Here's what happened during President Trump's 2nd week in office

The state began to spot the effects of President Donald Trump’s policies successful his 2nd week successful office, with the White House implementing tariffs connected Mexico, Canada and China; borderline crossings plummeting; diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs shuttering; the national workforce being faced with the determination to instrumentality to the bureau oregon to resign; and more. 

As promised, Trump’s medication has been moving astatine warp velocity to instrumentality his docket — signing much than 200 enforcement actions just hours aft taking the Oath of Office. 

President Donald Trump speaks to the media aft signing enforcement orders successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C, connected Jan. 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump instantly cracked down connected immigration, and by the opening of his 2nd week successful bureau migrant encounters dropped significantly. The fig of migrants arriving astatine the confederate borderline plummeted by 63% arsenic of Monday, Fox News Digital antecedently reported. 

TRUMP-ERA SOUTHERN BORDER SEES MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS PLUMMET BY OVER 60% AS NEW POLICIES KICK IN

There were 7,287 migrant encounters astatine the confederate borderline successful the archetypal 7 days of the Trump medication  — from Jan. 20 done Jan. 26, with a regular mean of 1,041 encounters a day.

That compares to 20,086 encounters a time during the last days of erstwhile President Joe Biden’s presidency — from Jan. 13 done Jan. 19. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week participated successful an migration enforcement raid successful New York City Tuesday targeting "murderers, kidnappers, and individuals charged of battle and burglary." The cognition continued done Friday. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joins an ICE raid successful New York City connected Tuesday. Noem said communities volition beryllium safer due to the fact that of targeted raids that spell aft transgression amerciable immigrants.  (Department of Homeland Security)

And Border czar Tom Homan said that arsenic of Monday the Trump medication had removed and returned 7,300 amerciable immigrants and had deported them to Mexico, Jordan, Brazil and El Salvador. 

The president connected Wednesday besides signed the Laken Riley Act into law — the archetypal portion of authorities to go instrumentality successful his 2nd administration. 

President Donald Trump pauses portion speaking earlier signing the Laken Riley Act successful the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, successful Washington.  (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

TRUMP SIGNS LAKEN RILEY ACT INTO LAW AS FIRST LEGISLATIVE VICTORY IN NEW ADMINISTRATION

The measure, which precocious done the House and Senate successful January, directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain amerciable immigrants arrested oregon charged with theft-related crimes, oregon those accused of assaulting a constabulary officer. 

The instrumentality besides allows states to writer the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens due to the fact that of amerciable immigration.

The law’s sanction honors a nursing pupil who was killed during a jog connected the University of Georgia’s field by an amerciable immigrant, Fox News Digital antecedently reported. Jose Ibarra, who antecedently had been arrested but ne'er detained by ICE, received a beingness situation condemnation for sidesplitting 22-year-old Laken Riley. 

Beyond the border, the president’s enactment to extremity DEI programs crossed the national authorities has continued. Last week, the Office of Personnel Management ordered bureau heads and directors to adjacent their DEI offices. 

On Jan. 27, 2025, an Office of Management and Budget memo was released, which aimed to frost backing to assorted national programs that were focused connected diversity, equity and inclusion, oregon DEI.  (Fox News Digital-Hannah Grossman)

And implicit astatine the Justice Department, Trump medication officials fired much than a twelve cardinal officials who worked connected Special Counsel Jack Smith’s squad prosecuting Trump, aft Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they could not beryllium trusted successful "faithfully implementing the president’s agenda." 

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FIRES MORE THAN A DOZEN KEY OFFICIALS ON FORMER SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH'S TEAM

On Monday, an Office of Management and Budget memo was released, which aimed to frost backing to assorted national programs that were focused connected DEI. 

The memo issued a intermission connected each national grants and loans aiming to eradicate "wokeness" and the "weaponization of government" to amended authorities efficiency. 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her archetypal quality league successful the Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House connected January 28, 2025, successful Washington.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt held her first-ever property briefing successful the James S. Brady country connected Tuesday and fielded galore questions from reporters connected the memo. She maintained that programs including Social Security benefits, Medicare, nutrient stamps, payment benefits and different assistance going straight to individuals would not beryllium impacted. 

But by Tuesday evening, a national justice imposed an administrative stay, pausing the Trump administration’s action. 

And connected Wednesday, the White House opted to rescind the memo, but stressed to Fox News Digital that it was committed to freezing national grants and loans aimed astatine woke programs." 

"In airy of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to extremity immoderate disorder connected national argumentation created by the tribunal ruling and the dishonest media coverage," Leavitt told Fox News connected Wednesday. "The Executive Orders issued by the President connected backing reviews stay successful afloat unit and effect and volition beryllium rigorously implemented by each agencies and departments." 

Leavitt told Fox News that rescinding the memo "should efficaciously extremity the tribunal lawsuit and let the authorities to absorption connected enforcing the President’s orders connected controlling national spending." 

WHITE HOUSE STILL COMMITTED TO FREEZING ‘WOKE’ FUNDS DESPITE RESCINDING OMB MEMO

Also this week, the Office of Personnel Management sent a enactment to national workers offering them the enactment to resign and person afloat wage and benefits done Sept. 30. That option, which the medication referred to arsenic a "Fork successful the Road," came aft the medication demanded that each national workers instrumentality to in-person, in-office work. 

Federal workers person until Feb. 6 to determine if they volition instrumentality to enactment oregon if they volition resign. 

The lone national workers who bash not person the enactment are postal workers, members of the military, migration officials, immoderate nationalist information officials, and immoderate positions bureau heads determine to carve out. 

But the accelerated changes came to a speedy halt connected Wednesday nighttime astir 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, aft an American Airlines level and Army chopper collided adjacent Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport extracurricular of Washington, D.C. 

The formation had near Wichita, Kansas, earlier that day. All 67 radical onboard some craft are presumed dead.

President Donald Trump signed 2 enforcement orders connected the evening of Jan. 30, 2025, addressing aviation, pursuing a deadly D.C. crash. (Reuters/AP)

TRUMP ORDERS ASSESSMENT OF AVIATION SAFETY, NAMES ACTING FAA ADMINISTRATOR AFTER DEADLY DC PLANE CRASH

Those aboard the level included "several members" of U.S. Figure Skating, including athletes, coaches and household members who had conscionable attended the U.S. Figure Skating Championships held successful Wichita, Kansas, from Jan. 20 to Jan. 26. 

Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was confirmed connected Tuesday and rapidly took charge, instantly getting implicit to the Federal Aviation Administration gathering and launching an probe into the horrific incident. 

The president said that the deadly midair collision was a "confluence of atrocious decisions that were made and you person radical that mislaid their lives, violently mislaid their lives." 

On Jan. 28, 2025, an American Airlines level and Army chopper collided adjacent Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport extracurricular of Washington, D.C.  (Fox News Digital)

The president signed 2 enforcement orders appointing a caller Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lawman administrator, Chris Rocheleau, and ordering an contiguous appraisal of aviation information and an elevation of "competence" implicit DEI. 

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Meanwhile, the president besides signed an enforcement bid to make a Task Force 250 — a White House task unit focused connected coordinating the plans and activities surrounding the solemnisation of the 250th day of American independence. 

The president besides signed a memo that would assistance the corporate bargaining agreements that erstwhile President Joe Biden enactment into effect earlier leaving bureau — agreements that White House officials said were designed to "constrain" the Trump medication from reforming the government.  

EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP TO SIGN MEMO LIFTING BIDEN'S LAST-MINUTE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS

And arsenic for the Cabinet, Duffy was confirmed arsenic Transportation secretary; Doug Burgum was confirmed arsenic caput of the Interior; Lee Zeldin was confirmed arsenic head of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Scott Bessent was confirmed arsenic Treasury secretary. 

Over successful the Senate, Trump’s nominee for caput of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; nominee for FBI manager Kash Patel; and nominee for manager of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard faced pugnacious questions from senators during confirmation hearings. 

FBI Director nominee Kash Patel, left, Health and Human Services Nominee nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard faced pugnacious questions from senators this week during confirmation hearings.  (Getty Images)

WHITE HOUSE TO IMPOSE TARIFFS ON MEXICO, CANADA AND CHINA DUE TO ‘INVASION OF ILLEGAL FENTANYL’

And, astatine the extremity of the week, the White House confirmed that by Saturday the president would rotation retired tariffs connected Mexico, Canada and China. 

The president is imposing a 25% tariff connected Mexico; a 25% tariff connected Canada, and a 10% tariff connected China. 

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"These are promises made and promises kept," White House property caput Leavitt said astatine a property briefing Friday. 

And it’s lone the extremity of week two. 

Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw, Diana Stancey, Bill Melugin and Emma Colton contributed to this report.