Gulf of America? A look at some of Trump’s 1st executive orders
After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president, he outlined some of the main priorities he planned to enact through executive orders, ranging from deportations and border controls to renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump’s use of executive orders isn’t new — the orders are a tool incoming presidents often use when they first take office.
The signed statements typically outline how the president wants the federal government to be managed, through instructions to agencies, requests for reports, and in some cases major policies reforms.
Here’s some of the major executive orders Trump will sign on his first day.
Leading up to his inauguration, Trump said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, something he made clear he plans to do with an order on Monday.
Whether he’ll be able to unilaterally make the change is debated, according to the Associated Press, and other countries don’t have to go along with the U.S. decision.
The International Hydrographic Organization works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans, and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, though there are instances where countries refer to the same body of water by different names.
Trump added that Mount Denali, renamed by former president Barack Obama, would return to its original name of Mount McKinley after the 25th president.
The president said he would sign an executive order to declare a national emergency at the U.S. border with Mexico.
“All illegal entry will be immediately halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said.
In addition to this, Trump aims to end asylum access, suspend the refugee program that the Trump White
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