On January 20th, 2025, President Donald Trump was sworn in as the forty-seventh president of the United States of America. There were many challenges leading up to this event, such as the attempted assassination on July 13th, 2024- just days after accepting the Republican nomination. The assassination was attempted by the now-deceased gunman Thomas Mattew Crooks.
Trump, on his first day in office, is expected to enact over 200 executive orders- all focused on security, energy, reducing costs for American families, ending DEI programs in the federal government, and much more. He is also supposed to retract various policies from his predecessors’ first day in office, such as ending the electric vehicle mandate, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, and more in order to assert presidential control over the federal government.
Over the past few weeks, Trump has implemented tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, has tightened border security, causing a plummet in illegal migrants entering the country. At the justice department, he has fired more than a dozen essential officials who were on Jack Smith’s prosecuting team, as they were the ones who prosecuted Trump.
This week, Trump has released a memo that aims to freeze funds to federal DEI programs, ordered the Office of Personal Management to offer resignation with pay through Sept. 30. The order was called ‘Fork in the Road’ and came after the administration told federal employees to come to work in-person five days a week. Per the order, they have until Feb. 6th to decide.
