Trump signs executive orders ending Obama TPP withdrawal and freezing federal hiring on Day One

On his first day in office, President Trump signs several executive orders including withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, a 12-nation deal Obama had negotiated, and imposing a federal hiring freeze across executive agencies. Trump frames both actions as "America First" economic policy. The TPP withdrawal fulfills a campaign pledge and removes the U.S. from a trade framework Obama designed partly as a counterweight to Chinese economic influence in Asia.