Emily Herr

The Scoop Digital Newspaper: January 2025

By Emily Herr

President Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday, January 20, 2025. President Trump has already sworn to take action on over 200 policies and issues the United States is facing. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world,” President Trump said during his 30-minute inauguration speech.

In the same day, he signed over a dozen executive orders that were pending. In doing so, he was rolling back the polices of democrats. A majority of the executive orders signed were undoing those orders that ex-President, Joe Biden, had signed during his presidency. These orders had to do with immigration, energy trade, diversity and more.

Once again, later the same day, President Trump signed even more executive orders. He pardoned 1500 defendants who were convicted of crimes on January 6, 2021. These were the people who had attacked the capitol in support of Trump in 2021. He had sworn to do so and released these 1500 defendants of any wrongdoings.

Additionally, President Trump signed an executive order for the federal hiring freeze. In his statement President Trump said: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order a freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees, to be applied throughout the executive branch.  As part of this freeze, no Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or other applicable law.”

In creating this hiring freeze President Trump directed the Office of Management (OMP) and Budget to work with the Department of Government Efficiency, which is a nongovernmental advisory panel. Together they must submit a plan for reducing the size of the federal workforce.

President Trump did exclude all military personnel in the armed forces from the federal hiring freeze.

Also on Monday, Trump had signed a controversial executive order aiming to revoke the birthright citizenship.

In an almost immediate response to this action, many critics argued that the birthright citizenship is protected under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. It protects those citizens whose parents immigrated illegally to the United States, and gave birth to their children in the U.S.

As a result, four different federal lawsuits were filed this week challenging the birthright citizenship executive order that Trump signed. An additional lawsuit was filed by an undocumented mother alongside two nonprofit organizations. This lawsuit argued that the executive order signed by President Trump goes against the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and is attempting to reinterpret the meaning. This amendment guarantees citizenship to almost every person born in the United States.

“This unprecedented attempt to strip citizenship from millions of Americans with the stroke of a pen is flagrantly illegal. The President does not have the power to decide who becomes a citizen at birth,” the lawsuit argues.

President Trump has also mentioned his plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization.

By Monday evening President Trump had signed over two dozen executive orders. He broke the record for the most executive orders signed in a single day. He is also the only President to sign these orders in a public arena.

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