Trump considering executive orders on China, manufacturing and immigration, aide says

U.S. President Donald Trump is considering several executive orders targeting China, manufacturing and immigration, his chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters at the White House on Monday, though he offered few details.

"Starting this week, you’ll see executive orders, you’ll see business that actually goes forward from the Oval Office when Congress doesn’t act," Meadows told "Fox & Friends."

Meadows, who was giving his first televised interview since taking the job in March, offered few specifics on each of the orders or when they would be signed.

Shortly after Meadows’s televised remarks, Trump tweeted, “China has caused great damage to the United States and the rest of the World!”

The president would be looking to address the United States' manufacturing relationship with China to ensure American workers are prioritized, Meadows said.

“It’s dealing with a number of executive orders that may go all the way from dealing with some of the immigration issues that we have before us, to some of the manufacturing and jobs issues that are before us, and ultimately dealing with China, in what we need to do there in terms of resetting that balance,” Meadows said.

Since taking office in 2017, Trump has tried to rescind a program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the United States illegally after entering as children - a group often called “Dreamers.”

The U.S. Supreme Court last month blocked Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy put in place by former President Barack Obama, which protects roughly 649,000 immigrants from deportation.-Reuters/The Hill/Bloomberg