executive orders
With a pen stroke, the president "is preventing people from being able to take protective measures ahead of time."
The president has signed orders on immigration, regulation and the environment.
The president ordered his regulators to "review and reconsider" a rule that protects drinking water for 117 million people.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The orders were signed during the swearing-in ceremony of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Environmental, labor and consumer advocates formed an alliance to challenge the executive order.
"We never lost hope," an uncle in Chicago says.
“I see this as a peaceful protest,” says the Brooklyn restaurant's head chef.
"American workers and the economy will suffer as a result" of the executive order.