[1]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress

Donald Trump has been President for one week and has already issued 51 executive
actions, including orders, proclamations, and official memos.^1

So much news has broken about Trump’s second term this last week that it’s
been hard to keep track. We want to take a moment to break down some of
the actions that raise the most red flags:

* Trump's first proclamation issued a “full, complete, and
unconditional” pardon for all 1,583 insurrectionists facing charges
for storming the Capitol on January 6th, including leaders of white
supremacy groups facing felony sentences for seditious conspiracy or
assaulting a police officer.^2

* Trump declared two national emergencies: a national energy emergency
and a southern border emergency due to immigration.

* The national energy emergency is the first in U.S. history, and
grants Trump expanded power to roll back environmental
protections, usher in new permitting, and deliver on his
inaugural promise to “drill, baby, drill.”

* To that end, Trump opened the Alaska wilderness to more drilling,
halted offshore wind farms on federal waters, and withdrew the
U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement (for the second time),
joining Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only nations uncommitted to
reducing greenhouse gas emissions.^3

* On immigration, Trump authorized immigration raids on school
campuses, is weighing using the military to assist with
deportations, and signed an order to limit birthright
citizenship, defying a common interpretation of the 14th
Amendment (which grants citizenship and equal protection under
the law to all persons born in the United States). A federal
judge has already temporarily blocked this executive action.^4

* Trump declared the U.S. federal government would define sex as solely
male or female in accordance with their sex at time of conception.^5

* Trump restored the death penalty on a federal level, and committed to
ensuring that states that practice it have a “sufficient supply” of
lethal injection drugs.

In addition to the above, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the World Health
Organization, created a new government department — the Department of
Government Efficiency — to be helmed by billionaire donor Elon Musk, and
ordered the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Let us be clear: many of these actions are likely to be challenged in
court.

Our day-to-day actions are tremendously important in authoritarian
regimes. We do not have to comply with illegal activity — even if that
illegal activity is coming from the President of the United States.

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We will keep you updated on Trump’s executive actions as they develop.

In solidarity,

Team AOC

 

1 - [ [link removed] ]CNN: Tracking Trump’s executive actions

2 - [ [link removed] ]CNN: Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers
leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters

3 - [ [link removed] ]AP News: Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from
the Paris climate agreement — again

4 - [ [link removed] ]AP News: A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive
order redefining birthright citizenship

5 - [ [link removed] ]ACLU: Trump's Executive Orders Promoting Sex Discrimination,
Explained


 


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