Trump's first 100 days by the numbers

President Trump is reshaping the government and the United States’s role on the global stage as he hits the 100-day mark on his second term.

From a blitz of executive action to a flurry of federal layoffs, Trump is working at warp speed. But as he crosses the early benchmark, polls are flashing warning signs about voter frustration, particularly with the economy.

Here’s a look at Trump’s first 100 days, by the numbers:

142 executive orders

Working at what the White House has dubbed “Trump speed,” the president has signed more than 140 executive orders in his first 100 days in office, according to the White House.

The figure eclipses the 55 executive orders Trump inked in the first year of his first presidential term, which were part of 220 total orders throughout his tenure. It also breaks the record held by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cleared 99 executive orders in his first 100 days. 

Trump’s predecessor, former President Biden, signed 77 executive orders throughout his full first year in the White House and 162 orders across his four-year term. Former President Obama, who served two terms, signed 277 orders in all. 

Trump had also issued 42 memos and 40 proclamations as of April 28, as tallied by the American Presidency Project, for a total of more than 200 executive actions.

44 percent average approval rating

Trump’s approval rating has started to take hits amid signs of growing voter frustration.

An average of ratings from Decision Desk HQ puts Trump’s approval at 44 percent, down from where he began his term and about 9 points less than the total who disapprove.

A Fox News poll last week found Trump 11 points underwater, down 5 points since March — and lower than what the outlet logged for Trump’s three most recent predecessors at this point in their respective presidencies. CNN and ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos polling similarly found Trump with the lowest 100-day approval of a president in decades.

His favorability has also fallen in his first few weeks — from 49 percent who viewed him positively on Inauguration Day to less than 43.5 percent who felt the same this week, according to DDHQ averages.

5 bills signed into law

Trump has signed just five bills into law in the first 100 days of his second term, compared to 28 laws that were enacted in that period of his first term.

He signed off on the Laken Riley Act within days of taking office, a legislative victory on immigration after making the issue key to his 2024 campaign. That law mandates the detention of immigrants who lack permanent legal status and have been arrested or charged with certain crimes.

Last month, he added his signature to the Republican-crafted funding bill to avert a government shutdown. The other signings were a trio of resolutions overturning Biden-era rules.

53 nominees confirmed by Senate/1 top seat unfilled

About 1,300 of the thousands of presidential appointees need Senate approval to take their posts.

So far, 53 of Trump’s picks have gotten through the upper chamber, per a tracker from the Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post, including some of his controversial Cabinet picks. 

Two of the candidates for Trump’s top circle were withdrawn as he sought to solidify his Cabinet. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) pulled out of consideration for the attorney general slot in November, and Trump later elevated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to the position.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) was Trump’s pick to represent the U.S. at the United Nations. But the White House pulled her nomination last month because it wanted her vote in the House given the GOP’s narrow majority. Trump has yet to select a new name for that ambassadorship.

139,000 deportations

In touting its 100-day milestone, the White House this week announced 139,000 deportations since Trump took office.

“The numbers are good,” Trump’s border czar Tom Homan told reporters Monday, though some experts have reportedly expressed skepticism about the latest figure. 

Among Trump’s efforts, he’s invoked the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law that allows the federal government to detain or deport noncitizens.

Tens of thousands of federal job losses

A staggering share of government jobs have been on the chopping block as Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk slash the size of the federal workforce.

The administration has not released specific numbers, but various trackers have tallied thousands of layoffs at agencies throughout the government. A CNN analysis found at least 121,000 federal workers have been laid off or targeted for layoffs across at least 30 agencies in Trump’s first 100 days, not including many others who have been placed on leave or who accepted what amounted to buyouts.

Among other sweeping changes to the government structure, Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, worked to dismantle Voice of America and slashed the Department of Education by half.

145 percent tariff rate on China

Trump has levied tariffs against key trading partners and kicked off a standoff with its superpower rival China. 

Trump bumped up import taxes on Beijing to a staggering 145 percent total in April — even as he paused country-specific tariffs for other nations — in a move that roiled the global market, prompted China to hit back with 125 percent tariffs and stoked questions about the president’s end game. 

Trump has promised that tariffs will help “make America wealthy again,” though his efforts have dealt a blow to consumer confidence.

Hundreds of pardons, including Jan. 6 rioters

Trump controversially issued roughly 1,500 “full, complete and unconditional pardons” for rioters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol. 

He’s pardoned another 39 individuals, including Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.

By comparison, Biden granted 80 total pardons, including 55 this year, and more than 4,000 other clemencies in his one term. 

Hundreds of lawsuits

Trump’s second-term agenda has been met with resistance, prompting a slew of legal challenges on a range of issues, from birthright citizenship to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.  

A tracker from the New York University School of Law’s Just Security journal has tallied 221 cases against Trump administration actions as of Monday, not including the hundreds of student visa holders who are suing the administration for terminating their legal records in an online database. Another from Lawfare puts that number higher, at more than 250.

Source: The Hill