Category: Politics

In just one week, President Trump has taken more than 300 executive actions, securing more than a trillion dollars in U.S. investment, overseeing a significant drop in illegal border crossings, deporting criminal illegal alien rapists, gang members, and suspected terrorists, and restoring common sense to the government.

The following information provided by the Trump White House presents a stark difference between his predecessor, and even eclipses his first term, flying in the face of critics from both left and right who suggested a second Trump term would be either “lame duck” or that the President was simply “too old” to hit the ground running.

SECURING THE HOMELAND:

• Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support.
• A National Border Emergency has been declared.
• Construction resumed on the U.S./Mexico border wall.
• Deportation flights of criminal illegal aliens ramped up.
• U.S. military troops are being deployed to assist in securing the southern border, while the Coast Guard is surging assets to the Gulf of America.
  • U.S. Northern Command: “Active-duty Marines and Soldiers continue to deploy and are integrating with @USNationalGuard forces already along the border and working together with the @DHSgov and @CBP.”
• The so-called “CBP One” app — which “paroled” more than one million illegal immigrants into the country — was shut down.
• The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the parole status of illegal aliens who were allowed into the country under the Biden administration.
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies began targeted operations in cities across the country to enforce immigration law, preserve public safety, and get criminals out of our communities.
  • Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks: “USBP agents and the U.S. Coast Guard apprehended an aggravated felon aboard a small boat in open waters near Puerto Rico. Biometric checks identified Dominican Republic national Ramon Perez-Valdez, who has a conviction for aggravated felony robbery involving a gun and a prior deportation. Additionally, officials will repatriate the 41 undocumented non-citizens on the boat to their home country.”
  • Breitbart News: “President Donald Trump’s administration arrested 538 illegal aliens on Thursday, ranging from child predators to gang members and a suspected terrorist.”
  • Fox News: “Between midnight Jan. 21 and 9 a.m. Jan 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants that include criminal histories of sexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.”
  • The Washington Times: “ICE arrested 10 Tren de Aragua gang members, more than 400 criminals in one day”
  • New York Post: “Trump’s ICE raids turn up pedophiles, gangbangers, and NY-based suspected terrorist as 538 migrants arrested: ‘Heinous crimes’”
  • Fox News: “Trump’s ICE racks up hundreds of arrests, including illegal immigrants arrested for horror crimes”
  • Fox’s Bill Melugin: “ICE has arrested three more Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, all of whom were previously caught and released at the border by the Biden administration in 2023.”
  • ICE: “Pablo Beningo Calva-Deamonte, a Mexican national with three DUI convictions, faces removal after his arrest by @ERODenver officers Jan. 22. The criminal alien has already been removed from the U.S. twice.”
  • ICE: “Jose Roberto Rodriguez-Urbina, an alleged MS-13 gang member, faces removal after his arrest by @ERONewYork on Jan. 22. He’s wanted in El Salvador on extortion charges.”
  • ICE: “Adan Pablo-Ramirez, a Mexican national with 2 DUIs, faces removal after his arrest by @EROChicago on Jan. 22. He has an existing removal order from 2019.”
  • New York Post: “Feds round up 50 Tren de Aragua members at ‘makeshift nightclub’ in Aurora, Colorado as DEA, ICE hit cities across US”
  • DEA Rocky Mountain: “#DEA agents, @HSIDenver @ERODenver @ATF_Denver & local partners conduct an early AM operation targeting drug trafficking & members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). Drugs, weapons, and cash were seized in Adams County. Nearly 50 illegal aliens were taken into custody.”
  • Fox News: “ICE arrests nearly 1,000 illegal aliens during sixth day of Trump administration”
• Encounters with illegal aliens at the southern border have “plummeted” as Border Patrol agents are once again allowed to enforce the law.
  • NewsNation’s Ali Bradley: “Border Patrol agents will once again be engaging in pursuits with suspected human and drug smugglers down here at the southern border … The practice was essentially prohibited under the Biden Administration.”
• The Department of Homeland Security reinstated use of the term “illegal alien.”
• The Department of Justice announced it will take action against so-called “sanctuary cities” for obstruction of U.S. law.

UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY.

• A National Energy Emergency has been declared to unlock our full energy potential and bring down costs for American families.
• Every one of the Biden administration’s job-killing, pro-China, anti-American energy regulations have been rescinded.
• Americans have been empowered with choices in vehicles, showerheads, toilets, washing machines, light bulbs, and dishwashers.
• The job-killing Green New Scam was terminated.
• The United States withdrew from the disastrous Paris Climate Agreement, which unfairly ripped off our country.
• New federal leasing and permitting for massive wind farms, which degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American consumers, have been paused.
• Bureaucratic regulations, which impeded Alaska’s ability to develop its vast natural resources, have been reversed.
• Offshore drilling has been opened to “drill, baby, drill.”
• The Biden-era electric vehicle mandate was terminated.
• The Department of Energy ended the Liquefied Natural Gas pause and returned to regular order.

• President Trump announced the largest Artificial Intelligence infrastructure project in history with $500 billion in planned private sector investment.
• Saudi Arabia declared its intention to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.
• After meeting with President Trump, Stellantis announced it will reopen its assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois — putting 1,500 employees back to work — and build its next-generation Dodge Durango in Detroit, Michigan. The company also announced new investments in their Toledo, Ohio, and Kokomo, Indiana, facilities.
• Electronics giants Samsung and LG “are considering moving their plants in Mexico to the US.”
• The Wall Street Journal: “Trump Tells Davos: Make Your Product in America—or Pay Tariffs”

FOREIGN POLICY:

• Secretary of State Marco Rubio was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
• Colombia agreed to President Donald Trump’s terms and will accept flights of Colombian illegal aliens being returned on military planes.
• The Department of State declared an America First foreign policy.
• The Department of State issued a “pause” on existing foreign aid grants to ensure accountability and efficiency.
• President Trump continues to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists.
• The Iran-backed Houthis were redesignated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
• President Trump announced “urgent and decisive retaliatory measures” against Colombia for its refusal to accept repatriation flights of deportees from the U.S.
• The State Department announced it will “no longer undertake any activities that facilitate or encourage mass migration.”
• Belarus unilaterally released an innocent American citizen, Anastassia Nuhfer, who was taken during the Biden administration.
• The Department of State ordered embassies worldwide to only fly the American flag — not activist flags.
• The Mexico City Policy was reinstated to ensure no taxpayer dollars support foreign organizations that perform, or actively promote, abortion in other nations.
• The United States is rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which promotes and strengthens opportunities for women and girls around the world, and protects the family as the fundamental unit of society.
• Bloomberg: “One by One, World Leaders in Davos Fall in Line in Trump Era”

• Discriminatory “DEI” offices, employees, and practices have been eliminated across the bureaucracy alongside a return to merit-based hiring.
  • Fox News: “Trump’s federal DEI purge puts hundreds on leave, nixes $420M in contracts”
• The Federal Aviation Administration must return to merit-based hiring for all positions.
• Affirmative action in federal government hiring has ended.
• All federal employees have been ordered to return to the workplace.
• It is now the official policy of the U.S. government that there are only two sexes.
• The weaponization of the federal government against its citizens has ended.
• Censorship by the government against its own citizens has ended in favor of free speech.
• President Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
• President Trump restored the name Mount McKinley to North America’s highest peak.
• The Department of Government Efficiency was established to maximize government productivity and ensure the best use of taxpayer funds.
  • DOGE: “In the first 80 hours, approx $420M of current/impending contracts have been canceled. 2 leases have also been canceled. Initial focus is mainly on DEI contracts and unoccupied buildings.”
• Security clearances were stripped from the infamous 51 “Spies Who Lied” and other intelligence officials who misused the public trust.
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a buried official assessment declaring the pandemic likely originated in a Wuhan lab.

• Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
• Secretary Hegseth declared “no more DEI” at the Department of Defense.
• Secretary Hegseth outlined President Trump’s “Peace through Strength” mission: “We will do this in three ways — by restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military, and reestablishing deterrence.”