Tracking presidential actions and other news.
Trump II Signs Executive Order Directing Bureau of Reclamation to Increase Water Deliveries to San Joaquin Valley Farmers.Includes swipes at California water policy, and directs agencies to override state policy, where permissible.
Air Force Revising Curricula That References Tuskegee Airmen, Women Pilots Following Trump II DEI EOs.Course Revised, Tuskegee and Women Aviator Sections Restored.
Trump II Slaps 25% ‘Emergency’ Tariffs on Colombia. In response to Colombia’s refusal to accept a repatriation flight landing in its territory. This appears to have beenresolved. Note to editorial staff: Avoid scrambling when Trump II makes a threat and allow the situation to evolve into an actual event and not an afternoon’s entertainment.
Trump II Ed Department Drops 11 Complaints of School District Book Banning, Says Will Not Investigate Such Complaints inFuture, Calling Them ‘Book BanHoaxes’.
Trump II Fires Inspectors General of at Least 12 Federal Departments and Agencies. Congress is supposed to get 30 days notice before IG removals can happen.
Trump II Pauses Funding for H.I.V. Treatment Programs in Africa. Could be 90 days, could be 180. Dubya launched this program, one of the few decent things he did.
Trump II State Department Stops Funding International Demining Programs. As in, programs to remove explodey land mines. For 90 days, anyway.
Trump II DOJ Deletes Webpage With Details on Jan 6 Prosecutions. Link toscrubbed page.
Trump II FDA Effort to Delete DEI in Staffing Webpages Also Deletes Pages Promoting Diversity in Clinical Trials.
Trump II Halts Pending Environmental Litigation, Shuffles Lawyers and Staff Out of DOJ Environment Law Department.
Trump II Reinstates “Mexico City” Abortion Policy. This blocks U.S. funding for international health organizations that promote, advise, etc abortion
Trump II Signs EO Creating FEMA Reform Study Council.
Trump II Signs EO Revoking Biden EOs That Supported Access to Reproductive Health, Including Abortion.
Trump II Reinstates FCC Complaints About Networks’s Election Coverage in 2024. ABC, NBC, CBS.
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity: Another broad swipe at DEI and anti-discrimination policies that undoes several related EOs (going back decades), and directs agencies to eliminate those practices and policies and find ways to encourage the private sector to do the same.
Trump II Freezes Many Activities at NIH.
Trump II Officials Shutdown All External Communications From HHS Health Agencies (Like FDC, NIH, CDC, etc): Pending review.
Trump II Pardons Silk Round Founder Ross Ullbricht: Ullbricht had been sentenced to life in prison for his actions facilitating drug sales, etc on his website. Trump II said the pardon fulfilled a promise he made to the Libertarian Party during the election.
Hoo boy, Inauguration Day and loads of appointments, proclamations, and executive orders. I'm gonna need another list. I count 46 EOs, Memoranda, and Proclamations. See that list here.
Trump II Takes a Break From Signing EOs to Pardon 1,500 Jan. 6th Rioters/Insurgents/Conspiracists, Including Proud Boys Leaders.
Trump II Picks Billionaire Stephen Feinberg for Deputy Defense Secretary.
Some of the Provisions Dropped From the CR That Passed the House After a Trump-Musk Blowup Scuppered an Earlier Deal.
Trump II Squashes House Continuing Resolution Agreement. Was planning to only list “real” and significant events of the Trump II presidency, and this qualifies, although the presidency hasn’t actually started yet.
The Voice of Trump II (Truth Social) Truthed That Kari Lake, Former News Personality From Arizona, Will Lead the Voice of America.
Trump II Picks Kimberly Guilfoyle as Ambassador to Greece.
Trump II to Promote FTC Member Andrew Ferguson to Commissioner. Ferguson will replace current commissioner Lina Khan.
Attorney Alina Habba to Be Trump II’s Legal Counselor. She’s represented Trump in LOTS of recent civil litigation.
Trump II Announces Lawyer Harmeet Dhillion to Head the DOJ’s Civil Rights division.
Trump II Names Former PayPal COO David Sacks WH ‘AI and Crypto Czar’. Trump said Sacks will also lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology.
Trump II Boosts Billionaire Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA. The 10th Billionaire to be nominated to join Trump II’s administration. Serious conflicts of interest with Musk’s SpaceX.