Less than two days after being confirmed, the new U.S. attorney general is already moving to end political corruption in the justice system and support the president’s agenda. Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) was confirmed Tuesday night as the new attorney general serving under President Donald Trump. According to a Fox News report, Bondi’s first day as chief of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) included issuing several directives focused on securing the border, enforcing immigration law, and promoting Trump’s policies.

One of Bondi’s first moves as attorney general was to bolster border security and target criminal cartels. According to memos issued by Bondi, the DOJ will expedite the prosecutions of cartel leaders and officers and suspend certain “bureaucratic approvals and reviews” when dealing with cartels. She has also “further empowered and elevated” to the Office of the Attorney General Joint Task Force Vulcan, an interdepartmental group focused on combating the MS-13 gang, and Joint Task Force Alpha, centered on tackling human trafficking, which has burgeoned at the southern border over the past several years. Bondi is also planning to reclassify crimes related to possession of fentanyl-manufacturing equipment, introducing more stringent and severe penalties. The new attorney general declared that the Trump administration intends to “completely eliminate” the cartels.

Bondi’s directives are also aimed to buttress Trump’s immigration agenda, including supporting mass deportations. So far, Bondi has frozen all federal funding for “sanctuary cities” and is launching investigations into governors, mayors, and other executives who are in any way obstructing deportation missions executed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She has also ordered DOJ officials to begin prosecutions where applicable. Non-government organizations (NGOs) linked to the illegal immigration crisis will also be investigated.

In order to back Trump’s presidential policies with the full force of the justice system, Bondi reminded DOJ attorneys that their responsibilities are not only “aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges.” She explained, “The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.”

Bondi continued, “When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers.” The attorney general added that “any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”

Bondi also announced the creation of a “Weaponization Working Group” to investigate instances of the DOJ and the FBI being weaponized against Americans over the past four years. The group will investigate the politically-motivated prosecutions against Trump, including those carried out by former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The group will also review January 6 prosecutions, the FBI’s targeting of American Catholics and parents attending school board meetings, and the persecution of pro-life Americans under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Following an executive order issued by Trump, Bondi will also oversee the dismantling of any diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office, program, or initiative in the DOJ, especially concerning training and hiring. She insisted that the DOJ and its subsidiaries will implement “fair admission practices” and hire based “solely on merit,” as opposed to identity-based quotas. All DEI programs in the DOJ must be confirmed as eliminated by March 15. Prior to Bondi’s confirmation, FBI whistleblower and former special agent Steve Friend reported that DEI is deeply entrenched in the law enforcement agency, predicting that eliminating it might prove difficult for Bondi and Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel.

Additional directives issued by Bondi include establishing a joint task force to investigate Hamas for the attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and reinstating the use of the federal death penalty, including “re-evaluat[ing] instances of the prior administration electing not to seek the death penalty” and scrapping DOJ policies that are “not sufficiently in line with President Trump’s death penalty executive order.”

Bondi was confirmed in her role as U.S. attorney general by the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday night vote. She was confirmed 54 to 46, with Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) crossing the aisle and being the only Democrat to support Trump’s pick. The new AG was sworn in on Wednesday morning by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At the swearing-in ceremony, Trump declared that Bondi is “going to restore fair, equal, and impartial justice and restore the constitutional rule of law in America.”