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U.S. President Donald Trump started his second presidential term with a promise to reverse policies from former President Joe Biden's time in office, issuing more than two dozen executive orders on topics including immigration, gender identity and oil drilling.
Below is a list of the executive orders Trump has issued.
Border Security, Citizenship and Immigration
Clarify the military's role in protecting national borders ; have the secretary of defense revise a plan to "seal" the borders and "repel forms of invasion." - Declare and reiterate a national emergency at the U.S.-Canada border and impose a 25% tariff on products of Canada.
- Pause the 25% tariff on Canadian products until March 4, 2025, "in recognition of the steps taken by the Government of Canada" and in order to assess whether the threat described has "abated."
- Declare and reiterate a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and impose a 25% tariff on products of Mexico.
- Pause the 25% tariff on Mexican products until March 4, 2025, "in recognition of the steps taken by the Government of Mexico" and in order to assess whether the threat described has "abated."
- Designate cartels and other organizations, such as TdA and MS-13, as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.
- End birthright U.S. citizenship of children born in the country when neither parent is a citizen or legal permanent resident.
- Enhance vetting and screening across agencies during the visa-issuance process.
- Ensure the federal government upholds existing immigration laws.
- Pause entry into the U.S. of refugees under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program until the program is
"realigned" with the interests of the U.S., given a "lack of ability to absorb large numbers of migrants." - Secure U.S. borders, such as with a physical wall.
Diversity and Gender
- Ban transgender individuals from enlisting and serving openly in the military, ban the use of "identification-based pronoun usage" and prohibit people assigned male at birth from using women's sleeping, changing and bathing facilities (the reverse applies to people assigned female at birth).
- Cease federal support for and enforce all laws that prohibit or limit gender transitions of individuals under the age of 19.
- Eliminate DEI programs within the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
- End all "diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility" programs in the federal government, "under whatever name they appear."
- Prevent hiring in the federal government on the basis of race, gender or religion, and instead base hiring on "merit, practical skill, and dedication to our Constitution."
- Prevent transgender women from competing in categories of sports for people assigned female at birth.
- Recognize only two sexes at the federal level of government, male and female.
- Revoke several diversity, equity and inclusion-related executive orders going back to the Civil Rights era as well as ceasing the promotion of "diversity" or affirmative action.
Education
- End federal funding or support for "gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology" in K-12 schools.
- Expand parental power in education by issuing guidance for states regarding how to use federal formula funds to prioritize "educational choice initiatives" and "education freedom" in discretionary grant programs.
Energy and Environment
- Declare a national energy emergency.
- Expand the use of American energy resources; for example, encourage energy exploration and production and end programs that promote electric vehicles over those with gasoline engines.
- Open Alaska to increased oil and gas drilling.
- Implement emergency measures to provide water resources and improve disaster response in certain areas by overriding certain standing California policies, addressing "mismanagement" of federal funds in emergency response and providing additional support to Los Angeles families through additional housing, expediting waste removal and other measures.
- Put the U.S. first in environmental agreements, including by withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement.
Federal Workforce and Governmental Operations
- Eliminate the Federal Executive Institute, a government program designed to provide leadership training to bureaucrats.
End the "weaponization of the federal government ," meaning the alleged use of the government's legal force and intelligence against its perceived political opponents. The attorney general will conduct a review of the federal government since 2021 to identify such instances. - Establish a council to assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which the executive order claims has "serious concerns of political bias." The council would suggest improvements or structural changes to Trump.
- Establish the Department of Government Efficiency.
- Hold former government officials accountable for alleged election interference and improper disclosure of sensitive governmental information, such as relating to Hunter Biden's laptop and a memoir by former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Restore freedom of speech and end federal censorship by preventing federal government employees from abridging citizens' First Amendment rights, ensuring no taxpayer money is spent on such efforts and correcting past misconduct by the federal government related to censorship of protected speech. - Revive a category of career federal employees — previously known as "Schedule F" — that makes them easier to hire and fire in order to "restore accountability" to the federal workforce. Trump issued a similar order late in his first term, and Biden rescinded it shortly after his inauguration in 2021.
- With the Department of Government Efficiency, reform the Federal workforce through implementing a hiring ratio and reductions in force in order to "maximize efficiency and productivity."
Foreign Policy
- Bring the Department of State in line with an "America First" foreign policy.
- Cease any aid or assistance to South Africa and promote the resettlement of "Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination."
- Declare and reiterate a national emergency to intercept "chemical precursor suppliers, money launderers, other [criminal organizations], criminals at large, and drugs" from China and impose a 10% tariff on products of China.
- Amend the previous order on Chinese tariffs to temporarily allow some packages to arrive in the U.S. without taxes.
- Designate Ansar Allah, more commonly known as "Houthis," as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
- Impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
- Pause foreign development assistance funds in order to asses alignment with U.S. foreign policy.
- Pause the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in order to review guidelines and policies governing FCPA investigations and enforcement actions.
- Withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council, review the U.S.'s membership in the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and cease all funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
- Withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
Military
- Deploy and maintain an "Iron Dome," or missile defense shield, to protect the U.S. from foreign attack.
- Reinstate members of the military who were discharged solely for refusing to abide by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Technology
- Create a plan for the U.S. to "sustain and enhance" global artificial intelligence dominance and develop AI systems "free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas." The order also revokes certain existing AI policies and directives that "act as barriers to American AI innovation," but these policies and directives are not named.
- Delay a ban of TikTok for 75 days, starting on Jan. 20.
- Establish the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a body of no more than 24 members who will advise Trump on matters involving science, technology, education and innovation policy.
- Expand access to the digital asset industry, including blockchain technology, for citizens and the private sector by establishing a regulatory framework for issuing and operating digital assets. The order also revokes a Biden executive order titled "Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets" and the Treasury's "Framework for International Engagement on Digital Assets."
Misc.
- Combat antisemitism, with each executive department or agency reporting to the president how to further curb or combat antisemitism, including an inventory and analysis of antisemitism on higher education campuses after Oct. 7, 2023.
- Declassify the records concerning the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Enforce the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funding of elective abortion unless the mother's life is in danger.
- Establish a "sovereign wealth fund," which contains investments owned by the federal government.
- Establish a task force to eradicate "anti-Christian bias."
- Establish a task force to plan a "grand celebration" commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026.
- Establish a White House "faith office" to "empower faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to serve families and communities."
- Protect Second Amendment rights by assessing any ongoing infringements and creating a plan for further Second Amendment protections.
- Reinstate the name Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America, which has officially been recognized as Denali since 2015, and change the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."
- Restore the death penalty in federal cases and ensure states that impose capital punishment have a "sufficient supply" of lethal-injection materials.
Revoke 78 of Biden's executive orders and memorandums . Notable examples are his efforts to lower prescription drug prices, eliminate privately operated criminal detention facilities and advance racial equity.