Trump signs 37 executive orders on first day, implementing Project 2025 priorities

| Importance: 6/10 | Status: confirmed

President Trump signed numerous executive orders, memorandums and proclamations on inauguration day January 20, 2025, including withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement and WHO, establishing DOGE led by Elon Musk, and rescinding 78 Biden-era executive actions. The DOGE order temporarily renamed the US Digital Service for 18 months to oversee federal software modernization. Trump also pardoned 1,500 January 6 defendants and commuted sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy. He signed orders at both Capital One Arena and the Oval Office.

Key Actors

Donald Trump Elon Musk (DOGE leader) White House United Nations World Health Organization

Tags

executive-orders project-2025 inauguration climate paris-agreement who-withdrawal doge january-6-pardons

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