On Tuesday, President Donald Trump followed through on his promise he made last week, announcing that he has “completely terminated” every action signed by former President Joe Biden using the autopen, declaring those measures now null and void.
“Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized ‘AUTOPEN,’ within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.
“Anyone receiving ‘Pardons,’ ‘Commutations,’ or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect,” he added.
Tuesday’s post echoed Trump’s his pledge from Friday, when he wrote that “any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby canceling and of no further force or effect.”
Trump has spent months arguing that Biden relied on the autopen for everything from executive orders to national-emergency extensions to routine certifications.
He has said Biden used it so frequently that “staff were effectively running the government with a machine.”
