EXCLUSIVE: President Trump's first 100 days by the numbers

THE LOWDOWN:

• The numbers don’t lie: President Donald Trump and his administration are on their way to making America great again.

• In President Trump’s second first 100 days, he has shown he has not only nailed his return to the West Wing, but that his policies are resonating within the trenches of Washington.

• The Washington Reporter reviewed the numbers of the Trump administration’s first 100 days and the work is showing.

• On the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) front, Executive Director of the President’s Council on Digital Assets Bo Hines told the Reporter that in “his first 100 days, President Trump strengthened American leadership in digital financial technology, established the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and repealed harmful regulations like the IRS DeFi broker rule.”

The first 100 days of any presidency are the proving ground of his agenda. These short, but long, days lay the groundwork and the tone for the administration’s work over the next four years, and they are critical to get right.

In President Donald Trump’s second first 100 days, he has shown he has not only nailed his return to the West Wing, but that his policies are resonating within the trenches of Washington. The Washington Reporter analyzed the numbers and spoke with Trump administration officials about the historic presidency taking place at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

One of the president’s main campaign promises was to make America safe again, which he has been accomplishing since day one. President Trump’s border policies, coupled with the on-the-ground leadership of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, not only closed the border, also but dramatically dropped the number of encounters by 93 percent. Additionally, encounters with “gotaways” are down by 95 percent and fentanyl traffic at the southern border is down 54 percent.

On the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) front, Executive Director of the President’s Council on Digital Assets Bo Hines told the Reporter that in “his first 100 days, President Trump strengthened American leadership in digital financial technology, established the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and repealed harmful regulations like the IRS DeFi broker rule.”

“The administration continues to dismantle operation Chokepoint 2.0, deliver clear regulatory guidance to foster American innovation, and champion pro-crypto legislation to make the United States the crypto capital of the world,” Hines continued.

“During his first 100 days, President Trump has removed barriers and burdensome regulations to American leadership in artificial intelligence, revolutionized the way the federal government will interact and utilize this groundbreaking technology, and made it a priority to ensure our workforce, educators, and young people are familiarized with AI,” OSTP communications director Victoria LaCivita told the Reporter.

“He has paved the way for American innovation and leadership in the most consequential technology of our lifetime,” she continued.

Elsewhere on the domestic policy front, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer told the Reporter that “President Trump is delivering results like no administration in history — driving record manufacturing growth, bringing historic investments back to our shores, and putting American Workers First.”

“His first 100 days have set a powerful foundation for a stronger, more prosperous America,” she added.

Chavez-DeRemer’s agency has focused on purging DEI, recovering wasted taxpayer dollars, preventing illegal immigrants from receiving unemployment benefits, and on actually listening to American workers, its spokesperson said.

The Interior Department (DOI) is also hard at work. Secretary Doug Burgum took “immediate steps to unleash Alaska’s untapped natural resource potential and support President Trump’s vision of American Energy Dominance,” the department noted to the Reporter. “Under the Secretary’s leadership, at the direction of President Trump, we are reopening 82 percent of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to leasing and expanding energy development opportunities in the approximately 23-million-acre reserve, reinstating a program that makes the entire 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge available for oil and gas leasing, and revoking withdrawals along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Corridor and Dalton Highway north of the Yukon River in order to convey these lands to State of Alaska.”

When it comes to our nation’s health, President Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., are hard at work making America healthy again. HHS’s priorities have included protecting the baby formula supply via Operation Stork Speed, initiating a ban on cancer-linked food dyes, protecting children from pseudoscience and gender ideology, and on building new models to treat complex diseases.

On the national security side, Trump’s team is killing terrorists and capturing illegal immigrants tied to them. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which is run by Tulsi Gabbard, told the Reporter that it has “provided leads on approximately 750 terrorists in the U.S. with ties to MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and the Sinaloa Cartel.”

The Reporter already exclusively reported that Gabbard and her team announced leads on over 1,000 illegal immigrants tied to ISIS and gangs.

On the transparency front, Gabbard has also declassified nearly 100,000 records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy; her team is working closely with National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on declassifications.

Jim Byron, the Senior Advisor to the Archivist of the United States, told the Reporter that “these releases are important demonstrations, not only of the value of the National Archives and what’s in its collections, but of the concept of government transparency and openness, which leads to more Americans getting engaged with their history.”

Another agency that has dealt extensively with record-keeping is the Social Security Administration (SSA), which is undertaking extensive efforts to “improv[e] the accuracy of death data, addressing a longstanding oversight concern.”

“Updating the records of individuals who are implausibly old to be living is an important anti-fraud measure,” the agency noted. “Criminals may use those individuals’ information to commit fraud. As part of this effort, SSA has safeguards in place to ensure that it does not update records for individuals who are still alive…SSA has a process in place to reinstate individuals in its records if the agency ever makes an error.”

While Gabbard has prioritized transparency, she also revoked over 60 security clearances, along with access to classified information, of top-ranking officials in the Biden administration, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — along with the 51 signers of the debunked letter that suggested that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

Gabbard’s team also referred two alleged leakers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution, with 11 investigations still ongoing. Her office also touted to the Reporter that it already saved taxpayers $20 million annually by eliminating “woke DEI policies and programs at ODNI.”

The National Security Council (NSC), under the leadership of Mike Waltz, logged great numbers as well, counting 78 terrorists killed in counterterrorism operations as well as hundreds of Houthi terrorists killed in over 800 strikes in the ongoing operation. The NCS also noted that 46 Americans detained in foreign countries have returned home; 10,000 Mexican troops deployed to secure the U.S.-Mexico border; and over $1 trillion in committed foreign investments in America from Asian and Middle Eastern countries.

Notably, the NSC also apprehended and extradited to America one specific terrorist: the architect of the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing that saw 13 U.S. service members killed during former President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

Liz Lyons, the Director of Public Affairs at the CIA, told the Reporter that America’s intelligence agencies are focusing heavily on the threats from China. “The Agency has [] taken a firm stance against China—acknowledging its status as our biggest adversary—and is executing on the President’s direction to totally eliminate the cartels by realigning resources and personnel to combat illegal narcotics and transnational criminal organizations,” she said.

“100 days since the beginning of America’s Golden Age and Secretary Rubio has delivered monumental victories for the American people,” a State Department official told the Reporter. "Under the leadership of President Trump and the vision of Secretary Rubio, the State Department has reoriented its objectives to ensure we make our nation stronger, safer, and more prosperous.”

The numbers don’t lie: President Trump and his administration are on their way to making America great again.

UPDATE: After publication, the National Security Council reached out to note that the Trump administration has now killed 78 terrorists in counterterrorism operations. The previous number of 74 is now outdated.