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‘You’re fired’: Trump targets anti-MAGA appointees

Inauguration ball

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US President Donald Trump has wasted no time weeding out more than 1000 staff, appointed under the Biden administration, who he considers to be anti-MAGA.

As his inauguration day came to a close, Trump posted to social media that he would turf out his predecessor’s presidential appointees.

 “Our first day in the White House is not over yet!” wrote Trump on Truth Social at midnight. 

“My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again.”

Trump posted an “official notice of dismissal” to four Biden appointees, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and embattled retired general Mark Milley.

Andres, who runs World Central Kitchen, a food aid program for disaster victims, responded that he had resigned last week.

As Trump’s second day in office dawned, US media reported that immigration raids were expected to begin across the country on Tuesday (local time).

NBC reported some of the first would be in Chicago.

Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, told Fox Business Network that every Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer was “going to be out there and enforce the law starting tomorrow morning”.

Trump has made illegal immigration a signature issue since he first entered politics in 2015 and he began a sweeping crackdown on Monday.

Shortly after his inauguration, US border authorities said they had shut down Biden’s CBP One entry program, which had allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the US legally by scheduling an appointment on an app.

Existing appointments were cancelled, leaving migrants stunned and unsure of what to do.

Opponents of Trump’s agenda are likely to challenge it in the courts.

Trump is expected to sign more executive orders on Tuesday, after measures issued on Monday that included moves to roll back environmental regulation as well as a 75-day delay in enforcing a ban on short-video app TikTok.

Supporters of Trump who attacked the US Capitol four years ago will start leaving prison, pardoned by the new President.

The Republican President’s pardon of 1500 defendants drew outrage from Congressmen and women who were endangered in the January 6, 2021, attack.

Trump also signed paperwork to create a “Department of Government Efficiency” — an outside advisory board headed by billionaire Elon Musk that aims to cut large swaths of government spending.

Trump did not take immediate action to raise tariffs, a key campaign promise, but said he could impose 25 per cent duties on Canada and Mexico on February 1.

Trump, 78, is the first President in more than a century to win a second term after losing the White House and the first felon to occupy the office.

The oldest president to be sworn in, he has Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress.

However, he faces a stiff challenge delivering on his promise of a “golden age of America” in the face of a closely split Congress, inevitable lawsuits and recalcitrant world leaders.

Trump once again withdrew the US from the Paris climate deal, removing the world’s biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change for the second time in a decade.

This second withdrawal would have a bigger impact in the US and globally than the country’s first retreat in 2017, analysts and diplomats said.

In other environmental measures, Trump revoked a Biden-era ban on new offshore oil and gas development along most of the US’s coastlines. The new President is certain to face legal challenges over his authority to do so.

He also said the US would leave the World Health Organisation, saying the global health agency had mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises. Berlin would try to talk Trump out of this decision, Germany’s health minister said on Tuesday.

Other orders revoked Biden administration policies about artificial intelligence and electric vehicles.

He imposed a freeze on federal hiring and ordered government workers to return to the office, rather than working from home.

Trump said he would issue orders to scrap federal diversity programs and require the government to recognise only genders assigned at birth.

And he has vowed to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

-with AAP

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