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Trump Chooses Stacy Dixon to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)
FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)
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Trump Chooses Stacy Dixon to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)
FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)

Stacy Dixon is set to become President-elect Donald Trump's acting director of national intelligence, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told Reuters.
Dixon has served as principal deputy director of national intelligence since August 2021, Reuters said.
Trump has tapped Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat, to serve as director of national intelligence, which is a position that has to be confirmed by the Senate.
The Senate has not yet scheduled a hearing for Gabbard, whose 2017 visit to Syria to meet then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and whose lack of significant intelligence experience have stirred concerns among some senators.
Dixon, who was appointed to her current post by President Joe Biden, will become the top-ranking official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at a time when
Trump has promised to make public documents related to the killing of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump, who has long said that he believes the US government makes too many documents secret, said on Sunday that he would reverse the overclassification of documents. That job will likely fall to the next director of national intelligence, who has responsibility for reviewing classification orders.
Politico first reported Dixon's appointment.

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Trump Signs Raft of Executive Orders on Day 1 

US President Donald Trump signs numerous executive orders, including pardons for defendants from the January 6th riots and a delay on the TikTok ban, on the first day of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2025. (EPA)
US President Donald Trump signs numerous executive orders, including pardons for defendants from the January 6th riots and a delay on the TikTok ban, on the first day of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2025. (EPA)
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Trump Signs Raft of Executive Orders on Day 1 

US President Donald Trump signs numerous executive orders, including pardons for defendants from the January 6th riots and a delay on the TikTok ban, on the first day of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2025. (EPA)
US President Donald Trump signs numerous executive orders, including pardons for defendants from the January 6th riots and a delay on the TikTok ban, on the first day of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2025. (EPA)

On the first day of his new term, President Donald Trump signed orders ranging from climate to immigration, along with sweeping pardons for many of those who stormed the capital on January 6, 2021.

Some of his orders delivered on promises he made during the 2024 campaign. Others, like a withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), had not been expected.

Here is a summary of the orders Trump signed at a Washington arena packed with supporters, and later at the White House, after he was sworn in as president.

- Immigration -

Trump signed various orders aimed at reshaping how the United States manages immigration and citizenship.

One declared a national emergency at the southern border.

Trump also promised a mass deportation operation involving the military, which he says will target those he called "criminal aliens."

In the Oval Office, Trump signed an order revoking birthright citizenship.

But automatic US citizenship to people born in the country is enshrined in the Constitution, and Trump's action is certain to face a legal challenge.

- January 6 rioters -

Trump signed pardons for some of the 1,500 participants in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters trying to overturn the 2020 election.

He again referred to those who were convicted or pleaded guilty over the riots as "hostages."

- Paris Climate accord -

The president immediately withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord, repeating an action he took during his first term.

The order extends Trump's defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming as catastrophic weather events intensify worldwide.

It would take a year to leave the agreement after submitting a formal notice to the United Nations framework that underpins global climate negotiations.

- Oil drilling -

Trump signed an order declaring a "national energy emergency" aimed at significantly expanding drilling in the world's top oil and gas producer.

"We will drill, baby, drill," Trump said in his inaugural address.

- Work from home -

Another order requires federal workers to return to the office full-time, with Trump seeking to undo most of the work-from-home allowances that flourished during the Covid-19 pandemic.

- Leaving WHO -

Trump signed an order for the United States to exit the World Health Organization, insisting Washington was unfairly paying more than China into the UN body.

- TikTok -

The president ordered a 75-day pause on enforcing a law that would effectively ban TikTok.

His action delayed implementation of an act that came into effect this week, prohibiting the distribution and updating of TikTok in the United States.

Trump has said the app's Chinese parent company must agree to sell a fifty percent share to the United States.

- West Bank settlers -

Trump revoked sanctions against violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank accused of abuses against Palestinians, undoing an unprecedented action taken by Joe Biden's administration.

- Cuba -

Reversing another one of Biden's more recent moves, Trump removed Cuba from a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.

Biden had removed Cuba from the list only days earlier as part of a deal to free prisoners.