Trump signed his first wave of executive orders around 7 p.m. Monday, after his swearing-in ceremony a parade, and before the inaugural balls.

President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive actions on Day 1. He has repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, begun his immigration crackdown, withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.

Trump, who said he would not be a dictator “except for Day 1” of his presidency, signed a record number of executive orders on Monday.

Earlier hiring freezes actually made government services less efficient, the Government Accountability Office found.

Donald Trump said on Monday he will revoke nearly 80 executive actions of the administration of former Democratic President Joe Biden, with the Republican U.S. president adding he will also implement an immediate freeze on new regulations and hiring.

President Trump signed executive orders Monday freezing the hiring of federal workers and mandating a full-time return to in-office work for government employees. Why it matters: On Day 1, Trump is following through on his promise to overhaul the federal government,

The new president will allow some exceptions, but says the freeze is necessary to root out "useless and overpaid" activists from federal rolls.

Trump signed a bevy of orders related to cutting government spending during his speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Among those, according to Trump, is an action ordering federal workers to return to office.