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This order purports to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is the agency in the United Nations whose responsibility is to promote global public health, including by increasing access to essential health and nutrition services and by fighting pandemics. The withdrawal of the United States, which contributes about twenty percent of WHO's budget, would seriously jeopardize the organization's ability to do its job and fulfill its mission around the world. Our nation's contributions to the WHO are very much in our self interest. If the WHO cannot do its job, then outbreaks of diseases in foreign countries may spiral out of control and become increasingly likely to come to our shores. Furthermore, withdrawing from the WHO would mean that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would lose access to global data that the WHO currently provides to our country. This would prove devastating during future pandemics where we must collaborate with our allies and international partners.

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This order seeks to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This executive order directs the United States to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, in which almost 200 parties voluntarily committed to reduce their carbon emissions. Our withdrawal will seriously jeopardize the ability of the world community to prevent a catastrophic global rise in temperatures. Climate change has already increased the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like hurricanes and wildfires around the world and in the United States, and in the years to come will only continue to prove destabilizing in alarming and unpredictable ways. Climate change is not only an environmental problem; it risks our long-term national security and economic prosperity. Notably, other than the United States, the only three countries who are not parties to the Paris Climate Agreement are Iran, Libya, and Yemen.

This memo directs U.S. Attorneys to prioritize immigration-related offenses and threatens local officials with prosecution if they do not enforce federal immigration policies.

As an initial matter, by directing Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and federal-state taskforces to prioritize the enforcement of immigration-related offenses with this memo, DOJ is de-prioritizing and undermining the enforcement of many other laws that keep our communities safe. Additionally, this memo tries to compel, under the threat of prosecution, state and local officials to enforce federal immigration law. Such coercion undermines the ability of local and state law enforcement to prioritize what they need to in order to keep their communities safe. Taken as a whole, this DOJ memo reads as an attempt to threaten, if not prohibit, cities across America from providing sanctuary to those in this country seeking refuge.

This order directs the Secretary of the Interior to submit a plan for full Federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

This order directs the Secretary of the Interior to evaluate options for full Federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and create a plan to assist in that effort. The Lumbee Tribe is currently recognized by the state of North Carolina, but does not receive the funding that Federal recognition would bring. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump promised to push for recognition during their presidential campaigns.

This order reinstates a policy that prevents organizations from receiving U.S. foreign assistance funds if they provide, counsel, refer, or advocate for abortion in their country.

This order reinstates the expanded global gag rule that President Trump ordered during this first administration. The rule, also known as the "Mexico City" policy, blocks U.S. funding to any organizations that provide, counsel, refer, or advocate for abortion in their country, even if they are using non-U.S. funding to do so. The global gag rule is a dangerous policy that threatens the lives of women and pregnant people across the globe and undermines the work and speech of global health organizations.

This policy, which requires Mexico's agreement, will send asylum seekers to Mexico for months or longer to wait for their asylum hearing, where they will be at risk.

In the first Trump administration, the Remain in Mexico policy (formally called the "Migrant Protection Protocols") sent tens of thousands of asylum seekers to dangerous and inadequate conditions in Mexico to await their asylum hearings. These asylum seekers often had to wait for months in parts of Mexico the U.S. State Department classified as extremely dangerous, where many of them were kidnapped, extorted, raped, and even murdered. Because they were in Mexico, they had a much harder time locating a U.S. immigration attorney to help them prepare for their asylum hearing, and the vast majority of people subjected to Remain in Mexico did not have legal counsel for a complicated process in which their lives were often on the line. The Remain in Mexico program also gave far too much discretion to front-line Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to determine whether to apply exceptions for children, people in medical emergencies, and asylum seekers with other pressing circumstances.