Print 
PDF
President Donald Trump’s supporters, gathering just outside Washington, D.C., for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, have much to celebrate after Trump’s first month in office.
They summarize Trump’s accomplishments with one of his campaign mottos, “Promises Made, Promises Kept.”
Vice President Vance urged the CPAC audience to persuade others about the sanctity of unborn life.
Be informed, not misled.
Promises Made: Promises Kept.
Trump has signed about 70 executive orders aimed at securing the border, cutting wasteful spending, eliminating radical gender ideology, establishing an “America First” foreign policy approach, challenging discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, and much more.
Seventy percent of Americans think Trump is doing exactly what he campaigned on, according to a CBS News poll released Feb. 9.
“It’s restoring confidence that you can have leaders who really will make a commitment and stick to it and do the things that they share in a campaign that they’re going to do,” House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., said.
Many of Trump’s accomplishments echo what the House Freedom Caucus has fought for since its inception, Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told The Daily Signal.
He said, "They summarize Trump’s accomplishments with one of his campaign mottos, 'Promises Made, Promises Kept.'
“From rooting out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our government, to rolling back the woke Biden administration policies that allowed biological men to compete in women’s sports, to deporting violent criminal illegals from our streets,” the Maryland lawmaker said. “President Trump is delivering on his promises to the American people—and doing it in record speed.”
Securing the Border
Two days into his second term, Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, enabling him to deploy additional personnel to the border and directing the acting secretaries of the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to finish the border wall.
The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—resulting in the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the “Trump effect.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, that total includes 29,116 apprehended at the border outside of official ports of entry. That’s the lowest since May 2020. And that compares with 47,316 apprehensions outside official ports in December before Trump took office.
The January total also includes 32,349 apprehensions at ports of entry, compared with 48,719 in December.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants from Venezuela were sent home on Venezuelan-owned planes. Panama and Costa Rica officials held a meeting to discuss how to handle the droves of migrants returning home after being turned away at the U.S. southern border.
Slashing Government Inefficiency
Trump launched the Department of Government Efficiency to identify and eliminate wasteful spending. DOGE, which Trump tapped Elon Musk to lead as a special adviser to the president, says it’s already saved $55 billion in federal spending.
On his first day in office, Trump placed a 90-day freeze on foreign assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Mark Harris, a North Carolina lawmaker, told The Daily Signal everyone in the Freedom Caucus is “thrilled” with the work DOGE has done so far.
“Many of us feel that we’ve got to catch up,” Harris said. “Congress needs to get to work on time. Many of these things that he’s been able to do by executive order, we’ve got to catch up with him.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she “clawed back” tens of millions of dollars in funds “that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels.”
The Department of Education
The federal Department of Education announced it had terminated more than $600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers in critical race theory and radical gender ideology.
That comes after investigative reporter Chris Rufo found millions in waste, including funds to “left-wing activists who push the idea that babies are racist, kids should do ‘sex work,’ and America is a ‘concentration camp.'"
The Department of Education funded an NGO which promotes the idea that the American public school system is a "concentration camp" designed to "harm black and brown children."
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 14, 2025
"There's gas chambers everywhere, and I'm part of that system." pic.twitter.com/c2v4ci5VlV
DOGE uncovered $1.9 billion at the Department of Housing and Urban Development that was “misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process,” DOGE revealed on X.
Only two sexes: Male and Female
On Inauguration Day, Trump issued an executive order clarifying the existence of only two sexes, male and female, ending the Biden-Harris administration’s war on biological reality.
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., proposed the Defining Male and Female Act in the 118th Congress. She said federal legislation is necessary to codify the order into law.
“The American people gave Republicans an overwhelming mandate in November that the woke madness of the last four years must stop,” she told The Daily Signal. “I commend President Trump for following through on these campaign promises, and now it’s time for Congress to back up his executive orders by enshrining them in federal law.”
He signed an executive order in the Oval Office surrounded by female athletes of all ages, protecting women’s and girls' sports from male intrusion. The NCAA then changed its policy on transgender-identifying athletes.
The Department of Education announced an investigation into the Minnesota State High School League and the California Interscholastic Federation for failing to adhere to the order by continuing to allow males to compete in female sports.
Former Auburn University football coach and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act to solidify the sports executive order. He praised Trump for championing women’s and girls' sports.
“When 79% of the population agrees that men competing in women’s sports is wrong, you listen,” Tuberville told The Daily Signal. “That’s exactly what President Trump did when he signed an executive order preserving Title IX and protecting women’s sports. This isn’t about Republican or Democrat, it’s about right and wrong.”
Another executive order ending federal support for irreversible child sex-change procedures inspired many children’s hospitals to cease so-called gender-affirming care for minors.
Vice President Vance stands strong for the sanctity of life.
“We’ve got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting; it is sacred in the eyes of God,” Vance said, “and it should be sacred in the eyes of man, too, and we have to pick up the torch and fight for that every single day.”
The Trump administration has a policy that “babies are good, and we want to make it easier for young moms and young dads to choose life, to start families, and to bring new life into the world,” he said.
Vance praised Donald Trump as the most pro-life president in history.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Hopeful. Be Prayerful.