1. Government and Executive Power

• Expand presidential control over the government by eliminating civil service protections, allowing political appointees to replace career employees (p. 73).
• Dismantle regulatory agencies to remove oversight on industries, weakening environmental protections, labor rights, and consumer protections (p. 582).
• Increase presidential control over federal agencies by reducing their autonomy, ensuring they align closely with the president's policy objectives (p. 75).
• Limit the influence of career civil servants by restructuring the Executive Office of the President to have more direct oversight over agency decisions (p. 76).
• Prevent career employees from delaying or obstructing presidential directives by reforming hiring and firing rules to make it easier to remove civil servants (p. 74).
  • Executive order "RESTORING ACCOUNTABILITY TO POLICY-INFLUENCING POSITIONS WITHIN THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE"
    • "Any power they have is delegated by the President, and they must be accountable to the President, who is the only member of the executive branch, other than the Vice President, elected and directly accountable to the American people."
    • "Employees in or applicants for Schedule Policy/Career positions ... are required to faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the President. Failure to do so is grounds for dismissal."
    • "Revocation. Executive Order 14003 of January 22, 2021 (Protecting the Federal Workforce), is hereby revoked, and any rules, regulations, guidance, or other agency policies effectuated under Executive Order 14003 shall not be enforced."
    • "Conforming Regulatory Changes. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management (Director) shall promptly amend the Civil Service Regulations to rescind all changes made by the final rule of April 9, 2024, “Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles,” 89 Fed. Reg. 24982, that impede the purposes of or would otherwise affect the implementation of Executive Order 13957. Until such rescissions are effectuated (including the resolution of any judicial review), 5 CFR part 302, subpart F, 5 CFR 210.102(b)(3), and 5 CFR 210.102(b)(4) shall be held inoperative and without effect."
  • Executive order "Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety"
    • "This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Obama Administration implemented a biographical questionnaire at the FAA to shift the hiring focus away from objective aptitude. During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence. But the Biden Administration egregiously rejected merit-based hiring, requiring all executive departments and agencies to implement dangerous “diversity equity and inclusion” tactics, and specifically recruiting individuals with “severe intellectual” disabilities in the FAA."

2. Economic and Business Policies

• Reduce corporate accountability by removing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations, favoring business profits over worker protections (p. 874).
• Weaken labor rights by rolling back federal protections on fair wages, collective bargaining, and workplace safety (ps. 603-604).
• Privatize public services by defunding federal housing and public transportation programs, reducing assistance for low-income communities (ps. 591-593).
  • Attempted Order to pause all federal funding.
• Make homeownership more expensive by increasing mortgage insurance premiums and restricting FHA eligibility (p. 511).

3. Foreign Policy and National Security

• Reduce foreign aid for humanitarian efforts and shift funding toward military and corporate interests (p. 186).
  • Executive order "Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid"
    • "Policy. 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."
• Prioritize military intervention over diplomatic engagement, increasing defense spending while cutting social programs (ps. 87-128).
• Rollback human rights protections in international agreements, prioritizing U.S. business interests over global human rights (ps. 192-193).

4. Social and Cultural Policies

• Ban discussions on systemic racism and historical injustices in schools, workplaces, and federal agencies (ps. 342-343).
• Eliminate affirmative action and anti-discrimination measures by banning the use of racial data in hiring and federal contracts (ps. 584-585).
• Erase LGBTQ+ protections by redefining "sex" in Title IX to exclude sexual orientation and gender identity (ps. 332-334).
• Allow discrimination against transgender individuals by removing federal protections in workplaces, schools, and healthcare (p. 334).
  • Executive order "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government"
    • "Each agency and all Federal employees shall enforce laws governing sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes. Each agency should therefore give the terms “sex”, “male”, “female”, “men”, “women”, “boys” and “girls” the meanings set forth in section 2"
    • "Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other messages. Agency forms that require an individual's sex shall list male or female, and shall not request gender identity. Agencies shall take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender ideology."
• Promote Christian nationalism in governance by elevating "religious freedom" policies that prioritize conservative Christian beliefs (p. 186).

5. Healthcare and Welfare

• Eliminate federal healthcare funding for reproductive rights, including access to contraception and abortion (ps. 456-457, 470-472).
  • Attempted Order to pause all federal funding.
• Increase barriers to welfare assistance by enforcing strict work requirements and reducing benefits (ps. 476-477).
• End federal oversight on medical regulations, making it harder to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable (ps. 456-457).
• Undermine public health protections by weakening the CDC and FDA's regulatory authority (ps. 453-460).

6. Immigration and Voting Rights

• Restrict voting rights by implementing voter ID laws and eliminating early voting options (ps. 563-566).
• Expand immigration enforcement by increasing deportations, limiting asylum applications, and militarizing the border (ps. 140-152).
  • Executive order "Clarifying the Military's Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States"
    • "A National Emergency currently exists along the southern border of the United States. Unchecked unlawful mass migration and the unimpeded flow of opiates across our borders continue to endanger the safety and security of the American people and encourage further lawlessness."
• Reduce pathways to citizenship for immigrants, favoring restrictive immigration policies (ps. 150-152).
  • Executive order "Securing Our Borders"
    • "Cease using the “CBP One” application as a method of paroling or facilitating the entry of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States."
    • "Sec. 3. Physical Barriers. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action to deploy and construct temporary and permanent physical barriers to ensure complete operational control of the southern border of the United States."
  • Executive order "Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program"
    • "Sec. 3. Realignment of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. (a) I hereby proclaim, pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), that entry into the United States of refugees under the USRAP would be detrimental to the interests of the United States. I therefore direct that entry into the United States of refugees under the USRAP be suspended—subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section—until a finding is made in accordance with section 4 of this order. This suspension shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on January 27, 2025."

7. Environmental and Energy Policy

• Eliminate climate change initiatives by rolling back regulations on carbon emissions and renewable energy programs (ps. 378-381, 520-524).
• Expand oil and gas drilling on federal lands while cutting environmental protections (ps. 378-381, 520-524).
  • Executive order "Declaring a National Energy Emergency"
    • "Moreover, the United States has the potential to use its unrealized energy resources domestically, and to sell to international allies and partners a reliable, diversified, and affordable supply of energy."
    • "The heads of executive departments and agencies (“agencies”) shall identify and exercise any lawful emergency authorities available to them, as well as all other lawful authorities they may possess, to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on Federal lands."
  • Executive order "Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential"
    • "It is the policy of the United States to fully avail itself of Alaska's vast lands and resources."
    • "It is the policy of the United States to efficiently and effectively maximize the development and production of the natural resources located on both Federal and State lands within Alaska."
    • "It is the policy of the United States to expedite the permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects in Alaska."
    • "It is the policy of the United States to prioritize the development of Alaska's liquified natural gas (LNG) potential, including the sale and transportation of Alaskan LNG to other regions of the United States and allied nations within the Pacific region."
• Defund renewable energy research in favor of fossil fuel subsidies (ps. 378-381, 520-524).
  • Executive order "Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements"
    • "The United States Ambassador to the United Nations shall immediately submit formal written notification of the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change."
    • "The United States Ambassador to the United Nations shall immediately submit written formal notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, or any relevant party, of the United States' withdrawal from any agreement, pact, accord, or similar commitment made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change."
    • Additional context

Implementation Plan

• Replace career government workers with political loyalists to enforce these policies without resistance (ps. 71-75).
• Use executive orders to bypass Congress and push through policy changes unilaterally (ps. 358-359).
• Defund oversight agencies that could challenge these initiatives (ps. 79-82).

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