The President's Daily Brief
PDB Afternoon Bulletin | January 20th, 2025: Trump's Deluge Of Executive Orders, Biden's Preemptive Pardons, & Israel Releases 90 Palestinian Prisoners
20 Jan 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to kick off his second term in office by signing as many as 100 executive orders within hours of taking office on Monday. Meanwhile, outgoing President Joe Biden used his final hours in office to issue a wave of controversial preemptive pardons. Then, Israel has released 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in Gaza, following the release of three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity on Sunday. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mike Baker here. Now, as you may have read in the gossip papers, I'm currently in the Middle East, part of a team of five riders, 10 camels, and an amazing support team traveling 700 miles through the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Jordan on behalf of the UK Special Forces Benevolent Fund. And while I'm away, the terrific Mike Slater is filling in for me here on the PDB.
Thanks, Mike. Monday, 20 January 2025. Welcome back to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. Mike Slater filling in for Mike Baker. Let's get briefed. First, President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to kick off his second term in office by signing as many as 100 executive orders just within hours of taking office today.
Meanwhile, outgoing President Joe Biden used his final hours in office to issue a wave of controversial preemptive pardons. Later in the show, Israel has released 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in Gaza, following the release of three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity on Sunday. First, today's afternoon spotlight.
Donald Trump sworn into office as the 47th President of the United States. and he's hit the ground running. Trump expected to sign close to 100 executive orders on Monday, aiming to immediately deliver on dozens of campaign policy priorities while taking a hatchet to a number of his predecessors' executive actions.
While a full picture of the orders is not yet clear, they will cover a wide range of issues, including immigration, climate and energy policy, diversity initiatives in the federal government, It's all according to the New York Times.
Trump told supporters at a rally on Sunday, quote, with the stroke of my pen, I will revoke dozens of destructive and radical executive orders and actions by the Biden administration. And by this time tomorrow, they will all be null and void. Notably, Trump will invoke a national emergency at the U.S. southern border to unlock funds from the Defense Department to address the immigration crisis.
He will also move to designate a number of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and direct his administration to reinstate his first terms Remain in Mexico policy for illegal aliens or migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Trump is expected to reinstate a series of his first-term policy directives that President Biden had rescinded on his first day in office back in 2021.
Moving on from immigration, Trump will declare a national energy emergency in an effort to immediately boost domestic production and lower consumer costs. At the same time, he will sign an executive order to, quote, unleash Alaska's natural resource potential, which will facilitate liquefied natural gas exports from the state.
A senior advisor to Trump told Axios, quote, "...national security is a key issue here. Energy is fundamental to our foreign policy, and reducing American energy production curtails our ability to exercise our foreign policies."
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