The President’s First 100 Days Is a Return to American Greatness | Opinion

The American people delivered a powerful mandate in November. They were ready to turn the page on the failures of the Biden-Harris administration and restore America first leadership by electing President Donald Trump. This choice has already begun to pay off tremendously.

In just 100 days, we have witnessed one of the most productive presidential administrations in modern history. Trump has already signed more than 140 executive orders, issued more than 40 proclamations, and authored more than 30 memorandums—far surpassing the number of actions many presidents have taken throughout their entire administrations.

Despite relentless criticism from the mainstream media, radical judges blocking the president’s actions, and Democrats in disarray, the American people stand strongly behind the president’s America first vision.

Recent polling from RealClear Politics shows an 11-point surge in optimism since January 2025—a clear sign the American people believe the country is back on the right track. That’s because Trump is delivering on the promises he made.

Trump campaigned on many critical issues, but none were more pressing than the promise to secure our border and make American families safer. Under the Biden-Harris administration, illegal crossings surged to more than 15,000 per day. That number has now dropped to fewer than 200 per day, and more than 130,000 violent criminals and illegal immigrants have been deported.

The president’s executive orders have helped unleash American energy dominance by rolling back Biden-era nonsensical regulations and reigniting American energy production, delivering relief to working families.

Gas prices in Kansas soared to $4 a gallon under the Biden-Harris Administration. Now, they have dropped to roughly $2.80 a gallon. Grocery costs are also starting to decrease for the first time since 2020, and Trump has worked swiftly to ease the inflation mess he inherited from the Biden-Harris administration.

Thanks to our president’s bold leadership, business is booming. More than $7 trillion in private investments in America have been announced by companies and countries, the president has said, demonstrating undeniable confidence in the president’s leadership and agenda.

With these kinds of investments, America will reshore computer chip, battery, pharmaceutical, and materials manufacturing and recapture critical supply chains that are paramount to our national security. That means good-paying jobs for thousands of Americans. Across the state of Kansas, our manufacturers are seeing orders grow as demand for American steel and aluminum rises.

Trump’s bold executive orders have also removed the nonsensical electric vehicle mandate, withdrawn us from the corrupt World Health Organization, rightly designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and restored merit to federal hiring by eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

The president’s orders have also ensured that America will not be bound by scams like the Green New Deal or the Paris Climate Accord, biological males will not play in girls’ and women’s sports, taxpayer dollars won’t pay for dangerous and sterilizing transgender surgeries and treatments, and we are saving American’s hard-earned money thanks to the great work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which claims to have saved taxpayers an astounding $160 billion.

Today, American families are safer, everyday life is more affordable, and the confidence in our future is rising.

Recent polling data shows that the next generation of voters is trending increasingly toward the Republican Party. This makes sense—they see a president who is working overtime to make the American Dream reachable again.

Perhaps most notably, the traditional family values that built this country are protected and promoted again. No longer is anti-Christian, anti-family bias plaguing our government.

Under Trump, America is not an economic zone to be exploited or a workforce to be taken advantage of by other countries. It is a protected, sovereign nation—a place where the hopes and dreams of millions of families can grow and prosper.

That is the promise of the America-first agenda made manifest. If we want this legacy to last, Congress must do its part to codify this progress and ensure Trump’s next 1,300 days are as impactful for the American people as his first 100.

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D., R-Kansas sits on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.