Congress codified 28 of President Trump’s executive orders when it passed his One Big Beautiful Bill last week.
Mr. Trump signed the legislation into law on Independence Day after a military picnic that featured a B-2 and F-35 flyover.
The president called the bill “the most popular bill ever signed in the history of our country, whether you’re military or anybody else.”
He added, “There could be no better birthday present for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago when Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill to make America win again.”
He said the voters gave him a “historic mandate to cut taxes, raise take-home pay, bring back jobs, stop the invasion.”
Mr. Trump has signed an unprecedented number of executive orders and actions during the first six months of his second term — almost 170 orders.
The nearly 1,000-page legislation ensures that his actions are more secure against a potential party switch in the next election than an executive order would be.
Here’s a list of the 28 codified orders, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson.
- Securing our Borders
- Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border
- Protecting the American People Against Invasion
- Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders
- Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and other National Security and Public Safety Threats
- Implementing the President’s DOGE Cost Efficiency Initiative
- Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste and Abuse
- Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
- Stopping Waste, Fraud and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
- Iron Dome for America
- Unleashing American Drone Dominance
- Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance
- Unleashing American Energy
- Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry
- Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential
- Declaring a National Energy Emergency
- Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production
- Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
- Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States
- Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation
- Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States and Communities
- Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
- Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission
- Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China as Applied to Low-Value Imports
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Global Tax Deal
- Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
- Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday — Garden of Heroes
- Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful
Congressional Republicans celebrated the bill, which faced many hurdles before being passed in the House and heading to the president’s desk by the self-imposed deadline of July Fourth. All Democrats voted against the bill in both chambers. Vice President J.D. Vance had to play the tiebreaker for the bill to pass the Senate on a 51-50 vote.
“President Trump has done more to improve the lives of working Americans in the last six months than almost anyone could have imagined,” Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, said, adding that the orders codified were “some of the most significant America First priorities.”
Democrats did what they could to stop the bill from passing. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the record for the longest House speech in history while filibustering for 8 hours and 44 minutes.
“This reckless Republican budget is an immoral document,” Mr. Jeffries said on the floor. “And everybody should vote no against it because of how it attacks children, seniors and everyday Americans, and people with disabilities.”
Some of the orders in the bill face legal opposition, like his cuts to the federal workforce, dismantling the Education Department, ending DEI efforts and reversing offshore oil drilling bans.
Even after the bill was signed by Mr. Trump, a judge Monday blocked the administration from stopping federal funds for abortion services. The order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lasts 14 days and came after Planned Parenthood sued to stop the blocking of its Medicaid funding.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.