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

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday afternoon, following a flurry of actions since he was inaugurated for a second time on Monday. On Tuesday, Trump’s administration directed that all federal diversity,

Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using executive orders.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued executive orders that transgender rights activists described as "hateful." Invoking biological definitions of sex that are contested, one order effectively argues that "trans-ness is not real,

President Donald Trump’s decision to issue an executive order Monday delaying enforcement of the federal ban on TikTok has deepened a murky legal landscape in the US for the popular social media app and its technology partners.

Legal experts said despite Trump's order, service providers and app distributors such as Google and Apple still face major uncertainty and potential massive financial liability for defying a law that banned TikTok in the United States unless Chinese parent ByteDance divested the company by Jan.

An executive order is an instruction from the president which has the weight of the law behind it. But Trump's order does not overturn the ban. Instead it tells the US attorney general not to enforce the law for now - something experts had expected would be his first move.