Trump Just Kept 3 Major Campaign Promises. Here’s What You Need to Know.
On day one of his first week in office, President Trump kept several campaign promises in a series of executive orders issued Monday.
The first executive order was the fulfillment of a long-standing campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
“Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said as he signed the order at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office.
NEW: Trump just signed 3 executive orders:
1. Withdrawal from TPP
2. Fed'l hiring freeze except military
3. Limit abortion funding overseas.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 23, 2017
Secondly, President Trump instituted a federal hiring freeze on all federal workers, excluding the military. This policy was the second point in the president’s “Contract with the American Voter.”
Thirdly, the president reinstated the Mexico City abortion rule – a rule that requires foreign non-governmental organizations to not provide or promote abortion services if they receive funds from the U.S. government. The rule was put in place by President Ronald Reagan, and President Obama overturned it in his first week in office in 2009. Now that President Trump has undone what the Obama administration did, hundreds of millions of dollars used for international family planning funds will no longer go to organizations that promote abortions.
Hopefully, President Trump’s actions on federal hiring and on funding for abortion signal that his administration will be serious in his campaign’s commitment to reducing the size of government and to the pro-life cause.
Conservatives should be encouraged by today’s executive actions and look forward to ensuring the president fulfills the rest of his campaign promises. (For more from the author of “Trump Just Kept 3 Major Campaign Promises. Here’s What You Need to Know.” please click HERE)
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