Revoke Biden’s Orders and Memoranda Beginning on January 20, 2025 President Trump will have the opportunity to repair the damage that Joe Biden and Kammy Harris have done in the past four years. But the next four years will pass quickly, so Trump has to start on his first day and keep charging ahead. Hamas still holds about one hundred Israeli and three U.S. citizens as hostages. Biden did nothing to gain their release. Trump can force it. The Dems will have their own agenda. If they get a majority in the House — which seems unlikely at this writing — they’ll impeach Trump by Saint Patrick’s Day. The agenda for Trump’s first month begins on Inauguration Day. The simplest and best action Trump can take is to revoke all of Biden’s executive orders and presidential memoranda. According to Ballotpedia. Biden has signed 142 executive orders and 221 presidential memoranda. (That number may increase between now and Inauguration Day.) Both of those actions direct federal officials to take — or refrain from — certain actions that are at least purportedly in their power. The difference between them is that EO’s have to be published while the presidential memoranda don’t. Trump should revoke every one of Biden’s executive orders and presidential memoranda. Some of them are the means by which Biden opened our borders. Revoke them all. Every. Single. One. Trump’s staff should have a document accomplishing that ready for his signature on Inauguration Day. Also on Inauguration Day, Trump should have legislation in hand that would authorize and fund construction of the wall across the Mexican border. It should also close our borders to all but legitimate commercial traffic, legal immigration, and tourists with proper visas. That bill, which should be HR-1 if Republicans keep the House, should be sent to the House and Senate for consideration beginning that day. Nothing — other than cancellation of the Biden executive orders and presidential memoranda — can be done immediately but much can be done or at least begun within the first month of Trump’s new presidency. Biden has supposedly made the civil service Trump-proof. He has done that by converting a lot of political appointees — who are usually called “Schedule C’s,” political but not senate confirmed — into regular civil service jobs. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) has already posed a good solution to that problem. Transfer all of them out of D.C. to places they may not wish to be and essentially force them to quit rather than be reassigned. Why not Minot? When I was a young Air Force captain that was the place the colonels always threatened me with reassignment if I screwed up. Fortunately, I didn’t. Mid-level politicals, used to being wined and dined at Café Milano in Georgetown, won’t be eager to be reassigned to Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, which will have plenty of room for them (and more can be built). The average temperature at Minot is a balmy 17ºF in January. (The average low is -2ºF). Have fun there, boys and girls. That will take time, but they can all be reassigned immediately out of political power until that is accomplished. Personnel is Policy I remain hopeful that Trump’s new cabinet will be filled with the right people, but the augurs say otherwise. As I wrote last week, the people in charge of the transition and picking new people for Trump 47 need to have the First Law of Governance —  personnel is policy — as their guiding principle. Unfortunately, the Trump transition team is in the hands of billionaire investment banker Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, who was a top executive in World Wrestling Entertainment before she became Small Business Administrator in Trump’s first term. Neither apparently is guided by “personnel is policy” and we — and Trump — will suffer accordingly. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: For Trump, Personnel Decisions Will Be Crucial) Trump said the other day that he wouldn’t invite either Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo into his new government. Trump views Haley as disloyal so her banishment is understandable. But Pompeo was a terrific secretary of state. Exiling him isn’t a good idea. No House members should be considered for cabinet posts. The Republican majority — if there is one — will be so slim that no one should be removed from it. As for senators, only those whose state governors are Republicans should be considered. Republican governors can appoint Republicans to a senator’s unfinished term but House members — even those in “safe” Republican seats — are too much of a risk in the special elections that will follow. The next thing Trump should do, once he has a good team in the Pentagon, is to renew the old Defense Guidance process from the Reagan days. In Defense Guidance, a strategy is outlined by the White House and the Pentagon budget derived from it. He may have to go through the highly-politicized “Quadrennial Defense Review” but Defense Guidance should be its foundation. Get real warriors to help devise the strategy and cut out all of the Biden nonsense that saps U.S. military strength. Trump must quickly reverse the Biden policy of allowing transgender people in the military and compel the military — by firing all the generals and admirals who have bought into it — to drop Biden’s “wokeness” policies that have made our military a divided mess. Reversing Biden on NATO, Ukraine, Middle East Trump can also immediately reimpose the economic sanctions on Iran that he had in his first term. Those sanctions brought ruin to the Iranian economy. Iran is reportedly plotting to assassinate Trump. For a host of reasons that needn’t be rehearsed here and regardless of that, Trump should, by a secret presidential directive, task the CIA to cause the overthrow of that evil regime. Dealing with Europe and NATO will be much harder. They buy gas from Russia via the two Nordstream pipelines that still are operational. We can sell all the gas Europe needs but Russia will always reduce the price until we cannot compete. Trump will certainly keep the pressure on NATO nations to spend more on their own defense. But European Union nations — which are also NATO members — are stuck in their own mess, welfare states that are highly resistant to more defense spending. Trump’s renewed pressure on them will force them to spend less on welfare and more on defense but their progress will be very slow. The wars in Ukraine and Israel will be even harder to deal with. Trump’s running mate, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, led senate opposition to more aid to Ukraine. Trump can’t let Russia take all of Ukraine but his inclination is, as reported elsewhere, to make a “peace” with Russia that allows it to keep the Crimea and areas elsewhere in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky will resist any territorial concessions to Russia. Russian President Putin may be willing to compromise (temporarily) but his forces — reinforced by North Korean cannon fodder — are still winning the fight. Putin has no reason to compromise. As for Israel, Trump was — and will be again — the best ally Israel ever had in the White House. Gone will be the Biden threats of cancelling U.S. financial and military aid unless Israel force-feeds the Gaza population. But Trump can, and we expect he will, threaten Iran, Hamas, and Hizballah. The Qatari government, which has harbored the Hamas terrorist leaders for years has, because of Trump, told the Hamas leaders to get out. Trump, as noted above, can help by threatening Hamas and Hizballah with U.S. military action. Such action may be unnecessary because most of the leaders of Hamas and Hizballah have been killed by Israeli forces and hundreds of their terrorists are reportedly surrendering. Hamas still holds about one hundred Israeli and three U.S. citizens as hostages. Biden did nothing to gain their release. Trump can force it. We dodged a big bullet on Election Day. It wasn’t that we celebrated Trump’s win as much as we breathed a sigh of relief that Kamala Harris wouldn’t get the chance to finish ruining our country. Trump, if he has great cabinet and sub-cabinet members, has a really good shot at making America great again. 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