President Donald Trump sworn in for the first time during his second term, signing a number of professional commands intended to end Biden’s plans and resuscitate his” America First agenda.” He signed a record 26 professional commands on Day One of his presidency, according to The Washington Examiner line, The Fine Print, and what they mean for the Trump administration and the general public.
Donald Trump‘s Day One administrative order, which rescinds the Biden-era, Medicare, and Medicaid cost development programs, signals sweeping changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ‘ medication and therapy pricing agency and possibly a significant change in two of the largest national social welfare programs.
LIST: THE Professional Directions, ACTIONS, AND Declarations THAT TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI, was given the opportunity to develop three drug sales models that lower the cost of gene and cell solutions for Medicaid individuals, cover some generic drugs on regular out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries, and speed up the approval procedure for drugs designed to address unmet medical needs.
These models were introduced in 2023 but have not yet fully developed, or are voluntary pilot programs designed to assess whether they lower costs and improve patient quality.
The fact that Trump criticized the CMMI programs during his crowded first day may indicate that reforming the agency, along with Medicare and Medicaid spending as a whole, will be his top priority for the next 100 days of office.  ,
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Trump reinstates AI Wild West in Part 2.
Donald Trump, the president’s predecessor, has eviscerated his predecessor’s plans to regulate artificial intelligence, returning the industry to its earlier status as a Wild West of possibilities and pitfalls.
Trump’s executive actions on AI reverse Biden-era efforts to closely control and design new models, according to Daniel Cochrane, a Heritage Foundation tech policy associate. The executive actions of President Trump are a good first step in reversing that dangerous framework. Additionally, they open the door for American AI innovation.
By issuing Executive Order 14110 on October 30, 2023, former president Joe Biden attempted to unilaterally regulate AI. It mandated that AI companies release important safety data and test results to the federal government before new models were made available to the public, according to the title” Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.”
All of that is now finished.
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Third Part: Watchdog organizations demand that Trump re-enact an executive order on ethics.
One of President , Donald Trump‘s first , actions , in office was to reverse a former president’s executive order, which included a pledge for political appointees in the federal government, but he did not do so in his first term as he did during his first.
In response to that pledge, Biden’s executive branch political appointees were asked to” commit to decision-making on the merits and only in the public interest, without regard for private gain or personal benefit.”
Biden’s pledge also addressed appointees ‘ obligation to” commit to conduct that upholds the independence of law enforcement and prevents improper interference with investigative or prosecutorial decisions of the , Department of Justice.”
Government accountability and transparency organizations, including the watchdog group Common Cause, have expressed concerns about Trump’s choice to not implement his own, at least so far, executive order on ethics. In contrast, they praised the ethics commitment he made during his first term. For instance, that pledge included a two-year ban on former lobbyists from lobbying the government and a five-year ban on former appointees from lobbying the government.
Aaron Scherb, a senior director of legislative affairs at Common Cause, told the Washington Examiner,” It’s extremely frustrating that President Trump’s first term had a fairly strong executive order for executive branch employees, he would then rescind President Biden’s very similar executive branch order. It seems a little hypocritical. You know, why wouldn’t he be for the second term if he was for this ethics pledges, ethics executive order, the first term?
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