President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to fire more than 1,000 appointees from former President Joe Biden's administration, four including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former commander-in-chief Mark Milley. announced his dismissal on social media.
“My Office of Presidential Personnel is actively working to identify and remove over 1,000 presidential appointees from the previous administration,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social shortly after midnight. , someone who does not align with our vision of making America great again.”
The move is likely to reignite concerns that the president aims to replace Biden appointees with people loyal to his own policies.
President Trump announced on Monday that he would remove Milley, who was granted a preemptive pardon by Biden, from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
Trump said in a post that Andres, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Biden, has been removed from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
A portrait of former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Milley, who suggested President Trump should be executed for having backchannel talks with China, was removed from the Pentagon shortly after Trump took office on Monday.
President Trump wasted no time on his first day signing a number of executive orders, including:
- Justice Department directed not to enforce TikTok 'sell or ban' law for 75 days
- Suspending 78 Biden-era executive actions
- Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
- End all federal lawsuits and investigations against Trump supporters
- Revoke protections for transgender troops
- Approximately 1,500 people charged with crimes in connection with the January 6 attack were pardoned, and six had their sentences commuted.
- Overhaul the refugee admissions program to better align with American principles and interests.
- A national emergency is declared at the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Drug cartel and Torren de Aragua designated as foreign terrorist organizations
- Repeals several immigration orders by the Biden administration, including those that narrow deportation priority to those who have committed serious crimes, are considered a national security threat, or are stopped at the border.
- Reversing policies created by the Biden administration that sought to guide the development of AI to prevent abuse.
- Reversing a Biden-era policy that allowed federal agencies to undertake certain efforts to promote voter registration.
- Rescinds the 2021 Title IX order prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation in federally funded education programs.
- Biden to reverse recent removal of Cuba from US list of state sponsors of terrorism
- Orders federal employees to return to office work five days a week
- Order a federal hiring freeze with exceptions for positions related to national security, public safety, and the military.
- Direct all government departments and agencies to address the cost of living crisis
- Restore freedom of speech and prevent free speech censorship
- Ending the “weaponization of the government against the political opponents of the previous administration”
- A 25% tariff will be imposed on products from Mexico and Canada starting February 1st.
- Biden lifts sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank
- President Biden's reversal order calls for 50% of new cars sold in 2030 to be EVs
- Declare that there are two biological genders: male and female
- Ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within federal agencies
- Establishment of Government Efficiency Bureau
- Increased screening of visa applicants from certain high-risk countries
- Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reopened to oil and gas exploration
- Orders the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Homeland Security to “take all appropriate steps to prioritize” the prosecution of illegal aliens who commit crimes.
- Withdrawing the United States from the Global Minimum Tax Agreement
- Suspends issuance of U.S. foreign aid for 90 days
- Directs the Attorney General to pursue the death penalty for capital crimes committed by murder of a law enforcement officer or illegal immigrant.
- Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior to resume efforts to transport water from California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state.
- withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization
- Orders the Treasury Department to consider creating an External Revenue Service
- The security clearances of former National Security Adviser John Bolton and 51 other intelligence officials will be revoked because Hunter Biden's laptop contained “classic characteristics” of Russian disinformation.
- Declares the border crisis an “invasion” and orders the Attorney General and the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to “take all appropriate measures to repel, repatriate, or remove alien persons involved in the border crisis.” do.
- The Gulf of Mexico will be officially renamed the “Gulf of America” and Mount Denali in Alaska will be officially renamed “Mount Denali.” McKinley”
Trump also said he would remove Brian Hook, a former diplomat from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council.
“This is official termination notice for these four individuals, with more to be announced soon,” Trump wrote, adding, “You are fired!”
President Trump also ordered federal workers to return to offices five days a week on Monday, the first salvo in a presidential campaign aimed at weakening job protections and gutting the federal bureaucracy.
President Trump's allies say the return-to-work mandate and the stripping away of civil servant protections, widely known as “Schedule F,” are aimed at helping the president replace long-serving government employees with loyalists. .
