Trump’s main executive orders: What to know

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made bully connected his promised flurry of enforcement enactment connected Day 1.

With his archetypal batch of memoranda and orders, Trump connected Monday repealed dozens of erstwhile President Biden’s actions and withdrew the U.S. from the Paris clime accords, among different actions. He besides pardoned hundreds of radical for their roles successful the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.

Here’s a look astatine immoderate of Trump’s archetypal actions and upcoming plans:

Pardons successful the Jan. 6 Capitol attack

As helium promised repeatedly during the 2024 campaign, the president said precocious Monday that helium has issued pardons for astir 1,500 radical convicted oregon criminally charged successful the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol arsenic Congress convened to certify Biden’s 2020 triumph implicit Trump. Separately, Trump ordered an extremity to national cases against “political opponents” of the Biden medication — meaning Trump supporters. He promised aggregate times Monday to extremity “weaponization” of national instrumentality enforcement but the enactment helium described astatine his evening rally seemed to use connected his backers.

The economy

In a made-for-TV show astatine Capital One Arena connected Monday evening, Trump signed a mostly symbolic memorandum that helium described arsenic directing each national bureau to combat user inflation.

By repealing Biden actions, Trump besides is trying to easiness regulatory burdens on oil and earthy state production, thing helium promises volition assistance bring down costs of each user goods. Trump specifically wants to marque it easier to extract fossil fuels successful Alaska.

On trade, the president said helium expects to enforce 25% tariffs connected Canada and Mexico starting connected Feb. 1, but declined to soma retired his plans for taxing Chinese imports.

America First

Trump volition motion an bid renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. And the highest upland successful North America, present known arsenic Denali, volition revert backmost to Mount McKinley, its sanction until President Barack Obama changed it. The renaming is to grant “American greatness,” according to a preview of the orders posted online by Trump’s incoming property secretary.

He signed an bid that flags indispensable beryllium astatine afloat tallness astatine each aboriginal Inauguration Day. The bid came due to the fact that erstwhile President Jimmy Carter’s decease had prompted flags to beryllium astatine half-staff. Trump demanded they beryllium moved up Monday.

Immigration

Trump reversed respective migration orders from Biden’s presidency, including 1 that narrowed deportation priorities to radical who perpetrate superior crimes, are deemed nationalist information threats, oregon were stopped astatine the border. It returns the authorities to Trump’s first-term argumentation that everyone successful the state illegally is simply a precedence for deportation.

The president declared a nationalist exigency at the U.S.-Mexico border, and helium plans to nonstop U.S. troops to assistance enactment migration agents and restrict refugees and asylum. He’s besides pledged to restart a argumentation that forced asylum seekers to hold implicit the borderline successful Mexico, but officials didn’t accidental whether Mexico would judge migrants again. During the erstwhile effort, squalid and fetid camps grew connected the borderline and were marred by pack violence. Trump is besides promising to end birthright citizenship, but it’s unclear however he’d bash it — it’s enshrined successful the U.S. Constitution.

Trump besides is ending the CBP One app, a Biden-era borderline app that gave ineligible introduction to astir 1 cardinal migrants.

Climate and energy

As expected, Trump signed documents helium said volition formally retreat the U.S. from the Paris clime agreements. He made the aforesaid determination during his archetypal word but Biden reversed it.

Additionally, Trump plans to state an state an vigor exigency arsenic helium promises to “drill, baby, drill,” and says helium volition destruct what helium calls Biden’s electrical conveyance mandate.

Overhauling national bureaucracy

Trump has halted national authorities hires, excepting the subject and different parts of authorities that went unnamed. He added a frost connected caller national regulations portion helium builds retired his 2nd administration.

Additionally, helium is expected to marque it easier to occurrence thousands of national workers by reclassifying definite employees arsenic governmental appointees alternatively than merit strategy employees whose jobs are protected done changes successful administrations. Trump besides is acceptable to formally empower the alleged Department of Government Efficiency, which is being led by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.

Ostensibly an effort to streamline government, DOGE is not an authoritative agency. But Trump appears poised to springiness Musk wide latitude to urge cuts successful authorities programs and spending.

Diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender rights

Trump is rolling backmost protections for transgender radical and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs wrong the national government. Both are large shifts for the national argumentation and are successful enactment with Trump’s run way promises. One bid would state that the national authorities would admit lone 2 immutable sexes: antheral and female.

And they’re to beryllium defined based connected whether radical are calved with eggs oregon sperm, alternatively than connected their chromosomes, according to details of the upcoming order. Under the order, national prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims would beryllium segregated by enactment arsenic defined by the order. And national payer wealth could not beryllium utilized to money “transition services.”

A abstracted bid halts DEI programs, directing the White House to place and extremity them wrong the government.

Originally Published: January 20, 2025 astatine 9:11 PM EST