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.
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 - CNN: Tracking Trump’s executive actions
5 - ACLU: Trump's Executive Orders Promoting Sex Discrimination, Explained
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