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Here Are Trump's First Executive Orders

Matt Vespa
Matt Vespa  |  January 20, 2025 2:05 PM

UPDATE: President Trump (so good to write that again) signs another tranche of executive orders, including pardons and commutations for 1,500 January 6 defendants. A key one signed tonight was Trump declaring the southern border a national emergency. The Department of Government Efficiency was also formed:

UPDATE: Trump has signed a slate of executive orders at Capital One Arena. Nearly 80 Biden-era executive actions have been revoked. 

  1. Regulatory freeze. No more regulations until Trump officials have control of the government. 
  2. A requirement that federal workers return to full-time, in-person work immediately
  3. The withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty
  4. Blocking of government censorship of free speech
  5. Agencies to usher how to bring down the cost of living for working Americans

He rescinded 78 harmful executive actions taken by Joe Biden. The rescinded orders include measures that opened the border, radical DEI orders, and climate extremism that exploded inflation.

He signed an order to ensure the federal government does not engage in censorship.

The order states: "The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference.  Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve.  Under the guise of combatting 'misinformation,' 'disinformation,' and 'malinformation,' the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.  Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society."

President Trump signed an executive order to end the weaponization of the federal government against the American people. 

This Executive Order delivers accountability to federal government entities that have used the power of the federal government as a weapon to violate the rights of the American people. 

The order directs the incoming Attorney General, working with the heads of each agency and department with enforcement authority, to scour government records and activities from the previous four years to uncover all actions that were taken with disregard for the law and solely to inflict undue harm on specific targets.

President Trump signed a presidential memorandum telling the heads "of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary." 

President Trump ordered all executive departments and agencies to halt the publication of any new regulations and instituted a hiring freeze of federal civilian employees. The order does not apply to "military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety." 

He also signed a presidential memorandum to bring emergency price relief for American families and defeat the cost-of-living crisis. 

"I hereby order the heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker.  This shall include pursuing appropriate actions to:   lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply; eliminate unnecessary administrative expenses and rent-seeking practices that increase healthcare costs; eliminate counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances; create employment opportunities for American workers, including drawing discouraged workers into the labor force; and eliminate harmful, coercive “climate” policies that increase the costs of food and fuel.  Within 30 days of the date of this memorandum, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy shall report to me and every 30 days thereafter, on the status of the implementation of this memorandum." 

President Trump also removed the United States from the disastrous Paris Climate Accords. This is a fulfillment of a campaign promise. Promises made, promises kept.

The Paris Agreement places unfair economic burdens on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers. The Paris Agreement hampers the economic and national security of the United States while allowing the world’s leading polluters such as China to continue to pollute.

 

***Original Post***

Donald J. Trump is officially the 47th president of the United States. In his inaugural address, he outlined a lengthy agenda, previewing the slew of expected executive orders related to energy independence, immigration, and restoring law and order. Well, we have our first, and it relates to climate change.

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 We’re done with the Paris Climate Agreement again (via Politico):

President Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement for the second time, delivering a blow to the effort to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.

The president announced plans to exit the nearly 200-nation pact on Monday in a White House press release outlining a forthcoming executive order. The process will take a full year from the date the Trump administration formally notifies the United Nations climate body. While the U.S. can still participate in annual climate negotiations, it will do so with less influence than before. 

The move will take the world’s largest economy and the biggest historical contributor to climate change out of the global pact that aims to mitigate rising temperatures and the problems they are causing around the world, including more devastating hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters and displacement of people from the hardest-hit areas. The U.S. withdrawal further imperils nations’ already slim hopes of preventing 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming since the Industrial Revolution began. 

Analyses have shown the Paris agreement sharply reduced projected levels of warming. Its backers contend those forecasts prove the deal’s goal-setting and peer pressure yields a positive effect, even if nations consistently fall short of their own targets.

Yeah, we don’t care. It’s done. Over. Enough with this climate change nonsense because no one cares, guys. Wildfires in California wiped out almost a generation of greenhouse gas reductions in 2020. And yet, no one gets on Gavin Newsom and other leaders for following basic fire prevention measures, like clearing brush from wildfire-prone zones to protect flowers and other pieces of useless foliage. The result is the LA fire, now the costliest natural disaster in American history. So, please, spare us. No one cares about global temperatures when they’ve lost everything. Also, what analyses? The same ones that said the Arctic Ice Cap would vanish by 2013.