SUSPENDING SECURITY CLEARANCES TO PROTECT THE NATIONAL INTEREST: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to suspend security clearances held by individuals at Susman Godfrey LLP (Susman) pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest. Security clearances held by Susman employees will be immediately suspended, pending a review
ENSURING A RAPID AND TRANSPARENT FOREIGN DEFENSE SALES SYSTEM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to improve speed and accountability in the defense sales system. This Order: Improves accountability and transparency throughout the foreign defense sales system to ensure predictable and reliable delivery of American products to foreign partners and allies in
OVERHAULING THE ACQUISITION SYSTEM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order modernizing defense acquisitions and spurring innovation in the defense industrial base. The Order directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a plan to reform our acquisition process by: (1) using existing authorities to expedite acquisitions, such as a first preference for commercial
REVITALIZING U.S. MARITIME POWER: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a historic Executive Order to restore American maritime dominance. The Order directs the creation of a Maritime Action Plan (MAP) to revitalize U.S. maritime industries. The MAP will provide a strategy with specific actions to restore and create sustained resiliency for the American maritime industry.
When career politicians sold American workers out to foreign countries, not only were entire communities destroyed — Americans’ lives were also shattered by higher rates of alcohol abuse, drug overdose, and suicide. Studies have repeatedly shown the human impact of bad trade policies: A 2020 study in American Economic Review: Insights found that “areas more
Last night, President Donald J. Trump made clear whose side he is on — everyday Americans, not the globalist politicians who have spent decades selling out American workers to foreign countries. Here’s what you missed during President Trump’s speech: President Trump on his motivations: “I’m proud to be the president for the workers, not the
AMENDMENT TO RECIPROCAL TARIFFS AND UPDATED DUTIES AS APPLIED TO LOW-VALUE IMPORTS FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act