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Trump requires federal employees to return to in-person work

Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., expresses confidence in passing Trump’s legislative priorities through both Republican-controlled chambers and the ‘strong indication’ that America is a world leader again.

As promised on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring federal employees to return to in-person work.

The order comes after Trump indicated that he planned to push back on former President Joe Biden’s move allowing federal workers to remain in a hybrid work arrangement through 2029.

“Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary,” the order reads.

Agencies must begin the move to fully in-person work by 5 p.m. on Friday, the order stated.

TRUMP WILL FIGHT BIDEN REMOTE WORK DEAL; UNION VOWS TO FIGHT BACK

President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders at the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Elon Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is tasked with finding ways to cut government spending and improve the efficiency of federal initiatives.

One of those initiatives was ending remote work and viewing the requirement that federal workers return to the office as a way of spurring voluntary layoffs.

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“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home,” Musk wrote in an op-ed published with Vivek Ramaswamy, former DOGE co-leader, in The Wall Street Journal last month.

President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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In addition to the return-to-work order, Trump also signed an order freezing the hiring of federal civilian employees, to be applied throughout the executive branch.

The order stated, “As part of this freeze, no Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or other applicable law.”

The freeze excludes military personnel and positions related to immigration enforcement, national security and public safety.

January 23, 2025
Trump warns FEMA faces a reckoning after Biden admin: ‘Not done their job’

President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is set to face a reckoning following four years under the Biden administration, arguing the emergency agency has “not done their job.”

“FEMA has not done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working really well. We had hurricanes in Florida. We had Alabama tornadoes. But unless you have certain types of leadership, it’s really, it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” Trump said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, his first White House interview since his inauguration.

Trump then turned his attention to the state of Oklahoma, touting that he won all 77 of the state’s counties in the 2024 election, and arguing that if the Sooner State is hit by a tornado, state leaders should take the lead on emergency response before the federal government steps in for additional assistance.

“I love Oklahoma, but you know what? If they get hit with a tornado or something, let Oklahoma fix it. … And then the federal government can help them out with the money. FEMA is getting in the way of everything, and the Democrats actually use FEMA not to help North Carolina,” Trump continued.

TRUMP, GOP LEADERS MEET AT WHITE HOUSE AS PRESIDENT PLANS VISIT TO NC, DEFENDS EXECUTIVE ORDERS

President Donald Trump sits for an interview with Fox News. (Fox News / Hannity)

FEMA came under the nation’s microscope last year when Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, devastating residents as it wiped out homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people. FEMA and the Biden administration faced fierce backlash for its handling of the emergency, while Trump accused the agency of obstructing relief efforts in Republican areas.

“The Democrats don’t care about North Carolina. What they’ve done with FEMA is so bad. FEMA is a whole ‘nother discussion, because all it does is complicate everything,” he said.

TRUMP SAYS NEWSOM IS TO ‘BLAME’ FOR ‘APOCALYPTIC’ WILDFIRES

“So I’m stopping on Friday. I’m stopping in North Carolina, first stop, because those people were treated very badly by Democrats. And I’m stopping there. We’re going to get that thing straightened out because they’re still suffering from a hurricane from months ago,” Trump said.

Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

Trump will visit North Carolina on Friday, his first trip as president, where he is expected to tour and meet with residents who were left devastated by the hurricane in September. He will also visit California that same day, where wildfires have ripped through the Los Angeles area this month.

The trip is set to highlight what Trump has described as emergency response failures at the hands of Democratic leaders.

FAST-MOVING HUGHES FIRE ERUPTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY AS CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS ORDER EVACUATIONS

A house burns as the Palisades Fire rages on at the Mandeville Canyon, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 11, 2025. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton )

“And then I’m going to then I’m going to go to California,” he said, before criticizing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s handling of wildfire prevention and response. Trump has long criticized the Democratic governor for prioritizing environmental policies, such as protecting the dwindling smelt and Chinook salmon populations, and not tapping water sources in the northern part of the state that he argued would allow better fire response.

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“There is massive amounts of water, rain water and mountain water, that comes to with the snow, comes down, as it melts, there’s so much water they’re releasing it into the Pacific Ocean,” he said.

January 23, 2025
Hannity reveals what he told Trump after 2020 election loss: ‘Winston Churchill’ return

Fox News host Sean Hannity revealed he told President Donald Trump after the 2020 election loss that a return to the White House four years after the Biden administration would be “bigger” than a consecutive win, comparing it to Winston Churchill’s return as prime minister following World War II.

“Maybe I shouldn’t disclose this, but I will, and it was after the 2020 election, and you asked me a question. And we’ve known each other for 30 years, so we have a friendship and we have a professional relationship,” Hannity said in his exclusive interview with Trump on Wednesday.

“And the question you asked me, ‘maybe in the end, it will be better that if I came back in four years.’ And we talked about history. After World War Two, Winston Churchill was thrown out, but they brought him back. Grover Cleveland, the only other American president that did not serve consecutive terms,” he continued.

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President Trump sits down for his first White House interview since his inauguration. (Fox News)

Churchill served as prime minister twice, from 1940-1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Trump is the second U.S. president to serve two, non-consecutive terms behind President Grover Cleveland, the nation’s 22nd and 24th president.

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Hannity explained that he believed “it would be bigger if you came back.” Trump agreed that it’s already shaping up that way after three days in office.

President Trump speaks with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. (Fox News)

“It’s turning out to be bigger. And I think one thing is happening is people are learning that they can’t govern and that their policies are terrible. I mean, they don’t want to see a woman get pummeled by a man in a boxing ring?” he said.

Trump sat down for his first interview in the White House on Wednesday after he was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday.

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President-elect Donald Trump greets President Joe Biden at the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

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“They don’t want to see men in women’s sports … They don’t want to have transgender for everyone. They don’t want a child leave home as a boy and come back two days later as a girl. A parent doesn’t want to see that, and there are states where that can happen. They don’t want to see taxes go through the roof like this,” he continued.

January 23, 2025
Barron Trump business partner clarifies future of luxury real estate venture

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to preview President Donald Trump’s upcoming infrastructure announcement.

A luxury real estate venture that Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump, was part of will not be relaunched, one of his partners in the project said.

The New York Post initially reported that the younger Trump planned to launch Trump, Fulcher & Roxburgh Capital Inc. with two business partners, Carter Fulcher, and Cameron Roxburgh, his former high school classmate.

The company was incorporated in the state of Wyoming on July 15, 2024, according to business filings reviewed by FOX Business. The filings show the company was then dissolved shortly after the election on Nov. 14, 2024.

“As of now, the company will not be relaunched,” Roxburgh told FOX Business.

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Barron Trump, son of President Donald Trump, appears during a campaign event at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami on July 9, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The company was reportedly planning to primarily focus on high-end real estate projects, including golf courses and properties in Utah, Arizona and Idaho.

The venture was listed in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, as its principal address, according to business records.

Roxburgh previously told Newsweek that the venture was briefly paused to avoid election-related media attention. However, when FOX Business reached Roxburgh for comment, he said the company will not be relaunched.

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The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street in the Financial District of New York is seen on Feb. 22, 2024. (Getty Images / Fox News)

Fulcher, a luxury real estate expert whose family runs a prominent real estate firm in Idaho, was the third partner in the venture. Fulcher is also the cousin of U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, an Idaho Republican who was not involved in the venture, a spokesperson for his office told FOX Business.

FOX Business has reached out to Carter Fulcher for comment.

President Trump followed in his father’s footsteps when he took over his residential real estate company in 1971, which came before he launched multiple Trump luxury high-rise buildings, hotels and casinos and solidified the Trump brand.

Construction work on the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., continues as the hotel prepares to open to the public on Sept. 12, 2016. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call / Fox News)

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Days before the younger Trump incorporated his venture, his half-brother, Eric Trump, also incorporated ET Talks LLC.

January 23, 2025
Exploring Greenland’s majestic history as President-elect Trump shines spotlight on island nation

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Before President-elect Trump took a shine to it, Greenland was already on the radar of the cruise ship industry with many vessels choosing picturesque Greenlandic towns for their ports of call.

Cruise ship passengers take photos of fjords in Greenland (Danuta Hamlin)

One of the ports is Qaqortoq, the largest town in southern Greenland.

Qaqortoq means “white” in the Greenlandic language. (Danuta Hamlin)

Sailing from Iceland, the ship followed in the footsteps of Eric the Red, a Norseman who settled this area in 982. As Eric was exiled from Iceland, he made his home here and called it Greenland.

Some 80% of the island is covered by icecap and the remaining parts do not appear very green either.

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Majestic shores of Greenland (Danuta Hamlin)

According to some historians, Eric the Red came up with the name simply for promotional purposes.

He set out to attract more settlers from Iceland and advertised the island as a green land. Some experts say that Greenland could have been warmer at the time, but starting in the 15th century it experienced what is known as “The Little Ice Age.”

Children in Nanortalik, Greenland. (Danuta Hamlin)

Life in Greenland became too harsh for Europeans. But the native population of the Island found ways to persevere.

Julianehåb River runs through the center of Qaqortoq, Greenland. (Danuta Hamlin)

Nestled in the midst of a scenic fjord system, with a creek cascading across the town, and snow capping the mountain peaks even in the spring, Qaqortoq is a fascinating place to explore.

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Qaqortoq is the fourth-largest town in Greenland. (Danuta Hamlin)

Building highways in Greenland is expensive, therefore Qaqortoq is not connected by road to any other town or village. However, when the weather is warmer, the region provides ample opportunities for nature hikes, kayaking and fishing.

Qaqortoq Greenland (Danuta Hamlin)

The town was founded in 1775, as a trade colony, by Norwegian explorer Anders Olsen. With a population of just a little over 3,000, it offers a glimpse of Greenlandic life, Viking history and Nordic-inspired architecture.

The hills are peppered with colorful houses, creating a delightful contrast with the severe peaks of the surrounding fjords.

A street sign in Greenland. Greenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about 57,000 speakers. (Danuta Hamlin)

Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, but the official language is Greenlandic. It’s a polysynthetic language which means that, technically, there is no limit to the length of a Greenlandic word.

Deciphering local signs can be fun and challenging at the same time.

Stone & Man, an open-air art project in Qaqortoq, Greenland, featuring rock carvings and sculptures (Danuta Hamlin)

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Although trees are not easy to find, the area is full of all kinds of rocks and boulders. Some of them were turned into carvings of faces and whales, in a tribute called “Stone & Man.” This open-air gallery is the work of local Qaqortoq artist Aka Høegh.

Mindebrønden fountain is the older of the only two public fountains in Greenland. (Danuta Hamlin)

Qaqortoq boasts the oldest fountain in the country – Mindebrønden – Memorial Fountain. The fountain was completed in 1932 and is turned off during the winter months.

A fish market in Qaqortoq. Seal meat is a key ingredient in Greenland’s national dish, Suaasat. (Danuta Hamlin)

The town’s fish market sells whatever has been caught on a given day by local fishermen. It could be fish, or it could be whale meat, or perhaps a seal.

Qaqortoq is, after all, a fisherman’s town and seafood plays a vital part in Greenland’s diet.

Nanortalik is a village on Nanortalik Island, with some 1,072 inhabitants. (Danuta Hamlin)

The official religion of Greenland is Evangelical Lutheranism. In another port of call, a village called Nanortalik, members of the local congregation welcomed tourists with a musical performance.

Nanortalik choir singing outdoors in Greenland in 2018. (Danuta Hamlin)

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Nanortalik means the “Place of Polar Bears”. No bears, however, were spotted loitering around the village.

Nanortalik’s old colonial port area is an open-air museum. (Danuta Hamlin)

Greenland is the world’s largest island – a treat for any tourist adventuresome enough to venture there.

Cruise ship passengers take photos of fjords in Greenland (Danuta Hamlin)

The author recently took a cruise to Greenland.

January 23, 2025
Trump announces major AI infrastructure investment

President Trump makes a major infrastructure announcement on his second day in office.

President Donald Trump unveiled a massive artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project from the private sector on the first full day of his second term in office on Tuesday.

During a speech at the White House, Trump announced that Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle have joined forces for a project called Stargate, to build data centers in the U.S. for powering AI.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File) (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File) / AP Newsroom)

The CEOs of all three tech firms – OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son – joined Trump from the Roosevelt Room at the White House for the announcement.

The initial investment for the project will be $100 billion, with plans to expand to $500 billion over the next four years. The first data center built under the initiative will be in Texas, and it will eventually expand to other states.

Trump said it is “the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.”

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Trump was working to drum up private business investments in the U.S. prior to his second term. Last month, Son joined Trump in announcing Softbank’s plans for a $100 billion investment in America aimed at generating 100,000 new jobs.

A White House official told FOX Business that post-election, Trump has now secured $1 trillion in private investment for the U.S. in various projects.

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As a candidate in 2016, Trump promised to push a $1 trillion infrastructure bill through Congress. He talked about the topic as president often during his first term from 2017 to 2021, but it did not come to fruition.

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His Democratic successor, Joe Biden, signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law in 2021 with Republican and Democrat lawmakers to fund thousands of projects to rebuild roads and bridges and fund new climate resilience and broadband initiatives.

Then-President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on October 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. During the event Biden spoke on how his administration’s “Bidenomics” (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images / Getty Images)

The second Trump administration and the new Congress will have opportunities to put their stamp on the infrastructure law Biden passed. Agency officials will be able to award tens of billions of dollars in remaining competitive grants, Brookings Institution said in a blog in November.

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Meanwhile, Trump has signed dozens of executive orders since he was sworn into office on Monday, advancing his administration’s goals on issues from illegal immigration to withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

FOX Business Edward Lawrence, Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Reuters contributed to this report.

January 23, 2025
Biden’s letter to Trump revealed: ‘May God bless you and guide you’

President Donald Trump revealed the contents of the letter that President Joe Biden left him upon leaving the Oval Office earlier this week exclusively to Fox News on Wednesday.

The letter, which Trump found inside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with a little help from Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, is addressed “Dear President Trump” and reads as follows:

“As I take leave of this sacred office I wish you and your family all the best in the next four years. The American people — and people around the world — look to this house for steadiness in the inevitable storms of history, and my prayer is that in the coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace, and grace for our nation.

“May God bless you and guide you as He has blessed and guided our beloved country since our founding.”

BIDEN LEFT TRUMP ‘INSPIRATIONAL’ MESSAGE IN ‘VERY NICE’ LETTER, NEW PRESIDENT SAYS

President Donald Trump holds up the letter that former President Joe Biden left for him in the Resolute Desk as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The letter was signed “Joe Biden” and dated Jan. 20, 2025.

On Monday, Trump found the letter — a white envelope addressed to “47″ — after Doocy asked if Biden left him a letter while he was signing a flurry of executive orders in the Oval Office in front of a gaggle of reporters.

“He may have. Don’t they leave it in the desk? I don’t know,” Trump told Doocy before discovering the letter. “Thank you, Peter. It could have been years before we found this thing.”

Trump found the letter in the Resolute Desk after Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked whether Biden had left him a note. Trump revealed the contents of Biden’s letter exclusively to Fox News on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

On Tuesday, Trump responded to further questions from Doocy about the contents of the letter.

“It was a very nice letter,” Trump told reporters. “It was a little bit of an inspirational-type letter. Enjoy it, do a good job. Important, very important. How important the job is.”

“It was a positive, for him, in writing it,” Trump continued. “I appreciated the letter.”

TRUMP EXCORIATES BISHOP AS ‘RADICAL LEFT HARD LINE TRUMP HATER’ AFTER POLITICALLY CHARGED PRAYER SERVICE

The presidential tradition of leaving a letter to their successor began in 1989 when President Ronald Reagan left the White House after two terms in office, with former President George H. W. Bush taking over. The tradition has carried on to this day through Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Trump and Biden.

Handwritten letters from former presidents left for their successors are photographed in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Biden, however, was the first president to find himself in the unique position of writing a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left him a note four years earlier. Trump became the first president to serve nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s.

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Biden has said Trump left him a “very generous letter,” but has so far declined to share the content of what Trump wrote, deeming it private.

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.

Peter Doocy currently serves as a Senior White House correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in 2009 as a general assignment reporter based in the New York bureau.

January 23, 2025
Working ‘in tandem’: Republicans prep to make Trump executive orders permanent

House Republicans have no plans to allow President Donald Trump’s key executive orders to expire at the end of his four-year term.

Trump marked his first day in office Monday with dozens of new executive orders, and signaled that he is aiming to use the commander in chief’s unilateral power to enact policy when possible.

Executive orders, however, can be easily rescinded when a new administration enters the White House. They can also be subject to legal challenges that argue they run afoul of existing U.S. law, as is the current case with Trump’s order limiting birthright citizenship.

But several House GOP lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital are signaling they intend to stop that from happening for at least several of Trump’s key policies.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shakes hands with President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“I see him doing things by executive action as a necessity to signal… but they’re not the best way to do things,” former House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital. “The best way to do things is the legislative process with a signature on a bill.”

Perry suggested starting with Trump’s orders on the border and energy.

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., confirmed at his weekly press conference that Trump’s orders will be a roadmap for the House.

“This is an America First agenda that takes both of those branches of government to work in tandem,” Johnson said. “And so what he’s doing is kickstarting what will ultimately be our legislative agenda.”

Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., a close ally of Trump, told Fox News Digital, “I think the executive orders are easy because it requires one person.”

Rep. Scott Perry wants Congress to codify Trump’s border and energy orders. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

“Equally important in our discussions with him is the legislative piece, that we permanently enshrine some of these things or that we correct mistakes in the law that maybe have been abused in the past,” Fry said.

Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., suggested enshrining Trump’s rollback of Biden administration energy policies into law.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee’s border subcommittee, Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., said he wanted Congress to back up Trump’s immigration executive orders.

“We need to codify what President Trump has put in place by executive orders – Remain in Mexico, doing away with the CBP One app,” Guest said. “When President Trump leaves office in four years, those executive orders can be undone.”

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Freshman GOP Rep. Brandon Gill introduced a bill to codify President Trump’s Remain In Mexico policy. (Getty Images)

Some have already taken steps to do just that. House Science Committee Chair Brian Babin, R-Texas, introduced a bill this week to limit birthright citizenship the day after Trump’s order.

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Freshman Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, released a bill earlier this month to reinstate Trump’s Remain In Mexico policy.

“I think the border crisis is so egregious and so harmful to American citizens that everybody can see it, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat,” Gill told Fox News Digital.

Former President Joe Biden rolled back several of Trump’s key executive orders on his first day in office and ended enforcement of Remain In Mexico – though that was challenged in court.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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January 23, 2025
German ambassador Andreas Michaelis warns Donald Trump will ‘undermine’ democratic principles: report

Germany’s ambassador to the U.S. has warned that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will “undermine” democratic principles with a “maximum disruption” agenda, according to a report.

Reuters reported that it viewed a confidential briefing document signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis that describes the incoming Trump agenda as “a redefinition of the constitutional order – maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states.”

“Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power,” reads the document, which was dated Jan. 14.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump transition team for comment but did not immediately hear back.

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a meeting with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, on Jan. 9, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Michaelis said recent actions by Trump and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk could lead to a “redefinition of the First Amendment.”

“One is using lawsuits, threatening criminal prosecution and license revocation, the other is having algorithms manipulated and accounts blocked,” the document reads, per Reuters.

Musk supported Trump throughout the election, and was tapped by the president-elect to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency.

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Last month, Germany accused Musk of attempting to interfere in the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections on behalf of the country’s far-right political party, German Alternative for Germany, citing recent social media posts and a weekend op-ed doubling down on his endorsement.

Meanwhile, Michaelis even claimed that Trump could force his agenda on states using broad legal options and that “even military deployment within the country for police activities would be possible in the event of declared ‘insurrection’ and ‘invasion’.”

The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, however, bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement unless Congress overrides the federal law.

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Despite what Michaelis says in the reported document, the German foreign ministry has acknowledged Trump won the democratic election and said it will “work closely with the new U.S. administration in the interests of Germany and Europe.”

January 23, 2025
JP Morgan setting up ‘War Room to keep up with Trump policy changes

RNC chairman Michael Whatley discusses big tech’s investment in AI on President Donald Trump’s first day in office on ‘The Evening Edit.’

Financial giant JPMorgan is implementing a “war room” to keep up with the immense policy changes the Trump administration is implementing, which they believe will unleash America’s “animal spirits”

“At JPMorgan, we have a war room set up to analyze and evaluate each and every one of these, so they’ve been up all night and are working on it,” Mary Erdoes, CEO of JPMorganChase’s Asset & Wealth Management line of business, told the crowd at the Davos World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

“It’s our regular practice to analyze the impacts of any policy proposal on our business and the impact on our clients and the communities in which we operate. So naturally, there’s a team reviewing these new developments,” a JPMorgan spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

President Donald Trump began his second term with an avalanche of executive orders, undoing 80 Biden-era orders. Trump campaigned on introducing tariffs on foreign goods, lowering the corporate tax rate and extending the tax cuts past during his first term in office.

President Donald Trump began his second term with an avalanche of executive orders. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images / Getty Images)

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“The last 24 hours are showing there’s going to be a lot of changes we all have to digest,” Erdoes said.

Erdoes told the crowd of international business leaders and politicians that it appears that Trump is setting up a “very pro-business environment” in the U.S.

“Time will tell, but a lot of this is exactly what you would do to have a very pro-business environment,” she added.

Trump’s inauguration saw numerous business leaders in attendance, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and UFC chief Dana White.

The JPMorgan executive claimed that the U.S. economy is in “go mode” and that America’s “animal spirits” are finally being unleashed. She also praised Trump for ordering federal employees to show up to the office to work, ending work-from-home policies.

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JPMorgan believes Trump’s changes will be good for the economy. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid / Reuters Photos)

“Thank God the U.S. government has done it, and hopefully that’ll keep us ahead of other governments in the world so we can continue to compete.”

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Erdoes went on to bash the Biden administration’s endless red tape for “stifling” business activity in the US.

“If you look at the last administration and the number of new, significant regulations, it was eight times the number of significant new regulations versus the prior Trump administration,” she said. “With that comes multiple millions of man-hours of paperwork. Work that clogs up the system and stops the economy from continuing to have that very healthy flywheel. So we’re really looking forward to that.”

January 23, 2025