January 2025

News From January 2025

1/20/25 Trump disables CBP One, an app migrants use to help gain LEGAL access to the US

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-shuts-cbp-one-immigration-app-dashing-migrants-hopes-entering-us-rcna188448

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1/20/25 Trump team takes down reproductiverights.gov, a site to help women understand their rights

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-website-offering-reproductive-health-information-goes-offline/

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1/20/25 Trump pardons 1,500 J6ers who partook in the break in at the capital and the deaths of several officers

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-set-pardon-defendants-stormed-capitol-jan-6-2021-rcna187735

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1/20/25 Trump removes the US from the Paris Climate Accord

https://apnews.com/article/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-788907bb89fe307a964be757313cdfb0

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1/20/25 Trump removes the US from the World Health Organization

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-world-health-organization.html

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1/20/25 Elon Musk gives a nazi salute at the inauguration

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musks-hand-gesture-during-trump-inauguration-festivities-draws-scrutiny-2025-01-21/

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1/20/25 Trump removed the Spanish version of the white house website

https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-spanish-language-website-62224890c5b05c8ce0878358ba4a5266

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1/20/25 Trump rescinded the Biden executive order to lower drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5098715-trump-executive-order-biden-prescription-drug-costs/

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1/20/25 Trump signs an executive order removing birthright citizenship, aka, the 14th Amendment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/20/trump-immigration-executive-orders/

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1/21/25 Trump fired top immigration court officials https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-fired-four-top-immigration-court-officials-hours-taking-office-rcna188637

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1/21/25 Trump declares national emergency at the border due to immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-immigration-emergency-executive-order

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1/21/25 Trump rolled back all DEI practices in the white house

https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-executive-order-diversity-834a241a60ee92722ef2443b62572540

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1/21/25 Executive order to rename gulf of Mexico and mount denali to gulf of America and mount mckinley

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rename-gulf-of-mexico-denali/

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1/21/25 Trump removed the following from the Whitehouse.gov website: Constitution, Judicial Branch, Executive Branch, and the Legislative Branch

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/21/trump-white-house-website-removes-presidential-webpages/77851785007/

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1/21/25 Trump gives an unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for the creation and running of the Silk Road, which sold primarily illicit narcotics on the dark web.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o

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1/21/25 Trump allows ICE to conduct raids in daycares, schools, and churches

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-authorizes-ice-target-schools-churches/story?id=117954409

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1/21/25 Trump puts a freeze on all federal hiring. This causes thousands of individuals to have job offers rescinded on extremely short notice

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/20/donald-trump-inauguration-day-news-updates-analysis/a-government-hiring-freeze-and-end-to-remote-work-00199548

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1/22/25 Trump revoked the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Order

https://www.mcguirewoods.com/client-resources/alerts/2025/1/new-executive-order-revokes-executive-order-11246-and-targets-employer-dei-efforts/

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1/22/25 Trump blocks external reports and studies from the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/trump-administration-orders-health-communications-pause-cdc-hhs-fda/

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1/22/25 Trump suspends entry of all migrants across the southern border with no exceptions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/22/trump-asylum-border-troops-immigration/

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1/22/25 Trump suggests defunding FEMA in an interview with Sean Hannity

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-fema-states-sean-hannity-interview

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1/23/25 Trump blocked 1500 Afghans who helped us during the war from coming into the US, despite all being cleared by the CIA and the FBI.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/afghans-who-risked-their-lives-to-help-american-troops-blocked-by-trump-administration-from-resettling-in-u-s

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1/23/25 Trump Pardons two DC cops who killed and attempted to cover up the murder of a young black man

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-two-police-officers-convicted-murder-black-man-washington-2025-01-23/

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1/23/25 Federal Judge puts a hold on Trump's birthright citizenship executive order

https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-donald-trump-lawsuit-immigration-9ac27b234c854a68a9b9f8c0d6cd8a1c

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1/23/25 Trump revoked security detail of Mike Pompeo, Trump's former chief of staff, even though he has been on the end of a possible assassination plot by Iran

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/trump-pompeo-security-iran.html

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1/23/25 Trump ran on reducing the price of eggs. Egg prices have raised by over 30% since his inauguration

https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/shelling-out-egg-prices-rise-nearly-37-percent

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1/23/25 Republican congressman Andy Ogles has drafted a constitutional amendment that would allow Trump to run for a third term

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5104133-rep-andy-ogles-proposes-trump-third-term-amendment/

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1/23/25 Trump shut down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The next day, a school shooting took place.

https://tntribune.com/antioch-high-school-shooting-comes-just-one-day-after-donald-trump-shut-down-office-of-gun-violence-prevention/

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1/23/25 Trump blocked funding for the infrastructure law

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-freezes-inflation-reduction-act-050000915.html

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1/23/25 Panama sends report to the UN because Trump's threats are against the UN Charter

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/panama-canal-trump-un.html#:~:text=Panama%20submitted%20a%20formal%20letter,said%20after%20being%20sworn%20in.

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1/23/25 Fraternal Order of Police that endorsed Trump, lash out at him for pardoning cop killers from J6

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jan6-pardons-fraternal-order-police-union-2018836

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1/23/25 Trump Threatens to withhold California wild fire aid

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-wildfire-aid-los-angeles-gavin-newsom/

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1/23/25 DOJ orders ALL federal legal aid to immigrants to be halted

https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-orders-federally-funded-legal-service-providers-stop/story?id=118027656

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1/24/25 Trump rescinds Dr Anthony Fauci's security detail

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/24/politics/anthony-fauci-security-detail-trump

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1/24/25 Trump rolls back sanctions on Israeli groups

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/24/treasury-terminates-sanctions-israeli-settlers-00200479

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1/24/25 Trump has a “Heated” call with Denmarks prime minister. Insists he plans on taking over Greenland

https://www.ft.com/content/ace02a6f-3307-43f8-aac3-16b6646b60f6

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1/24/25 Mississippi lawmakers introduce a bill that would pay $1000 to any bounty hunters that turn in illegal immigrants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/24/reward-reporting-illegal-immigrants-mississippi/

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1/25/25 JD Vance casts tie breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, fox news anchor, as the Defense Secretary.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pete-hegseth-confirmation-vote-senate-defense-secretary/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17378090493608&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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1/25/25 Nearly 2/3 of Trump's executive orders mirror or partially mirror action detailed in Project 2025

https://time.com/7209901/donald-trump-executive-actions-project-2025/

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1/25/25 Trump fires 17 Inspector Generals in a late night purge. This is illegal, as the position requires 30 days notice but his order was effective immediately.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/trump-fires-inspectors-general.html

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1/25/25 Trump forces Air Force to scrap course that taught recruits about Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

https://www.wral.com/story/more-dei-fallout-air-force-scraps-course-that-used-videos-of-tuskegee-airmen-and-female-wwii-pilots/21827180/

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1/25/25 Mike Johnson says US is heading into a new era of abortion opposition

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5105366-mike-johnson-anti-abortion-march/

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1/25/25 Trump ceased all foreign aid except to Egypt and Israel

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/nx-s1-5272892/trump-issues-order-to-halt-us-foreign-aid

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1/26/25 Texas House Bans Democrats from holding committee chairmanships

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/01/23/fight-expected-over-proposed-rules-for-texas-house-including-limits-on-democrats-power/

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1/26/25 Navajo tribe members have been detained by ICE

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/01/24/reports-of-navajo-people-being-detained-in-immigration-sweeps-sparks-concern-from-tribal-leaders/

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1/26/25 Trump issues 25% tariffs on Colombia

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

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1/26/25 Trump seems to want to ethnically cleanse Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause

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1/26/25 Colombian president caves to Trump in dispute over deportations

https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombian-president-caves-trump-dispute-213021159.html

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1/26/25 Trump Administration Reinstates Policy to Restrict Abortion Worldwide

https://reproductiverights.org/trump-administration-reinstates-policy-to-restrict-abortion-worldwide/

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1/26/25 Trump Justice Dept. limits enforcement of the FACE Act, which protects reproductive health facilities. It made it illegal to harm, threaten or interfere with an individual "obtaining or providing reproductive health services"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-face-act-abortion-related-actions-justice-department/

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1/26/25 Lauren Handy, a woman who was found to have several dead fetuses in her home, has been pardoned by Trump

https://time.com/7209779/trump-pardons-anti-abortion-activists-who-blockaded-clinic-entrances/

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1/27/25 Air Force announced that the course on the Tuskegee Airman and female WWII pilots will just be revised and added back to the training course. This is a reversal of the previous removal following Trump's order

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tuskegee-airmen-wasps-lesson-removed-us-air-force-curriculum-memo-dei-order/

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1/27/25 Democrats move to condemn Trump pardons of violent Jan. 6 defendants

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/27/congress/senate-dems-jan-6-pardons-00200696

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1/27/25 Trump bars trans women from U.S. prisons for female inmates

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/trump-transgender-inmates-prison.html

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1/27/25 US Officials barred from working with the World Health Organization

https://wtop.com/national/2025/01/us-public-health-officials-have-been-told-to-stop-working-with-the-world-health-organization-effective-immediately/

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1/27/25 Quakers are suing Trump in Maryland

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/quakers-trump-immigration-raid-churches-lawsuit

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1/27/25 J6er pardoned by Trump has been shot and killed by police for resisting arrest

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/indiana-man-fatally-shot-deputy-identified-jan-6

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1/28/25 All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/white-house-pauses-federal-grants-loan-disbursement/index.html

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1/28/25 Donald Trump pledges sweeping tariffs on steel, semiconductors and other imports

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/27/trump-tariffs-steel-semiconductors-pharmaceuticals/77981468007/

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1/28/25 Tuberculosis outbreak in KC-area is 'largest documented outbreak in US history'

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas-health-officials-say-tuberculosis-outbreak-in-kc-area-is-largest-documented-outbreak-in-us-history

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1/28/25 Medicaid portals down in all 50 states after Trump funding freeze, Sen. Wyden says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-state-portals-omb.html

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1/28/25 Judge blocks Federal Funding order temporarily

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-f9948b9996c0ca971f0065fac85737ce

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1/28/25 New "Calexit" bid for California secession approved for signature gathering in effort to put measure on ballot

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-secede-2028-ballot-measure-allowed-to-get-signatures/

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