President Trump: Your questions answered
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You're listening to a special edition of the Global News Podcast. Hello, I'm Oliver Connolly. We're recording this on Tuesday the 28th of January and we have two guests for you.
I'm Gary O'Donoghue, the senior North America correspondent.
And I'm Katrina Perry, chief presenter with BBC News based in Washington.
And we're going to be answering your questions about Donald Trump's first week back in office as President of the United States of America. And thank you for all the questions you sent in. We'll start as Donald Trump did himself, straight after his inauguration with the blizzard of executive orders he signed, a record 26 on day one. So here are two questions from Alejandra in Chile.
I suppose, first of all, we should ask, what is an executive order, Gary?
So an executive order covers a whole range of things from proclamations, just things the president thinks is true, right through to directions of the federal government to do certain things, right through to things that have constitutional implications. So all these ones he's issued right across that gamut. You said dozens, and then you're right. And it compares to his first term when I think there was just four in the first five days.
And Katrina, the Inflation Reduction Act, is that something that's going to be easy to dismantle?
There's a mixed answer to this one. Fundamentally, it's not easy to dismantle because it's a piece of legislation and the only way you could truly get rid of it or undo every aspect of it would be by further legislation coming through Congress. However, what the president can do is he can slow down some of the provisions of it. He can put them on ice indefinitely. We've already seen, in fact, President Trump signing one of these executive orders that pauses the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act and another one called the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. So that's what he can do. He can slow it down. He can't get rid of it totally. And some of the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that were already in force and already up and running, he can't undo those at this point.
Yeah, he could fall foul of something called the Impoundment Control Act, which is effectively Congress spends money in the US Constitution. He has the power of the purse, as they say. Presidents can hold up money being directed, but they can't really stop it as they can't really raise it without agreement of Congress. And that's one of those things that's going to be challenged in court. Certainly that 370 million odd that he's stopped from the infrastructure spending, that's going to be challenged.
Well, he certainly signalled that he wants to get on with things. And we had this question, no name attached to it, about three of the issues that Donald Trump campaigned on.
Besides immigration and economy, one of the other big things on my radar with Trump was taking down the quote unquote deep state, what Trump calls the deep state, ridding the CIA and FBI of partisans. He's done a little bit on censorship, but I still worry that's not enough. And then talk about the common worker. I don't know, even like the VP Vance was talking a lot about getting wages up and stuff. I'm like, good luck doing that. So where's some of that gone?
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