In First Hours, President Trump Reverses President Biden's 14 January 2025 Cuba Decisions.

“Anyone foolish enough to believe President Trump would not reverse the decisions of President Biden believes that Captain Louis Renault in the movie ‘Casablanca’ did not know that gambling was happening at Rick's Cafe.”

The White House
Washington DC
20 January 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government.  The injection of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy.  Orders to open the borders have endangered the American people and dissolved Federal, State, and local resources that should be used to benefit the American people.  Climate extremism has exploded inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation.

To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen.  The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our economy. 

Sec. 2.  Revocation of Orders and Actions.  The following executive actions are hereby revoked: 

The Presidential Memorandum of January 14, 2025 (Certification of Rescission of Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism). 

The Presidential Memorandum of January 14, 2025 (Revocation of National Security Presidential Memorandum 5). 

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