Pardon Capitol rioters, exit Paris climate treaty: Trump signs 1st executive orders
Donald Trump has signed his first executive orders just hours after taking office.
As the 47h President of the US. Some of the orders include his decision to pardon some 1,500 people charged with the 2021 Capitol Hill riots, withdraw Washington from the Paris Climate Agreement, delay the ban on TikTok by 75 days and revoking a total of 78 Biden-era actions.
While he signed eight executive orders in front of his supporters inside the Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. on Monday, the rest were signed after he returned to the Oval Office later in the day.
At the Capital One Arena, the new President even lifted the document to show his signature and threw pens at the cheering crowd.
“We’re going to sign executive orders. First, I’ll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history,” Trump said to a massive crowd of supporters.
The 78-year-old leader’s first eight executive actions are:
- Halting 78 Biden-era executive actions
- A regulatory freeze preventing bureaucrats from issuing regulations until the Trump administration has full control of the government
- A freeze on all federal hiring except for the military and a few other essential areas
- A requirement that federal workers return to full-time in-person work
- A directive to every department and agency to address the cost of living crisis
Withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty - A government order restoring freedom of speech and preventing censorship of free speech
- Ending the “weaponisation of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration”