PRESIDENT TRUMP UNVEILS PLANS TO UNDO
MUCH OF OBAMA'S DAMAGE
BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
After quoting
the Bible in a call for national unity, acknowledging God the Creator,
blasting the establishment, and vowing to put “America First” in his
inaugural address, President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to
unleash a torrent of executive orders and actions. At the top of the
agenda, administration officials say, is reversing some of the damage
inflicted by former President Barack Obama with his infamous “pen and
phone.” Among the first targets are Obama's illegal “climate” schemes and his radical power grab purporting to regulate virtually all waters
across the United States. Also in the cross-hairs are pseudo-“free
trade” regimes such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ObamaCare is also on the chopping
block. And the border will be brought back under control, the White
House said. How much of Obama's largely unconstitutional “legacy” will
be undone, and how quickly, remains to be seen.
Immediately following his inauguration, Trump got straight to work on
his first official acts as president. Among other duties, he signed a
law passed by Congress to grant retired General James Mattis a waiver to
legally serve as Trump's secretary of defense, required by law because
the Marine was still in military service less than seven years ago. He
signed documents making his cabinet picks official, joking that he
assumed Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson had been confirmed
today. He signed a document proclaiming a new “National Day of
Patriotism.” The document was not yet available on the White House
website by press time.
He also signed an executive order for “minimizing the economic
burden” of ObamaCare. "It is the policy of my Administration to seek the
prompt repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
[ObamaCare],” the order states. "In the meantime, pending such repeal,
it is imperative for the executive branch … take all actions consistent
with law to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of
the Act, and prepare to afford the States more flexibility and control
to create a more free and open healthcare market.”
Trump, smiling as he signed away, was
surrounded by family, congressional leaders from both parties, and
others, as attendees joked about who should get which pen that Trump
used in his first official acts.
On the White House website, Obama's “climate” antics and water
regulations were among the first “harmful and unnecessary policies”
targeted for elimination by Trump. The new administration vowed to
immediately eliminate Obama's illegal “Climate Action Plan,” for
example, which usurped unconstitutional powers in a bid to illegally
regulate emissions of the “gas of life,” also known as carbon dioxide
and human breath. That means the
United Nations Paris Agreement on "climate" is as good as dead, too, just as Trump promised.
Another unconstitutional regulation, Obama's “Waters of the United States” rule,
is also toast. “Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American
workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7
years,” explained the new administration's White House website,
infuriating radical leftists, globalists, and
pseudo-environmentalist outfits funded by what Senate investigators described as the “Billionaires' Club.”
As part of what it touts as an “America First Energy Plan,” the new
White House site also calls for accessing America's vast energy
resources — especially those on federal lands, with the revenues going
to rebuild U.S. infrastructure. “We must take advantage of the estimated
$50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves,
especially those on federal lands that the American people own,”
explains President Trump's new White House website, saying the plan will
bring prosperity to millions of Americans. “We will use the revenues
from energy production to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public
infrastructure.” The pledge also notes that the energy industry has
been held back for too long by “burdensome regulations.” Freeing up
energy production will be a boost to U.S. agriculture, too, the
administration said in a nod to embattled farmers terrorized for years
by the swarms of extremist bureaucrats unleashed under Obama to crush
rural America.
So-called “trade” deals feature prominently on the new site as well, with Trump vowing to target
NAFTA, TPP, and other sovereignty- and economy-undermining international agreements right away.
“For too long, Americans have been forced to accept trade deals that
put the interests of insiders and the Washington elite over the
hard-working men and women of this country,” the administration said,
adding that the schemes have crushed American workers and communities.
“This strategy starts by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
and making certain that any new trade deals are in the interests of
American workers.”
As far as specific policies, White House spokesman Sean Spicer laid
out a number of the actions Trump planned to take at a Thursday press
briefing, saying the new president would be acting as soon as possible.
“Part of what he announced in the executive order list around the
Thanksgiving time included the actions on both TPP and NAFTA,” Spicer
told journalists. “They will be done by executive order so I think you
will see those happen very shortly.... He is committed to not just Day
1, but Day 2, Day 3 of enacting an agenda of real change, and I think
that you're going to see that in the days and weeks to come.”
Spicer told assembled journalists to expect action on January 20,
over the weekend, and into next week, on a wide range of issues that
Trump campaigned on. And indeed, on Trump's first day, the White House
website announced the plan on NAFTA. “President Trump is committed to
renegotiating NAFTA,” the site says. “If our partners refuse a
renegotiation that gives American workers a fair deal, then the
President will give notice of the United States' intent to withdraw from
NAFTA.” It was not immediately clear what might be included in the
renegotiation, but so far, senior officials have already expressed
concerns to Canadian authorities about NAFTA “tribunals” and the effect
they have in undermining American national sovereignty.
Among the many executive actions Trump is expected to take is
reversing an extraordinarily unpopular executive action by Obama
purporting to authorize U.S. taxpayer funding of scandal-plagued
abortion giant Planned Parenthood's international operation. Both
pro-life and pro-abortion sources have reported that Trump plans to
re-instate the so-called “Mexico City Policy,” initially put in place by
President Ronald Reagan in 1984, stopping the flow of American tax
dollars to abortionists and abortion promoters around the world under
the guise of “family planning.” Obama adopted the radical pro-abortion
policy on his first week in office, and Trump is expected to undo it in
his first week.
Eventually, the GOP-controlled Congress and Trump are universally
expected to defund Planned Parenthood and its highly lucrative domestic
schemes, too. Among other activities, the abortion group is involved in
butchering more unborn babies than any other organization in America,
funding pro-abortion Democrats and their political campaigns,
pro-abortion political activism and lobbying, lawsuits to undo
restrictions or regulations on killing the unborn, and more. After
getting exposed trafficking in the body organs of babies, Planned
Parenthood, founded by a racist eugenicist, became a lighting rod for
criticism. And Trump campaigned on cutting off the tax-dollar spigot for
the group.
In addition to the executive orders and policy, Trump is expected to
visit the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in
Langley, Virginia, over the weekend. Under the leadership of Obama's
controversial appointees, the politicized intelligence agencies came
under growing criticism for, among other things, perjury before
Congress, manipulating intelligence, illegal spying, trying to undermine
Trump, and more. Now, Trump reportedly wants peace with the
rank-and-file agents, many of whom were disgusted by the actions of
Obama's radical appointees.
On the new White House website, the administration vowed to stand up
for law enforcement, too, but fortunately for constitutionalists, did
not advocate any unconstitutional policies suggesting federalization of
police. “Supporting law enforcement means supporting our citizens’
ability to protect themselves,” the administration said, adding that it
would uphold Americans' gun rights protected in the Second Amendment at
every level of the judicial system. “President Trump is committed to
building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs
and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our
communities. He is dedicated to enforcing our border laws, ending
sanctuary cities, and stemming the tide of lawlessness associated with
illegal immigration. Supporting law enforcement also means deporting
illegal aliens with violent criminal records who have remained within
our borders.” The site also says Trump will be a “law and order”
president.
Trump's team vowed to rebuild and support the military as well. In
his inaugural speech, the president emphasized that he would not be
seeking to impose America's values on foreigners by force. However,
“peace through strength will be at the center” of Trump's foreign
policy agenda, the administration said on its section about an “America
First Foreign Policy.” The military plan calls for emphasis on
cyber-warfare, a missile-defense system, defeating ISIS, “coalition
military operations,” and more. Finally, the administration vowed to
ensure the best possible care for veterans.
On jobs and the economy, the Trump administration vowed to achieve
strong economic growth, with a special focus on manufacturing. “Since
the recession of 2008, American workers and businesses have suffered
through the slowest economic recovery since World War II,” the site
says. “The U.S. lost nearly 300,000 manufacturing jobs during this
period, while the share of Americans in the work force plummeted to lows
not seen since the 1970s, the national debt doubled, and middle class
got smaller. To get the economy back on track, President Trump has
outlined a bold plan to create 25 million new American jobs in the next
decade and return to 4 percent annual economic growth.” On his campaign
website, the goal was 3.5 percent growth. Whether that will be
accomplished remains to be seen.
In other excellent news for patriotic Americans concerned about the
burden of a bloated federal workforce, a recent survey showed that more
than one fourth of federal government workers were considering quitting
or retiring under Trump. President Trump's team has announced that the
president intends to mandate a hiring freeze, which is a good start. But
because dismissing government workers is so difficult, the fact that
many are considering leaving on their own will be viewed as an amazingly
positive development by the
huge majority of Americans who think the federal government is totally out of control.
Update: After this article was published, additional information was added about Trump’s actions on ObamaCare.
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