When Donald Trump becomes president again at noon today, he is armed with an agenda ready to be implemented.
His team prepared the most aggressive first-day agenda in American history: some 200 executive orders designed to reshape the federal government.
President Trump said at the rally that day, “All radical and foolish executive orders of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours after I am sworn into office.” “I’m going to have a really good time watching television tomorrow.”
From TikTok to the Middle East, Trump has essentially been our president for at least the past month as the Biden administration continues to fade away.
This is not the chaotic Trump of 2017. The scope reflects a fundamental shift in Trump’s approach to power. His first administration learned the organization of Washington through trial and error. This time, he’s assembled a team of DC veterans who not only support his agenda, but understand how the federal bureaucracy works and how to make it work.
Here’s a sample of what’s to come:
border security and immigration
- National emergency declared on southern border
- Directs military to cooperate with DHS
- Return to “Remain in Mexico”
- End of “Catch and Release”
- Designate the cartel as a terrorist organization\
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federal workforce reform
- Ending all federal DEI programs
- Eliminate non-compliant federal employees and end remote work policies.
- Suspending the security clearances of 51 government officials who misled Hunter Biden about his laptop.
- Establishes new Government Efficiency Department hiring freeze
Energy and Environment
- Public Alaska Energy Production
- End of Biden era regulations on electric vehicle promotion
- Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
- Abolish the Green New Deal
- Offshore wind leasing pause
social policy
- Establishing a definition of biological sex
- Renaming a Historic Place
- Grants pardons to at least some people convicted of crimes on January 6th.
- Enable TikTok to Keep Working
This agenda involves more than policy change. This is a blueprint for transforming how the federal government operates. Trump’s team spent three years analyzing the successes and failures of his first term. They identified pressure points in the bureaucracy and designed concrete measures to address them.
The difference between 2017 and 2024 is stark. Trump, then, was a disruptor learning to govern. Now he has assembled a team that understands both his vision and the mechanisms of federal power. They don’t just come to drain the swamp. They are coming to rebuild the swamp in their own image.
For Trump supporters, this means the arrival of an administration ready to deliver from day one. It’s his opponents’ worst nightmare. Trump is making a plan.
Today marks the beginning of the most intensive use of executive power in recent American history. By noon you will know exactly what that means.
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