The first week of President Donald Trump’s historic second term was spent issuing hundreds of executive orders to reshape the federal government and according to his administration, he’s just getting started.
According to the White House, Trump has issued over 300 executive orders, secured $1 trillion in U.S. investment, seen a remarkable drop in unauthorized crossings at the U.S. border, began to fulfill his campaign promise to ramp up deportations, and “restored common sense to the government.”
“President Donald J. Trump’s first full week back in office was the most significant in modern history, punctuated by strong, swift action to correct course after four years of disaster,” the White House wrote in a Monday memo. “In just one week, President Trump has done more to usher in the Golden Age of America than most presidents do over their full term.”
Here’s some of what the Trump Administration is trumpeting after their first seven days in the White House.
ON THE BORDER
Trump spent his campaign promising the “largest mass deportation” effort in U.S. history, and he’s already begun to fulfill that promise, according to his administration.
On his first day in office the commander-in-chief declared that an emergency exists at the southern border and ordered the U.S. military to deploy personnel there to support enforcement efforts. The White House also says in the following days construction of the border wall resumed and deportation flights ramped up.
The Trump Administration, according to the White House, has reinstated the use of the term “illegal alien” to describe those suspected of entering or staying in the U.S. without lawful presence, and Trump’s Department of Justice has announced it will take legal action against local and state lawmakers who obstruct his plans for mass deportations.
DRILL BABY, DRILL
Trump also declared an “energy emergency” in his first hours after taking the oath of office for a second time, and according to the White House that action will enable the U.S. to “unlock our full energy potential and bring down costs for American families.”
Additionally, the Trump administration says they’ve undone “every one of the Biden administration’s job-killing, pro-China, anti-American energy regulations,” and says they’ve “terminated” what Trump refers to as the “Green New Scam,” an apparent reference to legislation filed during but never passed by the 116th Congress.
An electric vehicle mandate established by former President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has been scrapped, and off-shore drilling re-allowed, while new offshore wind leases will not be issued.
As he did in his first term, Trump removed the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, “which unfairly ripped off our country.”
BOOSTING THE ECONOMY
The White House said Monday that Trump secured $500 billion in private sector investment promises for “the largest Artificial Intelligence infrastructure project in history,” and that Saudi Arabia would invest an additional $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.
Automaker Stellantis, after its executives met with Trump according to the White House, said the company will reopen its plant in Belvidere, Illinois and return 1,500 autoworkers to the assembly line. The company also announced new investments in their “Toledo, Ohio, and Kokomo, Indiana, facilities.”
AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY
Trump seemingly started and ended a trade spat with Colombia on Sunday, all while making the rounds at one of his golf properties in Florida. As a consequence, his White House says, “Colombia agreed to President Donald Trump’s terms and will accept flights of Colombian illegal aliens being returned on military planes.”
That’s just part of his State Department’s “America First foreign policy,” according to the administration.
In addition, the U.S. has begun a pause on all foreign aid and grants, redesignated Iran-backed Houthis rebels as a terrorist organization, ordered all U.S. embassies to take down any “activist flags,” and rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration, “which promotes and strengthens opportunities for women and girls around the world, and protects the family as the fundamental unit of society.”
ANTI-DEI MEASURES
All “discriminatory ‘DEI’ offices, employees, and practices” have been eliminated across the federal bureaucracy, according to the Trump White House, and the government will “return to merit-based hiring.”
“Affirmative action in federal government hiring has ended,” the White House wrote.
Trump also ordered all federal employees who were working remotely to report into an office, attempted to rename the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of American, and successfully renamed North America’s highest peak as Mount McKinley.
The Trump administration has also declared that biological sex is determined at conception and limited to two genders and that the “weaponization of the federal government against its citizens” has stopped., The White House also said they’ve put an end to “censorship by the government against its own citizens.”
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A Border Patrol agent walks past four men detained after crossing the border illegally in a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, last week in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
