WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is signing two executive orders in keeping with campaign promises to boost border security and crack down on immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

The president signed the two orders Wednesday during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security after honoring the department’s newly confirmed secretary, retired Gen. John Kelly.

The executive orders jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, one of his signature campaign promises, and strip funding for so-called sanctuary cities, which don’t arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Trump says he expects construction of the border wall to begin within months. U.S. taxpayers are expected to pay for the upfront costs, though Trump continues to insist that Mexico will somehow reimburse the United States.

Trump tells ABC News, “There will be a payment,” but it may be in a “complicated form.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man has been ordered to spend eight years in federal prison for his role in a scheme involving hundreds of fraudulent prescriptions used to obtain tens of thousands of pills of the powerful painkiller oxycodone.

Thirty-nine-year-old Gabriel Demaria of Kansas City, Kansas, was sentenced Tuesday. He pleaded guilty last September to participating in a conspiracy spanning more than five years to distribute oxycodone.

Authorities say some conspirators obtained legitimate prescription papers while others would steal prescription pads from local doctors. The defendants then used those fraudulently created prescriptions and stolen identifications to get oxycodone from pharmacies.

Demaria is among six co-defendants, all from Missouri, who have pleaded guilty.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive actions on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines are aimed at turning the disputed projects into reality, but it’s not clear how quickly that might happen.

Dakota Access is to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois. It’s nearly complete but stalled while the developer and the Army battle in court over permission for the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River in North Dakota.

The Keystone XL project was to bring oil from Canada to Nebraska. Former President Barack Obama halted it in late 2015 for environmental reasons.

Trump’s actions don’t immediately clear the way for construction, and opponents of the projects are likely to fight in court.

Both projects also have been the focus of intense protests, and Trump’s actions might reinvigorate those efforts.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Jackson County will pay $275,000 to settle a negligence claim involving the county’s jail.

The Kansas City Star reports that the recipient of the settlement, identified only by the initials “L.M.,” alleged that the claims relate to an incident Aug. 26 at the Jackson County Detention Center.

Authorities previously reported that two women said they were assaulted in the downtown jail that day, and that both cases involved security lapses caught on video. Charges have been filed only in one of those alleged attacks.

Those attacks prompted the city to transfer its female prisoners out of the lockup until security was improved. Kansas City contracts with Jackson County to hold municipal prisoners in the county jail.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man and a couple from Colorado have been sentenced for their roles in a real estate fraud scheme in which developers borrowed money to build townhomes at Table Rock Lake.

Sixty-seven-year-old David P. Drake of Lone Tree, Colorado, and 57-year-old Donald D. Snider of Littleton, Colorado, were sentenced Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas, to five years in federal prison. Snider’s wife, 54-year-old Heather Gibbs, received three years of probation.

Drake and Snider pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering. They admitted that as business partners seeking to develop land in a project, they made false representations to get financing from three banks.

Gibbs admitted she knew of the fraudulent invoices to the banks but did not report the crime.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lawmakers are anticipating tuition hikes in Missouri after recently announced budget cuts.

Gov. Eric Greitens announced nearly $68 million in core funding for public universities and community colleges last week. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Republican Rep. Lyle Rowland, of Cedarcreek, says he sees little chance of providing more than static spending in the coming year. Rowland is the chairman of the House committee that will take the first look at education spending for the coming year after Greitens submits his budget

A state law caps tuition increases, but allows schools to seek waivers. Democratic Rep. Kip Kendrick, a Columbia committee member whose district includes the University of Missouri, says he expects most, if not all, colleges and universities will do so this year.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average is trading over 20,000 points for the first time, the latest milestone in a record-setting drive for the stock market.

The Dow has been up more than 100 points in early trading. The market has been marching steadily higher since bottoming out in March 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in a legislative subcommittee approved a bill that would cut state funding for Planned Parenthood, a move that could mean the loss of millions of dollars in federal funding.

The brief hearing Tuesday morning was held in one of the Capitol’s largest meeting rooms, and it was filled with people wearing pink Planned Parenthood T-shirts.

The three-person panel took testimony for a half hour before signing off on the bill, which now goes to the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee.

Under the bill, Iowa would forgo millions of dollars in federal Medicaid dollars and create a state-run program that distributes family planning money but excludes organizations that perform abortions. No state funding now goes toward abortions.

The bill was among several expected to come before the Legislature this session.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge is calling for a review of the way courts hold people in jail before trial.

In her final State of the Judiciary address Tuesday, Breckenridge told lawmakers that costly pretrial incarcerations affect poor people and have negative consequences for the individual and society. She says a Supreme Court task force will recommend changes to current practices.

Breckenridge also called for higher pay for state employees who work in courts.

She touted modernized court computer systems. But she urged the Legislature to review which court documents should be made public on the courts’ online system, and said the state may need to charge fees to view documents.

The courts have also started to find a replacement for Supreme Court Judge Richard Teitelman, who died Nov. 29.