After pledging to “drill, baby, drill” in his inauguration speech, Trump declared a national energy emergency to boost fossil fuel production, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, and halted leasing for offshore wind power. In the past few years, farmers have been reeling from the effects of climate-related disasters. In the last global assessment, the world’s top climate experts found the crisis is already affecting the world’s food supply and that without a rapid transition away from fossil fuels, a “livable and sustainable future for all” is in jeopardy.

He also declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and issued several directives to crack down on immigration. To speed deportations, he said the administration would created ​​Homeland Security Task Forces in all states and wrote that the Secretary of Homeland Security, “shall promptly take appropriate action to use all other provisions of the immigration laws or any other Federal law . . . to ensure the efficient and expedited removal of aliens from the United States.”