Trump’s bills and executive actions

In his first 10 weeks in office, President Donald Trump has signed 45 orders, memoranda or proclamations and 17 bills or resolutions –  the most prolific use of executive action to start a presidency

23 Executive orders: New policy or directive, similar to laws passed by Congress. Numbered and written in Federal Registry

19 Presidential memoranda: Instruction to federal agency – not recorded in Registry

13 Proclamations: Ceremonial directives – e.g. U.S. Heart Month

Day 1 – Jan 20: President signs executive order declaring repeal of Affordable Care Act 

Day 4: Executive order to scrap President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership – trade deal with 11  countries

Day 5: Three memoranda approving oil pipelines

Day 6: Executive orders signed to build U.S.-Mexico border wall

Day 8 – Jan 27: Trump signs executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Travel ban triggers legal backlash

Day 15: Federal judge James Robart halts travel ban

Day 27: Trump signs bill repealing environmental rule protecting waterways from coal mining waste

Day 40: Trump signs bill nullifying Obama-era rule aimed at blocking gun sales to people who are mentally ill

Day 46 – Mar 6: Revised executive order reinstates Muslim travel ban

Day 56 – Mar 16: Judges block revised travel ban hours before it is to go into effect

Day 65 – Mar 24: President suffers political setback when Republican leaders pull Trump’s health-care
bill to repeal and replace Obamacare

Day 68: Executive order scraps Clean Power Plan which cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

Day 69 – Mar 29: Federal judge Derrick Watson blocks Muslim travel ban indefinitely

Day 70: Trump signs executive orders to crack down on anti-dumping practices one week before he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Florida

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Source: The White House briefing room
Picture: Associated Press