Everything to do with Project 2025

  JEFFREY ST. CLAIR >

+ In his lone debate with Kamala Harris, Trump claimed he had “nothing to do with Project 2025.”Yet, 16 of the 26 executive orders Trump issued on Day One were cribbed directly from the pages of Project 2025. Here’s a summary of what they do…

+  An Executive Order rescinding 78 executive orders issued by President Biden.

+ Prohibits federal agencies from engaging in censorship, and orders an investigation into any federal censorship from the past 4 years.

+ Directs the Attorney General to review and remediate any “weaponization” of the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission over the past 4 years. The National Intelligence Director is directed to do the same for the intelligence community.

+ Orders all federal departments and executive agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and require full-time in-person work.

+ Places a freeze on all federal regulations that are proposed but not yet published in the Federal Register, and postpones for 60 days any that have been published but not yet taken effect.

+ Places a freeze on hiring federal civilian employees and contracting, excepting immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety.

+ Directs all agencies to act to reduce the cost of living, including by expanding the housing supply, reducing unnecessary expenses and requirements that raise costs, and eliminating climate policies that increase the cost of food and fuel.

+ Orders the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

+ Commutes the sentences of 14 people convicted of offenses related to January 6 and otherwise pardons all 1,500 other individuals convicted of crimes related to January 6. Dismisses all pending indictments.

+ Directs the Attorney General not to enforce the TikTok law for 75 days.

+ Orders the withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO).

+ Recategorizes policy-influencing positions in the federal workforce to Schedule F (giving the executive branch greater ability to hire, fire, and manage them).

+ Direct implementation of performance standards and evaluations for career senior executive federal employees.

+ Revokes clearances from 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story.

+ Declares an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and directs National Guard deployment, construction of additional barriers, and use of aerial systems to impede unauthorized physical entry by aliens.

+ Orders the Secretary of Defense to direct the military to repel unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities on the U.S.-Mexico border.

+ Suspends entry of refugees into the United States effective January 27, pending a report within 90 days by the Department of Homeland Security on whether to resume them.

+ Directs the federal government not to recognize U.S. citizenship for persons born in the United States but whose parents are not citizens or lawful permanent residents. Effective 30 days from today, for births on or after that date.

+ Directs implementation of a policy of establishing a physical wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, removal of aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and terminating categorical parole programs (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans).

+ Authorizes temporary top secret security clearances for 6 months for certain staff designated by the White House Counsel.

+ Directs trade investigations to begin.

+ Orders a review of federal regulations to remove regulatory burdens on oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuel, critical minerals, and nuclear energy. Revokes 12 Biden climate-related executive orders. Pauses federal funds for building electric vehicle infrastructure.

+ Orders a study on diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to southern California.

+ Directs the Attorney General to seek capital punishment in federal capital crimes, to ensure that the 37 federal death row inmates commuted by Biden are imprisoned in consistent conditions, and supply lethal drugs to states that administer the death penalty.

+ Directs a report within 60 days on federal building standards that reflect classical architectural heritage.

+ Declares a national energy emergency, directing expedited delivery of energy infrastructure.

+ Suspends offshore wind energy projects.

+ Orders a pause on foreign aid disbursements for 90 days to assess programmatic efficiencies and consistency with foreign policy.