April 10, 2025

Sean Calabria, Associate Vice President & Director of Research

Key Actions: Executive Orders, Presidential Proclamations, & Memos

  • Executive Order: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
  • Executive Order: Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production
  • Executive Order: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
  • Executive Order: Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
  • Memorandum: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
  • Memorandum: Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from Specified Individuals
  • Executive Order: Addressing Remedial Action by Paul Weiss
  • Executive Order: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
  • Executive Order: Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account
  • Executive Order: Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil
  • Presidential Memoranda: Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
  • Executive Order: Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
  • Executive Order: Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block
  • Executive Order: Executive Grant of Clemency for Devon Archer
  • Proclamation: Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States
  • Executive Order: Exclusions from Federal Labor-management Relations Programs
  • Executive Order: Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
  • Executive Order: Addressing Risks from Wilmer Hale
  • Executive Order: Making The District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful
  • Executive Order: Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market
  • Executive Order: Establishing The United States Investment Accelerator
  • Executive Order: Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits
  • Executive Order: Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid
  • Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China as Applied to Low-Value Imports
  • Executive Order: Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
  • Presidential Memorandum: Review of Proposed United States Steel Corporation Acquisition
  • Executive Order: Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
  • Presidential Proclamation: Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Energy
  • Executive Order: Protecting American Energy from State Overreach
  • Executive Order: Strengthening The Reliability and Security of The United States Electric Grid
  • Proclamation: National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, 2025
  • Proclamation: Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 2025
  • Executive Order: Amendment to Reciprocal Tariffs and Updated Duties as Applied to Low-value Imports from the People’s Republic of China
  • Executive Order: Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance
  • Executive Order: Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base
  • Presidential Memorandum: Addressing Risks Associated with an Egregious Leaker and Disseminator of Falsehoods
  • Executive Order: Addressing Risks from Susman Godfrey
  • Presidential Memorandum: Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations
  • Executive Order: Zero-based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
  • Executive Order: Reducing Anti-competitive Regulatory Barriers
  • Executive Order: Reforming Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability
  • Executive Order: Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads
  • Presidential Memorandum: Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions
  • Presidential Memorandum: Clarification of Exceptions Under Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025, as Amended
  • Executive Order: Ensuring National Security and Economic Resilience Through Section 232 Actions on Processed Critical Minerals and Derivative Products
  • Executive Order: Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First
  • Executive Order: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
  • Presidential Memo: Preventing Illegal Aliens from Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits
  • Presidential Memo: Updating Permitting Technology for the 21st Century
  • Executive Order: Ensuring Commercial, Cost-effective Solutions in Federal Contracts
  • Presidential Memoranda: Extending the Hiring Freeze
  • Proclamation: 250thAnniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
  • Proclamation: Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific
  • Executive Order: Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness
  • Proclamation: Honoring the Memory of His Holiness Pope Francis
  • Executive Order: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
  • Executive Order: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
  • Executive Order: Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies
  • Proclamation: Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2025
  • Proclamation: National Park Week, 2025
  • Executive Order: Preparing Americans for High-paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future
  • Executive Order: White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Executive Order: Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
  • Executive Order: Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities
  • Presidential Memoranda: Investigation into Unlawful “Straw Donor” and Foreign Contributions in American Elections
  • Executive Order: Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources
  • Executive Order: Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service
  • Executive Order: Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
  • Executive Order: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens
  • Executive Order: Enforcing Commonsense Rules of The Road for America’s Truck Drivers
  • Executive Order: Addressing Certain Tariffs on Imported Articles
  • Executive Order: Amendments to Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into The United States

Key Bills Signed

  • On April 10, President Trump signed H.J.Res.25 into law, a Congressional Review Act disapproval resolution which overturned a Biden Administration business reporting requirement rule.

Head of State Visits

  • On April 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Trump at the White House where they discussed the war in Gaza, Iran’s nuclear program, and U.S. tariffs.
  • On April 14, El Salvador President Bukele met with President Trump at the White House to discuss immigration and border security issues.
  • On April 17, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with President Trump at the White House to discuss trade between the U.S. and Europe.
  • On April 24, Norway’s Prime Minister met with President Trump at the White House to discuss NATO, the war in Ukraine, and trade issues.

Confirmed Cabinet Nominees

Pending Cabinet Nominees

  • TBD, U.N. Ambassador: (Stefanik Nomination Withdrawn)

Confirmed Key Sub-Cabinet Nominees

Major Accomplishments and Announcements

  • Johnson & Johnson plans to spend more than $55 billion to build four plants in the U.S. over the next four years as the threat of drug import duties by the Trump administration compels companies to expand their manufacturing operations domestically.
  • South Korean conglomerate Hyundai announced a roughly$21 billion investment in U.S. onshoring that includes a $5.8 billion steel plant in Louisiana.
  • Employers added jobs in March at a much stronger pace than expected, a sign that the labor market remained strong despite economic uncertainty and market turbulence.
  • Inflation cooled last month, with a year-over-year measure of underlying prices falling to its lowest level in four years. Consumer prices were up 2.4% in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said, cooler than February’s gain of 2.8%and well below the 2.6% rise that economists expected.
  • Vice President JD Vance held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as New Delhi looks to avoid American tariffs, negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Washington and strengthen ties with the Trump administration.
  • President Trump traveled to Rome to attend the funeral mass of Pope Francis, while at the Vatican he met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to discuss the war in Ukraine.

AGS will continue to monitor announcements and developments in the new administration and provide further updates as needed. Below are AGS’ previous Trump Administration updates:

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