This is what Trump has done in his 1st week. Not bad:
(Executive orders and memoranda so far.)
(Cabinet.)
(Executive orders and memoranda so far.)
- Revive Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines
- Freeze all EPA regulatory actions and grants
- Freeze all pending regulations for all agencies where a Trump appointee has not been sworn in, with exceptions for health, safety, financial or national security matters
- Reinstate the Mexico City Policy, blocking U.S. taxpayer funds from being used overseas for abortions
- Formally withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership
- Instituted a federal hiring freeze except for the military, safety or national security positions
- Directed the HHS to “waive or delay” implementation of Obamacare provisions that would impose a financial or regulatory burden on any state or individuals (essentially, that’s all of it)
- Begin planning and designing the U.S.-Mexico border wall
- Direct Homeland Security to prioritize illegal aliens with criminal convictions for deportation
- Reinstate the Secure Communities program which Jeh Johnson shut down in 2014
- Freeze **** issuance from certain countries where Islamic terror is an export
- Deny federal funding to “sanctuary cities”
- Authorize hiring 5,000 additional Border Patrol agents and 10,000 additional immigration officers
(Cabinet.)
- Not lose a single cabinet nomination in the Senate.
- Confirmed: Kelly, Mattis, Pompeo, Haley
- Upcoming: Tillerson, Carson (unanimous approval), Chao
- Waiting for committee vote: Perry, Zinke, DeVos, Sessions, Mnuchin, Pruitt
- Awaiting hearings: McMahon, Mulvaney, Price, Puzder, Coats, Lighthizer, Perdue, Shulkin
- Announced that he will nominate a SCOTUS pick next week