President Trump began signing executive orders on his first day back in the White House that span from pardoning January 6 rioters to halting the TikTok ban.
Trump started signing his first wave of executive orders around 7 p.m. Monday, after his swearing-in ceremony and a parade, and just before the evening’s inaugural balls that stretched well past midnight.
He started by rescinding 78 executive orders approved by his predecessor Joe Biden, including efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, protect federal lands from oil drilling and reduce the cost of prescription medications.
Trump also declared a national border emergency and ordered the U.S. armed forces to repel “forms of invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, including illegal migration and drug trafficking. The new president’s moves also include halting enforcement of a ban on TikTok in the U.S. for 75 days, mandating how the U.S. government recognizes gender on federal documents and changing official names of Mount Denali in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.
Here are some of the executive orders signed by President Trump:
Gulf of Mexico gets renamed to ‘Gulf of America‘
President Donald Trump officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” in an executive order signed Monday night.
The order, part of a host of executive orders he issued in the hours after taking office, directs the secretary of the Interior to change the name of the 1,100-mile-wide gulf on official U.S. government maps and documents.
Earlier this month, Trump promised he would change the name as retribution for what he calls Mexico’s failure to stem illegal immigration and drugs entering the U.S.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum jabbed back the next day, sarcastically proposing the U.S. should be called “Mexican America.”
Donald Trump issues executive order to halt TikTok ban
After posting on Sunday that he would halt the ban of the social media app TikTok, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Sunday doing so. The order halts the ban in the country for 75 days.
The popular app shut down during the weekend, but the company said it was working to restore its services based on Trump’s post. The app was back on Sunday, but it’s still not available to download on the App Store and Google Play.
“The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order,” Trump promised.
Federal employees required to return to work in-person
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing department heads to require federal employees to “return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis” immediately, with exemptions allowed.
The American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing about 800,000 federal workers, promptly filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to ensure they comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
The lawsuit, AFGE along with watchdog groups Public Citizen and State Democracy Defenders Fund (SDDF), claim Trump and his Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “do not represent the interests of everyday Americans… (they) will be considering cuts to government agencies and programs that protect health, benefits, consumer finance, and product safety.”
As Trump’s return-to-office mandate was expected to get major pushback from federal workers, the president is also threatening to take legal action against the latest AFGE contract, which extended remote worker protections until 2029.
“AFGE will not stand idly by as a secretive group of ultra-wealthy individuals with major conflicts of interest attempt to deregulate themselves and give their own companies sweetheart government contracts while firing civil servants and dismantling the institutions designed to serve the American people,” AFGE President Everett Kelley said in a statement. “This fight is about fairness, accountability, and the integrity of our government. Federal employees are not the problem — they are the solution.”
Trump pardons 1,500 defendants charged in January 6 attack
President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 people Monday charged in the Capitol attack Jan. 6, 2021, fulfilling a campaign pledge critics said would “endorse attacks on democracy.”
That figure would represent almost all of the nearly 1,600 people who were charged in the riot by the fourth anniversary Jan. 6, according to the Justice Department.
Executive order aims to end birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday evening targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country illegally, contrary to the 14th Amendment.
The order was part of a flurry of executive action Trump took on the first day of his second term.
“The federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States. We are also going to enhance vetting and screening of illegal aliens,” said a Trump official in a briefing on Monday.
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