President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions included a slew of orders related to health, energy, international relations and the federal workforce.
That’s in addition to the nearly across-the-board pardons of those convicted of offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and Trump’s decision to pause enforcement of a prohibition on TikTok operating in the United States.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X that there were “more than 200 executive actions” from Trump on his first day back in office, and a total of “115 personnel actions.”
Overnight, Trump also announced that he was beginning the process of dismissing holdover political appointees from the Biden administration, as part of a review conducted by the White House personnel office. Here are seven key areas of the first day’s directives:
Birthright citizenship
One of Trump’s actions most likely to face legal challenges is an order that would narrow the accepted constitutional definition of those eligible for U.S. citizenship by birthright. Many children born on U.S. soil to those not lawfully in the United States, or to those on tourist visas or other temporary documents would face the new restrictions. […]
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