President Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in office have been a whirlwind of action and change not seen in Washington in decades. The president won a decisive Electoral College victory in November to carry out his campaign promises of securing our southern border, repairing our economy and ending the radical policies of the last four years. For 100 days now, he has been doing precisely that — and at a blistering pace.

And voters have had a favorable view of the president, who is doing what he said he would do, showing that the post-election honeymoon will stretch beyond the first 100 days.

Trump gets the highest marks with voters for securing the southern border. From record highs under President Joe Biden, border crossings have nearly vanished, as would-be illegal immigrants know that we now have a president who will carry out his constitutional duty to enforce the law. As the president said in his speech to Congress, it didn’t take more laws to fix the border — it just took a different president.

Americans suffered greatly from the cost-of-living crisis under Biden. While four years of harm cannot be fully reversed in 100 days, Trump has embarked on the most ambitious deregulatory agenda of any president in history, pledging to cut 10 regulations for every new regulation put in place. This will dramatically reduce the costs of gas, groceries and housing for families and significantly reduce the compliance burden on small businesses and the economy.

The administration’s adoption of minimal necessary regulation and an abundance-minded approach to energy production will help achieve voters’ demands to reduce inflation and bring jobs back to our country. Additionally, Trump’s forceful termination of the Biden administration’s era of crushing over-regulation has sent a powerful, positive signal to the business community to plan and invest freely and abundantly.

In 100 days in office, Trump has already achieved something that every Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan promised to do: He has dismantled the federal Department of Education. Some core functions of the department have been distributed to other agencies, awaiting necessary congressional action. Still, Trump already defunded the teaching of critical race theory in our schools, dismantled the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy, and threatened the tax exemptions of schools that fail to protect the civil rights of Jewish students or that violate the Supreme Court’s ruling ending affirmative action. At a time when higher education has lost prestige and enrollment, this is precisely what our education system needs.

Trump has also appointed an all-star team, putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Department of Health and Human Services and Brooke Rollins at the Department of Agriculture with a mission to Make America Healthy Again. They are off to a running start, banning harmful food additives and working to cut off taxpayer funding for the soda and junk foods that are so often used in welfare fraud and contribute to America’s crisis of obesity and chronic disease.

Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has aggressively trimmed down foreign aid, reduced the size of the federal workforce and brought business-world efficiencies to the bureaucracy. Adviser Elon Musk has exposed endemic wasteful, foolish and even potentially corrupt spending across various federal agencies.

Trump has taken on the mighty federal employees union, which even Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed, and his Schedule F order is making thousands of federal employees accountable to elected officials for the first time in decades.

While the first 100 days of this administration have been historic, if Congress doesn’t lock the Trump agenda into law, it will be easily undone by future presidents. Trump has spent 100 days taking executive action; now he needs Congress to turn those orders into bills that he can sign to ensure that his first 100 days launch America into its next Golden Age.

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ABOUT THE WRITER

Adam Gibbs is the communications director for the Foundation for Government Accountability. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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