(WSET) — On his first day in office, President Donald Trump laid out his vision for the next four years, which included plans to sign over 100 executive orders.
Trump promised to bring down inflation, declare a national emergency at the border, designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and end the Green New Deal.
When it comes to executive orders, political analyst Dr. David Richards said that immigration and re-classifying federal employees would be at the top of the list.
“I think what we’re going to see in these orders is definitely a crackdown of immigration, we are going to see a change in the way some federal employees are classified which will be interesting. I think generally we’re going to see a lot of policies that Trump talked about on the campaign trail,” Richards said.
Richards said the orders will go into effect immediately but can be challenged in court.
Richards expects pushback on the federal employees’ reclassification.
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Before Trump was inaugurated, former President Joe Biden issued a series of controversial pardons.
Biden targeted key political figures and family members in his last act before leaving office pardoning people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, members of the House Committee that investigated the January 6 Capitol attack, and Biden’s siblings and their spouses.
Richards said pardoning the family is odd, but he sees the motive behind the move.
“I think he just wanted to kind of have an air-tight case where members of his family weren’t going to be dragged into some political trial that would try to enforce some political points,” Richards said.
As for the legacy Biden leaves behind, Richards said it depends on what laws Trump reverses.
Richards said Biden’s big accomplishments revolve around manufacturing and government spending in technology fields.
However, it may not be enough to leave him with an overwhelmingly positive legacy, since he didn’t stay in office and wasn’t followed by a democrat successor.
