• Trump first 24hrs, Executive Orders

  • Jan 22 2025
  • Length: 17 mins
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Trump first 24hrs, Executive Orders

  • Summary

  • Here’s a look at what Trump signed on Day One — and his executive actions since:

    Jan. 6 pardons

    Trump pardoned some 1,500 people who were involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a sweeping grant of clemency that fulfilled a campaign-trail promise and upended years of the Justice Department’s efforts.

    Immigration

    Trump signed a slew of executive orders on Monday aimed at delivering on his long-promised crackdown on illegal border crossings and immigration more broadly. He also declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, deploying U.S. Armed Forces to the region.

    He intends to end birthright citizenship by issuing an executive action that would reinterpret the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to all people born on domestic soil — a move that drew swift legal challenges, including from Democratic attorneys general.

    Trump also moved to:

    • Resume construction of the border wall
    • End so-called catch and release
    • Temporarily suspend refugee resettlement from certain countries for at least four months
    • Restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term
    • Restrict asylum using 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
    • Designate drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove them — or, as he put it in his inaugural address, “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil”
    • Direct the incoming attorney general to seek capital punishment for the murder of law enforcement and capital crimes committed by undocumented immigrants

    Energy

    Trump wants to “drill, baby, drill.” He’s going to do it by declaring a “national energy emergency” that would give him the power to increase domestic energy production — and undo many of the Biden administration’s clean-energy policies. The White House also announced that the U.S. will withdraw, again, from the Paris Climate Accord.

    Among Trump’s other planned moves:

    • Issue a memorandum detailing a governmentwide approach to bringing down inflation, according to the Trump team
    • End what his team has referred to as an “electric vehicle mandate”
    • End leasing to massive wind farms that “degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers”

    Federal workforce

    Want to work remote? Good luck. Trump signed executive orders last night focused on the federal workforce, including one order instructing all U.S. government departments and agencies to require employees to return to office, ending any remote accommodations. Trump also announced a hiring freeze across the executive branch except in “essential areas.”

    The president also removed job protections for tens of thousands of government workers, which the White House said was necessary to rein in what Trump describes as “deep state” bureaucracy.

    Among Trump’s other planned moves:

    • End “radical and wasteful” diversity training programs, as well as environmental justice programs, equity-related grants and equity initiatives
    • Freeze hiring except in essential areas to “end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists buried into the federal workforce,” according to the White House
    • Freeze the issuing of new regulations
    • Direct agencies to address the “cost of living crisis”
    • Restore “freedom of speech” and “preventing government censorship”
    • Create the “Depar
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