Trump’s Remarkable First Three Weeks & What Comes Next – Top 3 Takeaways – February 10th, 2025
- A historic pace. Today marks three weeks since Donald Trump once again became President of the United States. As we discussed on Friday – what a week it was for Trump policy! We’re continuing to see administration policies take place at a record pace. Over Trump’s second week we had 10 new executive orders – including policy ending biological males competing in sports as females, ending the Biden administration’s second amendment regulations – the establishment of a White House Faith office and more. President Trump has now issued a total of 59 executive orders, or already more than quarter within his first three weeks, than he signed during the entire four years of his prior presidency. Trump saw four more members of cabinet confirmed: AG Pam Bondi, Chris Wright as Energy Secretary, Scott Turner for HUD, Doug Collins as Secretary of Veterans Affairs – and importantly for his agenda – all cabinet members that have come up for a vote have been confirmed. Also, Trump now has over half of his cabinet (those who require senate confirmation votes) in place – with only ten nominees to go. President Trump celebrated major foreign policy wins with Panama withdrawing from their agreement with China involving the Panama Canal and Canada and Mexico agreeing to everything Trump asked for in order to secure our northern and southern borders. Trump did increase tariffs by 10% - with retaliatory tariffs by China taking effect today – and he also raised the prospect of a “take over” of the Gaza Strip for the purpose of stability and rebuilding. As for the administration's handling of illegal immigration, came news from ICE that through the first 18 days of the Trump administration,
- They’d arrested and detained over a third as many illegal immigrants, that are being set for deportation, as the Biden administration did during the entire final year of his administration. The rate of daily arrests of criminal illegal immigrants has risen from about 400 per day during the administration's abbreviated first week, to 593 arrests of illegal immigrants by this time last week, to an overall average of 611 per day since Trump was sworn in as of today. And of course, these criminal illegal immigrants need somewhere to go and on back of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s successful Central American sweep last week those locations will often be, and already are, Guantanamo Bay, El Salvador and Guatemala – destinations where we can send our deportees regardless of nationality. And with ICE continuing to pick up the detention pace, and with Trump’s border policies now fully in place (with the assist from Canada and Mexico), attempted border crossings by this time a week ago had dropped by down over 70% through Trump’s first two weeks...one-week later attempted border crossings are now over 90% lower – with zero gotaways. It’s an incredible pace of success and overwhelming success for team Trump in ending the Biden administration's illegal immigrant crisis. As for...
- This week. The senate will once again be in focus this week for potential confirmation votes and hearings on Trump nominees continuing. Notably RFK Jr. for HHS and Tulsi Gabbard for the Director of National Intelligence. Also, Kash Patel for FBI Director will come back before the senate this week due to a Democrat stall tactic used to delay his vote – however this week is the latest they can delay a floor vote that will likely come next week. Stand by for news. It looks increasingly likely that Trump will get his entire team. Speaking of hearings, today will be an important day for Trump and team DOGE’s efforts to cull the federal workforce through buyouts. A hearing will happen today to consider President Trump’s offer for eight months of pay if federal workers self-deport from the federal workforce. As of the judges’ decision to delay the process last Thursday, over 60,000 people, or over 2% of the federal workforce, had accepted the deal. Combined with other federal layoffs that are in place, about 3% of the federal workforce in place on January 20th would be out of it going forward – a total that’s 10% of what Elon Musk’s team DOGE wants to achieve. And as for DOGE and legal matters this week... It’ll also be a pivotal week for legal wrangling's over what DOGE can and cannot see within the federal government after numerous legal challenges and issued stays by activist judges have most recently limited Musk’s team to now only access information that equates to about 10% of federal spending. As President Trump said in his pre-Super Bowl interview with Brett Baier, he and Musk are undeterred, and he will direct Musk to next review spending at the Department of Education and then within the Defense Department where Trump said that “hundreds of billions” of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse will be found. In fact, according to Musk, that much fraud has already been found. Quoting him over the weekend: Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately. So now we’re on to week four...buckle up.