For one of his first official actions as president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday evening encouraging federal agencies to begin stripping the Affordable Care Act of stifling mandates directed at states, businesses and individuals.

Signaling his commitment to follow-through on his campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, the newly inaugurated president signed the executive order titled “Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal.”

“The Congress can’t get cold feet because the people will not let that happen.”

While Trump waits for Congress to continue the process of fully repealing the behemoth law, the executive order offered a symbolic gesture to the new president’s supporters about his administration’s serious commitment to dismantling President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment.

“In the meantime, pending such repeal, it is imperative for the executive branch to ensure that the law is being efficiently implemented, take all actions consistent with law to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of the Act, and prepare to afford the States more flexibility and control to create a more free and open healthcare market,” the executive order read.

The executive order was directed primarily at how agencies of the federal government should approach the law and did not list too many specifics. It encouraged the heads of executive departments and agencies to “exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State.”

In addition, the order mandates that executive departments and agencies use that same discretion to curb regulatory burdens imposed on healthcare providers, insurers and families.

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Above all, the executive order from Trump communicated change has come to Washington and that the new president is serious about fulfilling his campaign promises.

The House and Senate have already begun to act officially on repealing and replacing Obamacare in the weeks since the new session of Congress commenced. And Trump’s executive order falls in line with the Republican strategies presented by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“The Congress can’t get cold feet because the people will not let that happen,” Trump said of repealing and replacing Obamacare, The Washington Post reported Sunday.