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This order revokes the security clearances of 49 former intelligence officials for their public statement in warning of the risk of Russian disinformation in the 2020 election.

In the closing days of the 2020 election, the New York Post published emails it obtained from President Trump's then lawyer Rudy Giuliani purporting to show Hunter Biden using his influence with his father to obtain favorable treatment for a Ukrainian company. Fifty-one former intelligence community officials, including Jim Clapper, Mike Hayden, John Brennan, and Leon Panetta, wrote a public letter warning that the emails had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" and that if they were correct it was important for Americans to be aware that "this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election." The order revokes any active security clearances held by the signatories to the letter and directs an investigation of any other related conduct. The Order also revokes the security clearance of President Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton for the purported reckless disclosure of sensitive information in his memoir.

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This order declares an emergency at the southern border, authorizes DoD to send military troops there, and orders that the border wall be built.

This order abuses the National Emergencies Act and further perpetuates an "invasion" myth. This order formally declares an emergency at the southern border pursuant to sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act. By doing so, the order authorizes the Department of Defense (DoD) to send active duty military troops, reservists, and National Guard members to the southern border to support Department of Homeland Security (DHS) activities, including by providing detention facilities and transportation. The order also directs the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to build more of the border wall. It directs Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider waiving certain rules to allow DHS to target drones near the border. Finally, it instructs the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, to prioritize preventing immigrants from crossing the border and to deprioritize the physical safety of migrants in interactions with DHS agents and members of the Armed Forces.

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This order directs the military to come up with a plan to "seal the borders" of the United States and prevent immigration and drug trafficking.

This order makes it U.S. policy for the Armed Forces to prioritize patrolling the country's borders. The order directs the Secretary of Defense to present a revised plan to the President within 10 days that assigns NORTHCOM (the U.S. Northern Command, based in Colorado) a mission of "seal[ing] the borders," presumably both the northern and southern borders. It also adds three requirements to internal Department of Defense (DoD) guidance documents. NORTHCOM must engage in strategic, full-scale military planning to "seal the borders" and present an estimate to the Secretary within 30 days. NORTHCOM must also plan to ensure "southern border security" over the long term, and continuously assess other options to prevent people from crossing the borders.

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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.