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Trump's first acts may slow * Big plans for EPA * Trump 101 debuts

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By Mike Allen = ·Jan 23, 2017

​The 1 thing: Trump's first acts

We have been le=ked a list of the top executive order priorities for the Trump adm=nistration. The Trump folks wanted to get these done immediately, but our =onathan Swan is told the process is proving to be a little slower than som= might have whimsically thought. Trump's team is working to clear the acti=ns through legal counsel to get language right.

One of our best-=ired GOP sources says Trump's early executive orders speak volumes about w=at to expect from his presidency. "What Peggy Noonan wrote about the inaugural=speech was exactly right," our source says. "There will be not a shred of =ifference between campaign rhetoric and how he plans on governing."

=strong>The list, circulating at the top levels of GOP congression=l leadership, with each bucket tied to a Trump campaign promise:

<=i>Hiring freeze for Executive Branch, and 5-year lobbying ban on transitio= and administration officials.

Mexico City policy, which prevents =oreign NGOs from getting U.S. family planning money if they provide aborti=ns with non-U.S. funds.

Task the Defense Secretary an= Joint Chiefs to come up with plan to eviscerate ISIS.

Something on cyber-security.

Something on sanctuary =ities; expand E-Verify; an extreme-vetting proposal.

=ithdraw from TPP and a thorough review of NAFTA (campaign: constant denigr=tion of trade deals).

​2. Big plans for EPA

Super Swan got his hands on the Trump team's "Agency Action" plan for th= EPA. It's a tightly-held document that fleshes out Trump's campaign promi=es to gut the agency. It's the handiwork of Myron Ebell, director of the C=mpetitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment. Trump =ppointed Ebell, a prominent opponent of climate change activists, to lead =he EPA transition.

Our takeaway: Environmental =rotection Agency is set for an absolute hammering under Trump.

The d=ets:

—"Potential opportunities for budget reductions": A cat=gory that includes $513 million in cuts to the "states and tribal assistan=e grants" … $193 million in savings from terminating climate progr=ms … $109 million in savings from "environment programs and manage=ent."

Listed as initiatives to stop: "Clean Ai= Act greenhouse gas regulations for new (NSPS) and existing (ESPS or the '=lean Power' Plan) coal and natural gas power plants … [CAFE] Stand=rds … Clean Water Section 404: Waters of the U.S. Rule (wetlands) =E2�� TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) for Chesapeake Bay.

"Key opportunities": "Issue an executive order barring EPA from=overruling federal/state regulatory/permit decisions unless in clear viola=ion of established law."

Changing the way the=EPA uses science: "Unless major reforms of the agency's use of sc=ence and economics are achieved, EPA will be able to return to its bad old=ways as soon as an establishment administration takes office."

​3. Trump 101

Our new series debuts, with first installment by VandeH=i and Swan, "What he means by 'America first': "When you parse his Inaugur=l address — and watch the unmistakable prominence and power of dee=er-thinking nationalists like chief strategist Steve Bannon, policy guru S=ephen Miller and Attorney General-in-waiting Jeff Sessions — you s=e a Trump form of nationalism emerging." https://www.axios.com/trump-101-what-he-me=ns-by-america-first-2208062899.html

Internal intrigu= ... "Trump to add another Brei=bart hire": "Breitbart's immigration reporter Julia Hahn is set to joi= the White House team … Steve Bannon recruited her and she'll like=y work under him as an adviser on policy issues like trade and immigration=and on the speechwriting team."

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4. Inside Trumpworld

Andrew Harnik / AP

Anthony Scaramucci, the charismatic investment pioneer who now is a top =hite House official, is showing rising West Wing clout. In New York this a=ternoon, he'll hold two high-stakes meetings that reflect his internal jui=e: Mort Klein, close friend of Sheldon Adelson and national president of t=e Zionist Organization of America, will exchange views on Israel with Scar=mucci, who has been a loyal friend to the pro-Israel community. Adelson wa=ts to convey his views on Israel, including the movement of the embassy.
Scaramucci, a Bannon ally, also will meet with senior officials from S=ephen Schwarzman's Blackstone Group to hear their views on tax and regulat=ry policy, foreign affairs and more. Schwarzman —chairman, CEO and=co-founder of Blackstone — chairs Trump's new Strategic and Policy=Forum, which includes some of the nation's top CEOs. "Mooch," as Scaramucc= is affectionately known, is drector of the White House Office of Public L=aison and Intergovernmental Affairs, and will report today's findings to J=red Kushner.

​5. Trump v. China escalates

Bloomberg reports overnight: "China's state media used Donald Trump's inauguration ...=to warn about the perils of democracy, touting the relative stability of t=e Communist system … Democracy has reached its limits, and deterio=ation is the inevitable future of capitalism, according to the People's Da=ly, the flagship paper of China's Communist Party. It devoted an entire pa=e on Sunday to critiquing Western democracies, quoting former Chairman Mao=Zedong's 1949 poem asking people to 'range far your eyes over long vistas'=and saying the ultimate defeat of capitalism would enable Communism to eme=ge victorious."

Why this matters: "The un=sual series of commentaries in the People's Daily mirrors Soviet efforts t= promote an alternative political and economic system during the Cold War.=

Across the pond … "Trump Era May For=e Europe Into Deciding What Role It Wants" — Bloomberg: "The new U.S. president's b=rrage of criticism … prompted pledges to stick together and revive=support for the European Union. … 'Europe has to decide very quick=y what kind of Europe it wants to be,' Guntram Wolff, director of the Brus=els-based Bruegel Institute, said … 'This is a big problem because=we have to react now and there's a lot of denial.'"
Trump rally hesitates as markets await policy details — Fin=ncial Times second front: "The run-up in US equities has lost its momentum=over the past few weeks. … Bank of America Merrill Lynch's economi=ts said that a 'serious' escalation of US-China tensions are the biggest d=nger confronting the global economy in the coming year."

​6. 2 great voices on Trumppress

CNN's Brian Stelter in las= night's Reliable Sources newsletter: "What a very plugged-in news exec po=nted out on Sunday: 'Steve Bannon WANTS a grand divide between Trump and t=e mainstream media. He wants his world to never trust the media' …=Trump has been trying to 'delegitimize' the mainstream media for some time= This weekend it seems like his aides are taking that word, flipping it ar=und, and saying it's the press trying to 'delegitimize' him."

=/u>Ross Douthat, N.Y. Times columnist, warns=against "alarmist journalism": "There is a large and frightened readership=looking for confirmation of its darkest fears … The danger for the=established press … is the same danger facing other institutions i= our republic: that while believing themselves to be nobly resisting Trump= they end up imitating him."

​7. Worthy of your time

If you're going to curl up with one long article today, make it Eva= Osnos' New Yorker dispatch (which included a hardship reporting foray=to New Zealand), "Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich": "Reid Hoffman, the co=founder of LinkedIn and a prominent investor, recalls telling a friend tha= he was thinking of visiting New Zealand. 'Oh, are you going to get apocal=pse insurance?' the friend asked. … New Zealand, he discovered, is=a favored refuge in the event of a cataclysm. … I asked Hoffman to=estimate what share of fellow Silicon Valley billionaires have acquired so=e level of 'apocalypse insurance,' in the form of a hideaway in the U.S. o= abroad. 'I would guess fifty-plus per cent,' he said, 'but that's paralle= with the decision to buy a vacation home.' …

"E=en financiers who supported Trump for President, hoping that he w=uld cut taxes and regulations, have been unnerved at the ways his insurgen= campaign seems to have hastened a collapse of respect for established ins=itutions."

​8. Tops in media trends

Facebook deal with top athlete … NFL. com's Ian Rapoport: "Steelers receiver Antonio B=own's much-publicized use of Facebook Live last week wasn't an accident or=a random event.The star pass-catcher, who drew the public ire of coach Mik= Tomlin … after opening up his team's postgame locker room to hund=eds of thousands of people via a live stream video. … Brown actual=y has a big-time marketing deal with Facebook, sources say, part of his lu=rative off-the-field portfolio. The deal is worth in the high six-figures.=

​9. Hot in tech

Robots will make tech gender gap WORSE, per Bloomberg: "The so-called Fourth Industrial Revo=ution, the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, is projected to=be far more destructive globally to jobs currently favored by women than t= jobs favored by men … Three of the top growth areas -- management= computer and math, and architecture and engineering -- have low female pa=ticipation with little expectations of significant increases."

=strong>Sound smart: Benoit Hamon, the left-wing candidate who won=early polling to represent Socialists in France, wants to tax robots and p=ovide universal basic income to combat automation.

​10. 1 fun thing: Brady's revenge

AP

Primack's New England Patriots are favored by a field goal over the Atla=ta Falcons in Super Bowl 51, in Houston on Feb. 5:

Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy: "This Super Bo=l will be a showdown with Roger Goodell": The NFL commissioner "would not =ome to Foxborough after he dropped the Deflategate hammer on the Patriots.=We have not seen him in two full years. But the commissioner won't be able=to avoid the fury of Kraft, Belichick, and Brady in Houston, where the Pat=iots are 3-point favorites to win their fifth Super Bowl of this century."=u>

Oddsmakers didn't even wait for the final whistle in last nigh='s Patriots-Steelers beatdown (36-17) to announce the line: "Most are also=expecting an offensive showdown, with an over/under of 59 at some sports b=oks the biggest ever in Super Bowl history. … [Total legal betting= on the game could exceed the record $132.5 million bet on last year's Sup=r Bowl."

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