WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions included a slew of orders related to health, energy, international relations and the federal workforce.
That’s in addition to the nearly across-the-board pardons of those convicted of offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and Trump’s decision to pause enforcement of a prohibition on TikTok operating in the United States.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X that there were “more than 200 executive actions” from Trump on his first day back in office, and a total of “115 personnel actions.”
Overnight, Trump also announced that he was beginning the process of dismissing holdover political appointees from the Biden administration, as part of a review conducted by the White House personnel office. Here are seven key areas of the first day’s directives:
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