On January 20th, Donald Trump took office as the 45th president of the United States. Regardless of how we feel about his presidency, Trump is already making policy changes in the White House.
With just a couple of days in office, here are a couple of changes the Trump administration has started:
1. Issued an executive order to repeal former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and introduced a Replacement Act.
On Wednesday, the Obamacare Replacement Act was introduced. The Replacement Act would allow insurance companies to sell plans across state lines and would provide every American a tax credit worth up to $5,000 to put toward personal health care costs and more.
2. Moving forward with the wall.
So, it turns out Trump’s Great Wall of the United States wasn’t a joke after all. President Trump signed two executive orders his first week in office to start the construction for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and increased the number of immigration enforcement officers to deport more undocumented immigrants. He stated that he spoke to the Mexican president and they will meet at the end of January.
Update: This past Thursday, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto canceled the meeting with Trump.
3. Moving the country out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Trump issued an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations. He called the signing a “great thing for the American worker.”
4. Planning to re-negotiate NAFTA.
On Trump’s first Sunday in office, his campaign announced that they will be re-negotiating the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) when President Trump meets with leaders of Canada and Mexico.
While all this “to be continued” drama unfolded, the Women’s March on Washington (which pretty much happened all over the world too) was occurring. History was made here, and with more than 2 million people all over the world marching around the country, people are now calling it the largest inaugural protest in history.
With all this in mind, we’ll have to keep checking the news daily to see what more executive orders will come about in the first 100 days of Trump.
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