Donald Trump decided not to wait to settle in the White House to start governing. The president had a desk installed on the stage of the Capital One Arena, the covered stadium from which his faithful followed the inauguration through screens, to sign his first decrees there, having just arrived from the Capitol. The crowd had been waiting for him for hours and cheered him upon his arrival with shouts of USA and. In the stands, along with members of his family and his team, he witnessed an almost hour-long parade of troops, led by the firefighter’s helmet and uniform. who died that day of the attack. Then, after a speech in which he hung the medal of merit for the ceasefire in the Middle East and repeated some of his usual hoaxes, he went to the red seat where there were a pile of folders and began to sign decrees.
The first decree was the repeal of 78 executive orders of Joe Biden. The second, a regulatory freeze so that federal agencies do not issue more regulations. The third, freezing the hiring of civil servants. With the fourth, teleworking for federal employees was eliminated. The fifth asked government agencies to work to combat inflation, without much specificity. The sixth and seventh, the rejection of the Paris Agreement on emissions. The eighth, one to supposedly restore freedom of expression. The ninth, to end the persecution of political adversaries. Then, Trump went to the White House to sign a mountain of more decrees.
Already before, in the speech in which he announced a “tide of change.” His speech specified, much more than usual in swearing-in speeches, his immediate measures. Trump decided to approve an avalanche of decrees on the first day against immigration, the green agenda, diversity and other matters to close the era of his predecessor, Joe Biden. “Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. “It’s all a matter of common sense,” Trump said.
Trump proclaimed one to end illegal immigration on the White House lot. His electoral campaign largely revolved around being targeted as a scapegoat. In his inauguration speech he insisted on the idea that many come from prisons and asylums, when the vast majority are families in search of opportunities fleeing poverty or political repression.
“First, I will declare an immediate halt to all illegal entry and begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my policy Stay in Mexico [que obliga a los solicitantes de asilo a permanecer al otro lado de la frontera mientras se tramitan sus peticiones]. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country,” Trump said. As soon as he took power, his Administration suppressed the application that allowed asylum seekers to make an appointment to legally access the United States. Then, arriving at the White House, he signed the corresponding decrees.
Declaring the emergency will allow Trump, although that measure can be challenged in court, since the law places strict limits on the Armed Forces on how they can operate on US territory. “The Armed Forces, including the National Guard, will participate in border security, which is national security, and will be deployed to the border to assist existing law enforcement personnel,” Trump’s transition team announced.
The same source noted that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for crimes in which law enforcement officers die and those committed by “illegal immigrants who maim and murder Americans.” “I will order our Government to use the full power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gang criminal networks, which bring devastating crime to American soil, including our cities and urban centers,” he said Trump.
Border emergency
The declaration of a border emergency, despite the fact that immigrant inflows have fallen drastically in recent months, will also give Trump the power to use funds to build the wall with Mexico without the need for approval from Congress.
As he had already anticipated, the president designated the drug cartels as “global terrorists,” which will allow their persecution and sanctions to be toughened.
Furthermore, names are a power that can be exercised by executive order, despite the fact that Administration geographers advise against name changes without compelling reasons. Another thing is that the name catches on beyond the United States.
In energy matters, Trump also decided to declare an emergency, despite the fact that crude oil production is at historic highs and no shortage is perceived in this regard. He will give “free rein” to American energy, ending what his team calls “Biden’s climate extremism policies.” one of the reasons was to “drill, drill, drill” for oil, a phrase he repeated in his inauguration speech. The president will expedite permits and review for repeal all regulations that impose burdens he deems inappropriate on energy production and use, including mining and processing of non-fuel minerals.
Trump also decided to eliminate regulatory and emissions limits with respect to products such as vehicles, relaxing car pollution limits and fuel economy standards. “You can buy the car you choose,” he simplified, when it is now also possible to do so.
He also agreed to eliminate environmental regulations on shower heads – a peculiar obsession of the president – toilets, washing machines, light bulbs and dishwashers. In addition, his transition team assures that Trump will once again decide to withdraw the United States from In his offensive against renewables, he resolved to put an end to “the leasing of massive wind farms that degrade natural landscapes and do not serve American energy consumers.”
Although Trump proclaimed that the principle of “America first” will apply to trade policy and although he will not impose them yet. However, he will order federal agencies to begin an investigation into unfair trade and monetary practices, with a focus on countries with which the United States has a trade deficit. It will also launch an immediate offensive against counterfeit products and review a special exemption that allows low-value products to enter the country tariff-free, a route used by Chinese companies such as Temu and Alibaba. In his speech, he lowered “tariffs” from the position he had given it as the most beautiful word in the world and put “God”, “religion” and “love” before it.
“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will impose tariffs and taxes on foreign countries to enrich our citizens. To do this, we are going to create the Foreign Revenue Service [una agencia tributaria paralela a la actual, de Ingresos Internos] to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues. “There will be massive amounts of money that will enter our treasury, from foreign sources,” Trump said.
Likewise, it will examine China’s compliance with a trade agreement that it signed in its first term, as well as that replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement in 2020, also under Trump’s presidency.
Against officials
The new president decided to end remote work policies for public employees and will order them to return to the office 4-5 days a week. Trump plans to freeze hiring of officials, except in essential areas, “to end the avalanche of useless and overpaid diversity, equality and inclusion activists buried in the federal workforce,” according to his team. Trump intends on the entire Administration.
As part of this cultural war, the new president “will establish the existence of the masculine and the feminine as a biological reality and will protect women from radical gender ideology,” according to his team. Trump advanced this in his speech: “I will end the government policy of trying to socially impose race and gender in all aspects of public and private life. We will forge a color-blind, merit-based society. Starting today, the official policy of the United States Government will be that there are only two genders, male and female,” he proclaimed.
This involves establishing definitions of biological sex for federal workers via decree and as part of the guidelines for schools. His team also announced the end of protections for trans people in federal prisons (one of the pillars of the Republican campaign, which they spent tens of millions of dollars attacking) and for transgender immigrants in US custody.
Part of the first day’s executive orders were written to repeal what Republicans consider “burdensome and sweeping regulations” that Biden approved and that have not yet taken effect. Others are more symbolic than effective. Freedom of expression is constitutionally protected. Despite this, Trump said in his speech: “I will sign an executive order to immediately end all government censorship and return freedom of speech to the United States.”
“This week, I will reinstate all service members who were unfairly kicked out of our military for opposing the Covid vaccine mandate, with full payment of their back pay. And I will sign an order to prevent our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. “This will end immediately,” Trump also said.
The Republican promised on Sunday to issue an executive order to give the social network TikTok more time to come out of Chinese control. He also promised on the eve of his inauguration (and many times before) although in his investiture speech, on that same stage, he preferred not to address the issue.
