June 12, 2025 9:42AM # What Might a Libertarian Do as President? By [Jeffrey Miron](https://www.cato.org/people/jeffrey-miron) --- SHARE Listen to this article Generated with [ ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io/) AI technology. Loading the [Elevenlabs Text to Speech](https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-speech) AudioNative Player... Here are some thoughts on what a libertarian might do as president of the United States: **Procedurally** - Issue no executive orders, other than to undo pre-existing orders. - Try to convince Congress and voters to change policy in the ways described below. **Substantively** - Expand paths for legal immigration. - Remove tariffs and other trade restrictions. - Eliminate federal drug prohibition. - Repeal federal laws that ban or restrict private discrimination. - Abstain from foreign policy interventions. - Scale back Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and other social welfare spending. - Oppose federal laws that ban or mandate legal abortion. - Support legality of same-sex marriage. - End federal involvement in education. - Leave economic regulation to individual states. *This article appeared on* [*Substack*](https://jeffreymiron.substack.com/) *on June 12, 2025.* ##### Related Tags [Constitution and Law](https://www.cato.org/constitution-law), [Free Speech and Civil Liberties](https://www.cato.org/free-speech-civil-liberties), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Social Welfare and Poverty](https://www.cato.org/social-welfare-poverty), [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Immigration](https://www.cato.org/immigration), [Libertarianism](https://www.cato.org/libertarianism) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).