Trump team sweeps in, scrubs some White House site pages

Just moments after Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday, the official White House website was transformed into a set of policy pledges that offered the broad contours of the Trump administration’s top priorities.

It’s a list that includes fierce support for law enforcement, an immediate elimination of the White House’s policy page on climate change and a notable absence of any directives involving President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

“Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter,” reads the law and order section, which calls for “more law enforcement” and “more effective policing.” “Our job is to make life more comfortable for parents who want their kids to be able to walk the streets safely. Or the senior citizen waiting for a bus. Or the young child walking home from school.”

The issues page of Trump’s White House offers no new plans or policies but rather a rehash of many of his most prominent campaign promises — a signal to the nation that Trump plans to implement at least the key guideposts of his campaign vision.

His policies include plans to both withdraw from and renegotiate major trade deals, grow the nation’s military and increase cybersecurity capabilities, build a wall at the nation’s southern border and deport immigrants in the country illegally who have committed violent crimes.

Strikingly absent from the six issues the website highlights was anything on repealing or replacing Obamacare.

However, later Friday in his first executive order as president, Trump ordered federal agencies to ease the burden of Obama’s sweeping health care law. Presidential spokesman Sean Spicer refused to offer details on the order.

The climate change web page that existed under Obama was scrubbed, with no mention of climate change under Trump’s energy plan.

Instead, he vowed to eliminate “harmful and unnecessary policies” such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the United States rule. The first represents a variety of efforts Obama pursued to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions while the second is a rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect not only the largest waterways but smaller tributaries that others believe should fall under the jurisdiction of states rather than the federal government.

The Trump website also does not devote a separate section to immigration, though it mentioned immigration under the law enforcement section.