact. 
 
 The president-elect has also expressed strong interest in pursuing a bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom, though the U.K. can’t begin negotiations on new agreements until it finishes its exit from the European Union. 
 
 Trump could also instruct his pick for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, to label China a currency manipulator. Mnuchin and others have tempered the claim more recently. 
 
 Trump’s pledges to implement “a big border tax” have also picked up steam, and he could move early in his term to impose a 35 percent tariff on imports of goods from companies that move production offshore. 
 
 Obstacles: The executive branch has an extraordinary amount of authority over trade policy, a setup that will allow Trump to carry out, at least initially, much of what he has pledged to do. But he’s not the only one who has a say. 
 
 Some members of Congress could explore ways to check Trump’s trade moves by reasserting Congress’ constitutional authority over tariffs and trade. 
 
 International reaction is likely to be another obstacle, with other countries moving to retaliate against punitive tariffs. The renegotiation of NAFTA, for example, will be limited by what Canada and Mexico agree to — though Trump has threatened to pull out of the deal entirely if he does not get the terms he wants. 
 
 TAX REFORM 
 
 The vision: Republicans who have long wanted corporate tax reform have full control in Washington and quickly laid out a plan for overhauling the tax code through the budget resolution adopted earlier this month. 
 
 Trump and congressional Republicans broadly share the same goals — lowering tax rates for individuals, corporations and businesses that pay taxes as individual; boosting production in the United States; and scrapping many of the incentives currently in the tax code. 
 
 Key leaders: Trump; Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s choice for Treasury secretary; Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council; House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.); House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas); Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Trump advisers initially talked a big game on taxes, floating the idea that reform could be taken care of by spring. But it’s pretty clear now that Republicans won’t be able to focus their full energies on tax reform until after their work is done on Obamacare — and the timeline there remains pretty cloudy. 
 
 Obstacles: Trump and House GOP leaders started squabbling about perhaps the central plank in the House tax reform plan — a “border adjustability” framework that taxes imports but exempts exports — before Trump even took the oath of office. As the old saying goes, there are always winners and losers in tax reform. So expect to hear more from potential losers if and when the administration and the Hill work out more of the tax reform details. 
 
 JOBS 
 
 The vision: Trump campaigned as a champion of the working class and repeatedly promised to bring manufacturing and coal jobs back to the U.S. His campaign platform promised 25 million new jobs in the next decade. Since his election, he’s touted announcements by various companies, including United Technologies Corp., and most recently General Motors, as evidence that major firms into creating or keeping jobs in the U.S. Trump has threatened corporate America with a 35 percent border tax on any company that moves production outside the U.S. and then tries to ship goods back to the country. 
 
 Key leaders: Andrew Puzder, Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department, is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which owns Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. Puzder opposed the Labor Department’s overtime rule (now blocked by a federal court), and has been reluctant to raise the hourly minimum wage, currently $7.25, even as high as $10.10. His confirmation hearing before the Senate HELP committee is slated for Feb. 2. 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Trump will likely focus first on the low-hanging fruit of tax cuts and deregulation, both of which will enjoy strong support from the GOP Congress. Trump aides have also been making the rounds on Capitol Hill to discuss maternity leave and child care proposals. 
 
 Obstacles: Puzder could face difficulties getting confirmed as labor groups, women’s groups and Democrats hit him on a variety of fronts. Rumors swelled in mid-January that Puzder might be getting cold feet, but these quieted after Puzder tweeted that he looked forward to his confirmation. Trump’s anti-trade policies and even, to some extent, his anti-immigration policies don’t go down well with many congressional Republicans. 
 
 IMMIGRATION 
 
 The vision: Nothing lit the Trump movement’s fire like his calls to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. Yet these promises will be the hardest to deliver. His proposed wall along the Mexican border has a price tag in the billions or tens of billions, and he’s even had trouble rounding up support from Republicans. His pledge to deport up to 3 million immigrants with criminal records is another tall order. His pledge to eliminate President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provides deportation relief to more than 752,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. at a young age, may no longer be operative. 
 
 Key leaders: House Speaker Paul Ryan will need to marshal support for whatever immigration plan Trump ultimately settles on, if only to procure funding. Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, will oversee immigration enforcement efforts. During his confirmation hearing, Kelly broke with past Trump statements, staking out less extreme positions about the southern border, about deportations, and about admitting Muslim visitors to the U.S. If confirmed, the president-elect’s choice for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, will wield power over the immigration courts. That will be particularly significant if Trump ramps up deportations. 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Trump could use the 2006 Secure Fence Act, which called for Congress to build 700 miles of reinforced fence along the southern border, but never set a ceiling on the total number of miles. DHS says it’s already constructed 700 miles of fencing or vehicle barriers, but Congress is already authorized to fund extension, repair, or replacement of existing barriers. On the first day of his administration, Trump could roll back Obama-era immigration enforcement policies that prioritize rounding up serious criminals over corralling undocumented immigrants who’ve committed petty crimes or have no criminal record at all. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could arrest and detain undocumented immigrants en masse. Trump is also under pressure to decide the future of Obama’s signature deportation relief program, DACA, as soon as he takes office. The hundreds of thousands of people approved for DACA have access to work permits and hold jobs in a range of professional settings, from the courtroom to the classroom. 
 
 Obstacles: Trump can come out swinging: Increased border security and deportations could begin quickly, as could DACA repeal (should Trump revert to his earlier opposition). But addressing larger immigration problems legislatively would require a vision that extended beyond fences and deportations. Trump has not publicly discussed such a vision. 
 
 NATIONAL SECURITY 
 
 
 
 The vision: Trump has promised to achieve "peace through strength" by pursuing a massive military buildup. That would include expanding the Army to 540,000 active duty soldiers, the Navy to 350 ships, the Air Force to 1,200 fighters and the Marines to 36 battalions. That's in addition to modernizing the nation's nuclear arsenal. Trump has also said he wants military leaders to formulate a plan within 30 days of his inauguration for defeating the Islamic State, and has talked up the advantages of closer cooperation with Russia in fighting terrorism. 
 
 Key leaders: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's choice for national security adviser, was an early supporter and adviser to Trump — but has faced scrutiny for his ties to foreign countries through his consulting firm, his closeness to Russia and his habit of promoting conspiracy theories on social media. Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, tapped to be Defense secretary, has appeared to split with Trump on Russia and on whether to scrap Obama's Iranian nuclear deal. Former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson is Trump's pick to be secretary of State, but both Democrats and some Republicans have questioned his lack of government or diplomatic experience and his close ties to Russia. 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: The Trump administration will give two major indications of its plans for defense spending, starting with a defense budget supplemental request it will probably submit to Capitol Hill soon after taking office. Following that will be Trump's budget proposal for fiscal 2018. He also still needs to fill scores of high-level national security vacancies. 
 
 Obstacles: Pentagon spending caps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act represent the most direct obstacle to Trump's proposed buildup. Repealing the caps will require 60 votes in the Senate, where Democrats have presented a united front demanding equal increases in domestic spending. Trump will also continue to face intense scrutiny from both parties related to any proposed reset with Russia. 
 
 CLIMATE 
 
 The vision: Trump has made clear his disdain for mainstream climate change science, at times calling it "a hoax." Incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus recently said Trump still believes that when it comes to climate research, "most of it is a bunch of bunk." 
 
 Key leaders: Scott Pruitt, who has clashed with the Environmental Protection Agency as Oklahoma's attorney general, is Trump's choice to run the EPA, whose regulations make up the heart of the Obama administration's climate agenda. As secretary of State, Tillerson will be an important voice in in determining whether the U.S. remains a part of 2015's Paris global climate agreement and future negotiations. Rick Perry, the former Texas governor tapped to run the Energy Department, has accused climate scientists of manipulating their research and once pledged to dismantle the agency, though he now says he regrets that. 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Trump is expected to start unraveling Obama's environmental legacy as early as his first day. EPA could begin the administrative process to withdraw its carbon rules for power plants, while many conservatives would like to see Trump pull the U.S. out of global climate pacts, including Paris, as soon as possible. Trump could also eliminate the Obama administration's methods of calculating the economic benefits of greenhouse-gas reductions, as well as efforts to cut carbon pollution from the federal government's operations. 
 
 Obstacles: Trump may not believe in climate change, but his inner circle does not appear to have consensus on the issue, and much could depend on whether Ivanka Trump’s concerns sway her father. It could take years for EPA to go through the full administrative process needed to kill its major Obama-era carbon rules. And while Trump said in May that he would "cancel" the Paris deal, he expressed an "open mind" on the topic after the election. 
 
 INFRASTRUCTURE 
 
 The vision: Trump and his advisers have talked about proposing a legislative package that would unlock $1 trillion in investments in roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure to spur economic growth and create jobs — with an intense focus on using American-made products. 
 
 Key leaders: Transportation Secretary-designate Elaine Chao, House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). 
 
 Outlook for the first 100 days: Though Trump often pledged that infrastructure would be a cornerstone of his first 100 days in office, Congress is embroiled in bigger priorities like health care, and both House and Senate leaders have indicated that infrastructure is in the second tranche of their agenda, at best. Even if Trump fleshes out more of his proposal in the few months, substantial action on the Hill probably won't come that quickly. 
 
 Obstacles: Trump has yet to offer any concrete plan. The $1 trillion figure has already provoked sticker-shock among fiscal conservatives, even though his advisers' rhetoric suggests that the proposal will lean heavily on incentives to unlock private-sector capital, through bonds, tax credits, public-private partnerships and similar programs — as opposed to a huge burst of direct federal spending. Trump's "Buy American" focus could alienate some Republicans, especially because the GOP typically supports letting the market make such decisions. 
 
 Jeremy Herb, Gregory Hellman, Eric Wolff, Joanne Kenen, Paul Demko, Rachana Pradhan and Kathryn A. Wolfe contributed to this story. ||||| Story highlights Trump has promised to sign executive orders on Obamacare 
 
 Washington (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump is ready to "get the show going." 
 
 Less than 24 hours before he is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, Trump told supporters at a luncheon at his Washington hotel Thursday that he is preparing to use the presidential pen to sign some "very meaningful" documents. 
 
 "We will be signing some papers that will be very meaningful tomorrow right after the speech to get the show going," Trump said, according to cell phone video of his remarks during a closed press portion of the luncheon obtained by CNN. 
 
 The remarks came hours after the President-elect's incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Trump is planning to sign a series of executive orders beginning Friday, though Spicer said Trump is "still working through which ones he wants to deal with tomorrow versus Monday or Tuesday." 
 
 "The President-elect is continuing to get briefed on some of the orders he wants to do and the sequencing thereof," Spicer said. "I think you'll see some activity on both tomorrow, over the weekend and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday." 
 
 Read More ||||| After Donald Trump is inaugurated on Friday as the 45th president of the United States, he will face the first test of his presidency: his accomplishments in the first 100 days in the White House. 
 
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 In October, when Trump was trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls, the then–GOP nominee released his plans for his first 100 days in office. Titled "Donald Trump's Contract With the American Voter," it included a constitutional amendment imposing congressional term limits, withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and canceling every executive action from President Barack Obama he deemed unconstitutional. 
 
 Logistically, it is nearly impossible for Trump to accomplish all these objectives in the first three months, but he definitely intends to shake up the status quo in Washington and roll back Obama administration policies. Here's a look at a few of the big issues to watch in the early days of the new administration: 
 
 'Obamacare' 
 
 Trump often stated his desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the plan for his first 100 days, he proposed repealing the law and replacing it with health savings accounts. 
 
 He and the Republican-controlled Congress are in sync on this issue. On Jan. 12, the Senate passed a measure allowing it to pass ACA repeal legislation with a 51-vote majority, rather than the 60-vote majority usually required for important bills. The GOP has 52 seats in the chamber. 
 
 While the law might be repealed within the first 100 days, it remains less clear how long parts of the law will remain intact and what the replacement will be. Trump recently told The Washington Post he wanted the replacement law to include universal coverage but did not reveal any specifics of the plan. 
 
 A total repeal could also have implications for midterm elections. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 18 million people could lose insurance if the law is repealed. According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 47 percent of Americans oppose a repeal of the law, while 46 percent support it. 
 
 Border Security 
 
 Trump said that border security is one of his first orders of business and that he will sign an executive order on the matter on his "first day." 
 
 "My country, we will get from my first day in office on very secure borders,” Trump said in a joint interview with The Times of London and Germany’s Bild. "One of my first decrees, which I will sign on the first day, so on Monday — not Friday or Saturday, since I do not want to make it between the whole festivities — this decree will turn around safeguarding our borders." 
 
 The details of any order to secure the nation's border are not known, but Trump made clear time and again on the campaign trail that securing the nation's border with Mexico is a centerpiece of his agenda. 
 
 But before any wall can go up, it will have to go through Congress for approval and appropriations, which will slow the process. 
 
 House Republicans and Trump's transition team are considering whether to tie funding for the wall to a broader government-funding measure in April, which could make it difficult for Democrats to oppose appropriating money for the wall, according to a source familiar with the discussions. 
 
 Trade 
 
 Trump pledged to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, calling it "a potential disaster for our country," and said he will issue a notification of intent to withdraw early in his presidency. 
 
 "Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores," Trump said in a YouTube video announcing his early priorities. 
 
 The TPP, a proposed trade agreement championed by Obama and aimed at promoting investment and trade links among 12 countries on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, was a rare instance of agreement on the campaign trail, with both Trump and Clinton rejecting the deal as candidates. 
 
 Before the Brexit vote, Obama warned the United Kingdom that it would go "back of the queue" in any trade deal with the United States if it voted to split from the European Union. Trump called Brexit a "great thing" and said he'll make an agreement with Britain a priority, saying such an agreement will be reached "very fast" after he gets in the Oval Office. 
 
 "We will work very hard to get that fast and reasonable — good for both sides," Trump said in a joint interview with The Times of London and Bild. 
 
 Energy 
 
 Trump also pledged to roll back "job killing" energy regulations and declared himself a friend of clean coal. 
 
 "On energy, I will cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal, creating many millions of high-paying jobs," he said. 
 
 What's unclear is what restrictions he means to target. 
 
 Jonathan Adler, the director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, said many of the rules governing the energy industry may be challenging to scrap in the first 100 days. 
 
 "The administration will have to either a) get Congress to enact legislation to eliminate these restrictions or b) go through a lengthy administrative process to undo the regulations," Adler said, adding that whatever process the agencies in question went through to adopt the regulations will likely have to be repeated to undo them as well. 
 
 Infrastucture 
 
 Included in Trump's 100-day blueprint is the passage of the American Energy and Infrastructure Act. The legislation is described as a $1 trillion infrastructure investment over the next decade through public-private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives. 
 
 In remarks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors earlier this week, Vice President–elect Mike Pence declared that an infrastructure bill will be a priority for his and Trump's administration, saying, "Tell them we are going to do an infrastructure bill and it's gonna be big." 
 
 This initiative could be one of the few that manages to gain bipartisan support. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told ABC News' Jon Karl and Rick Klein that the measure "sounds good to me." 
 
 "We're not going to oppose something simply because it has the name Trump on it, but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done," Schumer said. ||||| 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 intends to visit the CIA's Virginia headquarters Saturday in what would be his first trip to a government agency as president, three people with knowledge of the plans told NBC News. 
 
 Trump would attend the swearing in of Rep. Mike Pompeo as director, assuming Pompeo is confirmed by the Senate Friday, a senior official said. The plans could change if Pompeo is not confirmed. 
 
 Trump takes the oath of office Friday. 
 
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 His visit to the CIA's Langley, Virginia campus would come after weeks of acrimony between the president-elect and elements of the intelligence community surrounding the assessment that Russia interfered in the election. 
 
 Pompeo had told associates that he wanted Trump to address the CIA workforce, according to a transition source. If the visit happens on Saturday, however, most of the workforce will not be there. 
 
 Still, the visit could be seen as a conciliatory gesture by the new president, who has angered many intelligence officers with a series of disparaging comments. 
 
 Trump spokesman Sean Spicer would not confirm the planned visit Thursday, telling reporters: "I am sure that at some point, shortly, he will visit not just the CIA but a lot of the departments."
– 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.