If President-elect Donald Trump lives up to his promises, he is going to have a prolific first week in office come January.
Trump has pledged action on dozens of policy fronts on Day One or Week One in the White House as part of an aggressive agenda to reverse immigration flows, juice American energy production, reorient global commerce and purge his political enemies. Some of his promises are improbable — such as ending the war in Ukraine in his first 24 hours — but he can achieve many of his aims through executive actions, which aides are already scrambling to prepare.
Trump promised to sign a new executive order on Day One that would cut federal funding to any school “pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our children.”
In a campaign video, Trump said he plans to sign an executive order on his first day as president to end automatic citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States. He has raised the issue often, at least since October 2018.
As part of his pledge to “dismantle the deep state,” Trump promised in a campaign video to reissue his 2020 executive order on Day One that would remove job protections for thousands of federal workers by redesignating their roles from policy positions to a “Schedule F” category — making them political appointees who could be fired by the president.
In an interview on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Trump promised to impose between a 10 and 20 percent blanket tariff on all $3 trillion worth of U.S. goods imports and at least a 60 percent tariff on all Chinese goods.
