According to a briefing from a Team Trump official to Fox News the new president will be getting on with it on day one in office. Executive orders abound…
Officials say around 200 executive actions will take place within hours of Trump’s inauguration. Some of those include:
- State of emergency declared on the border, proclamation to close it.
- End immigration “Catch and Release” policy.
- Pause offshore wind leases.
- End electric vehicle mandate.
- Abolish Green New Deal policy set.
- Withdraw from Paris Climate Accord.
- Designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations.
- Re-institute “Remain in Mexico” policy.
- Begin construction of new border wall areas.
- Emergency authority to suspend entry of illegal immigrants along southwest border.
- End restrictive orders on drilling.
- Re-establishment of presidential control over career federal workforce, executive order to extend control over senior government officials.
- Action to return federal staff to in-person work.
- Suspension of DEI hiring practices in federal government.
- Suspension of security clearances for 51 national security officials who “lied” about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
- Department of Government Efficiency “hiring freeze” to be established.
- A presidential memorandum which directs all agencies and departments to remove all federal actions that “increase costs for families and consumers“.
- TikTok 90-day extension.
That is quite the day-one package. Most of what Starmer managed in 100 days was losing Sue Gray…
