Trump dives straight to duty with a list of executive orders

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• Pulls US from Paris Agreement
• Restores binary gender in the US

New president of the United States, Donald Trump, went straight to duty on Monday after his inauguration ceremony, churning out new executive orders that raised heads across the world.

The president signed a series of historic executive orders, a focus on policy that underscored his seriousness with issues and a sense of urgency to cause changes.

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Among the orders Trump signed on Monday include the following.

• Revoking 78 executive actions of the previous administration

• Issuing “an immediate regulation freeze” and “a temporary hiring freeze” until Republicans have full control of the government

• Pausing the hiring of “any new IRS agents”

• Requiring “federal workers to return to the office in person”

• Signing “a presidential memorandum directing every member of my cabinet to … defeat inflation and bring down the cost of everyday life”

• Withdrawing from the Paris climate treaty

• Directing the federal government to preserve free speech and avoid political persecutions of prior administrations

In addition to the first list f orders, Trump was billed to sign more executive actions in his office Monday evening. These include the following.

• Declaring a “national emergency” at America’s southern border and “send[ing] troops” there to halt “all illegal entry” and “begin the process of returning millions and millions” of immigrants who entered the country illegally “back to the places from which they came”

• Designating drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1978 to “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks”

• Declaring a “national energy emergency” to vastly expand domestic drilling and undo the Biden Administration’s electric vehicle incentives

• Overhauling America’s “trade system” in order to “tax and tariff foreign countries” via an “External Revenue Service”

• Reinstating military service members who “objected to the COVID [vaccine] mandate with full back pay”

• Ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies

• Eliminating various protections for transgender Americans, including the ability to select the gender-neutral “X” as a marker on their passports

• “As of today, it will henceforth be the policy of the United States government that there are only two genders,” Trump said in his inaugural address. “Male and female,” he declared, ending controversies over titles associated with multiple genders.

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