Tracking presidential actions and other news.
Eliminating the Federal Executive Institute. Shutters an agency that provided education, etc to administration leaders.
Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Directs DOJ to review current FCPA investigations and undertake no new ones for 180 days.
OMB Director Russell Vought Named Acting Director of CFPB.
Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa.
Appointments to the White House Faith Office.
Establishment of the White House Faith Office.
TFG loves his EOs: Protecting Second Amendment Rights.
Trump to Fire Kennedy Center Board, Name Himself Chairman.
DOGE Staffer Who Accessed Treasury Department Payment Systems Resigns After Racist Posts Exposed.
Imposing Sanctions on the ICC.
Amid Flurry of Policy Memos, Trump II AG Directs DOJ to Criminalize DEIA Policies in the Private Sector. Additional Memos.
NOAA Staff Directed Not to Communicate With ‘Foreign Nationals’.
Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports. Link to EO: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.
Missed a few EOs and Memos. Withdrawing the US From UNRWA and UNESCO. NatSec Memo on Iran. Northern Border Progress. Southern Border Progress. U S Wealth Fund.
Canada, Mexico Tariffs on Hold for 30 Days.
Finally the Mexicoand and China tariff EOs are published. That’s 25% on goods from Mexico and 10% on those from China. Both close the “de minimus” loophole (goods costing less than $800 were not taxed).
Senior USAID Security Officials Put on Leave After Refusing Musk’s DOGE Access to Agency Systems. Some context: “Around 60 senior USAID staff were put on leave last week on accusations of attempting to circumvent the executive order on foreign aid. Another senior official was put on leave for trying to reverse that move after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.”
Trump II Appointee Fires Jan. 6 Prosecutors, Seeks Roster of FBI Agents.
Trump II Fires Head of CFPB. Mr Chopra somehow survived for two weeks.
Trump II Gives Oligarch Elon Musk’s DOGE Access to Federal Government’s Payments System.
Trump II Signs EO Imposing Tariffs on Canada. Goods from Canada and Mexico get 25% tariffs; Canadian crude oil gets a 10% tariff. Suppose we will get the expected Mexico and China tariffs on separate EOs.
Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety: Instructs relevant departments to blame Biden, DEI policies for the AA airliner collision.
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. More anti-trans, anti-DEI stuff, promotes patriotic education, will remove funding for institutions out of compliance.
Another EO: Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families. Directs agencies to find ways to support so-called school choice initiatives.
Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity. Instructions to DOD.
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation. A host of policy changes and directives aimed at ending gender-affirming care for minors.
Trump II Fires DOJ Career Attorneys Connected to Trump Prosecutions. Source in article notes this is not legal.
Trump II Fires NLRB Officials, Breaks Law in Doing So.
Trump II Fires Two Democratic Commissionersof the EEOC, Leaving It Without a Quorum
Trump II OMB Issues Memo Pausing Some or All Federal Grants.