President Trump on Saturday signed one executive order and two memoranda -- to lengthen the ban on administration officials working as lobbyists and two related to national security, particularly strengthening efforts to defeat the Islamic State terror group. The order on the lobbying ban extends the existing one from two years to five years and puts in place a lifetime ban on ex-officials lobbying for foreign countries. Trump vowed on the campaign trail to make such changes and others, to voters’ chants of “drain the swamp.”One memorandum attempts to strengthen the country’s National Security Council and Homeland Security Council. The second memorandum instructs the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of staff to come up with a plan in 30 days to defeat ISIS. “We’ve been talking about doing this for a long time, many years.”In Trump’s first nine days in office, he has now issued 15 executive orders.

Source: Fox News January 28, 2017 19:18 UTC