By Tashi McQueenAFRO Employees Writertmcqueen@afro.com
Forward of April 29, marking the forty seventh president’s first 100 days in workplace, Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) joined different Democratic mayors to debate how the president’s agenda has impacted cities like Baltimore and the way mayors are persevering.
“Residents right here in Baltimore and throughout the nation are feeling the ache and the anxiousness of the Trump agenda on the day by day,” mentioned Scott on April 28. “As a substitute of bringing actual options to the desk, this administration picked up the hacksaw.”
The president signed round 140 government orders in his first 100 days, in comparison with 162 by former President Biden over 4 years. By way of these orders, the forty seventh president rolled again federal fairness, range and inclusion efforts, ramped up deportations of undocumented immigrants and started shutting down the Division of Training and different companies.
“Our No.1 precedence is our residents,” mentioned Scott. “We’re going to maintain preventing on their behalf and dealing to construct higher, more healthy cities the place all of our residents really feel protected. It implies that we don’t cave to the stress to remove DEI applications or ban Black historical past from being taught at our colleges.”
The digital name additionally included Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, and Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell.
“Democratic mayors are stepping up,” mentioned Bibb. “We’re delivering and we’re making actual change, regardless of the uncertainty popping out of Washington, D.C.”
Scott identified that the uncertainty of the administration’s subsequent transfer makes native budgeting troublesome.
“We are able to’t govern with uncertainty,” mentioned Scott. “We’re all making an attempt to go budgets, however they could include cuts we don’t find out about within the subsequent week or two.”
Whereas Democratic mayors targeted on the administration’s detrimental impacts on the native degree, the White Home touted its successes.
“President Trump has already delivered on tons of of guarantees he made to the American folks,” mentioned White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on April 28.
Leavitt highlighted the administration’s actions concerning immigration and the southern border, together with the re-establishment of the Stay in Mexico coverage and restarting the development of the border wall.
“The president has additionally restarted development of his signature superior border wall,” mentioned Leavitt. “Greater than 85 miles of latest border barrier are already in varied phases of development and planning. Border Patrol–in collaboration with the Division of Protection and the nice state of Texas–has deployed 75 extra miles of momentary limitations.”
In keeping with Homeland Safety, day by day border encounters are down by 93 p.c and encounters with gotaways are down by 95 p.c.
The president will maintain a rally in Michigan on April 29 to mark his first 100 days in workplace.
“It’s been a troublesome 100 days, however we’re going to maintain discovering methods to ship and discover options on the native degree,” mentioned Gallego. “We simply want we’d have at the least certainty, so typically, the folks we’re working with within the federal authorities on tasks are there someday after which fired the subsequent. One factor we are able to depend on is for mayors to step up, and I’m fortunate to have nice companions throughout the nation.”
