Here are some of the things GOP candidates have promised to do on Day 1 in the White House


Presidential candidates love to promise a packed schedule for their very first day in office, and this year's crop is no exception. Harper Neidig and Kyle Plantz at The Hill have rounded up Republican candidates' many ambitious plans for the beginning of their hypothetical presidencies, including Donald Trump's intention to locate and deport in a single day every undocumented immigrant nationwide whom he decides is one of "the bad ones."
Sen. Rand Paul has promised to immediately halt NSA mass surveillance, while Sen. Lindsey Graham pledges to have a drink with congressional Democrats in the name of bipartisanship. But perhaps the most active Day One plans belong to Sen. Ted Cruz:
Cruz has promised a busy first day on the job. He said he'd first "rescind every single illegal and unconstitutional executive action" that Obama has issued.Cruz has also vowed to order the IRS and the Justice Department to end the “persecution of religious liberty.” He would tear up the Iran nuclear agreement and move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Cruz has also promised to launch a DOJ investigation into Planned Parenthood. [The Hill]
President Obama, during his 2008 campaign, pledged that he would use his first day in office to start ending American military engagement in Iraq.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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