What Trump Has Done So Far

Our new president has been busy. On his first weekday in office, he issued three Executive Orders:

(1) Non-governmental agencies receiving federal money will no longer be allowed to perform or recommend abortions in their work overseas.

(2) The U.S. has now pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the vast and complicated free trade pact with Asian countries, Canada, and Australia (not including China).

(3) A hiring freeze for the federal government is now in effect.

After the jump, 18 more things that the new administration has done in its first 72 hours.

Critics are saying that Trump has broken his promises in not doing various things that during the campaign he said he would do on his first day. See this scorecard. But a day has only so many hours. His first day shows that he intends to follow through on issues he campaigned about. Note the pro-life measure.

If first actions set the tone of an administration, what can we learn from this list? Are you encouraged or discouraged?

From What the Trump administration has done so far – CNNPolitics.com:

Here’s a list of the Trump administration’s actions in its first 72 hours:

Taken over running of the entire federal government.

Issued an executive order aimed at rolling back former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

Halted a reduction to the annual mortgage insurance premiums borrowers pay when taking out government-backed home loans.

Ordered agencies to freeze new regulations, giving the new administration time to review them.

Received a key legal OK from the Justice Department for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to take on a role in the White House.

Met with the CIA, where he addressed employees. Trump also took over the nuclear codes

Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo,contradicted his earlier testimony and said he was open to revisiting limits on interrogation techniques including waterboarding if his intelligence officers think it is needed.

Raised the specter of another conflict in Iraq, with Trump expressing regret for not taking over the country’s oil and telling the CIA, “We should have kept the oil. Maybe we’ll have another chance.”

Spoke to the Mexican president and said the two will meet at the end of January.

Spoke to the Canadian prime minister about the two nations’ economic relationship.

Announced he has meetings with leaders in Mexico and Canada to begin re-negotiating NAFTA.

Announced his first foreign leader meeting will be Friday with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May.

Signaled a shift in the Justice Department’s civil rights efforts when it requested a delay in the lawsuit over a Texas law requiring voters to present certain types of government-issued IDs.

Prepared to issue more executive orders this week.

Told the National Park Service not to tweet after it retweeted side-by-side images showing the crowd at former President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and Trump’s inauguration.

Began discussions about moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Confronted his first national disaster as President, deadly tornadoes in Georgia.

Issued executive orders to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, as well as executive order on abortion and lobbyists who want to work in the White House.