Donald Trump has been sworn into his second term.
The President quickly hit the ground running.
And the Trump administration has big plans for the first 100 days in office.
Day One Executive Orders
During Trump’s first day back in office, Donald Trump signed nearly 50 executive actions.
One of his first orders was to issue pardons to Democrats’ January 6 political prisoners.
Trump issued nearly 1,500 pardons and commutations to those still sitting in prison with charges related to the events of January 6, 2021.
Trump promised to put an end to the political weaponization of the Justice Department that took place under the Biden administration.
To that end, Trump also signed an order aimed at ending weaponization of the federal government.
Another of Trump’s first day orders put a halt to the impending federal ban of TikTok.
The order extended the deadline for the app to sell to a U.S.-owned company by 27 days.
Many of Trump’s first-day orders undid executive orders signed by Joe Biden.
Biden orders Trump overturned include an order allowing transgenders in the military, an order that banned renewal of private prison contracts, and a Biden order that removed Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Trump also issued sweeping orders on the immigration issue, which arguably voters gave Trump a decisive mandate on.
One order, which will eventually end up before the Supreme Court, seeks to end birthright citizenship for those born of illegal immigrant parents on U.S. soil.
A federal judge already issued a 14-day stay of that order in response to a lawsuit filed by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington, preventing it from taking effect yet.
Another immigration order seeks to pause admission of refugees for three months.
Part of Trump’s border plan includes designating drug cartels and migrant gangs such as MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations.
“That’s a big one,” Trump said as he signed the order.
“People have wanted to do this for years . . . Mexico probably doesn’t want that. But we have to do what’s right,” Trump said, according to The Hill.
Trump has declared the situation at the southern border a national emergency, which will allow the Trump administration to deploy Pentagon resources to secure the border.
“Because of the gravity and emergency of this present danger and imminent threat, it is necessary for the Armed Forces to take all appropriate action to assist the Department of Homeland Security in obtaining full operational control of the southern border,” the order states.
The Trump administration is also declaring an emergency related to energy production, in which he undid several of Joe Biden’s environmental orders.
“I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.” Trump said during his swearing-in ceremony. “America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have — the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth and we are going to use it.”
First 100 Days
The Trump administration has already hit the ground running, and Americans can expect even more to happen during his first 100 days in office.
Trump already fired several top government officials, issued back to work orders for federal employees (ending pandemic-era telework policies), stripped security clearances from crooked Deep State intel officials, and renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Indiana Senator Jim Banks, a key Trump ally, has big predictions for the start of the second Trump administration.
“I think it’s gonna be shock and awe,” he said, “He’s going to parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, swing those doors open at the Oval Office, and sign 100 or more executive orders that overturn the damage of the last four years.”
The second Trump term will move quickly as he’s had four years between his first term to seek out better advisors, plan his agenda, and now he’s focused on seeing it through.
Trump supporters are hopeful for what the next 100 days will bring.
David Griffith, a Florida Trump supporter, is hopeful Trump can get the national debt and government spending under control.
“I hope that Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress can reduce government waste wherever possible to reduce our $36 trillion national debt and pay off our $2 trillion federal budget deficit without imposing tariffs on other countries (though there’s a part of me that doesn’t think he’s serious and is only saying that for leverage),” he told USA Today.
Another Trump supporter, Leslie Melton from Mississippi, listed out hopes for a second Trump administration to USA Today.
Melton was hopeful Trump would secure the border, close tax loopholes, and get men out of women’s sports.
Columnist Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times predicts that the markets will stay high during Trump’s first 100 days.
“Three reasons for this: first, deregulation and tax cuts will keep growth up for the short term,” she wrote.
She also predicts that the U.S. will move away from so-called “green” energy, as Trump enacts policies allowing for more domestic drilling.
24/7’s Focus Group readers react
After this week’s Featured Story was chosen, 24/7’s Editorial Team reached out to our Focus Group readers for their reaction on what they expect in the first 100 days.
“Love what Trump has done so far. His hand must be tired from all that signing!” one reader began.
As one would expect, immigration and border security was a top concern among Focus Group readers, as well as energy costs.
“I would LOVE to see President Trump get rid of ‘sanctuary’ everything! I found out my county is a ‘sanctuary.’ Also, I would love for him to clear our beautiful country of all the riff raff that Biden/Harris let walk across our borders. Allow our country to feel safe again,” one reader remarked.
“I think in Trump’s first 100 days, we’ll see many deportations. We will also see ‘Drill, baby, drill’ go into effect. It may take a little while for prices to come down but come down they will. Farmers are hurt the most from higher fuel prices since everything they do requires fuel,” another added.
Calls to “restore energy independence” and “open all American oil pipelines so we are energy independent” were frequent.
The vast majority expressed support for President Trump’s plans for mass deportations and secure borders.
And above all, they want to drain the Swamp this time around, “which in its own way has led directly or indirectly to insane woke policies such as DEI, CRT, Education and the Green Agenda of madness.”
Doing so would help to restore pride in America and confidence in the American system of government.
“We need to start taking care of Americans first to make us back into the strong country we were before Obama and Biden,” another said.
Trump has already issued many executive orders, and we can expect more in the coming days.
What he will be able to accomplish legislatively through Congress remains to be seen.
While Republicans control both Houses, their majorities are razor-thin.
Democrats are unlikely to go along with any of Trump’s agenda, and he will have to contend with the possibility of RINOs sabotaging his agenda.
Despite that, the Laken Riley Act, which would require the mandatory detention of illegal aliens who have been accused of committing crimes, quickly passed the House and Senate and is expected to be the first bill to head to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
You can be sure come Labor Day MAGA voters will begin looking toward Primaries for RINOs and taking out obstructionist Democrats at the polls in the Midterms.
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