You're listening to a special edition of the Global News Podcast.

Hello, I'm Oliver Connolly. We're recording this on Tuesday the 28th of January. And we have two guests for you.

I'm Gary O'Donoghue, the senior North America correspondent.

And I'm Katrina Perry, chief presenter with BBC News based in Washington.

And we're going to be answering your questions about Donald Trump's first week back in office as President of the United States of America.

And thank you for all the questions you sent in.

We'll start as Donald Trump did himself straight after his inauguration with the blizzard of executive orders he signed,

a record 26 on day one. So here are two questions from Alejandra in Chile.

Hello, BBC. I want to know how enforceable, what is the real weight of the executive orders.

Can they just be implemented?

Or do they have to go through Congress? And the second one is about the inflation reduction act.

How feasible is it that it be dismantled?

I suppose first of all, we should ask what is an executive order, Gary?

So an executive order covers a whole range of things from proclamations, just things the president thinks is true, right through to directions of the federal government to do certain things, right through to things that have constitutional implications.

So all these ones he's issued right across that gamut.

You said dozens and then you're right. And it compares to his first term when I think there was just four in the first five days.

And Katrina, the Inflation Reduction Act. Is that something that's going to be easy to dismantle?

There's a mixed answer to this one. Fundamentally, it's not easy to dismantle because it's a piece of legislation. And the only way you could truly get rid of it or undo every aspect of it would be by further legislation coming through Congress.

However, what the president can do is he can slow down some of the provisions of it.

He can put them on ice indefinitely.

We've already seen, in fact, President Trump signing one of these

executive orders that pauses the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation

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