Trump signs new executive orders while his first joint TV interview with Musk airs on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Domestic Policy Council to “examine ways to make IVF and other fertility treatments more affordable for more Americans,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said during a press conference with the president Tuesday afternoon.

“The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in a post on the social platform X.

Neither Leavitt nor a White House fact sheet offered details about how the executive order would achieve that goal. The administration would develop recommendations, including possible legislation, Leavitt said.

Access to fertility treatments was a flashpoint in last year’s campaign. Kamala Harris and other Democrats warned that reproductive rights were at risk in the U.S. Supreme Court, shaped by three justices Trump appointed during his first administration. Trump denied interest in limiting access to IVF during the campaign.

“PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT,” Leavitt wrote on X.

Trump signed more executive orders including one that “reestablishes the long-standing norm that only the president or the attorney general can speak for the United States when stating an opinion as to what the law is,” Scharf said.

The order comes as Trump allies question court rulings blocking some of his initiatives and critics worry his administration will disregard judicial orders.

The president also signed a presidential memorandum to impose “radical transparency requirements on government departments and agencies,” Scharf said, touting that this will further uncover “waste, fraud, and abuse” in order to save taxpayer’s dollars.

Trump and Musk, head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, gave their first joint interview to Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel. The interview was taped on Friday at the White House and is set to air as Musk leads Trump’s effort to cut federal spending and slash the federal workforce.

Musk has drawn criticism from Democrats in Congress and others for the methods he and his team at DOGE are using to cut spending, including foreign aid, and eliminate jobs across the bureaucracy.

The Fox News interview also follows Musk’s appearance with Trump in the Oval Office last week, when both defended Musk’s approach to federal cost-cutting.

In an excerpt from the interview that Fox News released on Sunday, Musk said he “used to be adored by the left” but “less so these days” because of the work he’s doing at Trump’s direction.

“They call it Trump derangement syndrome. You don’t realize how real this is until you can’t reason with people,” Musk said, adding that normal conversations with Democrats about the president are difficult because “it’s like they’ve become completely irrational.”

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club is the setting Tuesday night for an awards program by America’s Future, which is led by Flynn to preserve individual rights and promote American values and traditions, according to its website. The event, celebrating American exceptionalism, will honor one member from the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force and the Space Force.

The event includes a poolside reception, musical performances and dinner in Mar-a-Lago’s Grand Ballroom, where other award presentations are expected from a lineup that includes such names as Russell Brand, Ted Nugent and Mike Tyson.

It’s unclear whether Trump will participate in the event.