--- title: Trump Inauguration: President to Sign Executive Orders description: Kellyanne Conway says repealing Obamacare, tax reform and rolling back environmental regulations are on Trump's to-do list for his first week canonical: https://time.com/4640764/donald-trump-executive-orders-inauguration-day/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-20T15:24:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:49:53.644Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kellyanne Conway Says Donald Trump Plans to Sign Executive Orders on Inauguration Day og:description: She said Trump will "take a couple of executive actions" on Friday og:url: https://time.com/4640764/donald-trump-executive-orders-inauguration-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1079857669e4700c/6988b659fb4eac6cb6890768/gettyimages-632105634.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: President-Elect Donald Trump Arrives In Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kellyanne Conway Says Donald Trump Plans to Sign Executive Orders on Inauguration Day twitter:description: She said Trump will "take a couple of executive actions" on Friday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1079857669e4700c/6988b659fb4eac6cb6890768/gettyimages-632105634.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway Says Donald Trump Plans to Sign Executive Orders on Inauguration Day > Sponsored content. 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Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jan 20, 2017 3:24 PM UTC [Kellyanne Conway](http://time.com/4640712/kellyanne-conway-trump-revolutionary-wear/), who Donald Trump recently named counselor to the president, says that president-elect [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4640703/donald-trump-inauguration-day-2017/) will “take a couple of executive actions” after [he enters office on Friday](http://time.com/4639340/donald-trump-inauguration-events-schedule/). The president-elect’s former [campaign manager told](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kellyanne-conway-previews-inaugural-address-trumps-first-weeks/) CBS News that by Monday “you’ll see him rolling back some of the job-killing regulations” that Trump believes are “unconstitutional.” “He’s got a five or six-point plan in short order,” Conway said. “Repealing and replacing Obamacare, regulatory reviews, tax reform…We’re looking for cooperation across the aisle.” When asked whether hr plans to also roll back environmental regulations, she replied, “Possibly, yes.” \[[_CBS News_](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kellyanne-conway-previews-inaugural-address-trumps-first-weeks/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4640764/donald-trump-executive-orders-inauguration-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4640764/donald-trump-executive-orders-inauguration-day/"},"headline":"Kellyanne Conway Says Donald Trump Plans to Sign Executive Orders on Inauguration Day","datePublished":"2017-01-20T15:24:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:49:53.644Z","description":"Conway says repealing Obamacare, tax reform and rolling back environmental regulations are on Trump's to-do list","url":"https://time.com/4640764/donald-trump-executive-orders-inauguration-day/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1079857669e4700c/6988b659fb4eac6cb6890768/gettyimages-632105634.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1079857669e4700c/6988b659fb4eac6cb6890768/gettyimages-632105634.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President-Elect Donald Trump Arrives In Washington","caption":"President-Elect Donald Trump Arrives In Washington","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4640764/donald-trump-executive-orders-inauguration-day/","name":"Kellyanne Conway Says Donald Trump Plans to Sign Executive Orders on Inauguration Day"}}]}] ```