Tuesday, January 14, 2025
One Week
One week from today, we will see the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States (for the second time). He actually has a surprisingly long list of things he has said he will do on that first day:
-- Pardon Jan. 6 defendants
-- Begin mass deportations
-- Shut down the US/Mexico border
-- End the Russia-Ukraine war
-- Reinstate travel bans
-- Suspend the admission of refugees into the country
-- End the Biden-era app for migrants (CBP One)
-- End birthright citizenship
-- Stop the "electric vehicle mandate" and other Green New Deal programs
-- Remove "every single burdensome regulation" that drives up the cost of goods
-- Ban transgender people from the military and sports
-- Cut federal funding for "woke" schools that teach critical race theory
-- Restrict DEI programs
There's more, of course, but those are most of the big ones.
Will he be able to do all that?
Well, no. I doubt he can end the war in Ukraine (at least on Day One). Ending birthright citizenship would seem to take a Constitutional amendment. But he could direct federal offices not to recognize birthright citizenship, and then wait for the ensuing (and probably losing) court battle to begin.
Much of these goals, however, can be the subject of executive orders signed on that first day, and I fully expect him to sign a giant stack of them-- and their legality and implementation will take a while to sort out.
At any rate.... it will be a big news day.
