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January 23, 2017 Donald Trump has resigned from his companies.

Spokeswoman Hope Hicks told CNN.

The announcement, in line with what Trump had previously promised, comes on the day of a new legal action against the president, calling on his hotels and companies to stop accepting payments from foreign governments.

His sons Don Jr. and Eric will take care of business, White House spokesman Sean Spicer later said.

Meanwhile, the US president has signed an executive order to withdraw the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Tpp), the free trade agreement signed by Barack Obama last year with 11 other Pacific countries, which Congress had so far refused to ratify.

According to the American media, Trump will start trade negotiations with individual states that are part of the TPP.

During the election campaign, Trump promised to get the United States out of the TPP immediately, defined as "a potential disaster for our country". 

Trump, with another executive order, then re-established the ban on the provision of federal funds to international NGOs that practice abortions or provide information about it.

It is a measure that, since it was introduced by the republican administration in 1984, has been

revoked by the democratic administrations and reintroduced by successive republican ones.

Last time it was President Barack Obama who canceled the ban. 

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In a third decree, Trump froze federal government hires, "except for the military," as he himself stated.

This is one of his campaign promises for "Day One", the first day in the White House. 

And the US president spoke on the phone this morning with his Egyptian colleague Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The phone call is one of Trump's first as president with foreign leaders and comes after yesterday's call with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.

Trump has expressed his intention to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, an initiative that the Egyptian leader cannot approve.

Egypt is one of the two Arab countries that have signed peace with Israel and al-Sisi had words of appreciation for Trump's election.

A group of constitution and ethics experts denounced Trump, accused of violating the US Constitution by accepting payments from foreign governments.

In the case, filed in a court of Manhanattan (New York), a judge is asked to order the new US president to ban the acceptance of transactions with foreign officials, with companies controlled by other states, with diplomats who sleep in the hotels of real estate and with foreign broadcasters that broadcast "The Apprentice", the TV show of which Trump was the protagonist.

It is the Washington group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics that launched the complaint.

Trump's lawyers argue that the Constitution does not prevent transactions with foreign officials having a fair market value.