Washington, October 31, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Indian-American Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who is contesting the Ohio gubernatorial election, has announced seven executive orders he plans to sign on his first day in office if elected, including measures targeting alleged visa fraud, foreign hiring by public entities and local governments that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
“Here’s my list of Day 1 Executive Orders. They’ll be signed before midnight on January 11. Buckle up,” Ramaswamy said in a post on X on Friday.
One proposed order would establish an inter-agency anti-fraud task force reporting directly to the governor. Its areas of focus would include Medicaid, benefits and childcare fraud, visa fraud, voter registration fraud, trucking fraud, foreign commercial driver’s licence (CDL) issuance and what Ramaswamy described as the abuse of foreign hiring by public entities. He did not specify which visa categories would be examined.
Another order seeks to end sanctuary-city policies in Ohio. Under the proposal, local governments that do not honour federal immigration detainer requests or share information as permitted by federal law could lose access to state grants, including public-safety and homeland-security funding.
His other proposals include suspending approvals for new data centres until comprehensive state legislation is passed, seeking a federal waiver to cap Ohio’s Medicaid spending, investigating jurisdictions where property taxes have more than doubled since 2020, prioritising funding to improve violent-crime clearance rates and reviewing state contracts financed through the General Revenue Fund.
The proposals are campaign pledges and would require Ramaswamy to win the November 3 election before he could seek to implement them. He faces Democratic candidate Amy Acton and Libertarian Don Kissick.
Ramaswamy is scheduled to hold his final weekend rally on Sunday, November 1, at Waypoint 4180 in Canfield. Acton is also due to campaign in Cleveland that day.
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