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The President’s Actions

 

The president’s action list… 

Keeping up with the President’s executive orders could be an overwhelming task. Unless one keeps a running tally of what is being proposed and implemented.

To help you keep track of what is happening from the Oval Office, we have compiled the following list for your use.

The list will continually update during the President’s time in office.

Impacting Broad Scope Elements 

  • Unauthorized all Biden Executive Actions still in effect upon entering office.

  • Authorized the standard protocols any incoming president should undertake upon entering office.

  • Directed federal agencies to refrain from issuing new regulations until the Trump administration completely controls the government.

 

Related to Defense and Foreign Policy 

  • Met with the Prime Minister of Japan at the White House to discuss investments in the United States.

  • Met with Israeli Prime at the White House to discuss the Israel-Hamas War and Gaza rebuilding.

  • Sanctioned the International Criminal Court for investigating the United States and Israel.

  • Revoked the security clearances of former President Biden, former Defense Secretary Antony Blinken, and others.

  • Closed the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) building, telling employees to work from home.

  • Stated that the U.S. wants sovereign rights over Gaza.

  • Withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

  • Removed U.S. Secret Service protection from former Trump defense secretary Mark Esper, former national security adviser John Bolton, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Joint Chiefs Chairman retired Army General Mark Milley.

  • Paused all foreign aid under review by the Trump Administration.

  • Threatened or imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union.

  • Imposed a blanket 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports.

  • Rescinded Israeli settler and group sanctions imposed by the Biden Administration.

  • Replaced NBC, Politico, New York Times, and National Public Radio from Pentagon workspace.

  • Ordered Iron Dome Defense System to protect the USA.

  • Promised to reinstate with full pay the 8,000-plus military service members who were discharged for refusing orders to take COVID-19 vaccinations.

  • Designated the Iranian-backed Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

  • Threatened in a social media post to enact "high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia" to the U.S. unless Russian President Vladimir Putin reaches an agreement to end his country's war with Ukraine.

  • Ousted Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military.

  • Ordered portraits of former Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley and former U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper removed from the Pentagon.

 

Related to Domestic Policy

  • Toured North Carolina’s hurricane devastation and Los Angeles’ fire ravaged neighborhoods to access their interactions with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its effectiveness.

  • Attended the Super Bowl in New Orleans and met with families of the victims of the terrorist car attack in the French Quarter.

  • Ordered a freeze on all non-military federal hiring.

  • Started purging senior service officials from various agencies.

  • Mandated an end to working from home for federal employees.

  • Ordered that the United States Printing Office discontinue minting Lincoln pennies.

  • Shuttered the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office and is remaking the Justice Department’s environmental division.

  • Issued an Executive Order to ban trans athletes from women’s sports.

  • Crafted an Executive Order to close the US Department of Education.

  • Designated that Elon Musk is a special federal employee.

  • Had his cabinet appointees confirmed by the United States Senate.

  • Froze and unfroze federal government grants and loans.

  • Halted transgender medical care for those under the age of 19.

  • Removed “woke” webpages from federal government websites.

  • Declared that there are two genders only.

  • Shut down Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices in the federal government and pressured universities to do the same.

  • Ordered all federal offices to put their diversity, equity, and inclusion employees on leave.

  • Took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.

  • Froze federally funded research projects until further notice and review.

  • Ended the US participation in the Paris Climate Agreement.

  • Ended the US participation in the World Health Organization.

  • Declared a national energy emergency.

  • Started re-opening Alaskan territory to more oil drilling and exploration.

  • Ended the Green New Deal.

  • Postponed TikTok sale demand for 75 days while his administration reviews the congressional mandate.

  • Revoked a mandate that federal workers must be vaccinated with COVID-19.

  • Signed a directive asking every U.S. federal department and agency to address the cost of living.

  • Signed a directive called the Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, looking to make the US "the global leader in AI."

  • Announced Stargate, a proposed $500bn project to create massive AI data centers in the USA.

  • Signed a directive establishing what the White House calls the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

  • Signed an executive order to regulate and promote the crypto industry and explore digital asset creation.

  • Created a faith office within the White House to protect Christianity.

  • Removed requirements that people applying for green cards be vaccinated against COVID-19.

  • Directed the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."

  • Also directed the Secretary to rename Alaska's Mount Denali to Mount McKinley - in honor of America's 25th president, admired by Trump.

  • Signed a directive supporting full federal recognition of the Lumbee tribe, a group of about 55,000 Native Americans living primarily in one North Carolina county.

  • Signed a directive ordering the release of classified documents related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963, as well as the 1968 killings of Senator Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Threatened to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his top Cabinet nominees and their deputies.

  • Issued an executive order to bring water from Northern California to Southern California.

 

Related to Immigration Policy 

  • Declared a national emergency at the southern border between Mexico and the US.

  • Declared a national emergency at the northern border between Canada and the US.

  • Directed U.S. prosecutors and law enforcement nationwide to focus on enacting President Trump's immigration policies. They said they should potentially charge state or local officials who impede federal immigration enforcement efforts.

  • Instructed immigration officials to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country illegally without allowing them to request legal protection.

  • Ordered expansion of Guantanamo Bay detention facility for deported immigrants.

  • Began deporting emigrants, both criminal and non-criminal.

  • Rescinded Venezuelans temporary protected status in the United States.

  • Sent U.S. troops to the Southern border.

  • Attempting to end birthright citizenship

  • Declared drug cartels and international gangs as foreign terrorist organizations

  • Suspended the US refugee resettlement program

  • Suspended legal immigration portals

  • Revoked a Biden-era policy that prohibited arrests by U.S. immigration agents at or near schools, places of worship, and other areas deemed to be "sensitive locations."

  • Had a dust-up with Columbia on accepting deported immigrants.

 

Related to Investigative Matters 

  • Pardoned the January 6th Capitol riot supporters and commuted the sentences for Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders.

  • Granted a full and complete pardon for Silk Road’s leader.

  • Fired U.S. Department of Justice officials who led investigations into Donald Trump’s activities.

  • Fired Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who also led investigations into his activities.Fired 16 agency inspector generals.

  • Revoked the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

 

Related to Miscellaneous Issues

  • Fired the volunteer chair and specific Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board members and appointed himself as Kennedy Center Board Chair.

  • Was inaugurated and said goodbye to President and Dr. Biden.

  • Ordered the U.S. flag to be raised to full staff on the day of his inauguration and then lowered to half-staff for the remaining days of honor to the late President Jimmy Carter.