President Donald Trump continues to deliver on a multitude of campaign promises in the infancy of his presidency, getting immediately down to business his first Monday in office. Trump intends to sign executive orders as early as Monday to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and has already pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This comes in the wake of Trump's first executive order on Friday, which directed government agencies to curtail as many aspects of the Affordable Care Act as possible.
Trump campaigned heavily on pulling the United States out of the TTP, a trade deal that Obama supported. Trump's campaign website states the TPP would “undermine our economy” and “undermine our independence”. NAFTA was similarly targeted by Trump as another symbol of rampant free-trade that only benefits multinational corporations and foreign countries at the expense of American blue-collar workers.
Trump was joined in opposition to these deals by an unlikely ally, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who wrote that the TPP was “a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy.”
Rumors swirl surrounding other potential executive orders for Monday, including a five-year lobbying ban on transition and administration officials, as well as a plan to completely eradicate ISIS. Trump has already been active in the latter: U.S. Coalition forces continued strikes on ISIS Monday, conducting 31 effective airstrikes under the direction of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
Today, Trump also reinstated the Mexico City Policy on abortion originally implemented by Reagan and overturned by Obama. The Mexico City Policy prevents foreign NGOs from getting United States family planning money if they provide abortions with foreign money. This is major win for pro-life advocates, and signals Trump's further commitment to the pro-life cause.
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