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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | January 20th, 2025: Trump's Deluge Of Executive Orders, Biden's Preemptive Pardons, & Israel Releases 90 Palestinian Prisoners
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to kick off his second term in office by signing as many as 100 executive orders within hours of taking office on Monday. Meanwhile, outgoing President Joe Biden used his final hours in office to issue a wave of controversial preemptive pardons. Then, Israel has released 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in Gaza, following the release of three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity on Sunday. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What executive orders is Trump planning to sign?
Thanks, Mike. Monday, 20 January 2025. Welcome back to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. Mike Slater filling in for Mike Baker. Let's get briefed. First, President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to kick off his second term in office by signing as many as 100 executive orders just within hours of taking office today.
Meanwhile, outgoing President Joe Biden used his final hours in office to issue a wave of controversial preemptive pardons. Later in the show, Israel has released 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in Gaza, following the release of three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity on Sunday. First, today's afternoon spotlight.
Donald Trump sworn into office as the 47th President of the United States. and he's hit the ground running. Trump expected to sign close to 100 executive orders on Monday, aiming to immediately deliver on dozens of campaign policy priorities while taking a hatchet to a number of his predecessors' executive actions.
While a full picture of the orders is not yet clear, they will cover a wide range of issues, including immigration, climate and energy policy, diversity initiatives in the federal government, It's all according to the New York Times.
Trump told supporters at a rally on Sunday, quote, with the stroke of my pen, I will revoke dozens of destructive and radical executive orders and actions by the Biden administration. And by this time tomorrow, they will all be null and void. Notably, Trump will invoke a national emergency at the U.S. southern border to unlock funds from the Defense Department to address the immigration crisis.
He will also move to designate a number of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and direct his administration to reinstate his first terms Remain in Mexico policy for illegal aliens or migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Trump is expected to reinstate a series of his first-term policy directives that President Biden had rescinded on his first day in office back in 2021.
Moving on from immigration, Trump will declare a national energy emergency in an effort to immediately boost domestic production and lower consumer costs. At the same time, he will sign an executive order to, quote, unleash Alaska's natural resource potential, which will facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from the state.
A senior advisor to Trump told Axios, quote, "...national security is a key issue here. Energy is fundamental to our foreign policy, and reducing American energy production curtails our ability to exercise our foreign policies."
Trump's executive actions on energy are expected to facilitate greater investments in America's domestic energy markets with the hopes of boosting job creation and lowering prices for the American people. They also aim to ease construction of fossil fuel infrastructure, such as new pipelines, which President Biden cracked down early in his administration.
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Chapter 2: What were Biden's final actions as president?
Trump also plans to overturn a suite of Biden-era energy policies, including his predecessor's cap on oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump also said at his inauguration speech will now be known as the Gulf of America, and a slew of EPA regulations targeting power plants, vehicles, and oil and gas infrastructure, often dubbed the Green New Deal.
Moving on to the bloated federal government, Trump will issue an executive order called Schedule F, which will curtail job protections for federal workers. This will pave the way for the activity of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ, led by Elon Musk, which seeks to cut waste within the federal government.
Chapter 3: How many Palestinian prisoners did Israel release?
Chapter 4: What are Trump's key priorities for his second term?
Trump told supporters at a rally on Sunday, quote, with the stroke of my pen, I will revoke dozens of destructive and radical executive orders and actions by the Biden administration. And by this time tomorrow, they will all be null and void. Notably, Trump will invoke a national emergency at the U.S. southern border to unlock funds from the Defense Department to address the immigration crisis.
He will also move to designate a number of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and direct his administration to reinstate his first terms Remain in Mexico policy for illegal aliens or migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Trump is expected to reinstate a series of his first-term policy directives that President Biden had rescinded on his first day in office back in 2021.
Moving on from immigration, Trump will declare a national energy emergency in an effort to immediately boost domestic production and lower consumer costs. At the same time, he will sign an executive order to, quote, unleash Alaska's natural resource potential, which will facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from the state.
A senior advisor to Trump told Axios, quote, "...national security is a key issue here. Energy is fundamental to our foreign policy, and reducing American energy production curtails our ability to exercise our foreign policies."
Trump's executive actions on energy are expected to facilitate greater investments in America's domestic energy markets with the hopes of boosting job creation and lowering prices for the American people. They also aim to ease construction of fossil fuel infrastructure, such as new pipelines, which President Biden cracked down early in his administration.
Trump also plans to overturn a suite of Biden-era energy policies, including his predecessor's cap on oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump also said at his inauguration speech will now be known as the Gulf of America, and a slew of EPA regulations targeting power plants, vehicles, and oil and gas infrastructure, often dubbed the Green New Deal.
Moving on to the bloated federal government, Trump will issue an executive order called Schedule F, which will curtail job protections for federal workers. This will pave the way for the activity of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ, led by Elon Musk, which seeks to cut waste within the federal government.
Notably, Trump will also sign orders rescinding federal government diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, as well as one proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female. Advisors framed the actions as part of Trump's restoring sanity agenda and said it would go a long way towards, quote, defending women from gender ideology extremism.
In his inaugural speech, he also talked about just restoring common sense. Now, we're just scratching the surface here, but you get the idea that Trump wants to send the message from the outset that his second term will be marked by promises made, promises kept.
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Chapter 5: What controversies surround Biden's preemptive pardons?
Chapter 6: What changes are expected in U.S. immigration policy?
He will also move to designate a number of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and direct his administration to reinstate his first terms Remain in Mexico policy for illegal aliens or migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Trump is expected to reinstate a series of his first-term policy directives that President Biden had rescinded on his first day in office back in 2021.
Chapter 7: How will Trump's energy policies change under his administration?
Moving on from immigration, Trump will declare a national energy emergency in an effort to immediately boost domestic production and lower consumer costs. At the same time, he will sign an executive order to, quote, unleash Alaska's natural resource potential, which will facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from the state.
A senior advisor to Trump told Axios, quote, "...national security is a key issue here. Energy is fundamental to our foreign policy, and reducing American energy production curtails our ability to exercise our foreign policies."
Trump's executive actions on energy are expected to facilitate greater investments in America's domestic energy markets with the hopes of boosting job creation and lowering prices for the American people. They also aim to ease construction of fossil fuel infrastructure, such as new pipelines, which President Biden cracked down early in his administration.
Trump also plans to overturn a suite of Biden-era energy policies, including his predecessor's cap on oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump also said at his inauguration speech will now be known as the Gulf of America, and a slew of EPA regulations targeting power plants, vehicles, and oil and gas infrastructure, often dubbed the Green New Deal.
Chapter 8: What is the significance of Trump's Schedule F executive order?
Moving on to the bloated federal government, Trump will issue an executive order called Schedule F, which will curtail job protections for federal workers. This will pave the way for the activity of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ, led by Elon Musk, which seeks to cut waste within the federal government.
Notably, Trump will also sign orders rescinding federal government diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, as well as one proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female. Advisors framed the actions as part of Trump's restoring sanity agenda and said it would go a long way towards, quote, defending women from gender ideology extremism.
In his inaugural speech, he also talked about just restoring common sense. Now, we're just scratching the surface here, but you get the idea that Trump wants to send the message from the outset that his second term will be marked by promises made, promises kept.
Meanwhile, former President Biden spent his final hours in office issuing a wave of controversial preemptive pardons, including earlier in the day ones for Tony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, Representative Liz Cheney, and all the members of the House January 6th Select Committee.
The Biden administration had expressed fears that the recipients would be targeted for investigation and prosecution under the Trump administration. Those were followed by last-minute pardons for members of the Biden family, including for his brothers Jimmy and Frank, and his sister Valerie, along with their spouses.
Biden said his family has faced unprecedented attacks and threats, and that he had no reason to believe these attacks would stop after he leaves office. Regarding the political pardons, Trump immediately slammed the move, calling it disgraceful. In a text message to NBC News, adding, quote, many are guilty of major crimes.
Don't forget, of course, Biden a couple weeks ago preemptively pardoning Hunter Biden, not only for the crimes he was charged with, but also any other criminal activity that he possibly could have been engaged in in a very specific amount of time.
With Trump now officially sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, we'll keep you updated on what promises to be a chaotic week that drastically shakes up the status quo in D.C. Coming up next, Israel has released 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in Gaza, following the release of three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity on Sunday. More on that after the break.
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