President Trump withdraws US from Paris Climate Agreement

President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders, including a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty. Video by C-SPAN

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00:00The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78

00:04Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and others.

00:12Second item, President Trump, is a regulatory freeze, as you announced in your speech,

00:16preventing bureaucrats from issuing any more regulations

00:19until we have full control of the government and this administration.

00:23The next item, sir, is a freeze on all federal hiring, accepting the military

00:30and a number of other excluded categories, again, until full control of the government

00:34is achieved and we understand the objectives of government going forward.

00:38Sir, the next item, as you announced in your speech,

00:42is a requirement that federal workers return to full-time, in-person work immediately.

00:48Next, we have a directive to every department and agency in the federal government to address

00:56the cost-of-living crisis that has cost Americans so dearly.

01:02The next item here is the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty.

01:11We're going to save over a trillion dollars by withdrawing from that treaty.

01:15And the next item, sir, is a letter that will be transmitted to the United Nations

01:22explaining that we are withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty.

01:28This next item is a directive to the federal government ordering the restoration of freedom

01:33of speech and preventing government censorship of free speech going forward.

01:38And lastly, sir, before we go back to the Oval Office to sign a large number of other items,

01:44is a directive to the federal government ending the weaponization of government

01:48against the political adversaries of the previous administration, as we've seen.