Washington (TDI): US President Donald Trump on Monday issued a flurry of executive orders and directives as he sought to put his stamp on his new administration on issues ranging from energy to criminal pardons and immigration.
Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a sweeping gesture of support to the people who assaulted police as they tried to prevent legislators from certifying his 2020 election defeat.
The far-reaching action also cuts short the sentences of fourteen members of the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers organisations, including some who were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
The document also orders the US attorney general to drop pending cases related to the riot.
The new president signed orders declaring illegal immigration at the US-Mexico border a national emergency, designating criminal cartels as terrorist organisations, and targeting automatic citizenship for US-born children of immigrants in the country illegally.
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Trump’s order dealing with US refugee resettlement will suspend the program for at least 4 months and will order a review of security to see if travellers from certain countries should be subject to a travel ban, the official said.
“The US lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants,” the order said.
At a rally at a sports arena, Trump revoked seventy-eight executive actions of tha Biden administration.
“I’ll revoke about 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration,” Trump said.
Trump also rescinded executive orders that had promoted diversity, equity and inclusion and promoted rights for LGBTQ+ people and racial minorities, fulfilling promises to curtail safeguards for the most marginalised Americans.
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Trump signed an order to delay a ban for 75 days of popular social media app TikTok that was slated to be closed down on January 19.
He signed orders stopping government hiring and new federal regulations, as well as an order requiring federal workers to immediately return to full-time in-person work.
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Trump also signed a withdrawal from the Paris climate Agreement, including a letter to the UN explaining the withdrawal.
Another order withdrew the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying the global health agency had mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
