Inauguration
Donald Trump is back – and is planning over 100 decrees on day one
Donald Trump wants to sign more than 100 decrees on his first day in office. One announcement attracts particular attention.
US President-elect Donald Trump wants to reverse important decisions made by his predecessor Joe Biden in the first hours after his inauguration. “Every radical and senseless order from the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of my swearing in,” the Republican said at a rally in front of cheering supporters in the capital, Washington. The 78-year-old promised a big wave of decisions on his first day in office, including on deporting migrants and securing the border.
More than a hundred decrees on the first day: Donald Trump wants to publish secret files on John F. Kennedy
Americans will be particularly interested in Trump’s announcement that he wants to release previously secret documents on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in the coming days. “In the next few days we will make available the remaining files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as other issues of great public interest,” Trump said at a rally in Washington one day before his inauguration.
The assassination of JFK in particular has fascinated the American public for decades. Although official investigations identify Lee Harvey Oswald as a lone perpetrator, many Americans believe there was a conspiracy. Trump had already made a similar announcement during his term in office from 2017 to 2021 and actually published some documents related to the assassination of JFK. Ultimately, however, he bowed to pressure from the CIA and FBI and kept much of the documents under wraps citing national security concerns.
Trump promised he would immediately begin solving “every single crisis” in the country. He promised to sign numerous resolutions directly on Monday. “Someone said to me yesterday, ‘Sir, don’t sign so many in one day. Let’s do it over a period of weeks.’ I said: “Hell, (…) we’ll do it right from the start.”
Trump announces measures against trans people in sports
Trump apparently sees one of these “crises” in the area of trans people. He announced measures against transgender people in women’s sports. Trump will take steps to “keep men out of women’s sports,” the president-elect said. During the election campaign, he announced that he would restrict gender reassignment operations and the participation of trans people in sports.
A Trump adviser told CNN that the Republican wanted to use practically every free minute in the tightly scheduled program on swearing-in day to sign more than a hundred decrees. Fox News reported that Trump’s team was planning more than 200 resolutions on day one – some in bundled form.
US presidents can, among other things, implement political priorities without the approval of Congress with the help of so-called executive orders. These decrees enable quick decisions, but can just as easily be repealed by successors. Trump has the latter in mind.
Trump wants to address the following topics on the first day:
- Declaration of a national emergency at the border with Mexico, which would free up additional Pentagon funding and resources
- Arrangement of raids in various major cities
- Resumption of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, according to which tens of thousands of asylum seekers are sent back to Mexico and have to stay there until their asylum procedure is resolved
- Instructions to the military to help build facilities to secure the border
- Imposition of entry bans
- Tariff rate of 25 percent on goods from Mexico and Canada
- Increasing tariff rates on goods from China to up to 60 percent
- Tariff rate of 10 percent on all other imports
- Declaration of National Energy Emergency
- Repeal Biden’s executive orders banning drilling for gas and oil on federally owned lands and along coasts
- Cutting spending to combat the effects of climate change
- Removal of funding for electric vehicles, stopping the construction of new wind turbines
- Reintroduction of the “Schedule F” decree blocked by Biden, which repeals dismissal protections for federal employees
- Revision of the recruitment rules for government employees
- Pardon of supporters who took part in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and were convicted as a result
- Suspension of the law banning the video platform from the Google and Apple app stores
- Elimination of federal aid to international groups that provide abortion counseling
Diversity, justice, participation:
- Removal of federal aid for schools and companies that implement DEI programs (DEI = diversity, equity and inclusion) that promote women and ethnic minorities
Two and a half months after the election, Trump will be sworn in today in Washington as the 47th President of the United States. The ceremony, originally planned on the west side of the Capitol, was moved at short notice to the dome hall of the Parliament building due to the icy cold in the US capital, where significantly fewer guests can be accommodated. The presidential parade, which traditionally leads past crowds of people from the Capitol to the White House, will now take place indoors: in a sports arena in the center of Washington.
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