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Trump has promised a great many things for the first few days of his new administration. What could his first week back in office look like?

From POLITICO. If President-elect Donald Trump lives up to his promises, he is going to have a prolific first week in office come January. …

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POLITICO compiled a list of the biggest promises Trump made on the campaign trail or since winning the election to provide a snapshot of what his first week in office might look like:

Education

Repeatedly: 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.”

May 10, 2024: Trump said on the conservative radio show “Kayal and Company” that he would end Title IX discrimination protections for transgender students on Day One. …

Energy & Climate

Aug. 29, 2024: Trump promised during a speech in Michigan to “declare a national emergency to allow us to dramatically increase energy production” in an effort to reduce energy costs. He said that starting on Day One, he will “approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refineries, new power plants, new reactors and we will slash the red tape.”

July 20, 2023: In a campaign video, Trump promised to “terminate these Green New Deal atrocities” on his first day in office, referring to the climate law the Inflation Reduction Act, which Biden signed into law in 2022.

Oct. 22, 2024: Trump promised during a campaign event in North Carolina to end the Biden administration’s “electric vehicle mandate.” …

Foreign Policy

May 11, 2023: Trump said he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours” during a CNN town hall.

Health Care

Feb. 1, 2023: In a campaign video, Trump promised to revoke Biden’s “cruel” gender-affirming care policies. …

Immigration

May 30, 2023: 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. …

Nov. 8, 2023: At a campaign rally in Hialeah, Florida, Trump said he plans to “restore the Trump travel ban on entry from terror-plagued countries,” a policy from his first administration that blocked entry from seven Muslim-majority countries, on his first day in office.

Repeatedly: Trump promised to implement mass deportations of undocumented immigrants on “Day One” of his second term. …

Labor

March 21, 2023: 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.

Legal/Department of Justice

Repeatedly: Trump has promised to pardon some Jan. 6 rioters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol “if they’re innocent” on “the first day” he returns to office. …

Technology

Dec. 15, 2022: In a campaign video, Trump promised to issue an executive order “within hours of my inauguration” to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right of free speech for all Americans.” The EO would ban federal departments and agencies from working with any group limiting speech, ban federal money for being used for labeling any speech as mis- or disinformation and fire any federal employees “engaged in domestic censorship.”

Trade

Feb. 4, 2024: 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.

Nov. 25, 2024: Trump promised in a Truth Social post to implement 25 percent tariffs on Day One on all goods from Canada and Mexico until they clamp down on drugs and migrants crossing the border. …

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(Excerpt from POLITICO. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo)

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