By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE
President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office Monday, has made a series of promises of major executive actions on “day one” in office.
One of the simplest and more controversial of those “day one” plans is to pardon some of the Jan. 6 protesters currently behind bars or facing prosecution. The president has broad power to pardon, shown most recently when President Joe Biden pardoned his own son for crimes he committed or may have committed over more than a decade span.
But Trump’s “day one” executive orders are far from limited to pardons.
On energy policy, Trump has pledged to open up domestic oil drilling in a major way in an effort to lower costs for Americans and boost the energy industry. He has also promised to end a Biden-era rule that would require more than half of Americans to transition to electric vehicles over the next decade.
Trump has also consistently tapped into America’s frustration over the border crisis and broken immigration system.
Since President Joe Biden took office, more than 12 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S., overwhelming some cities and raising national security concerns, since some migrants are on the federal terror watch list.
Trump has also promised to end transgender participation in women’s sports, something lawmakers in the House have already passed a bill to quench.
Trump has threatened “day one” tariffs as well, though it is unclear how wide-ranging those tariffs could be, since Trump likes to wield them as a negotiating tool against other nations.
On foreign policy, a ceasefire in the war between Hamas and Israel apparently has been reached, just days before Trump took office. In the Ukraine-Russia war, Trump promised on the campaign trail to put an end to that war “in 24 hours.”
In a series of campaign speeches and media interviews, Trump has promised some “day one” actions to address the border and immigration crises.
These actions include:
• Trump has plans to reinstate Title 42, a COVID-era policy that helps shut down the southern border.
• Trump has said he would also reinstate “Remain in Mexico,” a policy that Trump used during his first term that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their claim to be processed. Biden ended that policy and let migrants in and asked questions later.
• According to Politico, Trump is considering designating cartels south of the border as terrorist organizations, a policy once pushed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when he was running for president that could open up a flood of new resources and executive powers at the border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua, a foreign terrorist organization last year.
• Trump has threatened to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants born in the U.S., but it remains unclear if he has the Constitutional authority to do so since birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment.
• Trump has made overtly clear that he plans to kickstart a massive, never-before-seen deportation program for the millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. Trump’s appointee as border czar, Tom Homan, has been clear saying publicly that Trump named this as a top priority when choosing him for the job.
“On day one, we will SHUT DOWN THE BORDER and start deporting millions of Biden’s Illegal Criminals,” Trump said over the summer during the campaign. “We will once again put AMERICANS First and MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!”
Day two, undo most of day one do the judge rulings.
Can’t say one thing positive huh Greg. You must want open borders???
Got TDS don’t ya.
What he should do is implement an executive order granting American citizens universal government health care insurance so all have the same access at time of illness, government employees as well as private sector alike, or no government health care for anybody.
Really?
Trump is more likely to take the second path, rather then destroy the US healthcare system via socialism.
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And, news flash, we all have the same access to health care. Need to see a doctor, go see one. No doctor will turn you away. They may say they do not take your insurance, but I can assure you, they take cash. Same with the insurance offered to Government employees. There are very few health insurance plans offered to Government employees that are not available to the general public.
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Or, do you think “access” means someone else should pay for it?
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Tell you what. I will send you my grocery and utility bills for a month. You pay for my needs and see how you like it.
You forgot that I wrote ”or no government health care for anybody”.
You should move to Canada, or maybe Germany.
Uhh NO!! Nobody but YOU wants socialized medicine
Obamacare grants all Americans access to health care insurance. It has been a failure. No wonder citizens with universal healthcare like Britain and Canada hate it. When patients die waiting for life-saving surgery, it means that this kind of medical scheme does not work. No society has taxed and spent itself into prosperity. And no socialist healthcare system has provided better healthcare with more innovation and better progress. Free stuff always has a price.
To all of the above repliers ; Bill of rights and U.S. Constitution were all socialist documents. What you all are writing about I beleive is socialism under dictator or monarch rule.
Question; Isn’t Medicare a socialist program?
Summarize; Too many people are not getting healthcare equal to government employees just because they are low income private sector or small business. Think people.
Wrong. This is a lie. Marx and Engels’ manifesto that starting this dumpster fire we call socialism wasn’t even written until the mid 1800s. The founding fathers that wrote the constitution and bill of rights were all free marketeers. There is not one word in those documents that points to socialism, not did any of them write anything that even closely resembled socialist ideas. The nazi Joseph Goebbels said, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Take care that you’re not taking ranks with lying nazis like him.
What Trump should do on Day One, and what I would LOVE to see him do, is issue a single executive order, stating “I, President Donald J. Trump, hereby rescind every executive order issued by my immediate predecessor.”
They all make a lot of noise going in. Six months from now we’ll see what has been done.
1. Disinfect the White House.
2. Search for cocaine.
3. Get rid of stacks of Depends.
4. Take down any portrait of Biden.
5. Check the handwriting of Biden’s farewell letter to you and see if it can be authenticated.
6. Get Kash Patel a list of your first 100 rats that are going down.
7. Take a nice nap.
Run drug and bomb dogs through the place ,just to make sure
8. Call up a hooker.
9. Reveal the JFK file.
10. Reveal the UFO tech. Oh wait…he is a need to know.
Donald Trump is your President, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Not mine
First move will be to pardon all the cop beaters. Then another member of his family will “rug pull” a new meme coin. Within the past couple of days both Donald and Melania have fleeced the base with this tactic. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving gaggle of misfit devotees.
The birthright citizenship as enshrined in the 14th Amendment, was NEVER meant for the ILLEGAL aliens illegally crossing our border. It was meant for the people who legally applied and registered to become citizens.This is what Trump will attempt to reinstate.
Put journos in camps according to the journos.
That would be Deplorable, to you peasant .
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