U.S. President Trump publishes his “America First” Priorities

MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN

• President Trump will take bold action to secure our border and protect American communities.
• This includes ending Biden’s catch-and-release policies, reinstating Remain in Mexico, building the wall, ending asylum for illegal border crossers, cracking down on criminal sanctuaries, and enhancing vetting and screening of aliens.
• President Trump’s deportation operation will address the record border crossings of criminal aliens under the prior administration.
• The President is suspending refugee resettlement, after communities were forced to house large and unsustainable populations of migrants, straining community safety and resources.
• The Armed Forces, including the National Guard, will engage in border security, which is national security, and will be deployed to the border to assist existing law enforcement personnel.
• President Trump will begin the process of designating cartels, including the dangerous Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations and use the Alien Enemies Act to remove them.
• The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty as the appropriate punishment for heinous crimes against humanity, including those who kill law enforcement officers and illegal migrants who maim and murder Americans.

MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AND ENERGY DOMINANT AGAIN

• The President will unleash American energy by ending Biden’s policies of climate extremism, streamlining permitting, and reviewing for rescission all regulations that impose undue burdens on energy production and use, including mining and processing of non-fuel minerals.
• President Trump’s energy actions empower consumer choice in vehicles, showerheads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers.
• President Trump will declare an energy emergency and use all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure.
• President Trump’s energy policies will end leasing to massive wind farms that degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers.
• President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
• All agencies will take emergency measures to reduce the cost of living.
• President Trump will announce the America First Trade Policy.
• America will no longer be beholden to foreign organizations for our national tax policy, which punishes American businesses.

DRAIN THE SWAMP

• The President will usher a Golden Age for America by reforming and improving the government bureaucracy to work for the American people. He will freeze bureaucrat hiring except in essential areas to end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists buried into the federal workforce. He will pause burdensome and radical regulations not yet in effect that Biden announced.
• President Trump is announcing an unprecedented slate of executive orders for rescission.
• President Trump is planning for improved accountability of government bureaucrats. The American people deserve the highest-quality service from people who love our country. The President will also return federal workers to work, as only 6% of employees currently work in person.
• President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law. President Trump is also ending the unconstitutional censorship by the federal government. No longer will government employees pick and require the erasure of entirely true speech.
• On the President’s direction, the State Department will have an America-First foreign policy.

BRING BACK AMERICAN VALUES

• The President will establish male and female as biological reality and protect women from radical gender ideology.
• American landmarks will be named to appropriately honor our Nation’s history.

Source – U.S. White House

To the Senate of the United States, I nominate:

Scott Bessent, of South Carolina, to be Secretary of the Treasury.

Pamela Bondi, of Florida, to be Attorney General.

Douglas Burgum, of North Dakota, to be Secretary of the Interior.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, of Oregon, to be Secretary of Labor.

Douglas Collins, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Sean Duffy, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary of Transportation.

Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Defense.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Howard Lutnick, of New York, to be Secretary of Commerce.

Linda McMahon, of Connecticut, to be Secretary of Education.

Kristi Noem, of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.

Brooke Rollins, of Texas, to be Secretary of Agriculture.

Marco Rubio, of Florida, to be Secretary of State.

Eric Turner, of Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Christopher Wright, of Colorado, to be Secretary of Energy.

Tulsi Gabbard, of Hawaii, to be Director of National Intelligence.

Jamieson Greer, of Maryland, to be United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration.

John Ratcliffe, of Texas, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Elise Stefanik, of New York, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations.

Elise Stefanik, of New York, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations.

Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Lee Zeldin, of New York, to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Source – U.S. White House

Keith Bass, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Lester Martinez-Lopez.

Jayanta Bhattacharya, of California, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, vice Monica M. Bertagnolli, resigned.

James Bishop, of North Carolina, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Nani A. Coloretti, resigned.

Frank Bisignano, of New Jersey, to be Commissioner of Social Security, vice Martin O’Malley, resigned.

Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Deputy Attorney General, vice Lisa O. Monaco, resigned.

Adam Boehler, of Tennessee, to be Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.

Samuel Brown, of Nevada, to be Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Affairs, vice Matthew T. Quinn.

Walter Clayton, of New York, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for the term of four years, vice Damian Williams.

Elbridge Colby, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, vice Colin Hackett Kahl, resigned.

Monica Crowley, of New York, to be Chief of Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service, vice Rufus Gifford, resigned.

Harmeet Dhillon, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Kristen M. Clarke, resigned.

Daniel Driscoll, of North Carolina, to be Secretary of the Army, vice Christine Elizabeth Wormuth, resigned.

Michael Duffy, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, vice William A. LaPlante Jr., resigned.

Troy Edgar, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, vice John K. Tien, resigned.

Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, vice Adewale O. Adeyemo, resigned.

Stephen Feinberg, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, vice Kathleen Holland Hicks, resigned.

David Fink, of New Hampshire, to be Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, vice Amitabha Bose, resigned.

Paul Atkins, of Virginia, to be Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 5, 2026, vice Gary Gensler, resigned.

Darío Gil, of New York, to be Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy, vice Geraldine Richmond, resigned.

Preston Griffith, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Energy, vice David Crane, resigned.

Jacob Helberg, of Florida, to be an Under Secretary of State (Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment), vice Jose W. Fernandez, resigned.

Dudley Hoskins, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, vice Jennifer Lester Moffitt, resigned.

Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, vice Bill Nelson, resigned.

Scott Kupor, of California, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management for a term of four years, vice Kiran Arjandas Ahuja, resigned.

Christopher Landau, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of State, vice Kurt Campbell, resigned.

Luke Lindberg, of South Dakota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, vice Alexis Taylor, resigned.

William Long, of Missouri, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the remainder of the term expiring November 12, 2027, vice Daniel I. Werfel.

Martin Makary, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services, vice Robert McKinnon Califf, resigned.

Mark Meador, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner for the term of seven years from September 26, 2024, vice Lina M. Khan, term expired.

Troy Meink to be Secretary of the Air Force, vice Frank Kendall III, resigned.

Emil Michael, of Florida, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, vice Heidi Shyu, resigned.

Janette Nesheiwat, of New York, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a term of four years, vice Vivek Hallegere Murthy, resigned.

James O’Neill, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, vice Andrea Joan Palm, resigned.

Mehmet Oz, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, vice Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, resigned.

Kashyap Patel, of Nevada, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a term of ten years, vice Christopher A. Wray, resigned.

John Phelan, of Florida, to be Secretary of the Navy, vice Carlos Del Toro, resigned.

Aaron Reitz, of Texas, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Hampton Y. Dellinger.

Michael Rigas, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, vice Richard R. Verma, resigned.

Dean Sauer, of Missouri, to be Solicitor General of the United States, vice Elizabeth Prelogar, resigned.

Rodney Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, vice Chris Magnus.

Abigail Slater, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Jonathan Kanter, resigned.

Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, vice Julie A. Su, resigned.

Stephen Vaden, of Tennessee, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, vice Xochitl Torres Small, resigned.

David Weldon, of Florida, to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (New Position)

Brandon Williams, of New York, to be Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, vice Jill Hruby, resigned.

Dudley Hoskins, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, vice Jennifer Lester Moffitt, resigned.

Luke Lindberg, of South Dakota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, vice Alexis Taylor, resigned.

Source – U.S. White House

Gary Washington – Secretary of Agriculture

Jeremy Pelter – Secretary of Commerce

Robert Salesses – Secretary of Defense

Mark Averill – Secretary of the Army

Terence Emmert – Secretary of the Navy

Gary Ashworth – Secretary of the Air Force

Denise Carter – Secretary of Education

Ingrid Kolb –Secretary of Energy

Dorothy Fink – Secretary of Health and Human Services

Benjamine Huffman – Secretary of Homeland Security

Matthew Ammon – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Walter Cruickshank – Secretary of the Interior

James McHenry – Attorney General

Vincent Micone – Secretary of Labor

Lisa Kenna – Secretary of State

David Lebryk – Secretary of the Treasury

Judith Kaleta – Secretary of Transportation

Todd Hunter –Secretary of Veterans Affairs

James Payne – Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Everett Woodel – Administrator of the Small Business Administration

Matthew Vaeth – Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Stacey Dixon – Director of National Intelligence

Juan Millan – United States Trade Representative

Thomas Sylvester, Jr. – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Charles Ezell – Director of the Office of Personnel Management

Stephen Ehikian – Administrator of General Services

Michelle King – Commissioner of Social Security

Brian Driscoll – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Jason Gray – Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development

Janet Petro – Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Caleb Vitello – Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Source – U.S. White House