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This order is a vague and ineffectual pronouncement that has little impact, but signals a desire to pursue an isolationist foreign policy.

This order calls for the Secretary of State to issue guidance explaining how the State Department will implement an "America First" foreign policy, and suggests that multilateralism and alliances are contrary to American interests. The order will weaken America's standing in the world. It will reduce other countries trust in the U.S., weaken relationships with our allies, and impact our ability to find common ground to solve pressing global issues, including on trade, climate change, nuclear security, and migration.

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This order requires the State Department to increase screening of all noncitizens, including those already in the U.S., and to suggest countries that should be banned entirely.

This executive order directs the Secretary of State to begin applying the vetting and screening procedures in place at the end of the first Trump administration "to the maximum degree possible" to all noncitizens applying for a visa or immigration benefit, seeking admission or entry, or who are already here in the United States. Given that millions of noncitizens live here, it is unlikely that the government will actually be screening noncitizens already in the country. Foreign nationals seeking visas and other immigration benefits from abroad should expect more intensive screening almost immediately. This order also directs the Secretary of State, working with the Attorney General, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, and the Director of National Intelligence, to submit a report to Stephen Miller within 60 days identifying countries to which travel bans should be applied, and how many of those countries' citizens are currently in the U.S. Finally, this order directs the Secretary of State, and those same officials, to take various steps within 30 days including auditing and changing the Foreign Service Manual and other guidance documents discussion of the criminal and security grounds of inadmissibility, ensuring stringent identity verification of refugees and stateless people before admission to the country, and evaluating visa programs to ensure they are not being used by other countries or non-state actors to harm the United States. The order also contains a vague directive to the Secretary of State that seems to indicate that the federal government should deny or revoke visas or benefits from noncitizens whom the government deem hostile to our constitutional rights, or who provide aid or support for foreign terrorists.

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This order declares a national emergency to increase energy production, transportation, refining, and generation.

This order invokes the National Emergencies Act to remove supposed legal and regulatory barriers to the expansion of domestic energy production. Declaration of a national emergency for energy is unprecedented. Emergency authorities can include the use of Federal eminent domain to seize private property and the Defense Production Act to direct private industry responses, and can suspend protections for clean water, endangered species and other environmental regulations to expedite permitting. The order identifies "dangerous State and local policies" in the Northeast and West Coast as harmful to the entire country. The national emergency declaration could be used to expand domestic production of fossil fuels including coal and make improvements to the electric grid.

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This order calls for greater use of the death penalty, particularly for crimes by immigrants or against law enforcement officers.

This order ends Biden's federal moratorium on the use of the death penalty. It directs the Attorney General to pursue the death penalty in all cases where possible, particularly in cases involving capital crimes committed by undocumented immigrants or the murder of a law enforcement officer. The Attorney General must also encourage state attorneys general to pursue the death penalty; make sure that the 37 people whose death sentences Biden commuted have horrific prison conditions; and, work to overrule Supreme Court precedents limiting officials' abilities to pursue capital punishment.

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This order directs political appointees and the DOGE to create a hiring plan that would further undermine career public servants and their ability to serve the American people.

This order begins by repeating falsehoods about federal hiring, including claims that it is driven by illegal, discriminatory preferences, rather than the merit system it is actually based on. It then uses that false premise to order political loyalists — including the yet-unnamed leader of the DOGE — to create a federal hiring plan accordingly. The order may increase, rather than decrease, hiring discrimination by assessing candidates based on easily manipulated attributes like faithfulness to the Executive Branch — rather than the country or our Constitution.

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This order directs the Attorney General not to enforce the TikTok ban for 75 days.

This order directs the Attorney General to pause enforcement of the federal TikTok ban for 75 days while the Trump administration attempts to secure a deal that will allegedly address the national security threats underlying the ban, while preserving the platform for American users. Trump originally supported the ban in his first term, and the Supreme Court recently upheld it. As of January 20, based on this order, TikTok continues its operations in the United States.