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media assessments of first 100

 * Washington Post
 * 60 promises for first 100 days
 * Trump promise tracker
 * Trump's signed legislation
 * "Thirteen of the Trump bills disapprove of major regulations put in place by Obama, which signifies a reversal of action, not new action — though the agency is barred from ever repromulgating the rule in question or anything similar without congressional approval."


 * Other bills include such actions — what Frendreis called "minor or housekeeping bills" — as naming a Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Pago Pago in American Samoa or creating a waiver to allow Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to be appointed even though he had recently served in the military."

"Moreover, none of Trump’s bills can be considered “major” legislation according to political science standards, whereas at least nine of Roosevelt’s bills met that standard."

Trump's supporters and opposition
Efforts to impeach Donald Trump,

John A. Boehner
"John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who embodies the GOP establishment"

Sessions
Crime in the United States, United States incarceration rate, Jeff Sessions focused drugs, immigration, "resuscitating the harsh sentencing laws that have given the United States the world’s highest incarceration rate." Sessions defended Trump’s "travel bans and immigration crackdowns." Sessions attempted "to undermine criminal-justice reform". Sessions attempted to undo "Obama Administration initiatives on law enforcement. One established an independent scientific commission to look into faulty forensic practices that can produce unreliable evidence in criminal trials. Sessions said that an internal committee would now handle such matters."

Trump and the media
Trump's Director of Communications is Mike Dubke. Assistants and deputies include Jessica Ditto, Raj Shah, White House Press Secretaries, Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders
 * Deputy Press Secretary: Lindsay Walters Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino. Scavino worked with Trump's 2016 social media campaign.

Russian investigations
On April 5, 2017, Trump made accusations without evidence related to the wiretapping allegations, saying that Obama's former National Security Adviser Susan Rice had committed a crime by attempting to unmask the identities of Trump associates collected during surveillance by US intelligence agencies related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. The report of Rice unmasking Trump officials followed the announcement of the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Republican Devin Nunes, "that he had seen reports indicating that Mr. Trump or his associates might have been 'incidentally' swept up in the monitoring of foreigners." The Committee was investigating both Trump's ties to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and Trump's unfounded allegations that President Obama had Trump Towers under surveillance. Lake's April 3 report of the unmasking specified "Rice's requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials do not vindicate Trump's own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower." Nevertheless, Republicans called for an investigation into the unmasking while Democrats claimed the unmasking story was a diversion from the Russian influence investigation. On April 12, sources from both the Republican and Democratic parties said that the original documents cited by Nunes do not support claims that the Obama administration acted illegally or unusually. In response to bipartisan criticism over his actions, Nunes stepped aside from leading the investigation on April 6, 2017. On the same day, Nunes was placed under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for his actions while leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Congressional Review Act
Barack Obama's Seven-Year Presidency: The lone legislative accomplishment of Donald Trump’s first 100 days will likely be erasing the final months of his predecessor’s tenure

Jared Kushner
On March 27, 2017 Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum establishing White House Office of American Innovation, (OAI) whose purpose is to use ideas from the private-sector to overhaul all federal agencies and departments to "spur job creation". He named his 36-year-old son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to lead the OAI. One of the first priorities is to modernize the technology of departments such as Veterans Affairs. In his new position, Kushner will work with Chris Christie, who will chair an official drug commission devoted to combatting opioid abuse. Other members of the innovation group include Gary Cohn, Dina Habib Powell, "senior counselor to the president for economic initiatives and deputy national security adviser", and three Assistants to the President, Chris Liddell, Reed Cordish, and Andrew Bremberg, Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Among those who attended some of the group's first meetings were people with private sector expertise, including Apple's Tim Cook, Microsoft's Bill Gates, and Tesla's Elon Musk.

As lead of the OAI Kushner will also work with Chris Christie who was named as chair of the "President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis", established on March 29, 2017 by a Presidential Memorandum.

"As some of its first priorities, the office will focus on modernizing the technology of every federal department, identifying transformational infrastructure projects and re-imagining the VA system so they can better serve our nation's heroes."

- Sean Spicer USA Today March 27, 2017

"This office will bring together the best ideas from government, the private sector and other thought leaders to ensure that America is ready to solve tomorrow's most intractable problems, and is positioned to meet tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. The office will focus on implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation."

- Presidential Memorandum on The White House Office of American Innovation White House March 27, 2017

Wilbur Ross confirmed as the United States Secretary of Commerce

 * "Wilbur Ross confirmed as the United States Secretary of Commerce."

2018 Federal Budget

 * 2018 United States federal budget (Sandbox)


 * February 27 from timeline article "President Trump proposes an approximately 10% rise in military spending of $54 billion dollars diverted from numerous other budgets, including that of the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency." "Congress receives a letter criticizing this plan, signed by more than 120 retired U.S. admirals and generals, including former Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey Jr."
 * March 16, 2017 White House
 * March 16, 2017 CNN Dan Merica
 * March 15,2017 Trump Budget Slashes Funds for E.P.A. and State Department - The New York Times
 * March 16, 2017 Bristle at Trump Budget’s Cuts to Research - The New York Times
 * March 31
 * March 28, 2017 Blueprint for Balance Heritage Foundation

Trump's policies

 * March 25, 2017 Trump’s Biggest Obstacle to Policy Goals? His Own Missteps NYT

Media relations

 * Invited or not, news outlets criticize White House decision to pick and choose their peers
 * March 25, 2017 One Nation, Under Fox

"President Trump gives a speech at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland to the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference. In the speech, he addresses numerous themes including immigration, ISIS and coal mining, as well as media reliability, suggesting limits on the use of anonymous sources by news agencies." The New York Times is barred from the White House press briefing along with the BBC, CNN, Politico, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed News, prompting criticism from the White House Correspondents' Association. (Content from timeline page to be culled while keeping references)
 * NYT interactive
 * November 21, 2016 NYT

Justin Carissimo. "White House blocks CNN, BBC, New York Times, LA Times from media briefing" — The Independent, February 24, 2017 David French. "When It Comes to Press Access, Trump Needs To Be Better than Obama, Not Worse" — National Review, February 24, 2017 Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael M. Grynbaum. "Trump Intensifies His Attacks on Journalists and Condemns F.B.I. ‘Leakers’" — The New York Times, February 24, 2017 Ali Vitali. "White House Excludes Several Outlets From Press Gaggle" — NBC, February 24, 2017 "White House bars outlets from Sean Spicer media gaggle" — Al Jazeera, February 24, 2017

Sessions Department of Justice
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issues a memorandum rescinding a 2016 Obama-era memorandum meant to phase out private federal US prisons. (Content from timeline page to be culled while keeping references)

Sweeping Federal Review Could Affect Consent Decrees Nationwide

Ryan Zinke United States Secretary of the Interior
He Will Soon Run a Fifth of the Nation

Foreign policy and relations
(Content from timeline page to be culled while keeping references)
 * February 24 – President Trump meets with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru at the Oval Office.

Syria
From Foreign policy of Donald Trump "The Trump administration has taken a different stance from the previous Obama administration on the issue of the Syrian Civil War, with UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson both stating in March 2017 that the United States would no longer prioritize the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from office, in line with Trump's stance during his campaign."

February 2017
Content from timeline page to be culled while keeping references President Trump signs Executive Order 13777, requiring all federal agencies to create task forces to look at and determine which regulations hurt the U.S. economy. Reuters describes the order as "what may be the most far reaching effort to pare back U.S. red tape in recent decades."
 * February 23 It is confirmed that six White House staff members, including Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing, were removed from their positions earlier in the month having failed FBI background checks. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tells reporters that the administration has no plans to continue the approach of the Obama administration on recreational cannabis and that it views recreational marijuana use as a violation of federal law.
 * February 25 – President Trump has lunch with Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Florida governor Rick Scott. They discuss Obamacare and the states' role in healthcare.
 * February 26 – President Trump's choice for United States Secretary of the Navy, Philip M. Bilden, withdraws from his nomination.

Trump-Russia dossier
Donald Trump–Russia dossier
 * February 28 from timeline article: "It is revealed that the FBI had, prior to the 2016 presidential election, reached an agreement with Christopher Steele to pay for continued research related to the Donald Trump–Russia dossier, a deal which was broken off following the publication of the dossier by BuzzFeed.

The White House confirms that Jared Kushner met with Sergey Kislyak alongside Michael T. Flynn at New York City's Trump Tower in December 2016.

Congressional inquiry (initiated?) Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.


 * Under Jeff Sessions Sergey Kislyak.
 * March 2 – President Trump publicly expresses his confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then delivers a speech aboard aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, reiterating his commitment to military spending. Sessions recuses himself from any inquiries involving allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 American election.

Trump major speeches
President Trump makes his first speech to Congress, addressing a wide range of matters including drug abuse, gang crime, immigration, terrorism, the Mexico–United States barrier, infrastructure, foreign trade and the stock market.

Repeal of Stream Protection Rule
Repeal of the Stream Protection Rule or Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule, ) was a House Joint Resolution introduced in the [United States House House of Representatives]] by Bill Johnson of Ohio on January 30, 2017. The resolution nullifies the Department of the Interior regulation known as the "Stream Protection Rule", which was established in the Obama Administration. The regulation was scheduled to go into effect on January 19, 2017. The resolution to repeal was signed into law by President Donald Trump on February 16, 2017. The Congress used its powers under the Congressional Review Act to pass this resolution.

Repeal and replace ACA
According to the March 13, 2017 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on the budgetary impact of the Republican bill to repeal and replace ACA over the coming decade, there would be a $337 billion reduction in the federal deficit and an estimated loss of coverage to 24 million more Americans.

Cabinet confirmations United States Secretary of the Interior

Ben Carson United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
The Senate confirms Ben Carson as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by a vote of 58-41,

Rick Perry as United States Secretary of Energy
he Senate confirmsRick Perry as United States Secretary of Energy by a vote of 62-37.

Betty DeVos Education Secretary

 * March 3 – President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, Florida. President Trump attends an evening Republican fundraising event at the Four Seasons hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump returns to his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend.
 * March 4 – President Trump publicly accuses former President Barack Obama of intercepting communications at his offices in New York City's Trump Tower in October 2016; Obama's spokesman Kevin Lewis denies the claim. March 4 Trump rallies are held throughout the United States.
 * March 5 – James R. Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, rejects claims concerning the wiretapping of President Trump's election campaign. Congressman Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, agrees to a demand from the White House for an investigation into alleged abuses of executive power by former President Barack Obama. President Trump returns from Florida to the White House in the evening.
 * March 6 – White House Deputy Director of Communications Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggests that President Trump does not accept FBI Director James Comey's denial of the wiretapping of Trump Tower. Trump signs Executive Order 13780, seen as a revised version of Executive Order 13769, effective March 16th, removing Iraq from affected countries and clarifying that lawful permanent residents are excluded from the travel ban.
 * March 7 – The White House confirms that President Trump has not conferred with the FBI over allegations of wiretapping by the previous administration. Trump speaks on the telephone with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to voice his support for Japan in reaction to new reports of North Korean missile tests.
 * March 8 – Formal drafting of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act begins. Federal judge Derrick Watson permits Doug Chin, Attorney General of Hawaii, to submit a newly revised lawsuit against President Trump's newly revised travel ban, to be heard on March 15th.

Voter fraud
Since November 2016, Trump has repeated voter fraud allegations that thousands of voters were illegally bused from Massachusetts into New Hampshire where former Senator Kelly Ayotte lost his bid for election, and Trump narrowly lost to Clinton in 2016. Trump had announced on January 25 that he was conducting an investigation into voter fraud. He repeated unsubstantiated claims about the number of fraudulent voters and referred to VoteStand founder Gregg Phillips, who could not produce any evidence of voter fraud. In January US News reported that members of Trump's cabinet and family were registered to vote in multiple states. On February 10, Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioner, Ellen L. Weintraub, issued a statement calling on Trump, to provide the evidence of what would "constitute thousands of felony criminal offenses under New Hampshire law." By February 12, Steve Miller was still unable to provide concrete evidence to support claims voter fraud, in an interview with Stephanopolous, but he seemed to direct Stephanopolous the the often-cited 2012 Pew Research Center study  based on 2008 research. The 2012 PEW study had shown that that because of inefficiencies in the voter system by 2008, many eligible citizens were not able to be registered, "51 million citizens" representing more than "24 percent of the eligible population. It also showed that problems related to voter registration often affected "military personnel— especially those deployed overseas and their families—who were almost twice as likely to report registration problems as was the general public in 2008."

Miller "did not provide any concrete evidence to support his claims of voter fraud" but suggested Stephanopolous interview Kansas Senator, Kris Kobach who relied upon a 2012 Pew Research Center study that found that million voter registrations were outdated in 2008. In fact, the often-cited 2012 PEW research that was based on research up to 2008, showed that because of inefficiencies in the voter system by 2008, many eligible citizens were not able to be registered, "51 million citizens" representing more than "24 percent of the eligible population. Problems related to voter registration often affected "military personnel— especially those deployed overseas and their families—who were almost twice as likely to report registration problems as was the general public in 2008."

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Pew Research: media polarization, trusted sources and Wikipedia's reliable sources protocol
The Wikipedia protocol regarding reliable independent sources and the protocol of maintaining neutrality are often used as arguments for deleting content, and may result in long discussions on talk pages. On these talk pages for different articles, the methodology for measuring reliability and neutralist is not always obvious. The other problem I want to avoid is having maintenance templates placed on articles to which I am contributing. These templates are unsightly and they diminish the article in the eyes of readers. I prefer to spend my volunteer time on articles themselves rather than on talk pages, so I am trying to avoid the most common pitfalls. I find Pew Research helpful.Oceanflynn (talk) 17:05, 5 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Ideological Placement of Each Source’s Audience
 * "Ideological Placement of Each Source’s Audience" Pew Research January 26, 2016
 * Drew Desilver and Amy Mitchell October 21, 2014 "Q/A: How Pew Research analyzed America’s polarized media consumption habits" Pew Research
 * Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel and Amy Mitchell January 18, 2017 "Trump, Clinton Voters Divided in Their Main Source for Election News. Fox News was the main source for 40% of Trump voters" Pew Research

"* All voters by percentage: FOX 19%, CNN 13%, Facebook 8%, Local TV 7%, NBC 5%, MSNBC 5%, ABC 5%, NPR 4%, CBS 4%, New York Times 3%, local newspapers 3%
 * Trump voters by percentage: FOX 40%, CNN 8%, Facebook 7%, NBC 6%, Local TV 5%, ABC 3%, CBS 3%, local radio 3%,
 * Clinton voters by percentage: CNN 8%, MSNBC 9%, Facebook 8%, Local TV 8%, NPR 7%, ABC 6%, New York Times 5%, CBS 5%, NBC 4%, local newspapers 4%, FOX 3%"

- Pew Research 2017

""Clinton voters named an array of different sources, with no one source named by more than one-in-five of her supporters. The survey was conducted Nov. 29-Dec. 12, 2016, among 4,183 adults who are members of Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel.""

- Gottfried, Barthel and Mitchell January 18, 2017


 * Trust Levels of News Sources by Ideological Group October 20, 2014 Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media

In order:

More trusted than trusted: The Economist, BBC, NPR, PBS, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, USA Today, Google News, The Blaze, New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, Politico, Yahoo News, Fox News,

Equally trusted and not trusted: Mother Jones, Slate, Breitbart, Huffington Post, Colbert Report, Think Progress, Daily Show, Drudge Report,

More distrusted than trusted: Daily Kos, Sean Hannity Show, Al Jazeera America (2013-6), The Ed Schultz Show (-2014), The Glenn Beck Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, BuzzFeed

Sources that were not in Pew Research TheBlaze but are used without reliable independent sources[WP:NPOV|neutrality] in Wikipedia articles on Presidency.

The Economist on Trump
On the trade deficit

Volunteer Marek maintenance tag re: unreliable sources
Volunteer Marek deleted content and a number of references mainly where Breitbart News is used as a source, on February 3, 2017, and placed maintenance tags on the article First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency. I have begun a discussion on thetalk page on what specifically needs to be done to remove these tags.
 * Trump's contract Gettysburg October 22, 2016. These sources were removed by Volunteer Marek. Note Your name has popped up here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Persistent attempts at censorship, tag-teaming reverts, on page for 2014 Crimean Referendum by User:Volunteer Marek Knowledgekid87(talk) 20:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)  who also removed this "The first 100 days of a presidential term took on symbolic significance during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president."

and this ""Keep your production within the United States, and you will be rewarded. For those looking to grow or start new factories, Trump promised to expedite their requests and provide incentives to build...Those who do not heed this advice could face new tariffs that he described as 'substantial' and 'major'.""

- Washington Post January 23, 2017

David Muir, interviewed Trump in the White House on January 25 on "ABC World News Tonight".

""I was with the Ford yesterday. And with General Motors yesterday. The top representatives, great people. And they're gonna do some tremendous work in the United States. They're gonna build plants back in the United States. But when you see the size, even as a businessman, the size of the investment that these big companies are gonna make, it hits you even in that regard. But we're gonna bring jobs back to America, like I promised on the campaign trail.""

- David Muir's interview with Trump in the White House ABC World News Tonight on January 25, 2017

and this On November 10, 2016, In Gettysburg, Trump had promised in his first 100 days, to end "The Offshoring Act" and to establish "tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free" and to lower the business tax rate "from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate."

and this

The Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee hearing for Trump's nomination to lead the U.S. Labor Department (DOL), Andrew Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, a fast food empire, is scheduled for February 7. and this

As part of his 100-day action plan, Trump had promised to "lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal."

Breitbart News published Trump's announcement to withdraw from the agreement on November 10, 2016. and this

According to Breitbart News, Trump's list of things to do on the first day under "five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law", included canceling "all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities" and beginning to remove "the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back." and this

Breitbart News announced that a dawn raid by US commandos on Al-Qaeda in the Yakla, Baida in Yemen on January 29, killed 57 people. In the first military operation under Trump, 41 of those killed were suspected Al-Qaeda militants and sixteen were civilians - 8 women and 8 children. A "provincial official said Apache helicopters also struck a school, a mosque and a medical facility which were all used by Al-Qaeda militants." Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a 36-year-old Virginia-based Navy SEAL was killed during the operation, the first U.S. combat casualty in Trump's presidency. and also

On January 29 Trump authorized a raid by US commandos on Al-Qaeda in Yakla, Baida in Yemen.

replaced with these references with bare urls I later filled in.

On January 29 Trump authorized a raid by US commandos on Al-Qaeda in Yakla, Baida in Yemen. At least 14 jihadists were killed in the raid, as well as 10 civilians, including children. The raid also resulted in the dead Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a 36-year-old Virginia-based Navy SEAL, the first U.S. combat casualty in Trump's presidency.

On January 29 Trump authorized a raid by US commandos on Al-Qaeda in Yakla, Baida in Yemen. At least 14 jihadists were killed in the raid, as well as 10 civilians, including children. The raid also resulted in the dead Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a 36-year-old Virginia-based Navy SEAL, the first U.S. combat casualty in Trump's presidency.

replaced with bare url According to the New York Times "the death of Chief Petty Officer William Owens came after a chain of mishaps and misjudgments that plunged the elite commandos into a ferocious 50-minute firefight that also left three others wounded and a $75 million aircraft deliberately destroyed." and

According to Breitbart News, Trump's list of things to do on the first day under "five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law", included canceling "all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities" and beginning to remove "the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back."

and

Breitbart News announced that a dawn raid by US commandos on Al-Qaeda in the Yakla, Baida in Yemen on January 29, killed 57 people. In the first military operation under Trump, 41 of those killed were suspected Al-Qaeda militants and sixteen were civilians - 8 women and 8 children. A "provincial official said Apache helicopters also struck a school, a mosque and a medical facility which were all used by Al-Qaeda militants." Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a 36-year-old Virginia-based Navy SEAL was killed during the operation, the first U.S. combat casualty in Trump's presidency. On November 10, Breitbart News reported that Trump had promised to direct the "Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator.

and

"They have sanctions on Russia -- let’s see if we can make some good deals with Russia. For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it."

- Trump Interview with Michael Gove and Kai Diekmann

and

""The wall is going to cost a fraction of that, maybe 10 (billion dollars) or $12 billion, and it's going to be a real wall. It's going to be a high wall. It's going to be a beautiful -- it's going to be a wall that works...[It will be very simple to get Mexico to pay] ...Very simple. You have five different ways. Number one -- here's the key. They are making, right -- if you look at it as a company -- $58 billion. The wall is a -- a year. We have a trade deficit with Mexico of $58 billion, all I have to do it start playing with that trade deficit, and believe me, they're going to pay for the wall. You watch...I'm talking about negotiating with them, I'm not talking a trade war with -- I'm talking about Japan. We have all the cards, Joe. If we -- I was in Los Angeles, I see these massive ships coming in with cars. We have all the cards, we don't play them. We don't have the politicians that know how to play them. We're negotiating against great negotiators. China, Mexico, Japan, believe me, we're going to start doing great with those -- that trade.""

- Trump transcript from February 17, 2016 MSNBC's "Morning Joe" with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in town hall in Charleston, SC.

On the evening of January 30, Trump replaced acting Attorney General Sally Yates with Dana Boente.

and

In this Executive Order, Trump calls for streamlining and expediting,

""...environmental reviews and approvals for all infrastructure projects, especially projects that are a high priority for the Nation, such as improving the U.S. electric grid and telecommunications systems and repairing and upgrading critical port facilities, airports, pipelines, bridges, and highways.""

- Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure Projects 2017-02029

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User CatapultTalks deleted this content on February 5 (removing possible POV content and also unnecessary detail for this article. The various reactions and "descriptions" of the order has been well covered in the main article.), Volunteer Malek restored it and CatapultTalks deleted it again and discussed this on the talk page. "I don't understand why singling out a quote about an EO from one source is relevant in this article. The various reactions, commentary about the order have been detailed in the EO main article and its sub-articles. So, I'm going to revert this one again - unless there is a better explanation of why this is relevant in this article (CatapultTalks)."

The Economist described the order as "drafted in secret, enacted in haste and unlikely to fulfil its declared aim of sparing America from terrorism" with "Republican allies" lamenting that a "fine, popular policy was marred by its execution."

First 100 Days

 * References using the term 100 Days

Executive actions

Cabinet and personnel
Cabinet, personnel, Formation of Donald Trump's cabinet

John Mattis
John Mattis

Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State

Reince Priebus
Citations related to Reince Priebus

Gary Cohn


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 * December 12, 2016 Steven Mnuchin nominated as Trump's Secretary of Treasury. Gary Cohn, considered to be successor to Lloyd Blankfein, CEO Goldman Sachs, chair of Trump's.

Work in progress...

Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates
 * Steve Bannon
 * Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff
 * James Mattis confirmed as Secretary of Defense
 * John Kelly confirmed as United States Secretary of Homeland Security


 * United States State Department,
 * Governor Nikki Haley Ambassador to the United Nations
 * John Kelly United States Secretary of Homeland Security
 * Non-cabinet
 * Kellyanne Conway
 * Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President
 * Michael T. Flynn
 * National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro


 * Nominated but not finalized
 * Andrew Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants

Executive orders
Category:Executive orders of Donald Trump


 * List of United States federal executive orders 13765 and above

EO 13765 Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (January 20)
Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for external links section ?From White House Executive Order Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal Executive Order 13765 Wikisource Executive Order Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal Related articles:
 * Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)
 * FY2017
 * budget resolution
 * Concurrent resolution
 * budget reconciliation
 * Timeline of efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

EO 13766 Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals For High Priority Infrastructure Projects (January 24)
Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals For High Priority Infrastructure Projects for external links section ?From White House Executive Order Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals For High Priority Infrastructure Projects From Wikisource Executive Order 13766
 * January 24 High-priority infrastructure
 * Executive Order Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure Projects

In this Executive Order, Trump calls for streamlining and expediting,

""...environmental reviews and approvals for all infrastructure projects, especially projects that are a high priority for the Nation, such as improving the U.S. electric grid and telecommunications systems and repairing and upgrading critical port facilities, airports, pipelines, bridges, and highways.""

- Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure Projects 2017-02029 deleted from article

13767 Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements (January 25)
Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements Executive Order 13767 for external links section ? From White House Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements From Wikisource Executive Order 13767 January 25 Mexican border wall Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements

See also 2017 Mexico–United States diplomatic crisis The Mexican Government with President Enrique Peña Nieto

EO 13768 Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States (January 25)
January 25 Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States for external links section ?From White House Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States From Wikisource Executive Order 13768
 * Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
 * (INA)
 * Secure Fence Act
 * (IIRIRA)
 * Mexican border wall
 * United States Border Patrol

EO 13769 Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States January 25
At the international level legal concerns have been raised by the UN, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, who claimed that "discrimination on nationality alone is forbidden under human rights law." On January 30, in a telephone call to Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel explained that his EO "ran counter to the duties of all signatory states" to the Geneva Refugee Convention "to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds".
 * January 25From Wikisource Executive Order 13769 Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States Executive Order 13769,[3] entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. This article was created by User:Daniel.Cardenas on January 29. By February 5, it had 132 page watchers, 2,087 edits, 314 distinct authors, 97,746 page views, with a daily average of 13,964 views. Editors with the most contributions are are G1729, KinkyLipids, CatapultTalks, Ahnoneemoos, and K.e.coffman. Editors who contribute to related articles include CatapultTalks, Neutrality, Anythingyouwant, and Volunteer Marek.

"The Obama administration conducted a review in 2011 of the vetting procedures applied to citizens of a single country (Iraq) and then only to refugees and applicants for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), created by Congress to help Iraqis (and later Afghans) who supported the United States in those conflicts."
 * Obama ban
 * Ban

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EO 13770 Ethics Commitments by Executive branch Appointees
Lobbying January 28 For external links section? From White House Executive Order: Ethics Commitments by Executive branch Appointees Executive Order on January 28, 2017 Executive Order: ETHICS COMMITMENTS BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES

EO 13771 Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs January 30
Signed Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs on January 30. These references can be placed on the External links section? Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_on_Reducing_Regulation_and_Controlling_Regulatory_Costs Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs It is an example of a PAYGO (Pay As You GO) policy for regulations, comparable to regulatory PAYGO policies in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. January 24 Spending freeze and media blackout at several government agencies

Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System February 3
The Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System was signed on February 3 and is the 8th Trump signed. It established his "core principles" of regulation and ordered the United States Department of the Treasury to submit a review of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, under the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 120 days. Supporters
 * February 4, After a meeting with strategic and policy forum which included Business Roundtable's Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO JPMorgan Chase, Trump issued an EO which directed the "Treasury secretary to submit a report on recommended changes to bank regulations in 120 days." Changes will not "let big Wall Street institutions go back to the high-risk practices that triggered the financial crisis."

Trump wants to get "banks to lend money more aggressively."

"We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd-Frank... Frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine, that have nice businesses that can't borrow money. They just can't get any money because the banks won't let them borrow because of rules and regulations in Dodd-Frank."

- Trump in meeting with his business advisory council February 4

Trump's strategic and policy forum Business Roundtable Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO JPMorgan Chase is also CEO of the advocacy group the Business Roundtable. The Business Roundtable represents about 200 CEOs from major American companies across the economy with a focus on tax code overhaul, deregulation and trade promotion, including the TPP.

"JP Morgan shares "rallied nearly 20 percent since Election Day." In an interview on January 18, Dimon approved of Trump's policies and his cabinet choices, "including billionaire investor Wilbur Ross at Commerce, Wall Street veteran Steven Mnuchin at Treasury, and former Exxon chief Rex Tillerson at State — are "experienced, successful people" who are ready to go to work to fix America."

"[He is neither a Republican or Democrat.] "I've always tried to think about things independently.... Everything looks to be pretty good....The market pretty much anticipates some of [Trump's agenda], not all of it, because it hasn't happened yet. They know the sausage is going to be made in taxes. It's going to take nine months, 12 months. The real detail work has to get done...For banks, the interest rates, obviously we benefit by that. A stronger economy, banks benefit from that. And the third [factor] is some reduced regulatory environment, banks may benefit from that. It remains to be seen.""

- Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO JPMorgan Chase CNBC January 18, 2017

In an interview on February 3, with The Wall Street Journal, Trump's National Economic Council Director, Gary Cohn, announced the planned rollback of the fiduciary rule, which stated that brokers and advisers who work with tax-advantaged retirement savings "must work in the best interest of their clients" even at the expense of their own profits. "President Donald Trump has begun killing off an Obama-era retirement-savings rule unpopular with Republicans and some financial-industry executives who say it would harm consumers more than help." "President Donald Trump has begun killing off an Obama-era retirement-savings rule unpopular with Republicans and some financial-industry executives who say it would harm consumers more than help, the WSJ reports. The so-called fiduciary rule, six years in the making and unveiled by the Labor Department last spring, holds brokers and advisers who work with tax-advantaged retirement savings to a fiduciary standard as opposed to the previous suitability standard. That means they must work in the best interest of their clients and generally avoid conflicts, which can come about with the commission-based compensation common among brokers and insurance agents."

- The Wall Street Journal blog

"We think it is a bad rule. It is a bad rule for consumers. This is like putting only healthy food on the menu, because unhealthy food tastes good but you still shouldn’t eat it because you might die younger."

- Gary Cohn, National Economic Council Director

cut regulations by 75%

Regulatory Freeze Pending Review for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

 * January 20, 2017 for external links section From White House Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies ( January 20)

Regarding the Hiring Freeze
January 23 2017 United States federal hiring freeze ( January 23, 2017) Government-wide hiring freeze The 2017 United States federal hiring freeze was instituted by the Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze, signed by President Donald Trump on January 23, 2017. duplication January 23, 2017 From White House Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze
 * January 23, 2017 Memorandum Regarding Withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement

Barring international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions from receiving US government funding
January 23 Mexico City Policy (January 23, 2017) for external links From White House Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Mexico City Policy January 23 Reinstatement of Mexico City Policy   Reinstated on January 23, 2017, as Republican President Donald Trump assumed the office.
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Withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement
January 23 Trans-Pacific Partnership ( January 23) for external links Presidential Memorandum Regarding Withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement Withdrawal from Trans-Pacific Partnership, January 23
 * Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
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Regarding Construction of American Pipelines
Regarding Construction of American Pipelines ( January 24) for external links duplication? From White House Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of American Pipelines

Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
January 23 Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline 82 FR 8661, 2017-02032 ( January 24) for external links From White House Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline ;January 24 Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipelines
 * Dakota Access
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Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Regarding Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline ( January 24) for external links From White House Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Reducing Regulatory Burdens for Domestic Manufacturing
Streamlining Permitting and Reducing Regulatory Burdens for Domestic Manufacturing ( January 24, 2017) for external links duplication From White House Presidential Memorandum Streamlining Permitting and Reducing Regulatory Burdens for Domestic Manufacturing

Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces
Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces (January 27)

Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (January 28) for external links**January 28, 2017From White House Presidential Memorandum Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council
Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council (January 28) for external links duplication? From White House Presidential Memorandum Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council

Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council
Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council (January 28, 2017)

12 Fiduciary Duty Rule February 3
Fiduciary Duty Rule

PM #???Suspended reduction of Federal Housing Mortgage Insurance Premium rates
January 20 Suspended reduction of Federal Housing Mortgage Insurance Premium rates

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Press briefings
On February 1, Spicer held the press briefing which included a number of Skype Seats for the first time, fielding questions from Kim Kalunian (WPRI) in Rhode Island, Dan Hausle (7News) of Boston, Jeff Jobe (Jeff Jobe Publishing), South Central Kentucky, Lars Larson of the (Lars Larson Show), Cecilia Vega (ABC News), Natalie Herbick (Fox 8) in Cleveland, Ohio. Anita Kumar (McClatchy), John Gizzi (Newsmax), Blake Berman (Fox Business), and Daniel Happer (ph) along with Kristen Welker (NBC), Sarah Murray (CNN), and Toluse Olorunnipa (Bloomberg).

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Net neutrality in the United States
Ajit Pai, a a former lawyer for Verizon, known as "a stickler on conservative interpretations of telecommunications law and the limits of the F.C.C.’s authority" was Trump's nominee for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. His "biggest target" will be net neutrality, a rule created in 2015 that "prevents internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against internet traffic". In his first week at FCC, he said he disagreed with the 2015 classification of broadband as a utility like telephones or electricity which provided the "legal foundation of net neutrality rules". He released "about a dozen actions in the last week, many buried in the agency website and not publicly announced, stunning consumer advocacy groups and telecom analysts." He closed an investigation into zero-rating practices of the wireless providers T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. He rescinded the "permissions of nine broadband providers to participate in a federal subsidy plan for low-income consumers". He has withdrawn support the FCC case to be held on February 6, 2017 which was calling for curbing of "extraordinarily expensive phone call prices." He "scrapped a proposal to break open the cable box market".

"With these strong-arm tactics, Chairman Pai is showing his true stripes. The public wants an F.C.C. that helps people. Instead, it got one that does favors for the powerful corporations that its chairman used to work for."

- Matt Wood from Free Press

Pai previously worked as a lawyer for Verizon Communications, before being named Commissioner to the FCC in 2011. Since his confirmation on January 23, he released a dozen actions that stunned "consumer advocacy groups and telecom analysts." In his first days at the FCC, Pai undertook several actions which are contrary to net neutrality.

In December 2016, following the US presidential election, he said that he believes that "[net neutrality's] days are numbered". He actively opposed the February 2015 vote of the FCC to enact net neutrality regulations, calling the FCC's declaration that internet service providers have no freedom of speech part of an attempt to weaken the "culture of the First Amendment." The FCC 2015 rule prevented "internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against internet traffic". He voted against reclassifying internet service providers as Title II Common Carriers and in his first week at FCC in 2017, he reiterated his disagreement with the 2015 common carrier classification with broadband as a utility like telephones or electricity. This had provided the "legal foundation of net neutrality rules". Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon, is known as "a stickler on conservative interpretations of telecommunications law and the limits of the F.C.C.’s authority'. In his first week, he also closed an investigation into  zero-rating practices of the wireless providers T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. He rescinded the "permissions of nine broadband providers to participate in a federal subsidy plan for low-income consumers" and he "scrapped a proposal to break open the cable box market".