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Inauguration to Implementation: Trump’s Day One

After a day full of meetings, ceremonies and balls, Donald Trump and JD Vance have officially been sworn in as the 47th president and 50th vice president of the United States, respectively.

Historical parallels occurred on Inauguration Day, as President Trump is the first president since President Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms. 

Additionally, with freezing temperatures blanketing Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day, the 60th presidential inauguration was held within the Capitol Rotunda, the first since President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985.

Shortly after the inauguration proceedings, President Trump announced a rush of executive orders, set to reverse many of President Joe Biden’s policies and respond to critical situations across the country.

The first executive orders will address border security, one of President Trump’s most popular campaign points, but will take further executive action than most. Similar to his first term, a national emergency will be issued at the southern border and the U.S. military will be sent to halt illegal immigration and construct a new area of border wall.

Criminal cartels will also be recognized and classified as foreign terrorist organizations. The order allows more authorities to be allocated to cartel operations. President Trump addressed this point, and will “create task forces for the protection of homeland security with officers from the FBI, ICE, CEA, and other agencies to ‘fully eradicate the presence of criminal cartels,’” per Fox News.

In a complete turnaround from President Biden, Trump also announced a wave of executive action for American energy by declaring a national energy emergency and largely deregulating the oil and natural gas industry.

The 47th president aims to ease economic and inflationary woes by bringing the cost of energy down through allowing the United States to increase its supply. 

In the Pacific, an order is expected to utilize Alaska’s copious amount of oil and natural gas to aid the energy industry, while at the same time across the Atlantic, Trump will take America out of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty that seeks to strengthen the response to climate change.

Within the federal government, a “presidential memorandum directing all agencies and departments to remove all federal actions that increase costs for families and consumers.”

All policies under the Biden-era Green New Deal will also end, including the electric vehicle mandate made by President Biden himself.

The federal workforce will also be reshaped, with a hiring freeze, evaluation of federal occupational productivity and mandate that able government employees return to office (RTO), eliminating remote work.

In another round of action within the federal government, executive orders will remove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs among all federal agencies, aiming to institute a “merit-based” process.

Another culture-oriented executive order, announced in Trump’s second inaugural address, will require the federal government to officially recognize two distinct sexes: male and female. 

The BBC reported “Trump officials earlier told reporters that the order would say it was US policy to recognize male and female biologically distinct sexes, rather than ‘gender and sex.’

“The order is expected to affect transgender policy regarding government communications, civil rights protections and federal funding as well as the approach of US shelters and prisons. It will affect official documents like passports and visas.”

Furthermore, rather famously, the forty-seventh president will rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Mount Denali, renamed by former President Barack Obama, will revert to its former name “Mount McKinley.”

From historic actions that address the southern border, freeing the American energy industry, abolishing socio-political directives within the federal government, trying to eliminate federal monetary waste, enlarging executive authority and limiting the autonomy of the bureaucracy, to even renaming iconic national landmarks, the second term of President Donald Trump is set to be quite unique among the history of the American presidency.

Read about Trump’s executive orders and plans for the federal government, as reported by the BBC, CBS News, Fox News, Reuters.

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