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Trump’s first executive orders

January 24 , 2025 4 hrs 0 min 42 0
  • US President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders and directives as soon after taking oath of office.
  • He has pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
  • He signed orders declaring illegal immigration at the US-Mexico border a national emergency, designating criminal cartels as terrorist organisations.
  • On his first day in office, the President Trump revoked as many as 78 executive actions of the previous Biden administration.
  • He has also fulfilled his campaign promise to pull the US out of the World Health Organization (WHO).
  • The US is the WHO's top donor, contributing about $130 million per year to help cover its global health preparedness and response.
  • He also signed a withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty.
  • He signed orders freezing government hiring and new federal regulations.
  • He has declared a national energy emergency, promising to fill up strategic oil reserves and export US energy all over the world.
  • He imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting February 1.
  • He signed an order to Renaming the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ as the 'Gulf of America.'
  • He also ordered reverting Mount Denali's name back to ‘Mount McKinley.’
  • He terminated the CBP One app, which had facilitated legal entry for nearly 1 million migrants under Biden's administration.
  • He has reversed the transgender protections by declaring the federal government will recognize only two biological sexes (male and female).
  • His first term as 45th President of United States, Trump had signed 220 executive orders.

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