Roundtable Discussion Topic Update

Nick Gajewski

Professor Schreiber

SOC 100.110

2/23/17

Roundtable Discussion Topic Update

        For my roundtable discussion current event, I’ve chosen to follow Donald Trump and his new role as president of the United States of America.  I more or less decided to focus on the many executive orders that he has done and to distinguish if any of his orders have either prompted positive or negative feedback by the nation and those it affects.  I decided to focus on this area because I believed it to be a fitting topic since it would be the first time for many of us being a first time voter and voting someone into power, especially someone that doesn’t have any type of political background at all.  Not only am I to report how the nation feels about his orders, I’m also supposed to give my own reaction and opinion on how I feel about these decisions.

        To start off, just within the first 12 days of Donald Trump being in office, he had already signed and authorized 7 executive orders, and 11 presidential memos, making it a total of eighteen actions.  However, this is actually one less action within the same time period that was done by his predecessor, former president Barack Obama.  The initial 7 executive orders that have already been signed and authorized by president Trump include, the act to abolish and replace Obamacare, approvals for high-priority infrastructure projects, enhancing public safety in the interior of the United States, border security (i.e. building a wall along the Mexico-U.S. border), the suspension of 7 Muslim-majority countries (Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia) for 90 days and also preventing entrance of all refugees for 120 days, ethic commitments and reducing & controlling regulations/regulatory costs.  Since the last given executive order, president Trump has signed and authorized an additional 5 more orders.  These orders include, regulating core principles for the United States financial system, creating a task force to help reduce crime and drug trafficking, prevent violence on any type of officer, enforcing federal law with respect to transnational criminal organizations and preventing international trafficking (gangs and cartels), and lastly is to provide an order of succession within the department of justice.  There was to be another executive order that was to be authorized earlier this week that allegedly tweaks and “improves” the existing order of the muslim-territory and refugee suspension, however president Trump decided to hold off on that order.