Washington: President Donald Trump on Monday signed three orders on withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, freezing the hiring of federal workers and hitting foreign NGOs that help with abortion.

‘We’ve been talking about this for a long time,’ Trump said as he signed the executive order to withdraw from the TPP in the Oval Office.

‘Great thing for the American worker what we just did.’

Trump signed an executive order formally withdrawing the United States from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Monday, following through on a promise from his campaign last year.

In an Oval Office ceremony, Trump also signed an order imposing a federal hiring freeze and a directive banning US non-governmental organisations receive federal funding from providing abortions abroad.

Trump called the TPP order a ‘great thing for the American worker.’