Trump’s first 100 days by the numbers

President Trump is marking 100 days of his second time period on Tuesday, a milestone that’s characterised by a dizzying quantity of govt actions and authorized challenges in addition to a sea change in coverage on immigration, international affairs, environmental deregulation and extra. 

With most of the highest-profile elements of his agenda nonetheless in limbo as a result of authorized challenges and hurdles in Congress, the long-term results of Mr. Trump’s agenda stay unclear. 

This is a take a look at his first 100 days by the numbers:

Government orders: 142 

Mr. Trump signed practically 200 govt actions, together with 26 orders, on his first day in workplace on Jan. 20, and he has continued to repeatedly signal govt actions since then. Government actions embrace orders, nominations or appointments, memoranda and proclamations. He has signed 142 govt orders. 

Mr. Trump’s govt orders have been geared toward main adjustments, akin to declaring a nationwide emergency alongside the border in his first day in workplace, an try to maneuver towards ending birthright citizenship and taking steps to dismantle the Division of Training.

Mr. Trump has additionally signed govt actions on much less high-impact points, akin to an govt order on April 9 geared toward “sustaining water stress in showerheads.” 

In accordance with information from UC Santa Barbara’s The American Presidency Undertaking, the 142 govt orders Mr. Trump has signed are greater than any president in historical past within the first 100 days, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt beforehand holding the document. These 142 govt orders are additionally greater than former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and George W. Bush signed within the first three years of their phrases. And Mr. Trump has signed extra govt orders in his first 100 days than what 15 presidents signed over their complete phrases. 

Payments signed into regulation: 5

Alongside the slew of govt motion, Mr. Trump has signed solely a handful of payments into regulation within the first 100 days of his second time period — far lower than the 28 he signed by this time in his first time period. 

In January, the president first signed the Laken Riley Act, which goals to broaden the federal authorities’s mandate to detain immigrants who’re within the nation illegally, into regulation. The president additionally signed a persevering with decision in March to maintain the federal government funded by way of September.

Mr. Trump has additionally signed three resolutions rolling again Biden administration laws — a rule from the Bureau of Ocean Power Administration regulating oil and gasoline manufacturing, one other from the Environmental Safety Company imposing a cost on oil and pure gasoline services that exceed emissions thresholds, and one associated to reporting necessities for digital asset gross sales. 

The small variety of payments signed into regulation comes amid GOP management of each chambers of Congress. However slim margins, particularly within the Home, have drawn out some legislative fights. In the meantime, GOP leaders in Congress have their focus set on a large legislative bundle that’s key to enacting the president’s first-year agenda, which they’re aiming to make vital progress on within the coming weeks. 

Authorized challenges: 307

The massive quantity of govt actions signed in addition to the huge adjustments the administration is hoping to enact has opened them as much as authorized challenges. Whereas the circumstances are nonetheless of their early phases, federal judges throughout the nation have issued orders blocking the administration from imposing most of the president’s key insurance policies whereas proceedings transfer ahead.

Ten of the authorized disputes have already made their method to the Supreme Courtroom by way of its emergency docket. 

The excessive court docket has scheduled oral arguments for 3 emergency appeals arising from Mr. Trump’s effort to finish birthright citizenship, which is able to happen throughout a particular session on Could 15. In these circumstances, the Justice Division has requested the excessive court docket to slim the scope of the nationwide injunctions issued by federal district court docket judges to use solely to the plaintiffs that introduced the fits.

The Supreme Courtroom is not going to determine the deserves of Mr. Trump’s govt order on birthright citizenship, however solely whether or not to permit the administration to implement it towards these not concerned within the authorized challenges. The court docket may also have the prospect to weigh in on whether or not district court docket judges go too far once they challenge nationwide, or common, orders that block enforcement of a coverage throughout the nation.

Requests for emergency reduction have are available in challenges involving the transgender navy ban, removals of Venezuelan migrants below the Alien Enemies Act, the firings of members of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board and Benefit Techniques Safety Board, the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, the mass terminations of federal probationary staff, the cancellation of Training Division grants, the elimination of particular counsel Hampton Dellinger and the unfreezing of $2 billion in foreign-aid funding.

Nights away from the White Home: 28

In Mr. Trump’s first week in workplace, he visited Asheville, North Carolina, which had been ravaged by Hurricane Helene, and Los Angeles, which was recovering from lethal wildfires in January. 

The majority of his journeys, nonetheless, have been to his properties, together with 20 nights at Mar-a-Lago, an evening at Trump Worldwide Lodge Las Vegas when he was getting back from L.A. and final weekend at his golf membership in Bedminster, New Jersey, after he returned from Pope Francis’ funeral on the Vatican.

Border crossings: 15,500 (February-March)

Mr. Trump has touted his administration’s hardline immigration efforts. Border crossings are publicly reported month-to-month and within the two full months since Mr. Trump took workplace, the variety of individuals illegally crossing the border dropped to the bottom quantity since there was publicly out there information. 

In February, there have been 8,450 border crossings, which on the time was the bottom month-to-month apprehensions tally recorded by Border Patrol since no less than fiscal yr 2000, the primary yr with publicly out there information. In March, that quantity dropped to 7,100, which the company mentioned is a 95% lower from a yr earlier. 

Jobs minimize by DOGE: no less than 119,659

Mr. Trump created the Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE, by way of govt motion on his first day in workplace, to be helmed by Elon Musk. Within the 100 days since then, the administration has claimed Musk has no formal position at DOGE, however the company has steamrolled by way of the federal workforce.

One of many largest targets was america Company for Worldwide Growth, or USAID. In February, 1,600 USAID staff have been laid off as a part of a “reduction-in-force” and one other 4,080 have been terminated by way of an e-mail to staff, sources mentioned, main the company to be shuttered.

The cuts at USAID are simply a part of the entire of no less than 119,659 cuts throughout all companies, in accordance with a CBS Information evaluation. That quantity contains 10,000 who have been terminated from the Well being and Human Companies in March, in addition to 80,000 on the Division of Veterans Affairs. 

Tariffs on China: 147%

On a day that the White Home dubbed “Liberation Day,” Mr. Trump introduced on April 2 reciprocal tariffs on main U.S. buying and selling companions. After market volatility, he put most of these tariffs on pause, with the exception of China. Because the rhetoric escalated between the 2 international locations, Mr. Trump raised tariffs on Chinese language imports to 145%, and China has slapped tariffs on American imports to 125%.

In an interview with Time journal printed Friday, Mr. Trump mentioned Xi has referred to as him, though the president did not reveal when the 2 spoke or what Xi mentioned. China has denied that the 2 spoke. 

There may be additionally a ten% throughout the board baseline tariff on most imported items that went into impact on April 2. A CBS Information ballot launched Sunday exhibits that 48% of People say Mr. Trump’s insurance policies are making them financially worse off.

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