Trump Kicks Off Second Week in Office With Raft of New Executive Orders
Donald Trump continued his executive order spree on Monday, signing a slew of new actions related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and transgender military service members, the development of an "American Iron Dome" and more.Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email Monday evening.Trump hit the ground running after being inaugurated last week and has signed dozens of executive orders and other actions undoing the Biden administration's policies and forging ahead with his campaign pledge to crack down on immigration, increase offshore drilling, roll back DEI programs and transgender rights and purge the federal government of officials deemed insufficiently loyal to the president's agenda.The president announced Monday's orders while addressing Republican lawmakers at a retreat at Trump National Doral Miami.As Reuters reported, one of the executive actions orders reinstatement of military service members who were discharged because they refused to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Another requires the development of an American Iron Dome missile defense system.A third eliminates "gender radicalism in the military," as Trump phrases, while a fourth order eradicates DEI military initiatives.
The fifth action was a proclamation commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp."We have to have a strong, strong defense," Trump told Republicans at his South Florida resort earlier Monday. "And in a little while, I'll be signing four new executive orders."Trump also ordered all federal government Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) staff be put on paid leave as their offices begin to close down, in an abrupt move last week.Pete Hegseth, Trump's newly Senate-confirmed secretary of defense, said on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday: "Thank you for your leadership Mr.
