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This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. President Donald Trump used his second inaugural address on Monday to paint a grim picture of the country he now leads. And then he upped the ante by marching over to supporters nearby to give the speech he said his aides wouldn’t let him deliver: a rambling series of grievances, gimmicks, and gloating. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “I think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs,” Trump said as he circled for a much overdue closing.

Minutes after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump laid out a series of tough actions he’s taking to stop border crossings between ports of entry and begin deporting some of millions of people in the U. S. without authorization. Those policy changes were expected to start rolling in fast in the first hours and days of his second term after a campaign in which Trump vowed to launch the largest deportation operation in the country’s history. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump said Monday he would declare a national emergency at the border, which will free up military funding to build more sections of a border wall, support operations to stop border crossings, and “send troops” to the Southern Border to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country.” “As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do,” Trump said. Trump also said he would reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that demands people seeking asylum to wait outside the U.

“Wait ’til the corruption begins… because it will.” — President Donald Trump, speaking in the Capitol after being sworn in as president.

“Outgoing President Joe Biden’s White House homeland security team urged President-elect Donald Trump’s team to focus on a number of major threats that include Iran’s plots against dissidents and current and former US officials,” Semafor reports.

“The inauguration of Donald Trump is not just a restoration of power for the former president. It’s a return for his family, as well,” the New York Times reports. “They left Washington four years ago, alienated from many of their former friends and acquaintances in New York City because of their work in the administration.

One by one, they had all trickled into the walnut-paneled Mansfield Room. Donald Trump had just made another improbable return: his first visit to the U. S. Capitol since a mob of his supporters stormed the building on Jan. 6, 2021. Now, just days away from reclaiming power, the President-elect was there to meet with the 52 Republican Senators of the 119th Congress about advancing his legislative agenda: a massive border security package, extending his 2017 tax cuts, and dispensing with the debt ceiling. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] After more than an hour of wrangling over strategy, Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, tried to wrap things up, according to one of the GOP senators present.