He signed 26 executive orders within hours of being sworn in for the second time — more than any modern president and roughly triple the number signed by his predecessor on his first day.
The more-than 140 orders in his first 100 days touched everything from a wind farm project in Idaho to a cryptocurrency issuer in New York. Agencies were told to clear backlogs, unwind rules and speed up approvals.
Investors got the message. Pipeline projects were revived and renewable-energy projects canceled. The US dollar wheezed under the prospect of tariffs. And as the president settled into his second term, even more weighty shifts began taking shape.
Trump’s first year in office has touched nearly every corner of American life in some way, and he’s moved with uncommon speed to change the flow of money in the US. Some strike directly at the financial plumbing of the nation. Others nudge savers toward new investments that will take decades to judge.
The effect is a rapid reweighting of incentives that is already changing the way capital moves. Presidential policies always drive flows in some ways, and some Trump policies have hit the entire market.
But the following areas are experiencing direct changes that will reroute hundreds of billions — potentially trillions — of dollars in capital. Together, they form a rare early-term inflection point: an administration not just influencing capital, but actively steering where it goes.
“President Trump pledged to restore America as the most dynamic economy in the world, and the Administration is committed to cutting the red tape that the Biden administration strangled American economic ingenuity with to deliver on this pledge,” White House Spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement.