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 of 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. Later on Wednesday, the White House made public the text of those three orders ahead of the daily press briefing. They were as Trump advertised, entitled "Enforcing federal law with respect to transnational criminal organizations and preventing international trafficking," "preventing violence against federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers" and the creation of a "task force on crime reduction and public safety," respectively.

“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.