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Below is a compilation of every major thing that has happened since Donald Trump took office for the second time.
I have chosen not to include “intermediate” developments for the time being. I use this term to describe announcements about the administration’s intentions (I’ll post their most egregious plans, but I’ll typically wait until they take action to add them), confirmation advancements (I’ll post when the nominees are fully confirmed or rejected, but will not update as they move through the process, nor will I include the official swearing in of each person), and some legislation that has been passed by one or both chambers of Congress but remains unsigned by Trump.
My goal is to provide 3 sources for each headline, with as many articles from nonpartisan outlets (BBC, NPR, PBS, Reuters, etc.) as possible. I will not include headlines I can’t verify through multiple sources, and I will try to limit the repetition of stories. Some articles may be behind a paywall; I’ve tried to include at least one accessible article with each headline. I have included links to specific executive orders, memos, and websites where applicable. Snopes was deemed a reliable fact checker by my law school professors, so I consider it good enough for this, too; I’ve included it where it appeared in my research. Due to time constraints, not every headline will get a post-it, but they will all be added to this document.
Please don’t steal my work. Feel free to use this doc to stay informed, educate others, and silence MAGAts, but please don’t claim this document or any part of it as your own. This has taken hours to compile and will undoubtedly take years off my life.
My TikTok messages have been disabled (yay censorship!); feel free to leave comments on my most recent post if I miss something. Keep in mind that this will always be updated a day after the stories break, so if something happens, don’t expect a post-it or addition here until the following day.
One of my law school professors once told us that there is no guarantee we will win the struggle for justice and equality, that we have to learn to enjoy the fight. I have greatly enjoyed compiling this information and will do my best to see it through these next four years.
- Sally (sally_taylorsversion)
DAY 44 - 3/4/25
DAY 43 - 3/3/25
- USAID official placed on leave after saying barriers to lifesaving programs will cause ‘preventable death’
- Lech Wałęsa, former Polish president, signs letter slamming Trump's treatment of Zelenskyy
- Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico are still set to take effect tomorrow
- Dow drops nearly 650 points on worries that Trump’s latest tariffs will slow the economy more
- Former Russian ambassador slams Trump for 'complete capitulation' to Russia
- Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database meant to stop shell company formation
- Pentagon announces it's changing the name of Fort Moore back to Fort Benning
- Trump blasts Zelenskyy statement, says 'America will not put up with it for much longer' and suggests Ukrainian president 'may not be around very long' if he can't strike a deal
- Top FBI official forced out after criticizing Trump pursuit of agents who investigated Jan. 6
- Canadian official says red states are 'going to feel the pain like they’ve never felt before' with retaliatory tariffs
- Philadelphia election officials shoot down Musk-boosted claim about voter registration data
- Senate confirms Linda McMahon as education secretary in party-line vote
- Judge maintains pause on mass CFPB firings to weigh whether Trump’s moves mean ‘impending doom’ for the agency
- Trump orders pause on military aid to Ukraine
- Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports
- Trump and Sen. Marshall baselessly claim angry constituents are paid 'troublemakers'
- Trump's tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada go into effect
- Canada to respond with 25% tariffs on U.S. goods
- Trump turns toward Russia, breaking with decades of U.S. policy
- China vows 'countermeasures' against U.S. in response to additional 10% tariff, announces additional tariffs of up to 15% on some U.S. goods
- Melania Trump lobbies for anti-revenge porn bill on Capitol Hill
DAY 42 - 3/2/25
- South Carolina governor declares state of emergency as wildfires erupt in Carolinas, Georgia
- Zelensky says he is ready to sign minerals deal and that U.S.-Ukraine relationship can be salvaged
- European leaders meet in London in the wake of Trump's heated exchange with Zelensky
- Hegseth directs civilian Pentagon employees to respond to OPM request to detail their job accomplishments
- As Texas measles outbreak grows, RFK Jr. says vaccination is a personal decision that can protect communities
- Elon Musk publicly supports call for US to exit NATO, UN
- Kremlin says Trump ‘largely aligns’ with their vision after heated Oval Office meeting with Zelensky
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia
- Trump says US should spend 'less time worrying about Putin'
DAY 41 - 3/1/25
- FBI returns records in Mar-a-Lago search to Trump
- Trump signs an executive order making English the official U.S. language
- Federal employees are asked again to report their activities at work – now on a weekly basis
- Protesters target JD Vance in Vermont after clash with Zelensky
- Trump, Zelensky clash spurs Norwegian company to boycott fueling US Navy; Norway’s government says it will keep supplying fuel
- US judge declares Trump's firing of watchdog agency head illegal
DAY 40 - 2/28/25
DAY 39 - 2/27/25
DAY 38 - 2/26/25
DAY 37 - 2/25/25
DAY 36 - 2/24/25
DAY 35 - 2/23/25
DAY 34 - 2/22/25
- Democrats urge Trump to abandon plans to dismantle U.S. Postal Service's independence
- Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release as 6 hostages freed
- Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership
- In reversal, Trump says Russia attacked Ukraine
- Wall Street sees major drop amid concerns over slowing economy
- Trump chides Maine governor at CPAC after clash at White House
- Judge cancels trial for NYC Mayor Eric Adams, leaving corruption charges intact until mid-March
- Elon Musk says federal workers must justify their work — or resign
- LA Mayor Karen Bass removes fire chief over handling of wildfires
- Reuters: US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal
- Republicans face angry voters at town halls
- Pope Francis in critical condition with early kidney failure
DAY 33 - 2/21/25
DAY 32 - 2/20/25
DAY 31 - 2/19/25
DAY 30 - 2/18/25
- Head of FDA food division resigns over ‘indiscriminate firing’ of personnel
- U.S. and Russia kick off high-level talks that exclude Ukraine and Europe
- Federal judge denies effort to block DOGE from accessing Americans' data at Education Department
- More than 850 former federal prosecutors sign letter of support for current DOJ prosecutors
- Adams’ deputies resign amid dismissal of charges and cooperation with Trump
- Musk super PAC jumps into Wisconsin Supreme Court race
- Foreign service worker says pregnant wife faces ‘life-threatening‘ complications amid Trump’s USAID shutdown
- CIA steps up drone surveillance over Mexico to track cartels
- Judge orders Mayor Eric Adams, DOJ lawyers to appear in court to explain case dismissal request
- Veteran prosecutor resigns over bank freeze order from Trump appointee
- Judge reinstates fired chair of Merit Systems Protection Board
- Trump signs executive order aimed at reducing IVF costs
- Trump signs memo called for “radical transparency requirements” for the government, requiring detailed reporting of the “waste, fraud and abuse” found by DOGE
- Trump signs executive order to expand White House control of independent agencies, establishing oversight functions in the Office of Management and Budget and its subsidiary office, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; declares only president and AG can interpret US law for executive branch
- Asked if Elon Musk is a DOGE employee, Trump says ‘he’s a patriot’
- USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
- Trump says Ukraine ‘should have never started it’ in comments about war with Russia
- Senate confirms Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
- Judge denies states’ bid to curtail DOGE’s powers
- Federal judge temporarily halts the firing of 11 intelligence officers
- Trump says 'Inflation is back...I had nothing to do with it'; claims Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid 'won't be touched' in federal cuts
- White House sparks backlash for posting dehumanizing 'ASMR' deportation video
DAY 29 - 2/17/25
- Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue
- European leaders hold emergency summit as they scramble to adapt to Trump's Ukraine plans
- Trump picks Edward R. Martin, Jr. as US attorney for District of Columbia
- Nationwide demonstrations take place as part of 50501 movement protesting Trump and Musk
- After firing hundreds, Trump administration officials struggle to find and reinstate nuclear weapons staff
- Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader
- Homan says he’s asked DOJ whether Ocasio-Cortez is impeding ICE
- Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
- Musk is not an employee of DOGE and "has no actual or formal authority," White House says
DAY 28 - 2/16/25
- Bill introduced to make Trump’s birthday a national holiday
- Ukraine "not informed" about US-Russia talks on ending war
- Appeals court denies White House's attempt to fire ethics watchdog
- Trump's border czar denies concessions from NY mayor are related to dropped DOJ charges
- Elon Musk's DOGE seeks access to taxpayer data at IRS
DAY 27 - 2/15/25
- Three Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian detainees freed after dispute threatened Gaza ceasefire
- White House forcing out top leadership at National Archives in major shake-up
- Abortion access to restart in Missouri following state court ruling
- Macron calls emergency European summit on Trump
- CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies
- Trump: “He who saves his country does not violate any law”
- New York Gov. Hochul rejects Louisiana extradition request for abortion doctor
- US Treasury watchdog begins audit of DOGE access to federal payment system
- Chernobyl radiation shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says
- Ohio Democratic lawmakers propose ‘Conception Begins at Erection Act’ [see similar Mississippi bill proposed on 1/23/25]
- Measles outbreak in Texas rises to at least 48 cases — the state's worst in nearly 30 years
DAY 26 - 2/14/25
- Europe vows to "react firmly and immediately" to any future "unjustified" Trump tariffs
- Taiwan president pledges to increase defense spending after Trump pressure to pay more
- The White House bans the Associated Press indefinitely over the use of "Gulf of Mexico"
- Apple and Google bring TikTok back to their U.S. app stores
- Trump officials fire National Nuclear Security Administration staff before realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile and rescinding the terminations
- DOGE website potentially hacked; classified info possibly leaked [*waiting for additional information/sources]
- Trump falsely claims career prosecutors who resigned over Adams case were "going to be gone anyway"
- Trump signs largely symbolic executive order banning Covid-19 vaccine requirements in schools
- Second judge halts Trump's order targeting access to gender-affirming care
- Federal judge extends temporary order blocking DOGE access to Treasury data
- Education Department threatens to withhold funding from schools that don't 'remove all DEI programming'
- Trump administration agrees to halt Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mass firings for several weeks
- Trump administration gives warning about "gender ideology" on some government health websites
- Prosecutors formally ask judge to dismiss public corruption case against New York City mayor
- Vance meets with head of Germany's far-right party at security conference
- Judge again declines to halt DOGE access to data at Department of Labor and other agencies
- Trump signs executive order establishing the National Energy Dominance Council
- Trump officials pitch Zelenskyy on U.S. owning 50% of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals
DAY 25 - 2/13/25
- Musk calls for the U.S. government to delete entire agencies: ‘Remove the roots of the weed’
- RFK Jr. confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary after Senate Democrats hold the floor in late-night protest
- Brooke Rollins confirmed as secretary of agriculture
- Trump signs plan to impose ‘fair and reciprocal’ tariffs against American trading partners, including allies
- US deports African and Asian migrants to Panama
- Judge extends pause on Trump dismantling of USAID through February 21
- Trump maintains Canada is a 'serious contender to be our 51st state'
- Trump claims Russia invaded Ukraine because of Biden's comments on Ukraine and NATO, says he believes Putin 'wants peace' and that he’d ‘love' to have Russia back in the G7
- Judge blocks parts of Trump's executive orders targeting transgender people
- Musk shares meme deriding those who benefit from federal programs as 'parasite class'
- Lisa Murkowski introduces legislation to officially designate North America's highest mountain as 'Denali'
- Education Department fired at least 60 employees this week
- Mexico threatens to sue Google over ‘Gulf of America’ name change
- Issa Rae cancels sold-out Kennedy Center show following Trump takeover
- State Department puts potential $400 million Tesla armored vehicle procurement on hold
- Fourth federal judge blocks Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship
- 14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk’s authority at DOGE is unconstitutional
- Associated Press barred from attending Trump-Modi news conference
- Acting US attorney in New York and 5 others quit over order to dismiss corruption case against Mayor Adams
- Trump establishes ‘Make America Healthy Again’ commission
- Trump administration tells federal agencies to fire probationary employees
- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sues the Trump administration over funding freeze
- Dozens of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees terminated
- Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily reinstate foreign aid funding
DAY 24 - 2/12/25
- Education Department rescinds gender equity guidance on 'name, image, likeness' deals for college athletes
- Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine and says that a return to 2014 borders is ‘unrealistic’
- Dozens of consumer protection agency employees receive termination notices
- Inspectors general fired by Trump sue to get their jobs back
- Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, with McConnell joining Democrats to oppose nomination
- Unnamed American citizen released from prison in Belarus
- Shonda Rhimes, Ben Folds resign from the Kennedy Center
- Newly-constituted Kennedy Center board elects Trump as its chair, fires its president
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ends expert witness contracts
- Longtime NIH deputy director abruptly retires
- Immigrants rights groups sue Trump administration over plan to send migrants to Guantanamo
- Trump administration revokes $80 million given to NYC to help pay for migrant hotels and other services
- Trump says he wants the Education Department closed immediately
- AG Pam Bondi says she's 'filing charges' against New York over immigration policies; DOJ seeks injunction to prevent enforcement of New York’s Green Light Law
- Judge rules Trump’s sweeping plan to persuade federal workers to resign can move forward
- Baltimore mayor, City Council file complaint against CFPB and Russell Vought
- Trump says he does not "think it's practical" to have Ukraine join NATO
- Trump signs executive order calling for one voice on foreign relations and a "workforce of patriots"
- Elon Musk's X agrees to roughly $10M settlement with Trump
- White House says about 75K federal workers accepted ‘deferred resignation’ offer
- Denver Public Schools district requests restraining order over ICE immigration enforcement
- Trump removes remaining Biden-appointed US attorneys
DAY 23 - 2/11/25
- E.U. vows tough response to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs
- Trump orders EPA chief to roll back standards for water-using appliances, light bulbs
- Bannon pleads guilty in New York ‘We Build the Wall’ case
- USAID contractors sue over Trump's attempt to dismantle agency
- Trump says Ukraine “may be Russian someday,” wants Kyiv to trade natural resources for US aid
- Democrats launch rapid response task force and litigation working group to respond to Trump on various fronts
- Consumer financial protection officials resign after being ordered to stand down on all work
- Trump tells reporters the U.S. will 'take' Gaza
- FEMA official ignores judge’s latest order, demands freeze on grant funding
- Netanyahu says ceasefire will end if Hamas does not release hostages on Saturday
- Wrongfully detained American teacher released from Russia
- Top Judiciary Democrat accuses Kash Patel of orchestrating FBI firings
- Jordan’s King Abdullah II offers to take in thousands of Palestinian children, reaffirms "steadfast position" against displacing Palestinians
- Judge rules treasury secretary can access Treasury systems
- Trump officials ordered to restore deleted CDC and FDA websites
- Musk will file a confidential financial disclosure, White House says
- House GOP lawmakers form task force on "declassification of federal secrets"
- House Republican introduces bill that would rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland'
- The Associated Press says the White House barred its reporter from entering an Oval Office event over its continued use "Gulf of Mexico"
- Trump signs executive order ordering agencies to cooperate with DOGE
- Education Department agrees to temporarily limit DOGE access as department cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students’ academic progress
- Appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to reinstate funding freeze
- USAID inspector general fired a day after releasing report critical of Trump administration's dismantling of agency
- Corey Lewandowski joins DHS as a 'special government employee'
- Japan requests exemption from U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs
- Two ICE officials demoted amid administration's frustration over pace of deportations
- Democrats call on treasury secretary and budget director to boot DOGE from the CFPB
DAY 22 - 2/10/25
- China's tariffs on U.S. goods go into effect
- Union sues Russell Vought over DOGE access to CFPB and attempts to shutter bureau
- Trump administration asks federal court to lift order restricting political appointees' access to Treasury databases
- Senate Democrats launch portal for federal worker whistleblowers for oversight effort of Trump
- Five former Treasury secretaries sound alarm on DOGE in NYT op-ed
- Trump announces he's dismissing members of boards of visitors for U.S. military academies
- Consumer watchdog staff ordered to "stand down" from all work tasks
- A third judge blocks Trump's order ending birthright citizenship (New Hampshire)
- Trump says Palestinians wouldn't have a right to return to Gaza under his redevelopment plan
- Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze, tells Trump to restore frozen grant and loan payments
- Hamas says it is postponing next hostage release
- Pentagon to ban trans people from joining military, pauses gender-transition procedures
- Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
- Trump names Richard Grenell interim executive director of Kennedy Center: ‘NO MORE DRAG SHOWS’
- Trump signs executive order ‘going back’ to plastic straws
- Trump signs order imposing 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum
- Trump: 'All hell is going to break out' if Hamas doesn't return all hostages by Saturday
- Justice Department orders charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismissed
- New lawsuit seeks to block DOGE from accessing data at the Education Department and other agencies
- Pete Hegseth changes name of military installation back to Fort Bragg
- Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting research funding after 22 states sue
- Trump administration accused of violating court order blocking plan to put USAID workers on paid leave
- Musk-led investor group offers to buy OpenAI, parent of ChatGPT
- Judge extends deadline for federal workers to accept Trump administration’s "buyout" offer
- Trump loosens restrictions to law banning US companies from bribing foreign officials
- Trump ousts top government ethics czar, names Doug Collins interim head of watchdog agencies
- Judge temporarily reinstates fired ethics watchdog
DAY 21 - 2/9/25
- Russell Vought issues directives to halt portions of CFPB activity
- Hegseth vows a Pentagon audit
- Trump's national security adviser: 'I don't think there's any plans to invade Canada' (comes after Trudeau was overheard saying Trump’s annexation threat is ‘a real thing’)
- Booz Allen says Treasury subcontractor behind DOGE threat assessment has been terminated
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Washington headquarters will be closed this week
- Netanyahu describes Trump’s Gaza plans as a "revolutionary, creative vision," says Trump is “very determined to implement it”
- Trump describes Gaza as a "big real estate site" the US will own
- Trump announces 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, reciprocal tariffs on other countries
- Vance argues judiciary can't challenge executive branch's "legitimate power"
- Trump says he's instructed the Treasury to halt penny production
- Court grants request to block detained Venezuelan migrants from being sent to Guantanamo
- Trump declares February 9 ‘Gulf of America Day’
DAY 20 - 2/8/25
- Federal judge blocks Musk team access to Treasury Department payment system
- Trump and X dismiss president's legal battle against company over his previously banned account
- NIH slashes payments for research infrastructure
- Trudeau says Trump threat to annex Canada 'is a real thing'
DAY 19 - 2/7/25
- ICC condemns Trump's executive order sanctioning court
- DNC files amicus brief in Georgia election rules lawsuit
- Trump administration to keep 611 USAID essential personnel (not 290, as was previously reported)
- Vance calls for rehiring of DOGE staffer who quit over racist tweets
- Trump-picked prosecutor posts letter promising aggressive investigation of Musk claims
- Government agrees not to publicly release the names of Jan. 6 FBI agents
- Members of Congress denied entry to Department of Education
- USAID name stripped from D.C. headquarters
- Trump says DOGE doesn't need access to sensitive Treasury payment system data, but “they get it very easily”
- San Francisco sues Trump administration for targeting sanctuary cities
- Democratic states sue Trump administration over order to halt funding for gender-affirming care
- Vance and Rep. Ro Khanna spar online over DOGE staffer, Vance tells congressman ‘You disgust me’
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump from putting thousands of USAID workers on leave
- Musk says he'll rehire DOGE staffer who resigned over racist social media posts
- Trump signs executive order on the Second Amendment
- Alaska Legislature passes resolution urging Trump to keep Denali name
- Trump makes himself chair of the Kennedy Center
- Trump signs order calling South Africa's treatment of white citizens a 'shocking disregard' of rights
- Trump says he is revoking Biden's security clearances
- Trump signs executive order establishing White House Faith Office led by Paula White
- 19 states sue to block DOGE from accessing Americans’ personal data
- Judge declines to block DOGE access to Labor Department data
- Trump administration changes government’s position in gender-affirming care dispute at the Supreme Court
- Trump administration dismisses national archivist
- Treasury installs Musk ally to oversee its payment system
- Trump administration suspends Biden's electrical vehicle charging program
- ACLU requests access to immigrant detainees held at Guantanamo Bay
- Trump reinstates tariff loophole for certain cheap shipments
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau homepage goes down as Musk targets agency
- Students sue Education Department, allege DOGE is accessing private data
DAY 18 - 2/6/25
- CIA sends White House unclassified email with names of agency new hires
- Trump says at National Prayer Breakfast: Americans need 'to bring religion back'; announces plan to create freedom of religion commission, task force to address anti-Christian bias
- Trump says Gaza would be ‘turned over’ to U.S. by Israel
- U.S. and Panama agree to expand military cooperation
- Trump's Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combating foreign election interference threats
- Netanyahu gifts Trump golden pager in nod to deadly Hezbollah operation
- Musk associates at Treasury Department sought to use payment system to shut down USAID spending
- Panama president says US claim of free passage through canal is an "intolerable falsehood"
- Trump administration files lawsuit against Illinois and Chicago over immigrant sanctuary policies
- House Democrats unveil Taxpayer Data Protection Act, a bill designed to halt access by Elon Musk to sensitive Treasury Department payment systems
- Judge OKs deal temporarily restricting DOGE access to Treasury data
- Judge temporarily halts Trump's federal employee buyout program as the number of federal workers who've accepted buyouts hits 60K
- Judge issues order temporarily blocking Trump executive order limiting birthright citizenship
- Minnesota lawmakers reach power-sharing agreement, ending weekslong stalemate
- Rubio walks back Panama Canal assertion after outcry from Panamanian government, says US ‘expects’ Panama to remove charge fees
- NCAA's new policy bans transgender women from women’s sports after Trump order
- Elon Musk’s DOGE feeds AI sensitive federal data to target cuts
- FBI employees who worked January 6 cases ask judge to block DOJ from releasing their names
- FBI hands over list of employees who worked Jan. 6 cases to DOJ
- Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface
- Trump signs order to fight ‘anti-Christian bias’
- Trump signs executive memo reviewing federal funding to NGOs
- Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel
- Trump picks Gadyaces Serralta as US Marshals Service director
- EPA places more than 160 environmental justice employees on paid leave
- Energy secretary let 23-year-old DOGE representative access IT systems over objections from general counsel
- Senate confirms Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought for OMB director
- Labor groups sue to halt Trump administrations dismantling of USAID
- Federal Election Commission chair says Trump tried to remove her from the role
- Deported Indian migrants say US officials kept them shackled for 40-hour flight home
- Justice Department appeals a court order that paused Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship
- USAID to be reduced to about 290 foreign service officers and civil servants
- Hong Kong continues suspending parcels to the U.S.
DAY 17 - 2/5/25
DAY 16 - 2/4/25
- China hits back with its own levies on U.S. products as Trump’s 10% tariffs take effect
- First U.S. migrant flight to Guantanamo Bay ‘underway,’ Karoline Leavitt says
- Trump nominates ‘Sharpiegate’ scientist Neil Jacobs to head up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- FBI employees file class-action lawsuit against DOJ over survey tied to efforts to purge workforce
- Senate confirms Doug Collins to lead Department of Veterans Affairs
- Democratic senators call for probe into Elon Musk, DOGE access to federal databases
- Trump reinstates 'maximum pressure' policy on Iran, says he hopes not to use it 'very much'
- More than 8,700 migrants arrested during first weeks of Trump administration, nearly 5,700 deported or removed, DHS reports
- Trans young adults and parents sue over Trump’s orders restricting transition care
- Trump signs executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and UNRWA
- Doctors sue US health agencies over removal of health websites and data
- Trump directs a tough line on Iran as he warns of "obliteration" should he be assassinated
- Trump repeats desire to see Palestinians relocated from Gaza, says they have ‘no alternative’
- OPM says more than 20K federal workers (less than 1%) have taken buyout offer; White House warns that federal employees who don’t take resignation offer they could be laid off, relocated
- Democratic lawmakers protest against Musk in front of Treasury building
- Trump says ‘U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,’ won't rule out sending US troops to Gaza to secure “long-term” American ownership
- Mexico says no Mexicans will be deported to Guantanamo "under any circumstances"
- Senate confirms Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general
- Federal judge blocks Trump's anti-trans prison policy for 3 inmates
- U.S. Postal Service suspends inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
- Almost all direct hires at USAID placed on paid leave
- Trump to make agency tech leaders political appointees who can be fired at will
- Treasury tells Congress that DOGE has ‘Read Only’ access to payment systems
- CIA sends buyout offers to entire workforce
- Greenland approves ban on foreign political donations as Trump seeks island
- World leaders (France, UK, Spain, Germany, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Hamas) say they oppose Trump’s proposed “forced migration” of Palestinians
- Republicans introduce legislation to require all official US documents and materials to use Israeli term “Judea and Samaria” instead of the “West Bank”
DAY 15 - 2/3/25
- Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
- Ontario to remove U.S. alcohol from shelves over Trump tariffs, 'ripping up' contract with Musk's Starlink satellite service
- Businesses shut across U.S., marking 'a day without immigrants'
- USAID personnel told to stay away from D.C. headquarters after Elon Musk's shutdown comments
- Trump says he will pause tariffs on Mexico for a month, Sheinbaum will send 10,000 National Guard troops to border to prevent drug trafficking to U.S.
- Sen. Warren demands explanation for Musk and DOGE's access to federal payment systems
- Trump names Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acting director of consumer protection agency
- Secretary of State Rubio says he is acting director of USAID, delegates authority of acting administrator to Pete Marocco
- US attorney in DC assures Elon Musk threats to DOGE’s work will be investigated
- Justice Department rescinds previous directive that ordered legal service providers to stop helping immigrants
- Trump says Musk won't act 'without our approval'
- Trump signs executive order to set up first-ever sovereign wealth fund in the U.S.
- Trump wants Ukraine's rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid
- State Department notifies Congress it is conducting USAID review with "eye towards potential reorganization"
- Immigrant rights groups sue the Trump administration for sealing US-Mexico border to asylum seekers
- Sen. Brian Schatz announces blanket hold on State Department nominees until USAID operations resume
- Oklahoma governor launches his own state-level DOGE
- Trudeau announces 30-day pause on tariffs while Canada and the U.S. 'work together,' Trump confirms
- White House says Elon Musk is serving as a ‘special government employee’
- Federal judge extends block on Trump administration's freeze on federal aid
- Law enforcement groups plead with Congress to prevent the firing of FBI employees, Senate Democrats demand information on firings from Trump administration
- Ontario to pause retaliatory measures against US, premier says
- Senate confirms Chris Wright as energy secretary
- Jan. 6 conspiracy theory promoter with ties to white nationalists named to a top State Department job
- Trump signs executive orders on tariff pause
- US to pull out of UN Human Rights Council, will cut off funding for UNRWA
- Federal unions sue Treasury Department over DOGE's access to sensitive payment system
- El Salvador offers to house U.S. criminals ‘for a fee’ after Trump floats idea
DAY 14 - 2/2/25
- Trump acknowledges there may 'be some pain' with tariffs
- Trump says Canada should join the U.S. to avoid tariffs
- Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE demands
- Rubio tells Panama’s president to reduce China's "control" over Panama Canal or the US may take action
- Mexican president gives Trump until Monday to agree to work together or face retaliatory measures
- Stock futures drop after Trump signs tariffs into effect
- Trump accuses Canada, a close ally, of being 'abusive' of the U.S.
- Several Canadian provinces will remove US liquor from government stores amid tariff tensions
- Panama will not renew agreement with China on Belt and Road Initiative, president says
- DOJ questions thousands of FBI employees over their role in January 6 investigation
- Trump administration revoking Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Venezuelan migrants
- Education Department employees placed on paid leave as part of Trump administration’s DEI purge
- Senate Democrats demand explanation from Rubio on DOGE access at USAID
- Trump: "We're going to take" back the Panama Canal or "something very powerful" will happen
- Trump says he will cut off aid to South Africa due to long-held complaint about treatment of White farmers
- China to file lawsuit with WTO, vows ‘countermeasures’ in response to Trump tariffs
- Kristi Noem declines to say whether women, children will be held at Guantanamo
- Trump: tariffs for European Union ‘will definitely happen’
DAY 13 - 2/1/25
- Los Angeles wildfires fully contained
- Three hostages released by Hamas, including Israeli American Keith Siegel
- Pentagon’s new media rotational program swaps traditional media for pro-Trump outlets
- Trump fires director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Ken Martin wins election as the next chair of the DNC
- New FEC filings show Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election
- Trump says Venezuela has "agreed to receive" Venezuelan nationals deported from the US
- Trump says he ordered airstrikes on terrorist targets in Somalia
- Deferred resignation program offer revoked from National Transportation Safety Board employees after plane crash
- USAID website goes offline amid Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid, consideration of bringing agency under State Department
- Trump signs tariffs on Canada, Mexico, & China
- Trade industry pushes back against the enacted tariffs
- Alarm at US Treasury as Musk team accesses critical payments system
- Mexican president announces retaliatory tariffs
- Canada announces retaliatory 25% tariffs on US goods
- Parkland survivor David Hogg elected vice chair of the DNC
DAY 12 - 1/31/25
- Colombian president asks undocumented Colombians in the United States to return
- Treasury Department official resigns after DOGE requests access to payment systems
- 12 attorneys general call Trump's DEI statements 'misleading' to the American people
- Pentagon ends policy funding travel for abortion and other reproductive care
- EPA workers receive warning of potential termination
- Trump to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday, White House says
- Federal government orders removal of all references to 'gender ideology,’ employees told to remove gender pronouns from email signatures
- CDC site scrubs HIV, LGBTQ+ content following Trump DEI policies
- Trudeau warns of 'forceful and immediate response' if U.S. follows through on tariff threat
- Second judge blocks Trump federal aid freeze
- Trump says DEI would have 'ruined our country, and now it’s dead'
- Republican senators introduce bill to restrict birthright citizenship
- Trump administration forces out multiple senior FBI officials and January 6 prosecutors
- Ex-senior Federal Reserve advisor charged with economic espionage to benefit China
- Trump signs executive order that requires 10 regulations to be eliminated for each 1 added
- Some federal websites temporarily go dark after order to comply with Trump DEI directive
- Trump signs Black History Month proclamation as agencies ban events recognizing it
- State Dept. removes "LGBTQI+" from travel pages, keeping reference only for lesbian, gay and bisexual people
- Trump signs memo undoing Biden's last-minute collective bargaining agreements
- Trump Media gives large amounts of stock to directors, including 2 administration nominees
- Venezuela frees 6 Americans after visit by Trump envoy
- Defense Department says it will not host events to recognize "identity months" (Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Hispanic Heritage Month; Pride Month added 2/1)
- DOJ demands list of thousands of FBI employees who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations
- Medevac jet with 6 people on board crashes in northeast Philadelphia
- Musk aides lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems
- New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana
DAY 11 - 1/30/25
- Kennedy says he doesn't know if the Covid vaccines saved lives, refuses to say vaccines don’t cause autism, won't renounce statements questioning HPV vaccine safety, stands by past statements that Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer, defends unfounded claim that Black people should have a different vaccine schedule; Kennedy says he would not change FDA vaccine approval and review standards
- With Democrats boycotting, Senate committee advances Vought nomination
- 56 former FBI agents pen letter in support of Patel
- GOP Sen. Grassley urges Kash Patel to teach FBI a "lesson" for investigating Trump
- FBI director pick Kash Patel says he opposes Trump’s clemency for January 6 convicts who attacked police
- Trump blames Obama, Biden, DEI for DC plane crash
- Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or face demotion
- Memo orders CDC award recipients to "immediately terminate" all grant-funded DEI programs and activities
- Trump signs aviation order to assess ‘damage’ done to air safety by diversity policies
- Trump’s FCC is investigating sponsorship practices of NPR and PBS stations
- Doug Burgum is confirmed as interior secretary
- Transportation Department spending guidance says preference should be given “to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”
- Trump's desire to buy Greenland "is not a joke," Rubio says
- Trump again warns BRICS nations who attempt to replace the US dollar will lead to 100% tariffs
- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocks Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs after Trump pardons
- Appeals court strikes down federal law barring gun sales to adults under 21
- Florida Republican introduces bill to add Trump to Mount Rushmore
- Tennessee bill would make it a Class E felony for lawmakers to vote in support of “sanctuary city” policies
DAY 10 - 1/29/25
- Hegseth revokes security detail and clearance for Gen. Mark Milley, orders investigation into the Trump critic
- RFK Jr. falsely claims children younger than 6 aren't at risk for Covid, refuses to call health care a human right
- Justice Department drops case against Trump’s former co-defendants in classified documents investigation
- Trump administration rescinds federal aid freeze
- Trump appeals hush money criminal conviction (34 felony counts)
- Trump signs the Laken Riley Act into law
- Trump announces detention center for up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants in Guantanamo
- Trump administration revokes deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans
- Former Rep. Lee Zeldin confirmed as EPA administrator
- Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in federal bribery and corruption case
- Trump signs executive order on federal funding for school choice programs
- Second judge plans to block Trump federal aid freeze despite efforts to roll it back
- Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts
- Trump signs executive order 'ending radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling'
- Trump signs order to plan nation’s 250th anniversary celebration, punish those who vandalize statues
- Trump signs order to combat antisemitism on campuses, vows action against ‘Hamas sympathizers’
- Transportation secretary begins rolling back DEI policies
- Passenger jet with 64 aboard collides with Army helicopter, crashes into DC river
- Federal Reserve keeps interest rates steady, resisting Trump’s calls for cuts
DAY 9 - 1/28/25
- White House orders freeze on federal aid to focus on Trump's conservative agenda
- Pence advocacy group releases ad of Trump bashing RFK Jr.
- Idaho House calls on U.S. Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage ruling
- Trump pauses funding for anti-HIV program that prevented 26 million AIDS deaths
- NY AG Letitia James announces legal action over federal aid pause, issues guidance to local law enforcement amid immigration arrests
- Rep. Rich McCormick says kids use free school lunches to 'sponge' off the government and that freezing aid will force them to think about "actually getting a job"
- Oklahoma Board of Education approves rule requiring families to prove US citizenship at enrollment (needs to be approved by the legislature and governor to take effect)
- Non-profits and public health advocacy groups sue Trump administration over aid freeze
- Senate confirms Sean Duffy as transportation secretary
- February 1 tariff date "still on the books," White House says
- White House press secretary announces drones that caused hysteria over NJ were “not the enemy,” were "authorized to be flown" by the Federal Aviation Administration
- White House says Trump deportation focus is not just for violent criminals
- Medicaid sites have gone down in numerous states, lawmakers say; White House confirms
- LGBTQ rights groups sue Trump administration over ban on transgender military members
- Democratic attorneys general sue over federal funding freeze
- Republicans block resolution condemning pardons of those guilty of assaulting Capitol Police
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s freeze on federal funding
- Trump administration offers millions of federal workers a buyout to resign
- Trump signs order to end federal support for gender transitions for minors
- Billionaire Nicole Shanahan threatens to fund primary opponents of senators who oppose Kennedy‘s confirmation
- Russell Vought, Trump's pick for OMB, says "2020 election was rigged" in Senate questionnaire
- Rubio expands list of exemptions from foreign aid freeze
- Caroline Kennedy calls RFK Jr. a ‘predator’ and urges Senate to reject his nomination
DAY 8 - 1/27/25
- Senate Democrats introduce resolution condemning Trump's pardon of violent Jan. 6 offenders
- Navajo citizens report 'negative' and 'traumatizing' experiences with immigration enforcement officials, tribal president says
- Justice Department's public integrity head resigns
- Federal judge rescinds order barring Oath Keepers freed by Trump from traveling to Washington
- Trump administration launches "special project" to investigate January 6 prosecutors
- Trump fires Justice Department officials who prosecuted him
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Danish politician issue joint statement on Greenland: “Americans must view Greenland as an ally, not an asset”
- US reports first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry
- CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately
- Senate confirms billionaire investor Scott Bessent as Trump's treasury secretary
- Trump floats deporting American criminals
- Trump says he's not "100% sure" he can't run again for president
- More than 50 career civil servants at USAID are placed on administrative leave
- VA says it has ended DEI initiatives
- Flights out of Kabul halted for Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders after Trump order
- Google says it plans to use Trump’s new names for Denali, Gulf of Mexico
- Quakers sue to keep US immigration agents out of houses of worship
- Trump signs 4 executive orders pertaining to the military: 1) reinstating members of the military who were discharged because of COVID-19 vaccination mandates; establishing a process to develop an "American Iron Dome," or a comprehensive missile defense shield around the United States; eliminating "gender radicalism" within the military (will likely mean a ban on transgender troops); and eliminating DEI services and offices within the military
- Three Seattle-area pregnant women sue Trump administration over birthright citizenship
- National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
- All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House
- Trump issues statement marking Auschwitz liberation, says ‘no place’ for antisemitism
DAY 7 - 1/26/25
- 2 U.S. deportation flights rejected by Colombian officials
- White House warns of ‘consequences’ for Republicans who don’t support all of Trump’s nominees
- DOJ removes database of crimes by the recently pardoned January 6 rioters from its website
- Trump administration launches immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago
- Chicago migrant rights groups sue Trump administration in bid to block ICE enforcement
- Texas expands buoy barriers on the Rio Grande border
- Department of Education dismisses book ban complaints as Biden ‘hoax,’ ends guidance and investigations
- Trump orders 25% tariffs, sanctions, and travel ban after Colombia rejects deportation flights
- Brazil says "degrading" treatment of deported migrants violates terms of agreement
- ICE arrests 538 people on 1/23; 593 people on 1/24; 286 people on 1/25; 956 people on 1/26
- Colombia offers presidential plane to help repatriate deportees from US
- Colombian president imposes a 25% tariff on imported goods from the U.S.
- ICE agents told to dramatically increase arrest quota for undocumented immigrants; White House Communications Director calls this a “fake story”
- White House announces extension of Israel-Lebanon ceasefire agreement
- DEA raids party in Colorado, arrests nearly 50 undocumented immigrants and TdA gang members
- US suspends visa processing in Colombia over immigration rift
- Target ends DEI policies, will no longer work to source from LGBTQ, veteran, & minority-owned businesses
- White House misspells ‘Colombia’ in press release on trade war
- Immigration enforcement operations underway in cities across the U.S.
- US pauses Colombia tariffs, sanctions plan after agreement on ‘unrestricted acceptance’ of migrants
- Jordan and Egypt reject displacement of Palestinians after Trump floats plan for Gaza
DAY 6 - 1/25/25
- Four female hostages freed but Israel accuses Hamas of failing to meet ceasefire obligations
- Trump administration orders halt to aid for refugees who have already arrived in US
- Video of Tuskegee Airmen included in Air Force basic training curriculum removed amid DEI review
- Kristi Noem confirmed as secretary of homeland security
- Trump again pledges "no tax on tips" in Vegas remarks
- Trump jokes about possibility of serving multiple terms in office: “It will be the greatest honor of my life to serve not once, but twice—or three times or four times… No, it will be to serve twice”
- Trump administration lifts hold on heavy bomb deliveries to Israel
- Elon Musk addresses rally for far-right German party, says there “is too much focus on past guilt” in Germany
- Trump says he plans to fire or reassign IRS agents hired under Biden administration “to the border”
- CBP directs officers to revert back to using the term 'illegal alien'
- Rubio threatens "very big bounty" on Taliban leaders if they are holding more American detainees than known
- Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to "clean out the whole thing," move Palestinians to other countries
- Trump defends his legally dubious firings of inspectors general as ‘a very common thing to do’
DAY 5 - 1/24/25
- White House says deportation flights have begun
- Trump again says he wants OPEC to bring down oil prices
- Trump suggests executive order eliminating FEMA
- Trump says he'd love to see Canada become the 51st state
- Trump says he may withhold disaster aid to California over voter ID and water policies
- Trump cancels Fauci’s security detail
- Judge orders some Jan. 6 defendants to keep out of Washington, D.C.
- Defense Department pauses all official social media accounts for review
- Senior DOJ officials being reassigned to target sanctuary cities
- Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight
- Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott requests more than $11 billion to reimburse state for efforts to secure southern border
- New Jersey Department of Education launches webpage on state, federal immigration requirements in schools
- Reports of immigration agents at Chicago school set off fear, but are proved false
- National Gallery of Art closes 'belonging and inclusion' office in response to Trump's DEI crackdown
- Trump revives Mexico City Policy, banning funding for groups that aid abortion overseas
- Trump signs new executive order enforcing the Hyde Amendment, banning the use of federal dollars for abortions
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio orders halt to almost all U.S. foreign aid
- Vance casts tiebreaking vote in Hegseth's favor
- Trump administration gives green light to start firing federal workers in DEI roles
- KKK flyers warning immigrants to “leave now” distributed in Kentucky following Trump inauguration [similar flyers distributed in Indiana following 2024 election]
- Tennessee Republican women’s group cites Hitler in promoting its reading list
- School safety board disbanded
- 200 Palestinian prisoners released from detention centers as part of ceasefire deal
- Israel says it won’t withdraw from Lebanon by Sunday deadline
- US seeks to rejoin international declaration that denounces right to abortion
- Trump fires independent inspectors general in Friday night purge
DAY 4 - 1/23/25
- Trump administration gives officials from several agencies authority to carry out deportations
- Trump speaks at World Economic Forum, calls for tariffs & demands interest rates be lowered "immediately"; says he's going to ask NATO members to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, will ask Saudi Arabia to increase U.S. investments to $1 trillion; claims the E.U. treats the U.S. 'very, very unfairly’
- Federal district court judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order
- Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as CIA director
- 11 state attorneys general say they will not allow the Trump administration to use their state's resources for mass deportations
- Trump says new crypto working group will evaluate 'digital asset stockpile'
- Trump administration withdraws security details from Pompeo and Brian Hook
- Trump says he's open to inviting Jan. 6 defendants to White House
- Trump says he expects Fed to listen to him on rate policy: "I think I know interest rates much better than they do"
- Trump signs executive order to declassify records related to assassinations of JFK, MLK Jr. and RFK
- Trump establishes advisory council on science and tech
- Trump pardons anti-abortion protesters a day before annual March for Life rally
- Conservative AGs say corporations that adhere to DEI and ESG practices could face legal consequences in letter to major financial institutions
- House Republican introduces constitutional amendment to allow Trump to seek third term in office
- Trump: Zelenskyy is 'no angel' and ‘shouldn't have allowed this war to happen’; suggests Ukraine shouldn’t have fought back against Russia
- Britain will not recognize Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico
- Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
- Top DOGE attorney resigns
- Newark mayor accuses ICE of detaining vet, U.S. citizens in N.J. immigration raid
- DOJ ordered to cut off all legal service funding for immigrants
- Proposed Mississippi bill rewards bounty hunters for deportations
- ICE arrests 538 people, claims to have targeted violent undocumented immigrants in “worst first” approach
- Justice Dept. revokes job offers to young lawyers in elite honors program
- Mississippi senator files Contraception Begins at Erection Act, a bill banning male ejaculation without intent to conceive, to point out contraceptive double standards
DAY 3 - 1/22/25
- DOJ issues memo threatening to prosecute local officials who impede deportation efforts
- Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause external communications (regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health advisories)
- Flights canceled for ~10,000 refugees who were slated to travel to US following Trump's executive action
- Trump demands apology from bishop who urged mercy for immigrants and LGBTQ community during sermon, calling her “not very good at her job,” “nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart”
- Musk bashes the $500 billion AI project Trump announced, claiming its backers don’t "actually have the money"
- Trump threatens new sanctions and tariffs on Russia if Putin doesn't end war in Ukraine
- Thousands more troops ordered to US-Mexico border
- Johnson doubles down on conditioning disaster aid for L.A. wildfire recovery, defends Trump’s sweeping Jan. 6 pardons
- Largest police union in the U.S. condemns Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons, says it sends a “dangerous message”
- Trump rescinds Executive Order 11246, in effect since 1965, which banned discrimination and established affirmative action in federal contracting
- House Republicans announce creation of a subcommittee to investigate events before and after Jan. 6, “uncover the full truth,” and expose “the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress”
- Teen fatally shoots a female student and himself at Antioch High School in Nashville (2 dead, 1 wounded)
- Border Patrol agents directed to deny entry to asylum seekers if they “traveled through a country with communicable disease”; specific diseases not listed, essentially closing the border to anyone attempting to exercise the right to seek humanitarian refuge under U.S. law
- Trump pardons DC officers convicted in 2020 police chase death
- ACLU sues over Trump’s push to broaden expedited deportations
- Trump signs executive order suspending “the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the U.S. through the southern border”
- Trump names Sean Curran as new Secret Service director
- Federal employees are told to name colleagues who work in DEI roles or risk ‘adverse consequences’
- Trump hints at big changes coming to FEMA, suggests states should handle their own disaster relief
- Trump says administration is 'trying' to get rid of sanctuary cities, may cut federal funding
- Trump floats restricting California access to federal resources until state alters water policy
- Trump selects Andrew Puzder as nominee for ambassador to EU, despite previous criticisms over business practices and domestic abuse allegations
- Trump re-designates Yemen's Houthis as a foreign terrorist group
DAY 2 - 1/21/25
- Trump says he's firing José Andrés, Mark Milley and two others from advisory committees
- First known senior military officer fired under Trump admin (Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard)
- Democratic states sue to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship
- Trump-appointed federal judge bars DOJ from sharing Jack Smith’s classified documents case report with Congress
- Trump terminates John Bolton’s security detail
- Bishop at inaugural prayer service pleads with Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBT children, undocumented immigrants
- Departing from long-standing policy, Trump says ICE can arrest people at churches and schools
- Trump executive order threatens fate of Afghan refugees who helped the US
- DHS reinstates 'Remain in Mexico' policy
- Trump administration fires four immigration court officials
- State Department removes webpage on passport gender marker changes
- Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road, an online black market for illegal drugs
- Trump signs 46 executive orders and presidential actions on his first day back in the White House
- Trump announces $500 billion AI infrastructure investment
- Trump reverses Biden policies on drug pricing and Obamacare
- Trump orders all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday
- Trump executive order takes aim at DEI practices in the private sector; charges agency heads with identifying DEI practitioners, ways to deter DEI programs & principles
- Republican lawmaker calls for bishop to be ‘added to deportation list’ after Trump prayer service
DAY 1 - 1/20/25
- Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump critics (Fauci, Milley, Jan. 6 panel) and Biden family members
- Donald Trump sworn in as 47th president; says society will be colorblind and merit-based, with two genders; we will pursue our “manifest destiny” on Mars
- Trump administration shuts down border app that allowed migrants to legally enter US
- Trump announces second withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
- Politico: Ramaswamy forced out of DOGE by Musk after calling US workers ‘mediocre’
- Trump signs executive orders revoking 78 of Biden’s actions
- Trump signs a freeze on new regulations & a hiring freeze on federal workers
- Marco Rubio confirmed as secretary of state
- Trump issues sweeping pardon of 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who attacked police
- Trump signs executive order suspending US Refugee Admissions Program and revoking Biden order enhancing resettlement programs
- Trump administration shuts down reproductiverights.org, a government-funded website that provided information & resources about reproductive care
- Trump signs executive order challenging birthright citizenship
- Trump signs executive orders designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations & declaring a national emergency at the southern border
- Trump revokes Biden's executive order on AI safety
- Trump signs order creating Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
- Trump signs executive order to delay TikTok ban for 75 days; wants a divestiture deal, says U.S. “should be entitled to get half of TikTok”
- Trump says he is 'not confident' he can keep the ceasefire in Gaza; "Gaza is… a phenomenal location on the sea — best weather, everything’s good. Some beautiful things could be done with it."
- Trump threatens China with tariffs if a TikTok deal is blocked
- Trump signs declaration on 'national energy emergency,' to boost resource extraction; permits Trump to boost U.S. energy production, including drilling in Alaska
- Trump revokes security clearances of 51 former officials who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter
- Right-wing extremists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis celebrate after Musk appears to give Nazi salute at post-inauguration rally
- Trump signs executive order withdrawing from WHO
- Trump signs executive order "protecting women from radical gender ideology"; proclaims that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes
- Trump signs executive order halting diversity, equity and inclusion programs in federal agencies
- Trump undoes Biden executive action that de-listed Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism
- Trump signs memo that would grant immediate security clearance to whomever he wants for six months
- Trump reinstates federal death penalty and mandates tougher capital punishment policies
- Trump renames Denali mountain “Mount McKinley”; changes Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”
- ACLU sues Trump administration over birthright citizenship executive order
- White House Spanish website taken down; message says “Go Home” [has been revised to “Go to Home Page”]