What Donald Trump Has Promised to Do on Day 1

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "I am inclined to pardon many of them," Trump said during a 2023 CNN town hall when announcing the promise.
52% : Trump wants the ability to convert some of those career people into political jobs, making them easier to dismiss and replace with loyalists.
51% : Read More: What Trump's Win Means for the WorldSpeaking last month at his Madison Square Garden rally in New York, Trump said: "On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.
50% : Speaking about the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump said: "I'm going to inform her on Day 1 or sooner that if they don't stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I'm going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send into the United States of America."Read More: What Donald Trump's Win Means for the EconomyTrump said during the campaign that he would roll back Biden administration action seeking to protect transgender students from discrimination in schools on the first day of his new administration.
46% : "Leavitt, the Trump press secretary, told Fox News after Trump on Wednesday was declared the winner of the election that he would now be able to "negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine."
43% : "Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented," Trump said during a September rally in Flint, Michigan.
42% : Trump responded by saying he would roll back those changes, pledging to do some on the first day of his new administration and specifically noting he has the power to act without Congress.
40% : "We're being invaded by Mexico," Trump said at a rally in North Carolina this month.
39% : Here's a look at what Trump has said he will do in his second term and whether he can do it the moment he steps into the White House.
39% : "As president, Trump can pardon anyone convicted in federal court, District of Columbia Superior Court or in a military court-martial.
39% : Trump promised throughout the campaign to impose tariffs on imported goods, particularly those from China.
39% : Trump would likely not need Congress to impose these tariffs, as was clear in 2018, when he imposed them on steel and aluminum imports without going through lawmakers by citing Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
39% : Trump can direct his administration to begin the effort the minute he arrives in office, but it's much more complicated to actually deport the nearly 11 million people who are believed to be in the United States illegally.
38% : That law, according to the Congressional Research Service, gives a president the power to adjust tariffs on imports that could affect U.S. national security, an argument Trump has made.
37% : The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government's chief human resources agency, finalized a rule last spring against reclassifying workers, so Trump might have to spend months -- or even years -- unwinding it.
36% : Trump cannot pardon himself when it comes to his state conviction in New York in a hush money case, but he could seek to leverage his status as president-elect in an effort to set aside or expunge his felony conviction and stave off a potential prison sentence.
36% : Speaking at a Wisconsin rally in June, Trump said "on Day 1" he would "sign a new executive order" that would cut federal money for any school "pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto the lives of our children.
35% : Trump launched his general election campaign in March by not merely trying to rewrite the history of that riot, but positioning the violent siege and failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House.
34% : At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: "They're dying, Russians and Ukrainians.
32% : "It is unlikely Trump will stop there.
31% : "In one of his first personnel announcements, Trump announced via social media late Sunday that he would put Tom Homan, his former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, "in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin," a central part of his agenda.
30% : "Beyond the firings, Trump wants to crack down on government officials who leak to reporters.
29% : Smith charged Trump last year with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
29% : A case in Georgia, where Trump was charged with election interference, will likely be the only criminal case left standing.
29% : "Read More: Inside the Capitol: A Photographer's View of Jan. 6Trump could begin the process of stripping tens of thousands of career employees of their civil service protections, so they could be more easily fired.
28% : "We're going to end it on Day 1," Trump said in May.
22% : Trump has said he has a particular focus on "corrupt bureaucrats who have weaponized our justice system" and "corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.
20% : Trump has said he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act.
19% : "Trump hasn't said how he would try to cut schools' federal money, and any widespread rollback would require action from Congress.
17% : Trump, who makes no secret of his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, has criticized the Biden administration for giving money to Ukraine to fight the war.
11% : Read More: Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look LikeTrump has said that "within two seconds" of taking office that he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who has been prosecuting two federal cases against him.

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