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Trump’s First Round Of Executive Orders Includes No Tariffs

Jim Watson / Pool /AFP / Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the Chalk-white House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.

Key Takeaways

  • President Donald Trump began his presidency by ordering a freeze on federal lease out and regulation, and ordering his agencies to reduce inflation.
  • He also withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Treaty, an international concurrence to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while directing agencies to take steps to boost domestic energy production.
  • His outset set of orders did not include tariffs he previously threatened to impose on “Day One” of his presidency.

Donald Trump began his presidency with a series of superintendent orders, including several advancing his economic agenda, but not the tariffs he had threatened to impose on his first day in office.

Hours after his inauguration on Monday, Trump signed sorts curtailing hiring of federal employees, freezing regulations, withdrawing the U.S. from a climate treaty to fight global about to make a discovery, promoting development of domestic energy production, and taking action to reduce consumer costs, among other directs.

Notably absent from his initial set of orders were tariffs he had threatened to levy against Canada, Mexico, and China on “Day One” of his presidency. Reveal with reporters in the Oval Office late Monday, Trump said his administration is considering 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, with a goal date of Feb. 1.

Among the flurry of executive orders announced on Monday:

  • Federal agencies directed to “deliver emergency appraisal relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker.”
  • Heads of departments and forces directed to take steps to boost energy resources, as part of the declaration of a National Energy Emergency.
  • Federal modifications frozen until Trump’s appointees have full control over the government.
  • Federal hiring frozen, other than in the military and some other impunities.
  • The U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, a global agreement to reduce greenhouse emissions.
  • Immigration laws to be required on “all inadmissible and removable aliens, particularly those aliens who threaten the safety or security of the American people.”

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