1. Tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China:
This past week, President Trump announced that as one of his first executive orders, his administration would be implementing a staggering “25% tariff on all products coming into the United States” from our two largest trading partners, Mexico and Canada. He added, “both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem.”
The President has elsewhere stated that he will impose an additional 10% tariff on all Chinese goods imported into the United States.
The purpose of these tariffs is twofold: one, operate as a bargaining chip to combat the continued importation of lethal drugs like fentanyl which have been flowing into this country unchecked from China and other places for years now, claiming the lives of millions of Americans along the way.
Additionally, the tariffs would be used to spur economic growth in their own right: they are first projected to add hundreds of billions of dollars in federal revenue. This surplus would directly add to the Gross Domestic Product of the national economy.
More broadly, robust tariffs would shift global industry back to the United States, and out of countries like China, Russia, India, and Japan.
This, in turn, would be a boon for American business – and lead to higher quality products overall for American and global consumers alike. It is no secret that the period after the Civil War through the 1920s was one characterized by tremendous industry and prosperity for the United States, resulting in so many of the inventions – from the automobile to the modern skyscraper to the commercial airplane – that we take for granted today.
This was an era defined by limited government, robust tariffs, a focus on American industry, and little to no income tax.
A return to the philosophy that spurred this era’s unprecedented growth, which Donald Trump clearly envisions through these tariffs, can likewise help ease so much of the present dependency on income and other taxes that have exacerbated our already unmanageable inflation and debt crises.
The President is intent on implementing wide-ranging tax cuts, from no tax on tips and overtime to no tax on social security payments.
His administration might even go further than that in pushing the tax envelope — maybe a call to abolish the Sixteenth Amendment outright?
2. Ban on Transgender Individuals In The Military:
Donald Trump has made a promise to stop wokeness in its tracks. To that end, he plans to put a total and complete end to the Far Left social experiments, particularly in the military, by signing an executive order that bans transgender-identifying persons from the armed forces.
The rationale for passing such an executive order is one with widespread public support. First, the military is not a place for radical ideological experiments.
In fact, nowhere should such experiments be permitted in society – from schools to bathrooms to public spaces – but especially in the military, which is currently facing a crisis in both morale and enlistment.
This in large part has to do with the woke programming being shoved down the throats of military troops by the top brass, woke generals that have collaborated hand-in-glove with the federal government to indoctrinate America’s fighting forces with progressive lunacy.
Not allowing transgenders in the military can be justified on a simple cost-benefit scale: it’s a scandalous waste of taxpayer money, for example, to finance surgeries – or other medical care – for gravely confused individuals.
That sort of thing should be done on their own time – and is the matter of psychiatrists, doctors, and therapists. Military funding must be shored up to guarantee America retains the strongest and most powerful military on the planet.
3. Reinstate Schedule F:
Late in his final term in office, President Trump executed an action that would return and consolidate bureaucratic power under a single executive – namely, the President of the United States.
To put it simply, the intent was to return the Executive Branch back to the mandate of its designers: where power flows down from the President of the United States to his various department heads and agencies.
Today, we have a much different picture: in many cases, unelected bureaucrats wield more power than the President of the United States, and worse, are accountable to nobody.
As observed in the last Trump administration, in some cases these bureaucrats – who, under the Constitution, are supposed to report to and carry out the orders of the President and his various cabinet officials – worked to actively undermine President Trump’s America First agenda. Not anymore.
That is why it’s so crucial for the President, this time around, to implement Schedule F reform – allowing the 47th President to dismiss employees within the executive branch at-will. The reason for this policy is not, as critics in the media would contend, authoritarian.
Rather, it is democratic. In the Executive Branch, the American people have only directly voted for a President and Vice President.
Thus, only these two officeholders – being the only two democratically elected and deliberative officers in the whole Executive Branch – should have a say over the bureaucracy which helps the President implement and enforce his agenda.
If the President finds some number of these bureaucrats wanting in their duties, he should have every right to terminate them at-will. This is not a revolutionary development, but a return to constitutional governance consistent with the letter and spirit of the document’s original meaning.
The Executive power is fully vested in a President of the United States under Article II – not an unelected “civil service.” The idea that civil servants are “apolitical” has always been hogwash, a myth propounded by these very same people who never want to be held responsible for anything.
The last administration’s operations, where a number of bureaucrats – within the intelligence agencies, DOJ, and elsewhere – worked to actively subvert President Trump’s own agenda should have dispelled any such doubts on that assertion.
There is no fourth branch of government, nor has there been an amendment to change the Constitution’s original structure by aborning such a creation. Thus, the legality of the measure is straightforward – and the American people have voted for the President to drain the swamp.
4. Increase U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Through Drill, Baby, Drill!
Two pledges the President has made to instate on day one: mass deportations and Drill, Baby, Drill!
The latter, which became a staple all throughout President Trump’s 2024 campaign, would tap into America’s sprawling reserves of liquid gold – which have been disgracefully bottled up for years now due to scams like the “Green New Deal” that have made the United States more dependent and vulnerable on foreign exporters like Saudi Arabia.
All of that could come to a crashing halt on January 20th, if the President signs an executive order that unleashes America’s fracking potential by reversing Biden and Obama-era restrictive regulations on federal lands and waters, expediting permits, and potentially offering tax incentives.
He can also ask his Interior Secretary to expand leasing programs for oil and gas exploration on federal lands.
What is more, the President will surely resume projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, and direct agencies – like the Department of Energy – to prioritize fossil fuel projects with aggressive timelines for lease sales and permit approvals.
5. Immigration Executive Orders: DACA, Reinstate Remain In Mexico, Birthright Citizenship.
The second part of the two-part day-one promise has been to mass deport the 25 or 30-plus million illegals that have infiltrated our porous borders and taken a stay within the interior over the last four years.
These mass deportations will need to be supplemented by public policies that will help fortify the President’s immigration agenda, one oriented around shutting down the border and preventing the steady stream of illegal aliens from gushing into the homeland for all time.
He can begin with rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which started under Barack Obama – and allowed a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal migrants who brought their children over the southern border.
As a law, DACA was and always has been flagrantly unconstitutional. The President will need to re-prioritize immigration policy to place an emphasis on mass deportations, and, to the extent people come here legally, on merit-based applications only.
Furthermore, he should reinstate Remain In Mexico, which would require asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are being processed in U.S. courts, rather than in the United States – which would dramatically reduce domestic crime.