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Trump doing the things he criticized Obama for doing

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(This post was last modified: 02-24-2017, 04:19 PM by Indy2Jax.)

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<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Withdrew the United States from <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4643380/donald-trump-tpp-mexico-city-trade-business/'>the Trans Pacific Partnership</a>, a 12-nation trade deal he had heavily criticized as a candidate as not protecting American workers enough.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Greenlit <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/'>beginning construction on a wall</a> along the U.S. border with Mexico, which he said he hoped would <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4648921/president-trump-hopes-construction-on-border-wall-can-start-in-months/'>begin within "months."</a>


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://motto.time.com/4643524/donald-trump-international-abortion-funding/'>Reinstated the so-called Mexico City policy</a>, which bars federal money from going to foreign nonprofits which promote or perform abortions.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Ordered <a class="bbc_url" href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/23/trump-freezes-federal-hiring/?utm_term=.b4d20a635100'>a freeze on federal hiring</a> other than for military, public safety and public health jobs.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4641511/trump-inauguration-mortgage-payments/'>Reversed a planned cut</a> on mortgage insurance for many first-time homebuyers.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Ordered executive branch agencies to <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4642088/trump-inauguration-obamacare-repeal-order/'>begin preparing for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act</a>, so far a mostly symbolic action that <a class="bbc_url" href='http://fortune.com/2017/01/22/trump-health-insurance-mandate/'>could be used to undermine the law's enforcement</a>.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Formally submitted his Cabinet nominations to the U.S. Senate, which has now <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/senate-trump-cabinet-confirmations/index.html'>confirmed Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly</a>, and <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4585503/why-trump-is-interviewing-generals-for-his-cabinet/'>signed a waiver for Mattis</a>.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4645142/donald-trump-keystone-dakota-access-pipeline-executive-order/'>Moved forward</a> on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/'>Ended a policy known as "catch and release,"</a> under which some immigrants are released from detention while they await a hearing with an immigration judge.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/'>Ended federal funding to sanctuary cities and states</a>, which opt out of reporting undocumented immigrants.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Kept FBI Director James Comey, who <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4645348/james-comey-remains-fbi-director/'>both he and Hillary Clinton criticized</a> over his handling of her private email server, on the job.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4644369/donald-trump-ajit-pai-fcc-chief/'>Named net neutrality critic Ajit Pai</a> to lead the Federal Communications Commission.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4642753/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-jerusalem/'>Spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone</a>, signaling that a promise to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem won't be fulfilled immediately.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Visited the CIA to mend fences <a class="bbc_url" href='http://time.com/4642306/trump-inauguration-cia/'>after weeks of acrimony</a>, and <a class="bbc_url" href='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/trump-white-house-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html?_r=0'>faced criticism</a> after he talked about the media reporting on the size of his inauguration crowds.


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]• Made plans to meet <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38707524'>British Prime Minister Theresa May</a> as well as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.



<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]that was a quick search... this doesn't cover anything since Feb...


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]so I add...


<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:120px;">025]Also... has signed Executive orders to attempt to limit the amount of Radicals and make America safer.... think the second one that "fixes" the wording of the first one should be clear (or clearing soon)
Basically nothing has really changed in 365 days.
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