High-profile individual actions
- Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021 : This is a full pardon for everyone convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol, including violent attacks on law enforcement officers. Names 14 individuals whose sentences are commuted to time served. “I do hereby … grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. … The Attorney General shall … ensure that all individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, who are currently held in prison are released immediately. … I further direct the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization : “The United States intends to withdraw from the WHO. … The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs shall establish directorates and coordinating mechanisms within the National Security Council apparatus as he deems necessary and appropriate to safeguard public health and fortify biosecurity. … The Secretary of State and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall take appropriate measures, with all practicable speed, to: (i) pause the future transfer of any United States Government funds, support, or resources to the WHO; (ii) recall and reassign United States Government personnel or contractors working in any capacity with the WHO; and (iii) identify credible and transparent United States and international partners to assume necessary activities previously undertaken by the WHO. The Director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy shall review, rescind, and replace the 2024 U.S. Global Health Security Strategy as soon as practicable.”
- Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety : “The Attorney General shall pursue the death penalty for all (federal) crimes of a severity demanding its use. … The Attorney General shall take all necessary and lawful action to ensure that each state that allows capital punishment has a sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection. … The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court precedents that limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.”
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Credit: AP
Immigration/citizenship-related
- Guaranteeing The States Protection Against Invasion : “I have determined that the current situation at the southern border qualifies as an invasion under Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States. Accordingly, I am issuing this Proclamation … and suspending the physical entry of aliens involved in an invasion into the United States across the southern border until I determine that the invasion has concluded. … aliens engaged in the invasion across the southern border of the United States on or after the date of this proclamation are restricted from invoking provisions of the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) that would permit their continued presence in the United States.”
- Protecting The American People Against Invasion : Revokes three 2021 Biden administration executive orders on immigration, and directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) in all states. “The objective of each HSTF is to end the presence of criminal cartels, foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations throughout the United States, dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks, end the scourge of human smuggling and trafficking …”
- Declaring A National Emergency At The Southern Border Of The United States : “I hereby declare that this emergency requires use of the Armed Forces … The Secretary of Defense … shall order as many units or members of the Armed Forces, including the Ready Reserve and the National Guard, as the Secretary of Defense determines to be appropriate to support the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security in obtaining complete operational control of the southern border of the United States. … The Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security shall immediately take all appropriate action, consistent with law, including 10 U.S.C. 2214, to construct additional physical barriers along the southern border.
- Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program : Suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) “until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States.” However, “the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security may jointly determine to admit aliens to the United States as refugees on a case-by-case basis, in their discretion.”
- Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship : Addresses the issue of “birthright citizenship,” by stating that from Feb. 19, 2025 on … “no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.
- Securing Our Borders
Foreign relations / national security
- Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign Aid : “All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors pending reviews of such programs for programmatic efficiency and consistency with United States foreign policy, to be conducted within 90 days of this order. ... The Secretary of State may waive the pause in Section 3(a) for specific programs.”
- Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists
- Protecting The United States From Foreign Terrorists And Other National Security And Public Safety Threats
- Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees
- America First Policy Directive To The Secretary Of State
- Clarifying The Military’s Role In Protecting The Territorial Integrity Of The United States
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Energy/environment-related
- Unleashing American Energy : Revokes a dozen Biden-era Executive Orders, many of them related to studying climate change. Says it is the policy of the United States “to encourage energy exploration and production on federal lands and waters ... to establish our position as the leading producer and processor of non-fuel minerals, including rare earth minerals ... to eliminate the ‘electric vehicle (EV) mandate’ … by removing regulatory barriers to motor vehicle access (and) by terminating, where appropriate, state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of gasoline-powered automobiles.
- Declaring a National Energy Emergency
- Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential
- Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects
- Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California
- Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements
Economy/ tax/ trade
- Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis : This appears to be a wish-list with no specific actions listed to be taken. “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.”
- The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal (Global Tax Deal)
- America First Trade Policy
Government process
- Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing : “The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear. To carry out this directive, the Director of OPM, with the assistance of the Attorney General as requested, shall review and revise, as appropriate, all existing Federal employment practices, union contracts, and training policies or programs to comply with this order.”
- Return to In-Person Work : Like it sounds, but with no timeline and a giant caveat at the end. “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.”
- Establishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency”
- Reforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service
- Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives
- Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce
- Holding Former Government Officials Accountable For Election Interference And Improper Disclosure Of Sensitive Governmental Information
- Hiring Freeze
- Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
- Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel
- President Trump Designates Chairmen and Acting Chairmen
- President Trump Announces Acting Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Positions
- President Trump Announces Sub-Cabinet Appointments
- President Trump Announces Cabinet and Cabinet Level Appointments
Other presidential actions
- Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness: Orders the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, and rename America’s tallest mountain from Denali (stemming from Alaska natives’ terminology), to Mount McKinley (in honor of the U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901).
- Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
- Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government
- Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok
- Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government
- Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship
- Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions
- Flying The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff On Inauguration Day
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