President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Tuesday, fulfilling a campaign promise to target diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, after signing a flurry of executive orders and other presidential actions on Monday.
The latest round of executive orders targeted DEI programs in the federal government, with a separate order addressing aviation. On Monday, Trump signed several immigration-related executive order, announced upcoming tariffs and issued pardons to more than 1,500 people convicted of crimes related to the deadly January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Among other things, the president withdrew from the landmark Paris Agreement, rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions and implemented a federal hiring freeze.
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Trump signed his first few executive orders before the inaugural luncheon Monday afternoon. The orders appointed dozens of Cabinet-level officials and acting officials across the government, pending Senate confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Officials who were appointed in acting capacities via executive orders include:
- James McHenry as acting attorney general.
- Robert Salesses as acting Secretary of Defense.
- Dorothy Fink as acting Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- Benjamine Huffman as acting Secretary of Homeland Security.
- Mark Averill as acting Secretary of the Army.
- Tom Sylvester as acting CIA director.
- Mark Uyeda as acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Andrew Ferguson as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
Trump officials also immediately shut down a Biden-era Customs and Border Protection app that allowed migrants to apply to legally enter the U.S. by seeking asylum.
The president signed a number of executive orders withdrawing the United States from key agreements and agencies.
“I’m immediately withdrawing from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord ripoff,” Trump said Monday at the Capital One Arena. “The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”
He also withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization, which will deprive the organization of millions of dollars in funding.
Trump issued another order declaring a “national energy emergency,” which could allow him to unilaterally bypass certain environmental regulations.
The 47th president signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
He also reverted the name of Mount Denali, the highest mountain in North America, to Mount McKinley. The peak was called Mount McKinley until then-President Barack Obama changed it in 2015 to Denali, the traditional Athabascan name, in all federal documents.
Trump made these changes to “honor American greatness,” the executive order said.
The president also signed an order directing the secretary of state to “champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.”
In another executive action, Trump ordered agencies responsible for the U.S.’s foreign development assistance programs to “immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds” pending reviews of the programs, which must be conducted within 90 days.
“It is the policy of United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States,” the order said.
