to our microsoft pulse question. do you believe president trump s executive order on immigration will make americans safer? we re getting some of the preliminary results in and right now it stands at 11% say yes americans will be safer, but 89% say they will not. you can still weigh in, pulse.msnbc.com. let your voice be heard. we re going to take a quick break and we re waiting for sean spicer to come out to the white house press room. so beautiful.
most prominent rex tillerson secretary of state. senate republicans want to assemble his team and get through with other business. this is a slower pace than we ve seen with other presidents coming in but it is a tool democrats can use in negotiation and trying to get time on the floor to talk about their issues, also to raise specific questions about some of the picks donald trump has made, including the former ceo of exxonmobil, rex tillerson to be secretary of state. don t expect a quick vote tonight, just a procedural vote, not a conclusion or final vote on rex tillerson that we expect later today. chris? the lights will be on at the capitol. thank you so much, appreciate it, kelly. that leads to us today s microsoft pulse question. do you believe president trump s executive order on immigration will make americans safer? the pulse is live, let us know what you think, pulse.msnbc.com. we ll check those results later on in the show. but still ahead, is president trump fundamenta
regulations in an agency be eliminated. we re calling it one in/two out. additionally the order states cost of all new regulations finalized in fiscal 2017 must be no greater than zero for each agency. and beginning in 2018, each agency will have an incremental cost cap set by director of omb beyond which it cannot issue regulations. this executive order is the first step in the president delivering on his promise to slash bureaucratic red tape that is choking our nation s small businesses. under the president s leadership, the federal government will no longer punish americans for working and doing business in the united states. every year overregulation costs our economy billions of dollars and reduces the wealth of every american household. this executive order will help get the economy back on track and is part of the president s bold plan to create 25 million new american jobs in the next decade. it s worth noting that this order is, perhaps, the most significant administrative