HOW 1787 WILL GOVERN
Govern through civility instead of chaos.
Be trustworthy. Don’t lie. Operate with the highest integrity.
Be nice, respect every American, and handle difficult decisions with class and grace.
PROTECT & DEFEND DEMOCRACY
Vigorously protect and defend the First Amendment as if our democracy depends on it – because it does.
Work with Congress to restore checks & balances and reign in presidential power.
Withdraw all U.S. armed forces from American cities, including the National Guard. Respect and strictly adhere to the Posse Comitatus Act.
Respect and empower a free, independent press.
Erect an impermeable barrier between the White House and the Justice Department. Do not tolerate political interference in any way.
Require all communications between the White House and Justice Department be made available to the inspector general.
Guarantee an independent judiciary and the impartial delivery of justice on all levels.
Restore the independence of independent regulatory agencies. Ensure they feel protected from political interference.
Reassure the American public that U.S. elections are secure, because they are.
Stop the egregious rewriting of history. Restore all history that has been removed from the Smithsonian and other federal sites.
Fight to end the power of the electoral college. Encourage states to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact while encouraging a constitutional amendment.
Propose a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
Begin the process of increasing the number of Supreme Court Justices to 19.
Create an independent enforcement agency that demands the strict compliance of lobbying laws and ethics rules.
Demand complete transparency and accountability in all lobbying activities.
Stop the federal government’s assault on elite academic institutions.
Stop the federal government’s assault on private companies.
POLICY PRIORITIES
Allies
Trade
Education
Rebuild and protect an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Protect its Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity.
Champion an independent Federal Reserve.
Ensure federal employees can do their jobs without the fear of facing ideological purges.
Work with Congress to pass legislation to protect special counsels and inspectors general from improper removal.
Automatically terminate an emergency declaration within 30 days unless Congress votes to extend it. Impose strict reporting requirements on the Executive Branch.
REVERSE THE ABSURD
Reinstate every senior military leader that has been fired without cause.
Regain the expertise we lost by the irresponsible purging of experienced civil servants.
Smithsonian and National Parks – Everything Goes Back
Cuts to Small Business Grants, Including Black- and Women-Owned Businesses
U.S.A.I.D.
Scientific and medical research funding, which has been decimated.
Grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Reinstitute the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the leading U.S. intelligence operation charged with “mitigating threats to democracy and U.S. national interests.”
Reinstitute the initiative run by the Global Engagement Centre (GEC) that coordinated cooperation with our allies to identify/expose disinformation operations targeting U.S.
The National Endowment for the Arts
AmeriCorps (1993)
Pell Grants and other federal student aid programs that make it easier for low-income students to afford higher education.
PSLF and Student Loan Relief Programs
Lift restrictions on federal student loans, capping borrowing limits and tightening eligibility for income-driven repayment plans.
Pass a law to enforce the safeguards in the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Bring back the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the umbrella organization for 72 inspectors general.
Pass legislation to limit presidential trade authority. The law should require a congressional review whenever a president invokes Section 232.
Protect the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a watchdog that Congress created in the wake of those scandals to protect against accounting fraud and audit failure.
Impoundment Control Act of 1974
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977
funding from nonprofits that track Chinese social, business, and socioeconomic trends, plus cybersecurity threats and other potentially malicious activities.
Once again remove the statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general in Washington, DC.
Rename the new ballroom at the White House if, in fact, it is named after President Donald Trump.
REGAIN & SOLIDIFY OUR ROLE AS A WORLD LEADER
Repair relations with our allies.
Fully re-engage in the global community.
Bring our Afghan partners to America. Immediately.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor — the State Department’s core institution for advancing soft power,
The Human Rights and Democracy Fund to support democracy promotion program and embattled human rights defenders worldwide.
Reaffirm America's commitment to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Reaffirm America's commitment to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Reaffirm America's commitment to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Reaffirm America's commitment to the The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Bring Back Voice of America and Radio Free Asia
RUN THE GOVERNMENT LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHINE.
Reverse the following in anticipation of Operation Overhaul:
Executive Order 14170: Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service
Executive Memo: Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives
Executive Order 14158: Establishing and Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency
Executive Order 14222: Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative
Executive Order 14210: Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative
Executive Order 14219: Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Deregulatory Initiative
Executive Order 14217: Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
Executive Order 14238: Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
Executive Memo: Strengthening the Suitability and Fitness of the Federal Workforce
Executive Order 14240 Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
Executive Order 14317: Creating Schedule G in the Excepted Service
Executive Memo: Ensuring Accountability and Prioritizing Public Safety in Federal Hiring
Executive Memo: Simplifying the Funding of Energy Infrastructure and Critical Mineral and Material Projects
Executive Memo: Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid
Executive Order 14284: Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service
Executive Order 14271: Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts
Executive Order 14274: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Office Space Management
Executive Order 14275: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
Executive Memo: Updating Permitting Technology for the 21st Century
Executive Order 14265: Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base
Executive Order 14268: Reforming Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability
Executive Order 14243: Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
Executive Order 14192: Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation
Executive Order 14180: “Council to Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency”
END THE SLEEZE. WORK WITH CONGRESS TO:
Demand that partisan gerrymandering end. Encourage all states to use an independent, bipartisan commission to draw the maps.
Absolutely, positively do not allow earmarks. Ever.
Require the registration of lobbyists and their clients. Create a database that is easily accessible to the public.
Enact a five-year ban on lobbying by presidents, vice presidents, members of Congress, and federal judges.
Enact a five-year ban on federal employees from lobbying their former office, department, or chamber of Congress after they leave the government.
Place stiff restrictions and disclosure requirements on the “revolving door” between the private sector and public officials.
Simplify legislation, retain the filibuster, and support new rules for bringing proposals to the floor of the House of Representatives.
Stop allowing continuing resolutions, omnibus spending deals, and debt-ceiling hikes to substitute for a real budget. It’s out of control.
Reform the Office of Government Ethics so that it can better enforce federal ethics laws.
Require written justifications from the president for pardons involving close associates.
Require family members of the president to disclose all business dealings with foreign entities.
Properly enforce the STOCK Act and strict pay-to-play restrictions on government contracts.
Prohibit government officials from holding or trading stock when they might be influenced by their agency, department, or actions.
Demand complete transparency in all government contracting activities.
Extend federal safeguards against conflicts of interest to the president and vice president.
Fix the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to prevent presidents from cutting the Senate out of the appointments process.
Take concrete steps to streamline the nomination and confirmation process.
Reform the White House security clearance process.
Pass legislation requiring agencies that perform scientific research to report on how political officials interact with career researchers.
Enact legislation requiring proactive disclosure of government research and data.
Pass legislation that specifically prohibits political campaigns from accepting help from foreign countries (it is unbelievable that this must be written down somewhere).
Extend Congress’ sexual harassment law to include discrimination of any kind.
Revoke the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) discount, which allows stations to count only 50 percent of its audience toward the 39 percent audience cap.
Secure Whistleblower Protections. Implement severe penalties for revealing the identity of whistleblowers, and/or for threatening them in any way.
Close the loophole that allows FEC commissioners to decline to pursue a complaint citing “prosecutorial discretion.”
REVOKE THE FOLLOWING:
Executive Memo: Removing Discrimination and Discriminatory Equity Ideology from the Foreign Service
Executive Order 14233: Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile
Executive Order 14341: Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag
Executive Proclamation: Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua the White House
Executive Order 14242: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
Executive Order 14196: A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund
Executive Proclamation: Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Further Promote American Energy
Executive Order 14340: Measures to End Cashless Bail and Enforce the Law in The District of Columbia
Executive Order 14342: Taking Steps to End Cashless Bail to Protect Americans
Executive Order 14314: Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks
Executive Memo: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Generate Power for the Columbia River Basin
Executive Proclamation: Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University
Executive Order 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science
Executive Order 14292: Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research
Executive Order 14280: Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies
Executive Order 14278: Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future. To be replace with U.S. Works.
Executive Order 14279: Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education. To be replace with America’s Best Chance.
Executive Order 14279: Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
Executive Order 14266: Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates to Reflect Trading Partner Retaliation and Alignment
Executive Memo: Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs
Executive Proclamation: Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States
Executive Proclamation: Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States
Executive Order 14245: Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil
Executive Order 14263: Addressing Risks from Susman Godfrey
Executive Order 14261: Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry
Executive Order 14253: Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
Executive Order 14250: Addressing Risks from WilmerHale
Executive Order 14246: Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block
Executive Order 14230: Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP
Executive Memo: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
Executive Order 14214: Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
Executive Order 14209: Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security
Executive Order 14204: Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa
Executive Memo: Advancing United States Interests When Funding
Executive Order 14191: Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families
Executive Order 14190: Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
Executive Order 14186: The Iron Dome for America
Executive Order 14185: Restoring America’s Fighting Force
Executive Order 14173: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
Executive Memo: Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation
Executive Order 14150: America First Policy Directive to The Secretary of State
Executive Order 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
Executive Memo: To Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel
Executive Order 14160: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
Executive Order 14172: Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness
Executive Order 14164: Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety
Executive Order 14155: Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization
Executive Order 14203: Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
CLOSELY REVIEW:
Executive Order 14239: Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
Restricting The Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
Executive Memo: Protecting the Great Lakes from Invasive Carp
Executive Memo: Rescission of Useless Water Pressure Standards
Executive Order 14293: Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines
Executive Order 14287: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens
Executive Order 14273: Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First
Executive Memo: Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions
Executive Order 14270: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
Executive Order 14262: Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid
Executive Proclamation: Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Energy
Executive Order 14255: Establishing the United States Investment Accelerator
Executive Memo: America First Investment Policy
Executive Order 14269: Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance
Executive Order 14213: Establishing the National Energy Dominance Council
Executive Order 14183: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
Executive Order 14178: Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
MAKE SURE THESE ARE NOT BEING EXPLOITED AND/OR POLITICIZED:
Executive Memo: Use of Appropriated Funds for Illegal Lobbying and Partisan Political Activity by Federal Grantees
Executive Order 14331: Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans
Executive Order 14332: Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
Executive Memo: Ensuring Transparency in Higher Education Admissions
Executive Order 14319: Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
Executive Order 14313: Establishing the President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission
Executive Order 14308: Empowering Commonsense Wildlife Prevention and Response
Executive Order 14291: Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission
Executive Order 14288: Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
Executive Order 14283: White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Executive Order 14260: Protecting American Energy from State Overreach
Executive Order 14254: Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market
Executive Order 14235: Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Executive Order 14211: One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations
Executive Order 14205: Establishment of the White House Faith Office
Executive Order 14202: Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
Executive Order 14177: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Executive Order 14149: Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
INVESTIGATE THE VALIDITY OF:
Executive Proclamation: Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Security with Respect to Sterile Medical Equipment
Executive Proclamation: Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Iron Ore Processing Security
Executive Proclamation: Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security