Posted on 01/28/2017 10:20:12 AM PST by ColdOne
President Donald Trump has spent his first days using his executive authority to rewrite American policy and undo a string of decisions made by former president Barack Obama. Heres a running list of the new presidents executive actions:
1. Providing relief from the Affordable Care Act Trumps first executive order on Inauguration Day involved minimizing the economic burden of the Affordable Care Act. This order allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other departments and agencies to waive or delay the implementation of any ACA provisions that would impose a financial burden or any state or a regulatory burden on any individuals.
2. Freezing all regulations Trump froze all pending regulations until they are approved directly by his administration or by an agency led by Trump appointees. The action, given in a memorandum from White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, delays all regulations with the exception of health, safety, financial or national security matters allowed by the Office of Management and Budget director.
3. Reinstating the Mexico City abortion policy The president reinstated the so-called Mexico City Policy, which blocks the use of U.S.
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Thanks ColdOne!
There is one thing he must do and soon.
End Obamas illegal DACA program. Every day that passes another 140-150 illegal aliens are added to the 750,000 already issued work permits.
Even if they do not rescind papers already issued, they must stop issuing new ones NOW.
If Trump does not end Obamas illegal DACA program it becomes Trumps illegal DACA program.
Oh yeah? Well now you’ll never get to see what Jeb was gonna do. :)
Killing Obama’s executive orders and actions on Day One have not occurred. Sad fact. Wish he would directly spell out plans.
Agreed. This is my single complaint at the moment.
Reagan 381 Bush 166 Clinton 364 Bush 291 Obama 275 end snip
Yeb! would still be finding the bathrooms in the White House.
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- Trump erased all mentions on the White House web site of climate change. He did that within ONE HOUR of taking the oath of office.
- Trump issued an Executive order to ease the burden of Obamacare
- Trump returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the oval office
- Trump withdrew America from the TPP treaty
- Trump erased all Spanish language from the White House web site. It is now English Only.
- Trump issued an Executive order starting the construction of THE WALL.
- Trump issued an Executive order banning funding to foreign pro-abortion groups
- Trumps new Secretary of Defense James Mad Dog Mattis took the fight to ISIS by bombing them 31 times on his first day as the new Secretary of Defense
- Trump announced temporary ban on refugees from Syria and Middle Eastern war zones
- Trump imposed a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding new contracts or grants
- Trump announced a ban on visas from dangerous Muslim-majority countries with inadequate screening
- Trump announced the end of Sanctuary cities and the defunding of federal funds for any city that chooses to continue breaking the law
- Trump announced the hiring of 10,000 new border agents
- Trump signed an Executive order demanding the Secretary of Homeland Security publish a weekly list of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens
- Trump signed an Executive order freezing the hiring of non-essential federal employees
- Trump said out loud the words radical Islamic terrorism.
- Trump stopped payment on Obamas final hour giveaway of $220 million to the Palestinian Authority
- Trump used Executive orders to give the go-ahead to the long-stalled Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines
- Trump got the State Departments entire senior management team to resign in frustration.
- Trump announced his intention to withdraw From Climate & Environmental Accords Along With UN Funding Cuts of 40%
- Trump tweeted “Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!”
- Trump announced hell begin a major investigation into voter fraud in the 2016 election
- Trump got the chief of the Border Patrol to leave the agency in frustration at having to actually do his job!
- State Dept. Arms Control chief fired while on airplane by Trump, told to turn around and fly back!
- Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on sanctuary counties
- Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads.
- Trump signed executive order stripping non-citizens of privacy rights
- Trump tweeted The #MarchForLife is so important. To all of you marching - you have my full support!
- Trump tweeted Mexico has taken advantage of the U.S. for long enough. Massive trade deficits & little help on the very weak border must change, NOW!
- Trump signed an executive order to begin a great rebuilding of the armed services of the United States
- Trump signed an executive order suspending the entire US refugee resettlement program for at least 120 days while tough new vetting rules are established
- Trump ordered that persecuted Christians be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States.
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Ole nevertrumper erikson posted that the President signed an eo creating a day of natinal pride? Or something like that.
When does he sleep? He is putting past Presidents to shame and making them all look lazy.
good job, thanks, very informative
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