Donald Trump speaks alongside US Vice President Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions, prior to Sessions being sworn in as Attorney General in the Oval Office on Feb. 9.

Donald Trump speaks alongside US Vice President Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions, prior to Sessions being sworn in as Attorney General in the Oval Office on Feb. 9. | Getty

Trump: 3 executive actions coming Thursday

President Donald Trump will sign three executive actions Thursday that are “designed to restore safety in America,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.

“We face the menace if rising crime and the threat of deadly terror,” Trump said, speaking shortly before Jeff Sessions was sworn in as Attorney General. “I'm signing three executive actions today designed to restore safety in America.”

One would take aim at “criminal cartels,” while another would create a "task force on reducing violent crime,” Trump said. The third order would call on the Justice Department to start a program to prevent crime against law enforcement officers.

“A new era of justice begins and it begins right now,” Trump said.

After a flurry of executive orders in his first days in office, the pace of Trump’s executive actions has slowed. His most controversial order, barring people from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the country, is temporarily suspended by a federal court. Another order, on implementing new regulations, is also facing a court challenge.

Matthew Nussbaum is a White House reporter for POLITICO.