Note: This page includes Executive Orders and Presidential Actions that were signed on or before January 24, 2025. It will be updated in the coming days, and kept updated to the best of my ability as time goes on.
Summary
- Officially mandated that the foreign policy of the US must put American interests, first
- Pulled the US from the Global Tax deal, so US companies operating in other countries will not have to pay taxes to those countries. However, any foreign company doing business in the US will still be ordered to pay taxes to us
- Officially declares that foreign aid is “not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values.”
- Pauses all US foreign development assistance for 90 days for review, to determine which should be kept, if any
- Sets plan to look into creating an “External Revenue Service” to collect duties, and other foreign trade-related revenue
- Review trade policies to check for potential manipulation by trade partners based on currency exchange rates
- Revoked Biden executive order regarding sanctions for violence in the West Bank
- Revoked Biden executive order rescinding Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Executive Order: “America First policy directive to the secretary of state”
- States that “the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.”
- Requires that, ASAP, the Secretary of State must bring “the Department of State’s policies, programs, personnel, and operations in line with an America First foreign policy, which puts America and its interests first”
Memorandum: “The organization for economic cooperation and development global tax deal”
- Note: The Global Tax Deal basically means that companies that do business internationally must pay 15% in taxes to the countries they operate in. The US, as far as I’ve been able to find, has never fully complied with this deal, as our companies pay 10%, instead of the standard 15%.
- This is essentially pulling out of that deal, so that US companies do not need to pay taxes in any other countries they operate in. However, we will require that other countries still pay taxes to us, under this deal
- “This memorandum recaptures our Nation’s sovereignty and economic competitiveness by clarifying that the Global Tax Deal has no force or effect in the United States.”
- States that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD “shall notify the OECD that any commitments made by the prior administration on behalf of the United States with respect to the Global Tax Deal have no force or effect within the United States absent an act by the Congress adopting the relevant provisions of the Global Tax Deal”
- States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall “investigate whether any foreign countries are not in compliance with any tax treaty with the United States or have any tax rules in place, or are likely to put tax rules in place, that are extraterritorial or disproportionately affect American companies”
Executive Order: “Reevaluating and realigning US foreign aid”
- States that The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are “not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values.”
- “It is the policy of United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.”
- 90 day pause in US foreign development assistance
- There will be a review of each assistance program
- After 90 days it will be determined whether to continue or end funding for each program
- Additionally, any other new foreign assistance programs and obligations must be approved by the Secretary of State or his designee, by consulting with the Director of Office of Management and Budget
Memorandum: “America First trade policy”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/america-first-trade-policy
- Investigate “the causes of our country’s large and persistent annual trade deficits in goods, as well as the economic and national security implications and risks resulting from such deficits, and recommend appropriate measures, such as a global supplemental tariff or other policies, to remedy such deficits”
- Investigate creating an External Revenue Service (ERS) to collect tariffs, duties, and other foreign trade-related revenues
- Calls for a review to identify any “unfair trade practices by other countries” and recommendations “to remedy such practices under applicable authorities”
- Calls for a review of trade policies with major trading partners with respect to the rate of exchange between their currencies and the United States dollar, to check for “currency manipulation…that provides trading partners with an unfair competitive advantage in international trade” and , “identify any countries that should be designated as currency manipulators”
- Calls for a review the export control system and advise on modifications that can be made” in light of developments involving strategic adversaries or geopolitical rivals”
- Review and make recommendations on “how to maintain, obtain, and enhance our Nation’s technological edge and how to identify and eliminate loopholes in existing export controls -– especially those that enable the transfer of strategic goods, software, services, and technology to countries to strategic rivals and their proxies”
- Review and and make recommendations regarding export control to incentivize compliance by foreign countries
Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14115 of February 1, 2024 (Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank)
- Imposed sanctions on
- foreign persons responsible for or complicit in actions-that threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank, including:
- violence or threat of violence targeting civilians
- efforts to place civilians in reasonable fear of violence with the purpose or effect of necessitating a change of residence to avoid such violence
- property destruction
- seizure or dispossession of property by private actors
- persons who are or have been, leaders or officials of an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in any of the activities described above
- persons who have materially assisted or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any person who fits the above
- persons who are controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person who fits the above
- any foreign person determined by the Secretary of State:
- to have committed or have attempted to commit, poses a significant risk of committing, or to have participated in training to commit acts of terrorism affecting the West Bank
- is a leader or official of an entity that meets the criteria, above
- foreign persons responsible for or complicit in actions-that threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank, including:
Executive Order: Revoked The Presidential Memorandum of January 14, 2025 (Certification of Rescission of Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism)
- Rescinded Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism and removed restrictions on financial transactions with certain Cuban parties