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President-elect Donald Trump plans to focus on securing the U.S. border and increasing domestic oil drilling on his first day in office, his senior adviser Jason Miller told the TODAY Show Wednesday (November 6) morning.
"With executive orders and things you can do with the presidency, some things you can put back in place ... All of the secure border policies that we had with President Trump, he can simply flip the switch and put those back into place just like they were before," Miller said.
"When we think about energy exploration, how we get back to drilling, which ultimately, then, will bring down prices, bring down inflation, he can do that on his own," he added. "Other things, of course, will take legislative action and things of that nature but right away President Trump can put so many things into place and again, that is why people are so optimistic and so upbeat about what their personal finances with their personal safety can look like. He's done it once before, he'll do it again."
Trump won 276 electoral college votes, surpassing the 270 needed to be elected and will become the first president since Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms. The former president defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia, all of which he lost to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
The Republicans also maintained their advantage in the House of Representatives and took control of the Senate on Tuesday (November 5).