President Donald Trump has spent his first days using his executive authority to rewrite American policy and undo a string of decisions made by former president Barack Obama. Here’s a running list of the new president’s executive actions:

1. Providing “relief” from the Affordable Care Act (January 20)

Trump’s first executive order on Inauguration Day involved “minimizing the economic burden” of the Affordable Care Act. This order allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other departments and agencies to waive or delay the implementation of any ACA provisions that would impose a financial burden or any state or a regulatory burden on any individuals.

2. Freezing all regulations (January 20)

Trump froze all pending regulations until they are approved directly by his administration or by an agency led by Trump appointees. The action, given in a memorandum from White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, delays all regulations with the exception of health, safety, financial or national security matters allowed by the Office of Management and Budget director.

3. Reinstating the “Mexico City” abortion policy (January 23)

The president reinstated the so-called “Mexico City Policy”, which blocks the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund foreign non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions. It was established by former president Ronald Reagan and has been rescinded by Democratic presidents and reinstated by Republican presidents ever since.

4. Scrapping the Trans-Pacific Partnership (January 23)

Trump’s next executive action withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which former President Barack Obama negotiated with 11 other pacific nations. The deal was never ratified by the Senate, so it had not gone into effect. Instead, the Trump administration says it plans on negotiating bilateral deals with individual nations.

5. Freezing the federal workforce (January 23)

Trump issued a presidential memorandum Tuesday that prohibits government agencies from hiring any new employees, effective as of noon on January 22. The order does not apply to military personnel and the head of any executive department may exempt positions that include national security or public safety responsibilities.

6 & 7. Advancing the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines (January 24)

Trump’s next actions encouraged the construction of two controversial pipelines, the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL Pipeline. The DAPL action instructs an expedited review and approval of the remaining construction and operation of the pipeline by the Army for Civil Works and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Keystone XL action invites TransCanada, the Canadian energy company behind the pipeline, to re-submit its application for a presidential permit to construct the pipeline. It also instructs the Secretary of State to reach a final determination within 60 days.

8. Expediting Environmental Reviews on Infrastructure Projects (January 24)

Trump issued an executive order to streamline environmental reviews of high-priority infrastructure projects. The action states that infrastructure projects in the U.S. “have been routinely and excessively delayed by agency processes and procedures.” The action instructs the Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to create expedited procedures and deadlines for environmental reviews and approvals for high-priority infrastructure projects.

9. Promoting “Made-in-the-USA” pipelines (January 24)

This memorandum instructs the Secretary of Commerce to create a plan for pipelines created, repaired or expanded in the United States to use materials and equipment produced in the country “to the maximum extent possible.” It establishes that all steel and metal used in such pipelines be completely produced in the United States, from the initial melting stage to the application of coatings.

10. Reviewing domestic manufacturing regulation (January 24)

Trump issued an action that instructs the Secretary of Commerce to contact stakeholders to review the impact of Federal regulations on domestic manufacturing. After the review, the Secretary of Commerce is instructed to create a streamlined Federal permitting process for domestic manufacturers.

11. Increasing border security measures (January 25)

Trump signed an executive order that directed the secretary of homeland security to:

Begin planning, designing and constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, including identify available federal funds and working with Congress for additional funding

Construct and operate detention facilities near the border to make adjudicate asylum claims, subject to the availability of existing funding,

Hire 5,000 additional Border Patrol agents, subject to the availability of existing funding,

End “catch and release” policy

Quantify all “sources of direct and indirect Federal aid or assistance to the Government of Mexico on an annual basis over the past five years”

Take action to empower state and local law enforcement to act as immigration officers

12. Pursuit of undocumented immigrants (January 25)

Trump signed an executive order that directed the secretary of homeland security to:

Prioritize certain undocumented immigrants for removal, including those with criminal convictions and those who have only been charged with a crime

Hire 10,000 additional immigration officers at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, subject to the availability of existing funding,

Prohibit federal funding, with the help of the attorney general, to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, where local officials have declined to help enforce federal immigration laws

Reinstate the Secure Communities program, which was terminated in 2014 and enables state and local law enforcement to effectively act as immigration agents

Sanction countries, with the help of the secretary of state, that refuse to accept the return of undocumented immigrants deported from the U.S.

Create a list, updated weekly, of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants in sanctuary jurisdictions

Create an “Office for Victims of Crimes Committed by Removable Aliens” to “provide proactive, timely, adequate and professional services to victims of crimes committed by removable aliens and family members of such victims”

13. Reevaluating visa and refugee programs (Signed January 27, Rescinded March 6)

Trump signed an executive order on a Friday evening, setting off a chaotic weekend at airports as officials did not know how to interpret the order. It was blocked by the courts and rescinded on March 6 when Trump sign a revised order.

14. Strengthening the military (January 27)

The president on Friday issued a presidential memorandum directing the secretary of defense, James Mattis, to conduct a review on the military’s readiness in the next 30 days and develop a budget for fiscal 2018 capable of improving the “readiness conditions.” He also directed Mattis to complete a National Defense Strategy and to review the country’s nuclear capabilities and missile-defense capabilities

15. Reorganizing the National Security Council (January 28)

Trump signed a memorandum Saturday that reorganized the National Security Council, with the goal of making it more digitally-focused, as POLITICO previously reported. Part of the order allows some of the president’s staff, including chief of staff Reince Priebus and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, to attend any NSC meeting, and widens the ability of appointees close to Trump to attend NSC meetings.

16. Implementing a lobbying ban (January 28)

This executive order bars “every executive appointee in every executive agency” from engaging in “lobbying activities with respect to that agency” for five years after leaving the agency. It also bars them permanently from lobbying for any foreign government or political party.

17. Defeating ISIS (January 28)

This memorandum instructs Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to create a plan to defeat ISIS and submit it to the president within 30 days. The plan must include a comprehensive strategy for defeating ISIS, changes to the rules of engagement, strategies to de-legitimize “radical Islamist ideology,” a plan for cutting off ISIS’ financial support and identification of new partners for the fight against the terrorist organization.

18. Reducing regulations (January 30)

This executive order requires any executive department or agency that proposes a new regulation to identify two regulations to be repealed. For fiscal 2017, it instructs that the total incremental cost of all new regulations and repealed regulations be no greater than zero. For fiscal 2018, the director of the Office of Management and Budget is required to issue for each agency a maximum total cost of all new regulations and repealed regulations for the fiscal year. No agency is allowed to issue a regulation whose costs exceed that maximum, “unless required by law or approved in writing by the Director.”

19. Regulating the financial system (February 3)

This executive order lays out a series of principles for regulating the financial system including promoting U.S. corporations’ ability to compete with international companies; to foster economic growth, prevent taxpayer-funded bailouts; and to make regulation efficient. It also instructs the secretary of the treasury to consult with the heads of the member agencies of the Financial Stability Oversight Council and report to the president within 120 days on how current laws and regulations promote those principles.

20. Rethinking Obama’s fiduciary standard (February 3)

This memorandum instructs the department of labor to review the Obama administration’s “Fiduciary Rule,” which required financial advisers to serve the best interests of their clients.

21. Preventing violence against the police (February 9)

This order instructs Attorney General Jeff Sessions to develop strategies for the Department of Justice to use existing federal laws or recommend new legislation to prosecute individuals who commit crimes against law enforcement officials.

22. Creating a task force to reduce crime (February 9)

This executive order instructs Sessions to establish a task force to discuss crime reduction ideas, identify “deficiencies” in current laws and evaluate the availability of crime-related data.

23. Combatting transnational criminal organizations (February 9)

This order aims to increase communication and coordination among different agencies relating to international criminal organization and create a strategy to disrupt these organizations. It also directs the Threat Mitigation Working Group to submit a report to the president within 120 days on transnational criminal organizations.

24. Enforcing regulatory reform (February 24)

This order instructs each federal agency to designate an official as its Regulatory Reform Officer within 60 days of the order. These officers would oversee the administration’s regulatory reform policy laid out in previous executive orders within their agency.

25. Reviewing the Waters of the U.S. Rule (February 28)

This executive order instructs EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and the assistant secretary of the army for civil works to review President Obama’s 2015 Clean Water Rule that added protections for streams and wetlands under federal clean water rules.

26. Supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (February 28)

This order recognizes the importance of HBCUs and establishes an initiative in the Executive Office of the President to increase the role of the private sector in strengthening HBCUs and strengthen the connection between HBCUs and the federal government.

27. Revising the travel ban (March 6)

Trump signed an executive order Monday banning travel from six countries and suspending the U.S. refugee program for 120 days. The ban goes into effect 10 days from the signing of the order. It retools the earlier order that was blocked by the courts. The order:

Cuts the number of refugees allowed into the United States in fiscal 2017 from 110,000 to 50,000

Suspends for 120 days the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which identifies and processes refugees for resettlement in the United States. It no longer bans Syrian refugees indefinitely.

Suspends the entry of nationals from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria for 90 days. This no longer includes Iraq and does not apply to nationals with current visas, dual nationals, legal permanent residents and people with diplomatic visas.

Directs the secretary of homeland security, the director of national intelligence and secretary of state to put together a list of countries that do not provide adequate information to vet potential entry of foreign nationals into the United States. Foreign nationals from those countries will be banned from entering the United States.

Directs the secretary of state, the secretary of homeland security, the director of national intelligence, and the director of the FBI to implement a uniform screening baseline for all immigration programs

It no longer directs the secretary of homeland security to “prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.”

Directs the secretary of homeland security to implement a biometric entry-exit tracking system

Grants state and local jurisdictions, whenever possible a “role in the process of determining the placement or settlement” of refugees

Suspend the Visa Interview Waiver Program, which allows certain people renewing their visas to skip an in-person interview

Directs the secretary of state to expand the Consular Fellows Program

28. Reorganizing the executive branch (March 13)

This executive order instructs the Director of the OMB to propose a plan to reorganize the executive branch and eliminate “unnecessary” federal agencies and agency programs.

29. Rescinding Obama's rules on contractors (March 27)

This executive order revoked three of former President Barack Obama's 2014 executive orders which imposed new requirements on federal contractors.

30. Creating the Office of American Innovation (March 27)

Trump issued a memorandum creating the Office of American Innovation, led by his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, to streamline and modernize government and spur job creation.

31. Reviewing Obama’s climate initiatives (March 28)

This executive order directs the government to conduct a review of energy regulations issued by the Obama administration, including the Clean Power Plan. It repeals multiple Obama-era memorandums and reports and directs the Interior Department to review a number of rules on oil and gas drilling. It also makes a bureaucratic change to the “social cost of carbon,” an important metric for determining whether climate regulations are cost effective.

32. Establishing a commission on the opioid crisis (March 29)

This order creates a commission to study the federal response to drug addiction and the opioid crisis and recommend solutions to the president.

33. Reducing the U.S. trade deficit (March 31)

Trump directed the secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative, working with other agencies, to report back to the president within 90 days on the causes and consequences of the U.S. trade deficit with each trading partners, including assessing whether the trade deficit hurts American workers or puts U.S. national security at risk.

34. Cracking down on unfair foreign trade practices (March 31)

This executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security, working with other agencies, to develop a strategy for “combatting violations of United States trade and customs laws for goods.”

35. Promoting American workers and American-made goods (April 18)

This executive order requires agencies to review their policies on using American-made goods in federal contracts, including limiting the use of waivers from the Buy American Act. It also directs the departments of State, Justice, Labor and Homeland Security to review work-related visa programs, including the H-1B program for skilled foreign workers.

36. Investigating the impact of steel imports (April 20)

Trump issued a memorandum directing the secretary of Commerce to investigate whether steel imports are putting U.S. national security at risk and submit a report to the president with the findings.

37. Reducing tax regulatory burdens (April 21)

This order directs the Treasury Department to submit to a report to the president within 150 days on any tax regulations that impose undue financial burden on U.S. taxpayers, are especially complex or are illegal. The president also issued two memorandums directing the secretary of the Treasury to review the rule on Ordinary Liquidation Authority, which allows the FDIC to wind down a failing megabank, and the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which monitors systemic financial risks in the economy and imposes tougher rules on financial institutions determined to be systematically important.

38. Promoting agriculture (April 25)

This order create a task force to promote the U.S. agriculture industry and recommend policy changes to improve economic development in rural America. It also eliminated the Obama-era White House Rural Council.

39. Reviewing designations of national monuments (April 26)

This order directs the Interior secretary to review “all presidential designations or expansions of designations under the Antiquities Act since January 1, 1996.”

40. Reducing the federal role in education (April 26)

This order directs the Education secretary to review education-related regulations, ensuring they comply with federal law and do not impede on local control of education.

41. Investigating the impact of aluminum imports (April 27)

As he did with steel imports last week, Trump issued a memorandum directing the secretary of Commerce to investigate whether aluminum imports are putting U.S. national security at risk and submit a report to the president with the findings.

42. Improving accountability at the VA (April 27)

This executive order directed the secretary of veterans affairs to create an office at the VA to protect whistleblowers and improve accountability at the agency.

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