How close is 🇺🇸 to being a fascist state?
Fascism Clock Timeline History
Last updated: 04/08/2025
Data provided by: Project 2025 Tracker, Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, FRED Economic Data, Civicus Human Rights Watchlist, Trump Administration Major Moves, Executive Orders List.
| Date | Input | Dept | What | Targets |
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| 2024-11-05 | Donald Trump elected as President of the United States | |||
| 2024-11-05 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 312.49 | |
| 2024-11-30 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | 3 Component Index | 163 | |
| 2024-11-30 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 225 | |
| 2024-11-30 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 123.13 | |
| 2024-12-30 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Labor | Return to Trump-era overtime exemption threshold | Labor |
| 2024-12-30 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 138.37 | |
| 2024-12-31 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | 3 Component Index | 159 | |
| 2024-12-31 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 219 | |
| 2025-01-19 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 508.27 | |
| 2025-01-20 | Donald Trump officially starts at POTUS | |||
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 26 | ||
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Defense | Direct the military to assist in building border wall. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Defense | Deploy active-duty personnel and National Guardsmen to the border. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Rescind Biden-era guidance that added a "non-binary" option in civil rights data collected from schools. EO: Only 2 genders of male and female. |
Civil Rights LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Abandon the redefinition of "sex" to “sexual orientation and gender identity” in Title IX. | Civil Rights LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Issue rules and guidance that that “sex” is properly understood as a fixed biological fact. | Civil Rights LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Repeal the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). EO: Indefinitely pauses the disbursement of funds. |
Renewables |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. EO: Indefinitely pauses the disbursement of funds. |
Renewables |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Focus energy policy on critical minerals. | Energy |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps (funded by the IIJA). EO: Indefinitely pauses the disbursement of funds. |
Reorganization |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Ensure liquified natural gas export applications are "approved expeditiously," without consideration of climate change. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Expand energy exploration and extraction in Alaska, open Nat'l Petroleum Reserve to leasing and development. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | ICE should be required to "take custody of all aliens with records for felonies...DUIs...and any other crime that is considered a national security or public safety threat". | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Raise the standard for a credible fear of persecution for asylum. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Reinstate Remain in Mexico. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Dismiss "the entirety" of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. | Cyber Security |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Prohibit the U.S. government from combating the spread of misinformation and disinformation. | Technology |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Pursue the death penalty for all applicable crimes. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Immediately end "any policies, investigations, or cases that run contrary to...administration policies," including the "brazenly partisan and ideologically driven prosecution of...perceived | Presidential Power |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Ensure "appropriate steps" are taken to obtain cooperation with sanctuary cities and states. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Labor | Eliminate DEIA programs in Labor policy. | DEIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Suspend all visas to people from countries that do not accept the return of immigrants ordered deported. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Indefinitely curtail USRAP refugee admissions. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Withdraw funding for the World Health Organization. | Aid |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Interior | Immediately rollback Biden's executive orders that prioritized addressing climate change. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Interior | Revoke rules regarding predator control and bear baiting. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Interior | Vacate Biden-era order protecting 30 percent of U.S. land and water by 2030. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Treasury | Close the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; treat the participation in any DEI initiative as per se grounds for termination. | DEIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Treasury | Withdraw from the Paris agreement and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Treasury | Reverse support for consideration of environmental, social, and governance principles. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Eliminate the use of the social cost of carbon. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Intelligence Community | Revoke the security clearances of senior intelligence officials who leak information. | Intel |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Personnel | Rescind Biden's Executive Order 14003, which revoked Trump's Schedule F order and made it easier to discipline federal employees. | Personnel |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Personnel | Institute a hiring freeze. | Personnel |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | Personnel | Reschedule thousands of federal civil service workers, making it easier to fire career civil servants (Schedule F). | Personnel |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | White House | Cut off government contracts to entities that enforce a "woke agenda". | LGBTQIA DEIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | White House | Instruct the CEQ to rewrite its regulations implementing NEPA. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | White House | Eliminate the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | White House | Issue an executive order abolishing the Office of Domestic Climate Policy. | Environment |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025 | White House | Revoke EO 14020, which established the Gender Policy Council. | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-20 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 193.71 | |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Shut down migrant entry app | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Revoked U.S. Secret Service protection for John R. Bolton | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Barred asylum for people arriving at the Southern border | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Designated some international cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered development of a plan to recruit federal workers based on ‘merit’ and prevent hiring based on race, sex or religion | DEI Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered the State Department to put ‘America and its interests first’ | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered the government to recognize only two sexes: male and female | DEI LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered a 60-day study to identify countries from which to potentially bar admission of nationals based on their vetting and screening processes | Foreign Policy Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Initiated plans to open up fragile wilderness in Alaska for oil drilling and mining | Climate |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Declared that there is an ‘invasion’ at the Southern border | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Challenged an international agreement to stop large multinational corporations from booking profits in countries with low taxes | Economy Trade<>Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Froze foreign aid | Foreign Policy DEI |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Halted federal approvals for new wind farms | Climate |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Declared a ‘national energy emergency’ | Climate |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered the General Services Administration to promote ‘beautiful federal civic architecture’ | Other |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Directed cabinet members to find ways to reroute water to Southern California | Climate |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Vowed to reinstate a policy known as ‘Remain in Mexico’ | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Suspended the refugee resettlement program | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Made it easier for the president to fire federal employees | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Stripped security clearances from some former intelligence officials | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Short-circuited the security clearance vetting process for White House staff | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered federal agencies to implement an ‘America First trade policy’ | Trade |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered the military to make border security a priority | Military Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Instructed federal agencies to end subsidies for electric vehicles | Climate Economy |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Moved to withdraw from the World Health Organization | Foreign Policy Health |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered withdrawal from the world’s main climate pact | Foreign Policy Climate |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Directed federal agencies to “deliver emergency price relief” | Economy |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Froze most hiring across the federal government | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Prevented new federal rules from taking effect | Regulations |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ended remote work for federal workers | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Instructed attorney general to find political bias in the federal government | Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered investigation into alleged violations of freedom of speech | Other |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered U.S. flag to fly at full staff on Inauguration Day | Other |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Renamed Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ | Other |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Terminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government | DEI Staffing |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Restored the federal death penalty | Other |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Moved to end birthright citizenship | Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Delayed enforcing a federal ban on TikTok | Economy Tech |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Granted clemency to everyone charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 | Law Clemency |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Rescinded 78 of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s executive orders | DEI Climate Immigration |
| 2025-01-20 | Media | News | Ordered 60-day pause on approvals for all ‘renewable energy development’ on public lands | Climate |
| 2025-01-21 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-01-21 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-21 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Eliminate the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management or redirect it to increasing fossil fuel use. | Environment |
| 2025-01-21 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Issue guidance to all U.S. Attorneys "emphasizing the importance of prosecuting immigration offenses". | Immigration |
| 2025-01-21 | Project 2025 | Intelligence Community | "Prioritize security clearance reform" by streamlining the clearance process. | Intel |
| 2025-01-21 | Project 2025 | White House | Give the Office of Personnel Management (White House) the responsibility to conduct security clearance investigations. | Intel |
| 2025-01-21 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 225.37 | |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Fired four people from presidential councils | Staffing |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Mused that Elon Musk or Larry Ellison could buy TikTok | Economy |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Fired the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda L. Fagan | Staffing Military |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Canceled scientific meetings and delayed health data | Health |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Promised to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico | Tafiffs Economy |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Announced a $100 billion A.I. initiative called Stargate (OpenAI, Softbank, Oracle) | Tech<>Economy |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Directed the Federal Aviation Administration to halt D.E.I. hiring practices | DEI |
| 2025-01-21 | Media | News | Ordered diversity efforts to be shut down | DEI DOGE |
| 2025-01-22 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-01-22 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-22 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | DHS Secretary should "quickly remove all current members" of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee and replace them. | Personnel |
| 2025-01-22 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Eliminate all existing DOJ consent decrees. | Criminal Justice Police |
| 2025-01-22 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Undermine California waiver re:reducing pollution from vehicles. | Environment |
| 2025-01-22 | Project 2025 | White House | Clear out the NSC, replace "all essential detailees with staff aligned to the new President's priorities". | Presidential Power |
| 2025-01-22 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 121.77 | |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Granted clemency to Lt. Andrew Zabavsky | Law Clemency |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Granted clemency to Officer Terence Sutton | Law Clemency |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Redesignated Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization” | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Hired chemical industry officials to oversee chemical safety rules | Staffing |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Halted civil rights work | DEI |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Threatened workers who fail to report on colleagues defying diversity orders | DEI DOGE |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Threatened to prosecute local officials who obstruct immigration enforcement | Immigration |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Said U.S. would send 1,500 troops to the southern border | Immigration Military |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Canceled flights for refugees already approved to travel to the U.S. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-22 | Media | News | Pardoned, Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road, a dark web marketplace | Law Clemency Pardon |
| 2025-01-23 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-01-23 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-23 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Increase use of civil search warrants for workplace raids. | Immigration |
| 2025-01-23 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 176.52 | |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Lashed out at banks over treatment of conservatives | DEI |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Pardoned anti-abortion activists who blockaded a clinic in Washington, D.C. | Law Abortion Health Clemency Pardon |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Moved to expel migrants Biden allowed in temporarily | Immigration |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Supported the growth of the cryptocurrency industry | Tech Economy |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Announced an advisory council on science and technology | Tech Economy |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Revoked orders that ‘act as barriers to American leadership in artificial intelligence’ | Tech Economy |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Criticized Europe and threatened tariffs | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Canceled entry-level job offers at the Justice Department | Staffing |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Expressed openness to bringing Jan. 6 rioters to the White House | Law Other |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Revoked security protection for Mike Pompeo | Staffing |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Removed education-related documents that included mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion | DEI Education |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Phone call with Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia. | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Pledged to retake the Panama Canal | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Required trans women to be housed in prisons for men | DEI LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-23 | Media | News | Said California should not get federal aid for wildfires | Economy Other |
| 2025-01-24 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-01-24 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Energy | Eliminate considerations of upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions. | Environment |
| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Health & Human Services | Enforce the Hyde amendment (banning any federal funds from being used for abortions, abortion counseling, etc.). | Reproductive Health |
| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Avoid "politically motivated prosecutions" of people who violate the FACE Act. | Criminal Justice Reproductive Health |
| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Labor | Rescind Executive Order 11246 - Equal Opportunity Employment. | Civil Rights |
| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Prohibit the flying of "Divisive symbols such as the rainbow flag or the Black Lives Matter flag" at U.S. embassies. | DEIA |
| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Freeze "allocation of resources, foreign aid disbursements," and "hiring and recruiting decisions". | Aid |
| 2025-01-24 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Reinstate the Mexico City policy banning aid to groups that even communicate about abortion services. | Aid Reproducteive Health |
| 2025-01-24 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 189.16 | |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Ended government security protection for Dr. Anthony S. Fauci | Staffing |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Fired more than a dozen inspectors general | Staffing |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Sought to freeze foreign aid payments | Economy DOGE |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Reinstated anti-abortion policy | Abortion Health |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Ended Biden’s book ban investigations | Education |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Moved to give state and local governments authority to enforce immigration laws | Immigration Law |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Ordered only U.S. flags be flown at embassies and consulates (no pride nor Black Lives Matter flags) | Other |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Pushed to allow militia leader to visit Washington | Law Jan6 Clemency |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Withdrew proposal to take menthol cigarettes off the market | Health |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Revoked two Biden orders on abortion | Abortion Health |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Sought to assert more control over California’s water | Climate |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Established a council to assess FEMA | Staffing |
| 2025-01-24 | Media | News | Moved transgender inmates into segregated housing | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-25 | Project 2025 | USAID | Eliminate Chief Diversity Officer at USAID, remove DEI requirements, eliminate funding for partners that promote "discriminatory DEI practices". | DEIA |
| 2025-01-25 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 159.12 | |
| 2025-01-25 | Media | News | Halted global mine-clearing programs | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-25 | Media | News | Said the U.S. may consider rejoining the W.H.O. | Foreign Policy Health |
| 2025-01-25 | Media | News | Suggested relocating Gazans to Jordan and Egypt | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-25 | Media | News | Insisted the U.S. will acquire Greenland | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-26 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 178.55 | |
| 2025-01-26 | Media | News | ‘DoD ≠ DEI*’ (The asterisk denoted “no exceptions, name-changes or delays. Those who do not comply will no longer work here.”) | DEI Military |
| 2025-01-27 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-01-27 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-27 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Defense | Reinstate service members who were fired due to their refusal to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandate. | Defense |
| 2025-01-27 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Health & Human Services | Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on pregnancy (to cover abortion). | Reproductive Health |
| 2025-01-27 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 159.12 | |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Paused federal grants and loans | DEI Immigration Education |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Reinstated service members dismissed for refusing COVID vaccine | Military Health |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Moved toward pushing transgender people out of the military | Military LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Ordered development of a missile defense system like Israel’s | Defense Military |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Joked about running for a third term | Elections |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Fired Democratic E.E.O.C. (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) commissioners | Staffing |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs | DEI Military |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Placed dozens of U.S.A.I.D. officials on leave | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Paralyzed an independent civil liberties watchdog agency | Staffing Civil Rights |
| 2025-01-27 | Media | News | Fired prosecutors involved in the cases against President Trump or the Jan. 6 rioters | Staffing Jan6 |
| 2025-01-28 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-01-28 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-28 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Defense | Abolish DEI offices in the Defense Dept. and military. | DEIA |
| 2025-01-28 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Health & Human Services | Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on gender identity. | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-28 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Labor | Appoint new EEOC and NLRB general counsels. | Reorganization Staffing |
| 2025-01-28 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 262.69 | |
| 2025-01-28 | Media | News | Tried to entice millions of federal workers to resign | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-01-28 | Media | News | Removed Gen. Mark Milley’s security detail and revoked his clearance | Staffing Military |
| 2025-01-28 | Media | News | Restricted gender-affirming treatments for minors | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-28 | Media | News | Revoked deportation protections for Venezuelans | Immigration/td> |
| 2025-01-28 | Media | News | Fired N.L.R.B. general counsel and Democratic board member | Staffing |
| 2025-01-28 | Media | News | Sought to roll back fuel economy standards | Climate Economy |
| 2025-01-29 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-01-29 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-29 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Ban critical race theory in schools that receive federal funding. | Education |
| 2025-01-29 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Expand school choice (i.e. public funding for private schools). | Education |
| 2025-01-29 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Transportation | Reduce fuel economy requirements. | Environment |
| 2025-01-29 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 342.27 | |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Sought to expand access to private school vouchers | Education |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Said U.S. will hold migrants at Guantánamo | Immigration |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Rescinded the freeze in federal grants and loans | DEI DOGE Education |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Falsely claimed U.S. sent $50 million in condoms to Gaza | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Prioritized high-birthrate areas for transportation funds | Other |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Ordered funding withheld from public schools | Education DEI LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Ordered crackdown on antisemitism on college campuses | Education DEI Antisemitism |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Reinstated order to punish vandalism of monuments and statues | Other |
| 2025-01-29 | Media | News | Ordered agencies to end programs that recognize transgender people | DEI DOGE LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-30 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Ban "critical race theory" and "gender ideology" from public school curriculum. | LGBTQIA Equality |
| 2025-01-30 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 293.51 | |
| 2025-01-30 | Media | News | Again tried to entice federal workers to resign | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-01-30 | Media | News | Ordered review of all F.A.A. hiring decisions | Staffing DEI |
| 2025-01-30 | Media | News | Blamed D.E.I. for deadly midair collision over the Potomac | Staffing DEI |
| 2025-01-31 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-01-31 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-01-31 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Defense | Prohibit abortion travel funding. | Reproductive Health |
| 2025-01-31 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Rescind Biden-era Title IX rules that strengthened the proseuction of sexual assault and discrimination claims. | Civil Rights LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-31 | Project 2025 | White House | Remove the words "sexual orientation and gender identity," "diversity, equity, and inclusion," "abortion," "reproductive health," and "gender equality" from every federal rule, | LGBTQIA DEIA |
| 2025-01-31 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | 3 Component Index | 169 | |
| 2025-01-31 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 237 | |
| 2025-01-31 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 495.78 | |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Pushed out a Treasury official for denying access to Elon Musk’s team | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Removed thousands of government web pages | DEI LGBTQIA |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Required federal workers to remove pronouns from email signatures | DEI |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Planned possible F.B.I. purge | Staffing Jan6 |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Ordered repeal of 10 regulations for every new one | Regulations |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Banned cultural observances at the Pentagon | DEO |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Rolled back protections for L.G.B.T.Q. students | DEI LGBTQIA Education |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Invalidated recent government labor contracts | Staffing Labor |
| 2025-01-31 | Media | News | Fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors | Staffing Law |
| 2025-02-01 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-02-01 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-01 | Media | News | Fired director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Staffing |
| 2025-02-01 | Media | News | Ordered air strikes against Islamic State in Somalia | Military |
| 2025-02-01 | Media | News | Punished U.S.A.I.D. officials for denying access to Elon Musk’s team | Staffing DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-01 | Media | News | Officially announced tariffs on imports from China | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-01 | Media | News | Officially announced tariffs on imports from Canada | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-02 | Media | News | Threatened to cut off aid to South Africa | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-02 | Media | News | Said U.S.A.I.D. was run by ‘radical lunatics’ | Staffing Foreign Policy DOGE |
| 2025-02-02 | Media | News | Acknowledged tariffs could have negative consequences | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-02 | Media | News | Reiterated stance that the U.S. will take back the Panama Canal | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-03 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-02-03 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-03 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. | Aid |
| 2025-02-03 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Stop all grants to "advocacy groups". | Funding |
| 2025-02-03 | Project 2025 | USAID | Cut budget of USAID. | Aid Funding |
| 2025-02-03 | Project 2025 | USAID | Rescind USAID policies that address climate change and help countries transition away from fossil fuels. | Aid |
| 2025-02-03 | Project 2025 | USAID | Prohibit USAID from funding "sexual reproductive health and reproductive rights" and "gender equality" programs. | Aid Reproductive Rights |
| 2025-02-03 | Project 2025 | USAID | Cut International Disaster Assistance funding for programs in Yemen, Syria, and Afghanistan. | Aid |
| 2025-02-03 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 327.16 | |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Fired about 60 State Department contractors from the department’s democracy, human rights and labor bureau | Staffing Foreign Policy DOGE |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Again threatened tariffs on imports from European Union | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Threatened to fire E.P.A. employees | Staffing Climate DOGE |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Described 10% tariffs against China as just “an opening salvo” | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Offered assistance to Ukraine in exchange for rare-earth minerals | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Proposed a “sovereign wealth fund” to buy TikTok | Tech Economy |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Moved to dismantle U.S.A.I.D. | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Said Canada should become part of the U.S. | Foreign Policy Tariffs |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Ordered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop most work | Staffing |
| 2025-02-03 | Media | News | Delayed tariffs on Canada | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-04 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-04 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-04 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 393.35 | |
| 2025-02-04 | Media | News | Halted deliveries to the U.S. from China and Hong Kong | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-04 | Media | News | Left instructions to ‘obliterate’ Iran if it assassinated President Trump | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-04 | Media | News | Proposed that the U.S. take over Gaza | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-04 | Media | News | Called for review of U.S. funding of the United Nations | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-04 | Media | News | Restored ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran to deny it paths to a nuclear weapon | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-04 | Media | News | Forced nearly all U.S.A.I.D. employees to go on leave by Feb. 7 | Staffing DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-05 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-02-05 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-05 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Use "the full force of federal prosecutorial resources" to investigate and prosecute state and local gov'ts, institutes of higher ed, corporations, and private employers who hav... | DEIA |
| 2025-02-05 | Project 2025 | Dept. of State | Withdraw funding for United Nations Relief and Works Agency. | Aid |
| 2025-02-05 | Project 2025 | USAID | Prioritize funding for faith-based organizations. (The administration issued a waiver for Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical Christian organization.) |
Aid |
| 2025-02-05 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 226.19 | |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Revoked security protection for Mark T. Esper, former defense secretary | Staffing |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Began digging into F.A.A. technology to ‘make rapid safety upgrades’ | Tech DOGE |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Accessed NOAA computer systems to search for staff and programs tied to diversity policies | DEI Tech DOGE |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Tried to walk back President Trump’s proposal for Gaza | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Threatened to withhold funding to sanctuary cities | Immigration |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Blocked enforcement of environmental justice laws | Climate DEI |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Created a group to review ‘weaponization’ of the criminal justice system | Jan6 |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Provided an unclassified list of new C.I.A. employees to the Office of Personnel Management | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Aimed to prevent transgender students from participating in women’s sports | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Offered National Security Agency workers the option to resign | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Reversed decision to halt deliveries from China and Hong Kong | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Claimed that Panama had agreed to stop charging fees for U.S. government vessels to traverse the Panama Canal | Military Trade |
| 2025-02-05 | Media | News | Disbanded a task force intended to prevent foreign influence in U.S. elections | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-06 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-02-06 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-06 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Eliminate the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. | Reorganization |
| 2025-02-06 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 372.45 | |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Accidentally gave a young ally of Elon Musk the ability to make changes to a sensitive payment database at the Treasury Department | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Planned to reduce the work force at U.S.A.I.D. to 290 from more than 10,000 | Staffing |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Said that more than 40,000 federal workers had accepted the resignation program | Staffing |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Opened investigations related to executive order on transgender athletes | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’ in the federal government | Staffing Religion |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Said that CBS should lose its broadcast license | Media Other |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Froze a Biden-era program to build a national network of electric vehicle charging stations | Climate |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Fired the chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission | Staffing |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Canceled news media subscriptions inside government agencies | Media Other |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Removed the spoon emoji from G.S.A.’s videoconferencing platform because employees at the General Services Administration had used the spoon emoji to express displeasure with the “Fork in the Road” offer to resign | Staffing |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Announced new sanctions on shipping companies that transport Iranian oil to China | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Filed a lawsuit against sanctuary laws in Chicago | Immigration |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Told E.P.A. Environmental Justice workers they may be put on leave | Staffing DEI |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Amplified a conspiracy theory over federal payments to media outlets | Media Other |
| 2025-02-06 | Media | News | Defended Gaza takeover plan | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-07 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-02-07 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-07 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 332.89 | |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Fired the nation’s archivist | Staffing |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Halted financial aid to South Africa and called for the resettling of white ‘Afrikaner refugees’ into the U.S. | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Revoked former President Biden’s security clearances | Staffing Other |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Announced President Trump would install himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center | Media Arts Other |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Announced a nearly $7.5 billion arms deal with Israel | Foreign Policy Military |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Named Russell Vought acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Staffing |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Directed Elon Musk to examine spending at the defense and education departments | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Directed the attorney general to review Biden administration policies restricting firearms | Reguluations Guns |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Established a White House Faith Office | Staffing Religion Other |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Ordered a review of funding from the 2022 climate law distributed by the E.P.A. | Climate |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Announced he would soon ‘surgically’ fire F.B.I. agents | Staffing Jan6 |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Indicated he would announce reciprocal tariffs on other countries in the coming week | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Announced he would stop a Biden administration plan to phase out plastic straws in favor of paper ones | Climate |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Floated desire for ‘an equal amount of something’ from Ukraine in exchange for U.S. support | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Temporarily walked back the suspension of de minimis, a type of duty-free treatment | Trade Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Called for the closure of U.S.A.I.D. and accused the agency of rampant corruption | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-07 | Media | News | Floated privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | Economy |
| 2025-02-08 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Authorize state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration actions. | Immigration |
| 2025-02-08 | Media | News | Attacked a judge as an ‘activist’ after Elon Musk’s team was blocked from gaining access to a Treasury payment system | DOGE |
| 2025-02-08 | Media | News | Announced he would strip security clearances of top Biden officials and prosecutors who brought cases against him | Other |
| 2025-02-08 | Media | News | Halted work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Consumer Economy |
| 2025-02-08 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 578.84 | |
| 2025-02-09 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 613.98 | |
| 2025-02-09 | Media | News | Designated Feb. 9 as Gulf of America Day | Other |
| 2025-02-09 | Media | News | Argued that the president has absolute powers over the executive branch that the courts cannot usurp | Law Power |
| 2025-02-09 | Media | News | Ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing new pennies | Other |
| 2025-02-09 | Media | News | Raised possibility of using the Department of Transportation to ‘kill’ congestion pricing in Manhattan | Regulations |
| 2025-02-10 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-02-10 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-10 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Defense | Prohibit any funding for treatment for gender dysphoria for military members. | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-10 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Terminate CISA's counter-mis/disinformation efforts. | Cyber Security Elections |
| 2025-02-10 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 290.34 | |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Moved to dismiss criminal case against Mayor Adams of New York | Law Other |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | Foreign Policy Other |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Threatened cutting U.S. aid to Jordan and Egypt | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Shielded Elon Musk’s DOGE from public records requests | DOGE |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Imposed 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum | Tariffs |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Renamed Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg | Military |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Pardoned a former Democratic governor of Illinois, Rod R. Blagojevich | Clemency Pardon Other |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Eliminated the Federal Executive Institute | Staffing |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Denounced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Regulations |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Fired directors of the Office of Special Counsel and the Office of Government Ethics | Staffing |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Mandated the federal government to use plastic straws | Consumer Environment Other |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Appointed Richard Grenell as the interim executive director of the Kennedy Center | Staffing |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Appealed a federal judge’s order to release billions of dollars in frozen federal funding | Law Other |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Stopped military recruitment of men and women who report a history of gender dysphoria | Military LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Asked the Internal Revenue Service to help crack down on immigration | Immigration |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Dismissed the boards of visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard military academies | Staffing Military Defense |
| 2025-02-10 | Media | News | Argued that a court order blocking Elon Musk’s team violates Trump’s absolute authority | Law Other |
| 2025-02-11 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-11 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-11 | Project 2025 | Security & Exchange Commission | Rescind the SEC's climate disclosure rule. | Economy Environment |
| 2025-02-11 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 230.88 | |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Ordered plans for ‘large-scale’ federal work force cuts and expanded Elon Musk’s power | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Appointed loyalists as members of an independent advisory board on espionage policy | Staffing |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Barred a reporter for The Associated Press from an event at the White House | Other |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Started to roll back regulations requiring companies to make disclosures about their impact on climate | Regulations Climate |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million | Education |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Named Terry Cole to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration | Staffing |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Named two nominees to lead top financial regulators: Jonathan McKernan for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Jonathan Gould as the comptroller of the currency | Staffing Economy |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Reassigned two top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials | Staffing |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Fired the inspector general for U.S.A.I.D. | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Compiled a list of 3,600 probationary employees at the F.B.I. | Staffing |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Fired four employees from the Federal Emergency Management Agency | Staffing |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Made Elon Musk’s financial disclosure report to the White House confidential | DOGE |
| 2025-02-11 | Media | News | Directed the new Environmental Protection Agency head to end climate standards on household appliances, as well as toilets and lightbulbs | Climate Regulations |
| 2025-02-12 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-12 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-12 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | Take the position that Humphrey's Executor violates the separation of powers. | Presidential Power |
| 2025-02-12 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 285.28 | |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Falsely accused the federal government of paying millions to news organizations | DOGE |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Announced a plan to work with Russia on a cease-fire to end the war in Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Started firing probationary employees at the Education Department | Staffing Education |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Became the chair of the Kennedy Center after firing its president | Staffing Arts |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Nominated an oil and gas advocate to run the Bureau of Land Management | Staffing Climate |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Deported Asian migrants to Panama | Immigration |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Revised plan to buy armored Teslas | DOGE |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Announced that interest rates should be lowered to go “hand in hand” with tariffs, positioning the president to be at odds with the Federal Reserve Board | Economy Tariffs |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Held more than 50 migrants at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, some of whom were guarded by troops rather than civilian immigration officers | Immigration |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | ||
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Began terminating probationary employees at the General Services Administration | Staffing |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Blocked a reporter from The Associated Press from entering the White House, again | Media |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Signed an executive order to ‘reform’ the Foreign Service | Staffing |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Planned a $400 million order for armored vehicles from Tesla | Other |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Sued New York for its immigration policies | Immigration Law |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Called the Education Department ‘a big con job’ | Education |
| 2025-02-12 | Media | News | Ordered an investigation into Comcast’s D.E.I. practice | DEI |
| 2025-02-13 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-13 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-13 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 236.69 | |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Promised to ensure there are no conflicts of interest in any new government contracts awarded to Elon Musk | DOGE Other |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, to ‘study’ the safety of abortion pills | Abortion Health Women |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Laid off dozens of people from the Office of Personnel Management | Staffing |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Announced ‘reciprocal’ tariffs that could overhaul the global trading system | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Laid off more than 1,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs | Staffing Military Other |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Spoke of plans to provide India with stealth fighter planes | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Established the Make America Healthy Again Commission | Health |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Continued blocking The Associated Press reporters from covering the White House events | Media |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | | Military |
Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-13 | Media | News | Removed references to transgender people from the National Park Service web pages | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-14 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-14 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-14 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Downsize the department by terminating newest hires and relocating career employees to other agencies. | Reorganization |
| 2025-02-14 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 297.91 | |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Discussed plans to rip up the White House Rose Garden and replace it with a patio | Other |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Fired 18 immigration judges | Immigration Staffing |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Fired, then unfired, federal employees responsible for the readiness of America’s nuclear arsenal | Staffing |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Asked a federal judge to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams | Law Other |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Toughened security requirements for sponsors of migrant children | Immigration |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Appended a disclaimer disavowing ‘gender ideology’ to all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web pages that mention gender identity | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Accelerated plans for widespread work force cuts across multiple federal agencies | Staffing |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Scolded European leaders for failing to uphold democratic values and tacitly voiced approval of European far-right parties, alluding to support for Germany’s far-right party ahead of elections in the nation | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Shrank funds for ‘navigators’ who help Americans enroll in Obamacare health insurance plans | Health |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Established the National Energy Dominance Council to promote American energy sources and jobs | Energy Environment |
| 2025-02-14 | Media | News | Announced tariffs on foreign cars beginning on April 2 | Tariffs |
| 2025-02-15 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-15 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-15 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 229.66 | |
| 2025-02-15 | Media | News | Dropped a policy that prohibited contractors from having segregated facilities | DEI |
| 2025-02-15 | Media | News | Announced on social media: ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ | Law Other |
| 2025-02-15 | Media | News | Appointed six new special assistants to the president in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs | Staffing |
| 2025-02-15 | Media | News | Ordered federal funding to be withheld from schools that require COVID vaccinations | Health Education |
| 2025-02-16 | Media | News | Asked the Supreme Court to vacate a lower court’s order that temporarily reinstated the head of the Office of Special Counsel | Staffing Law |
| 2025-02-17 | Media | News | Fired more than 2,000 probationary workers at the Interior Department | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-17 | Media | News | Forced schools to end race-based programs within two weeks | DEI Education |
| 2025-02-17 | Media | News | Sought access to data held by the Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department | DOGE |
| 2025-02-17 | Media | News | Announced via Truth Social that U.S. forces had conducted a precision airstrike against a member of Al Qaeda in Syria | Defense Military |
| 2025-02-17 | Media | News | Nominated Ed Martin, a far-right election denier, to be U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. | Staffing |
| 2025-02-18 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-02-18 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-18 | Project 2025 | White House | Give political appointees the power to personally review and authorize appropriated funding. | Presidential Power |
| 2025-02-18 | Project 2025 | White House | Require regulatory analysis and OIRA review...of the historically “independent” agencies. | Presidential Power |
| 2025-02-18 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 280.36 | |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Continued expanded drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs | Defense Military Drugs |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Gutted the National Institutes of Health and training programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | DOGE Health Staffing |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Claimed that Elon Musk does not run the so-called Department of Government Efficiency | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Criticized Britain’s clean-energy goal as “sinister” | Climate |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Considered naming Alice Marie Johnson the “pardon czar” | Staffing Law |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Pledged to halt all aid programs that “intervened” in Hungary’s internal affairs | DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Hinted at new talks with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Accused Representative Bennie Thompson and former Representative Liz Cheney of destroying information as part of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol | Jan6 |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Ordered agencies to make public all “wasteful spending” | DOGE Other |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Began high-level talks with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Left hundreds of deported migrants trapped in a Panama hotel after they were flown out by the U.S. military | Military Immigration |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Sought to expand presidential power over agencies that Congress made independent | Law Other |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Directed that all “Biden Era” U.S. attorneys be terminated | Staffing |
| 2025-02-18 | Media | News | Said the Health Department would scrutinize childhood vaccine schedules, psychiatric medications and other targets | Health |
| 2025-02-19 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-02-19 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-19 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 341.49 | |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for cuts | Defense Military |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Blamed Zelensky instead of Putin for the Ukraine war | Foreign policy |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Issued guidance recognizing only two sexes | DEI LGBTQIA Health |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Posted a statement and meme on social media comparing President Trump to a king | Power Other |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Moved to kill New York’s congestion pricing program | Other |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Suggested that the federal government take over Washington, D.C. | Other |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Ordered federal agencies to run regulations past the so-called Department of Government Efficiency | DOGE Regulation |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Eliminated federal benefits for undocumented immigrants | Immigration |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Moved to shrink Inter-American Foundation, United States African Development Foundation, Presidio Trust and the United States Institute of Peace | Staffing |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Remarked on the “very nasty life” that would have come with an election loss | Other |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Rebuffed Senate G.O.P. and backed House budget plan | Economy |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Exploited loopholes to continue to freeze government funding despite court orders | Law Other |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Fired health inspectors at some border stations | Health Immigration |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Opted to skip the Group of 20 finance ministers meeting in South Africa | Foreign Policy Economy |
| 2025-02-19 | Media | News | Picked former aide for top national security job at the Justice Department | Staffing |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Laid off about 6,700 employees at the Internal Revenue Service | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Announced a staff cut of 84 percent at the office that funds recovery from disasters | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Abruptly cleared out migrants sent to Guantánamo | Immigration |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Targeted government officials who had been fighting foreign interference in U.S. elections | Staffing |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Reversed a freeze of some climate spending | Climate |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Planned mass firings at the C.I.A. | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Fired 243 probationary employees at the Transportation Security Administration | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Questioned the funding for California’s high-speed rail project | Climate |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Named Alice Johnson as “pardon czar” | Staffing |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Met with Tiger Woods and a Saudi wealth fund chief about merging the PGA Tour with LIV Golf | Other |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Cut protections for Haitians, putting them on track for deportation this summer | Immigration |
| 2025-02-20 | Media | News | Rehired some bird flu response workers | Staffing |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Fired hundreds of employees at U.S.A.I.D. working on humanitarian assistance | Staffing |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Said President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine did not need to participate in peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Blocked funds for biomedical research | Health Education |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Planned mass firings at the Pentagon | Staffing Military |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Fired six Pentagon officials | Staffing Military |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Proposed using U.S. military sites to detain undocumented immigrants | Immigration |
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| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Announced plans for Christian programming at the Kennedy Center | Religion |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Replaced the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Staffing |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Reversed decision to cut funding to a federal health program for survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Announced retaliation against foreign digital services taxes | Foreign Policy Tariffs |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Announced America First Investment Policy | Foreign Policy Trade |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Considered plans to consolidate the U.S.P.S. into the Commerce Department | Staffing |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Planned to relocate 1,500 F.B.I. agents and support staff members to field offices | Staffing |
| 2025-02-21 | Media | News | Canceled the lease of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s headquarters | Staffing Economy |
| 2025-02-22 | Media | News | Called MSNBC a “threat to democracy” | Media |
| 2025-02-22 | Media | News | Pressured Ukraine to make a deal on natural resources agreement | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-22 | Media | News | Sent an ultimatum to the federal work force: summarizing their accomplishments for the week, or face termination | Staffing |
| 2025-02-22 | Media | News | Announced on Truth Social that “our southern border is closed” | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-23 | Media | News | Fired another 2,000 U.S.A.I.D. employees | Staffing DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-23 | Media | News | Transported more migrants to Guantánamo Bay | Immigration Military |
| 2025-02-23 | Media | News | Named right-wing commentator as F.B.I. deputy director | Staffing |
| 2025-02-23 | Media | News | Celebrated the election victory of the conservative Social Democrats in Germany | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-23 | Media | News | Accused security agencies of eroding privacy and civil liberties | Other |
| 2025-02-24 | Media | News | Declined to call President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has ruled as an autocrat for a quarter-century, a dictator | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-24 | Media | News | Opposed a U.N. resolution demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-24 | Media | News | Reinstated some fired F.D.A. employees | Staffing Health DOGE |
| 2025-02-24 | Media | News | Praised the crown prince of Saudi Arabia as “tremendously respected” | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-24 | Media | News | Applauded Elon Musk’s “What did you do last week?” email to federal employees | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-25 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-02-25 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Shared an AI video of Gaza developed as a luxury resort | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Announced plans for a “gold card,” a green card alternative for rich foreigners | Immigration |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Closed the Social Security Administration’s civil rights office | Staffing |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Clarified that Amy Gleason, a former health executive, was the acting DOGE administrator | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Announced that the White House would handpick media outlets allowed into its press pool | Media |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Deleted five largest instances of alleged cost savings from the DOGE website | DOGE |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Terminated about 90 percent of U.S. Agency for International Development grants and contracts | DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Temporarily reinstated six fired federal workers | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Called for more transparency on the cost of medical services | Health |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Fired more than 100 intelligence officers for sexually explicit chat messages on a government chat tool | Staffing |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Deported 65 migrants to Costa Rica | Immigration |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Stripped security clearances of lawyers who helped Jack Smith, a former special counsel who investigated Trump | Law Jan6 |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Listed more than 100 weapons that fired U.S.A.I.D. employees cannot bring into the office when retrieiving their belongings | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Directed the Commerce Secretary to open investigations on imported copper | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-02-25 | Media | News | Supported House speaker’s efforts to get Republicans to pass a budget plan | Other |
| 2025-02-26 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-02-26 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-02-26 | Project 2025 | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | End data collection on gender identity. | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-26 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 275.17 | |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Called for agencies to prepare for more mass firings | Staffing |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Said the European Union was formed to ‘screw the United States’ | Foreign Policy Economy Tariffs |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Suggested that any general involved in U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan be ousted | Military |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Moved to import eggs as their prices soar because of bird flu | Economy Trade |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Terminated contracts for Ebola-related work in Uganda | Health DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Said on Truth Social that Apple should get rid of D.E.I. rules, not just make adjustments to them | DEI |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Sought a prompt Supreme Court review of the power to fire officials | Staffing Law Power |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Announced financial controls on Venezuela would be tightened by declining to renew an oil license from 2022 | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Said Ukraine should look to Europe for security guarantees | Foreign Policy Trade |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Empowered Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative, DOGE, to scrutinize payments by agencies | DOGE |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Moved to dismiss lawsuits filed against police and fire departments over hiring practices | DEI Law |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Repeated desire for Canada to be the 51st state | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Said E.P.A. would cut staff by 65 percent, and then backtracked | Staffing Environment |
| 2025-02-26 | Media | News | Suggested terms like “health equity” were off-limits when writing annual goals for performance evaluations, then backtracked | Health |
| 2025-02-27 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Commerce | "Downsize" the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which focuses too much on "climate alarmism". | Reorganization Environment |
| 2025-02-27 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 288.54 | |
| 2025-02-27 | Media | News | Demanded that agencies prepare to close offices and relocate employees outside the Washington region | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-27 | Media | News | Said on social media that Iowa should approve a bill ending state civil rights protections for transgender people | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-02-27 | Media | News | Fired hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Environment Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-27 | Media | News | Nominated Hung Cao as the next under secretary of the Navy | Staffing Military |
| 2025-02-27 | Media | News | Said he did not remember calling the Ukrainian president a dictator | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-02-27 | Media | News | Said that tariffs on Mexico and Canada would go into effect on March 4 | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-02-28 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Roll back student loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans. | Student Loans |
| 2025-02-28 | Project 2025 | Dept. of the Interior | Reinstate Trump's Migratory Bird Treaty Act (companies will not be punished for killing migratory birds). | Environment |
| 2025-02-28 | Project 2025 | U.S. Agency for Global Media | Dismantle USAGM's journalism "firewall" to align its reporting with the aims of the president. | Media |
| 2025-02-28 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 345.22 | |
| 2025-02-28 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | 3 Component Index | 234 | |
| 2025-02-28 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 335 | |
| 2025-02-28 | Media | News | Said the Social Security Administration would reduce its head count by more than 12 percent as part of President Trump’s initiative to drastically cut the federal work force | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-02-28 | Media | News | Pushed the Internal Revenue Service to turn over addresses of roughly 700,000 undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security | Immigration |
| 2025-02-28 | Media | News | Offered Education Department employees buyouts ahead of what were described as “very significant” layoffs | Staffing Education DOGE |
| 2025-02-28 | Media | News | Planned to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States | Immigration |
| 2025-02-28 | Media | News | Admonished President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in an Oval Office meeting, shattering the three-year wartime partnership between Washington and Kyiv | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-01 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-03-01 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-01 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Agriculture | Reinstate Trump's executive order to manage wildfires by reducing vegetation and increasing logging. | Forest Service |
| 2025-03-01 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 522.40 | |
| 2025-03-01 | Media | News | Cut a General Services Administration unit created to digitally modernize the government. Dozens of technology specialists from the G.S.A.’s 18F unit worked on software and tech for agencies across the government, including the I.R.S. Free File service. | Staffing |
| 2025-03-01 | Media | News | Designated English as the official language of the United States | Other |
| 2025-03-01 | Media | News | Ordered an increase in U.S. lumber production | Trade Climate |
| 2025-03-01 | Media | News | Rescinded Biden-era rules requiring high-level approval for counterterrorism drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional war zones | Military |
| 2025-03-01 | Media | News | Said U.S. would send 3,000 additional troops to the southwestern border | Military Immigration |
| 2025-03-02 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-03-02 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-02 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 476.54 | |
| 2025-03-02 | Media | News | Stopped short of fully endorsing measles vaccination amid an outbreak in West Texas | Health |
| 2025-03-02 | Media | News | Bypassed Congress to send $4 billion in weapons to Israel | Foreign Policy Law |
| 2025-03-02 | Media | News | Ordered Pentagon to stop offensive cyberoperations against Russia | Defense Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-02 | Media | News | Suspended enforcement of a part of a 2020 money laundering law that would require companies to disclose their ‘beneficial owners’ | Regulation Economy |
| 2025-03-02 | Media | News | Announced the creation of a ‘crypto reserve’ with five tokens | Economy Finance |
| 2025-03-02 | Media | News | Placed on leave an acting assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development who warned that dismantling the agency would cause suffering | Foreign Policy Staffing |
| 2025-03-03 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-03-03 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Paused the delivery of all U.S. military aid to Ukraine after a heated Oval Office exchange with its president, Volodymyr Zelensky | Foreign Policy Military |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Deleted hundreds more claims from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s mistake-plagued “wall of receipts” | DOGE |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Quietly pushed to present evidence against Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, to a federal grand jury over comments he made about Supreme Court justices in 2020 | Law Other |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Said it would review the conviction of a former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., who was found guilty of state charges last summer of tampering with voting machines | Law Voting |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Vowed to move forward with a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico starting March 4 | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Appeared to call a U.S. ally ″a random country,” sparking outrage in Europe | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Accused European nations of spending more to buy Russian oil and gas than to defend Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Reverted the name of Fort Moore back to Fort Benning | Military DEI |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Fired dozens of technology specialists at the General Services Administration | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Moved to drop a lawsuit against a chemical manfacturer accused of releasing high levels of a likely carcinogen | Environment Law |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Lobbied for a bipartisan bill that would criminalize the act of publishing sexual images without consent | Law |
| 2025-03-03 | Media | News | Reinstated 84 of the 170 employees at the National Science Foundation who were fired last month | Staffing |
| 2025-03-04 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-03-04 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-04 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Commerce | Abolish the Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations. | Census |
| 2025-03-04 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Commerce | bolish non-statutory standing committees within the Census Bureau, including the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. | Census |
| 2025-03-04 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Justice | DOJ should withdraw from lawsuits seeking to uphold EMTALA abortion requirements. | Reproductive Health |
| 2025-03-04 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 447.73 | |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Imposed 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10 percent tariff on all imports from China, sending shock waves through the economy | Tariffs Economy Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Delivered the longest address to Congress in modern presidential history | Other |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Marked hundreds of federal properties around the country for potential sale | Staffing |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Planned to cut the I.R.S. work force in half | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Threatened to cut funding to schools that allow “illegal protests” | Education Immigration |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Asked Congress to fund a “golden dome” missile defense shield over the United States, like Israel’s Iron Dome | Defense Military |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Asked Congress to pass a bill “permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children” | LGBTQIA |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Announced the creation of a White House office of shipbuilding that would offer tax incentives to attract the industry to the U.S. | Military |
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| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Asked Congress to introduce and pass a crime bill that would require the death penalty for an individual who murders a police officer, increase punishments for repeat offenders and enhance protections for the police | Law |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Planned to drop a Biden-era challenge to Idaho’s law banning abortion in nearly all circumstances | Health Abortion Women |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Moved to cut the Pentagon’s work on preventing civilian harm. The directive is likely to eliminate all positions across the military that work to mitigate and assess risks to civilians during airstrikes and other military operations. | Military |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Shut down a program that allowed U.S. embassies abroad to monitor air quality | Foreign Policy Environment |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Dismissed outside committees that advise federal statistics agencies such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis | Staffing |
| 2025-03-04 | Media | News | Stepped up efforts to combat a measles outbreak in Texas | Health |
| 2025-03-05 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 392.51 | |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Proposed privatizing Amtrak, which has long been under scrutiny from Republican presidents | DOGE |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Warned Hamas militants to immediately release all the hostages held in Gaza or face death | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Indicated that Republicans will punt the spending bill deadline again to September | Shutdown |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Paused tariffs on cars from Canada and Mexico for a month | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine | Foreign Policy Military |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Took down a list of more than 440 federal properties identified for possible sale | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Announced a Justice Department investigation into whether the University of California system had engaged in antisemitic discrimination | Education Religion Antisemitism Regulations |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Condemned Democrats for not supporting the president or the issues he has championed during his address to Congress | Politics |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Accused Democrats of threatening to shut down the government and extended support to House Republicans’ continuing resolution | Shutdown Politics |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Demanded that Mayor Muriel Bowser remove encampments built by unhoused people in Washington, D.C. | Unhoused |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Planned to cut the Veterans Affairs workforce by more than 80,000 people | Staffing Military |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Launched an overhaul of a federal grant program that could benefit Elon Musk’s firm: Starlink | Tech DOGE |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Moved to prepare criminal charges targeting those who allegedly misused taxpayer dollars for foreign development programs | Other |
| 2025-03-05 | Media | News | Deleted a false claim from DOGE website that it had saved taxpayers $53.7 million by “canceling” a federal contract that had actually ended in 2005 | DOGE |
| 2025-03-06 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-03-06 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-06 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 723.61 | |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Ordered the creation of a national stockpile of Bitcoin and other digital currencies | Other |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Planned a ban on travel to the United States from certain countries | Immigration Travel |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Used federal marshals to force a federal aid agency to let DOGE employees inside | DOGE Foreign Policy Staffing |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Planned to close a dozen consulates and cut staffing overseas | Foreign Policy Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Suspended many of the tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Punished a law firm that worked for Democrats | Power Law |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Claimed Russia wants to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-06 | Media | News | Began firing newly hired employees at the C.I.A. | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-07 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-03-07 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Signed an executive order denying student loan relief to workers aiding immigrants and transgender youth | Immigration Education LGBTQIA |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Suspended Ukraine’s access to U.S. satellite imagery | Foreign Policy Defense |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Canceled $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University | Education |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Fired the Justice Department’s pardon attorney | Staffing |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced C.D.C. investigation into the debunked link between vaccines and autism | Health |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Named Walt Nauta, Sean Spicer, Ronny Jackson and Derrick Van Orden to serve on the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors | Staffing |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced on social media the appointment of Amer Ghalib as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced on social media the appointment of Duke Buchan III as U.S. ambassador to Morocco | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced on social media the appointment of Lynda Blanchard as U.S. ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization, a U.N. agency | Foreign Policy Health |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced on social media the appointment of Michel Issa as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced on social media the appointment of two Fox News personalities, Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo, to the board of the Kennedy Center | Other Arts |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Began Justice Department investigation into high egg prices | Economy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Said we don’t need the Education Department | Education |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Said in a post on Truth Social that he was “strongly considering” imposing sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a cease-fire and permanent peace deal were reached in its war with Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Offered South African farmers expedited U.S. citizenship | Immigation Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Dropped a Biden-era federal lawsuit against a chemical manufacturer | Environment Health Law |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Eliminated two advisory committees dedicated to food safety | DOGE Regulations Health |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Forced out a handful of senior career Justice Department officials | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-07 | Media | News | Announced that the Homeland Security Department would end its union contract with T.S.A. workers | Labor DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-03-08 | Media | News | Arrested and sent to immigration detention a Palestinian activist at Columbia University who has legal permanent residency, according to detainee’s lawyer | Immigration Foreign Policy Law |
| 2025-03-08 | Media | News | Announced plans to fire an additional 1,000 NOAA employees | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-03-09 | USA added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist over declining civil liberties | |||
| 2025-03-09 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 717.01 | |
| 2025-03-09 | Media | News | Vowed not to abandon Americans being held in captivity on Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-09 | Media | News | Promised not to ‘touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid’ | Health Other |
| 2025-03-09 | Media | News | Named a new acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Staffing Immigration |
| 2025-03-09 | Media | News | Declined to rule out that a recession was possible this year | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-03-09 | Media | News | Promised to target more perceived foes at law firms | Law Other |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Strayed from mainstream science and public health messaging in response to the worsening measles outbreak in West Texas | Health |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Warned 60 universities they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses | Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Moved to deport a permanent legal U.S. resident who was a public face of protest against Israel | Immigration |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Revoked the security clearances of several Biden administration officials and law enforcement figures | DOGE |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Said Ukraine would need to give up territory to Russia for peace | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Applauded members of the Freedom Caucus for working with other House Republicans to push forward a key government spending bill | Budget |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Pledged to reverse the Biden administration’s focus on undoing climate change | Climate |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Dispatched Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on her second foreign trip | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Dispatched Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Saudi Arabia and Canada to engage in negotiations | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Fired about 19 people from NASA, including its chief scientist | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-10 | Media | News | Announced that 83 percent of the programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development would be canceled | DOGE Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-11 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 721.51 | |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Abruptly cleared out a second group of migrants it brought to the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba | Immigration |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Fired more than 1,300 Education Department workers | Education DOGE<>Staffing |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Promoted Tesla at the White House for Elon Musk | DOGE Other |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Told U.S.A.I.D. employees to shred or burn classified and personal records | DOGE Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Notified Canada that its citizens would need to register when crossing the border into the United States | Foreign Policy Immigration |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Said the United States would resume military aid to Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Said all E.P.A. environmental justice offices would be eliminated | Environment Staffing Climate |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Attacked a Republican congressman in a post on social media after he voted against party lines | Politics |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Adopted recommendations for the F.A.A. to reduce and reroute traffic around Reagan National Airport after the deadly crash in January | Other |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Vowed to get rid of artificial food dyes | Health |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Suspended 20 legal opinions that included protection for wild birds | Environment Law |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Named the Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn Heights, Mich., to be the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia | Staffing |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Downplayed the jittery stock market caused by increased uncertainty from weavering tariff policies | Economy Tariffs Stock Market |
| 2025-03-11 | Media | News | Paused Agriculture Department funding to the Universtity of Maine | Education Funding |
| 2025-03-12 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Cease investigating Title VI disparate impact cases. | Civil Rights |
| 2025-03-12 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Roll back goal of haze reduction (visible air pollution). | Environment |
| 2025-03-12 | Project 2025 | Environmental Protection Agency | Institute a pause and review of all grants. | Funding |
| 2025-03-12 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 401.06 | |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Moved to repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations | Climate Environment |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Dropped Daniel Davis as its pick for a top intelligence post because he is a critic of Israel | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Canceled $20 billion in climate grants | Climate Environment |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Allowed sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to take effect | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Implemented major cuts at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, closing offices and reducing staff | Health DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Opened an investigation into migrant shelters in New York | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Directed the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanties to step down. It was founded in 1965 and has awarded more than $6 billion in grants to museums, historic sites, universities, libraries and other organizations | Staffing |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Stopped sending children to the largest U.S. operator of shelters for migrant children over allegations of sexual abuse and harassment of minors, and dropped a Biden-era lawsuit against the shelter provider | Immigration |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Nominated Dan Caine as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top uniformed military official | Military Staffing |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Said that a cease-fire in Ukraine could happen in days if Russia agreed | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Defended deep staffing cuts to the Department of Education | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-12 | Media | News | Chose Michelle W. Bowman, a Federal Reserve governor, to be the next vice chair for supervision at the central bank | Staffing Economy |
| 2025-03-13 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 465.53 | |
| 2025-03-13 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 465.53 | |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Reached agreement with U.S. Postal Service to help in ‘identifying and achieving further efficiencies’ | DOGE |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Directed U.S. military to draw up options to increase American troop presence in Panama | Military Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Demanded that Columbia University make major changes in student discipline and admissions | Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Asked the Supreme Court to rule in favor of ending birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants | Immigration Law |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Withdrew the administration’s nominee, Dr. Dave Weldon, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Health Staffing |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Sent Homeland Security Department officials to search two dorm rooms at Columbia University | Immigration Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Arrested a second person who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University | Immigration Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Said the federal government would push forward on a gas pipeline to New York, Connecticut and New England | Climate Economy |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Shut down a small Pentagon office that helped senior military leaders prepare for potential future wars | Military Defense |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Again did not rule out a recession | Economy Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Canceled all contracts with news wire services for Voice of America: The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse | Media DOGE Other |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Said the United States had been discussing with Ukraine territorial concessions that it would have to make as part of a peace agreement to end the war with Russia | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Replaced the top lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service: The shake-up came as administration officials sought to use the agency’s taxpayer data to help with deporting immigrants. | Staffing Immigration |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Reiterated desire to annex Greenland | Foreign Policy Defense Military |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Warned other countries that they should not retaliate against the tariffs the United States is putting on their exports | Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Said that the administration was not concerned about the impacts of tariffs on the economy | Tariffs Economy |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Announced the resignation of the newly named chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration. Hilary Perkins defended the Biden administration position on the abortion pill. | Staffing Health Women |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Threatened a 200 percent tariff on Champagne and wine from Europe, escalating the trade war | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Planned to invoke an obscure wartime authority in the coming days to rapidly accelerate the deportation of immigrants | Immigration |
| 2025-03-13 | Media | News | Made DOGE’s latest errors harder to find: Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. | DOGE |
| 2025-03-14 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
| 2025-03-14 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-14 | Project 2025 | U.S. Agency for Global Media | Cut budget of USAGM. EO: Eliminiate the USAGM |
Media |
| 2025-03-14 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 443.81 | |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Announced the expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador to the United States | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | ||
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Gave a speech at the Justice Department that flouted the agency’s independence and aired bitter grievances against his personal enemies | Other |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Began an investigation of 45 schools participating in a diversity project that helps students seeking business school degrees | Education DEI |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Rescinded more than a dozen orders and actions taken by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Other |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Ordered the dismantling of seven federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America | Media Staffing |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Restricted the actions of a law firm in a move seen as retribution for the firm’s past work against Jan. 6 rioters and its diversity policies | Law |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Released video of a Columbia University student self-deporting after her student visa was revoked | Immigration Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Brought a private equity investor who is one of Elon Musk’s closest confidants into the Social Security Administration | Staffing |
| 2025-03-14 | Media | News | Lauded Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, for backing the Republican spending bill and helping to avert a government shutdown | Politics Shutdown |
| 2025-03-15 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 489.84 | |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Denied refusing to comply with a judge’s order to halt deportations of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act | Immigration |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Revised the command structure at the F.B.I. | Staffing |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an order to remove unauthorized immigrants with little due process | Law Immigration Defense Military |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Signed a stopgap funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown | Shutdown |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Rescinded a proclamation signed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. establishing the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla National Monuments in California | Other |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Withdrew the nomination of Adam Boehler to serve as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Attempted to get DOGE access to the U.S. Institute of Peace offices in Washington | DOGE |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Ordered attacks on militant sites in Yemen and issued a warning to Iran | Defense Military Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-15 | Media | News | Put employees at Voice of America on administrative leave | Media Staffing |
| 2025-03-16 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 753.68 | |
| 2025-03-16 | Media | News | Killed a leader of ISIS in Iraq in a precision air strike | Military Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-16 | Media | News | Repeated claims from right-wing media that Biden used an autopen to sign official documents: Mr. Trump said on Truth Social that former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s pardons were “void” and “vacant.” | Law |
| 2025-03-16 | Media | News | Announced that the administration has sent hundreds of people accused of being Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador | Immigration |
| 2025-03-16 | Media | News | Reposted on social media a glowing podcast interview with Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-16 | Media | News | Bragged on social media about winning a golf championship in Palm Beach | Other |
| 2025-03-16 | Media | News | Said that corrections in the stock markets are “healthy” | Economy Tariffs |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Aimed to eliminate the E.P.A.’s scientific research arm | Climate Environment DOGE |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Repeatedly refused to answer a federal judge’s questions on deportations to El Salvador | Immigration |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Pulled Secret Service protection from former President Biden’s son and daughter | Other |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Threatened to attack Iran if it continued to support the Houthi militia in Yemen | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Moved to withdraw from a group that is investigating leaders responsible for the war in Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Lifted a ban on a major Dominican sugar company over allegations of forced labor | Trade |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Criticized The Atlantic magazine and two of its reporters after apparently receiving an interview request | Media |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Authorized the production of coal-powered energy | Climate Environment Economy |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Installed Elon Musk’s Starlink across the White House complex | Tech DOGE |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Fired the majority of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, replaced the acting president and used law enforcement to evict officials from the building | DOGE |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Sent questions to 20 law firms on their D.E.I.-related employment practices | DEI |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Criticized on live TV the federal district court judge that ruled against President Trump’s deportations to El Salvador | Immigration |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Nominated a longtime airline executive to lead the F.A.A. | Staffing |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Stacked the boards overseeing the U.S. military service academies with conservative activists and political allies | Military Staffing |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Moved to phase out gender-affirming medical treatments for veterans | DEI LGBTQIA Staffing Health |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Ousted 14 board members from the two government-controlled mortgage finance firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | Staffing Finance |
| 2025-03-17 | Media | News | Argued that the administration’s use of a 1798 law to deport migrants was not in defiance of a court order that directed the government to turn around any plane carrying deportees | Immigration Law |
| 2025-03-18 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-03-18 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Called for the impeachment of Judge James E. Boasberg on social media | Immmigration Law |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Partly complied with a judge’s order to provide more information about deportation flights | Immigration |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Said the Social Security Administration would stop allowing changes made by phone | DOGE |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Threatened to withhold New York’s transit funding | Funding Other |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Promoted two I.R.S. agents who had claimed that the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes was soft-pedaled | Staffing |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission | Staffing Economy |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Said the United States would take a hard line against China in protecting American technology | Foreign Policy Economy |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Characterized vandalism at Tesla dealerships as ‘domestic terrorism’ | Other |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Reversed a change that had made DOGE’s claims of cost savings harder to verify | DOGE |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Directed the Foreign Service to remove all D.E.I. policies | DEI Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-18 | Media | News | Attacked a federal judge who ordered the administration to halt certain deportations | Immigration |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Cut back on Social Security services available over the phone | Health |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Urged people to buy Tesla stock | Other |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Said it will suspend about $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over its approach to transgender athletes | DEI LGBTQIA Funding |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Expressed interest in taking conrol of Ukraine’s electrical and nuclear power sites | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Considered shutting down the H.I.V. prevention division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Health |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Exposed Social Security numbers and other personal details through the release of Kennedy files | Other |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Held $500 million in funding for food banks across the country | Funding |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Deleted more than 100 goverment real estate leases from DOGE’s list of savings | DOGE |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Signed a memo on “removing discrimination and discriminatory ideology” from the Foreign Service | DEI Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Told Iran to stop providing support and supplies to the Houthis | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Changed the Department of Government Efficiency’s site code, making it harder to fact-check its claims | DOGE |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Met with oil and gas executives at the White House | Economy Tariffs Trade |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Moved to deport a Georgetown University academic | Immigration Education |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Prepared to give gun rights back to some people with criminal convictions | Guns Other |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Decided not to prosecute a former leader of the Proud Boys after he scuffled with a protestor at a news conference | Jan6 |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Deleted material on Jackie Robinson’s military legacy, only to restore it | DEI |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Named two officials who helped dismantle U.S.A.I.D. as the agency’s new leaders | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-19 | Media | News | Asked a court to release the F.B.I. surveillance records of Martin Luther King Jr. | Other |
| 2025-03-20 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-03-20 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-20 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Education | Break up the Department of Education. EO: Dismantle the department. |
Reorganization |
| 2025-03-20 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 440.21 | |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Planned to provide Elon Musk with access to top-secret plans for any war that might break out with China | Military DOGE |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Escalated its attacks on the judiciary by accusing a federal judge of trying to ‘usurp the presidency’ | Law Immigration |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Dropped an executive order against a targeted law firm after it agreed to a deal | Law |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Signed an executive order aimed at eliminating the Department of Education | Education DOGE |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Turned away a French scientist who had been traveling to the U.S. for a conference | Immigration |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Said that the U.S. would for the first time reject a special request from Mexico for water | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Signed an executive order invoking a Cold War-era law to increase U.S. mineral production | Economy |
| 2025-03-20 | Media | News | Placed 35 unionized employees at the Federal Housing Finance Agency on administrative leave | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-21 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-03-21 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-21 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Eliminate the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. | Civil Rights Reorganization |
| 2025-03-21 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Eliminate the Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman. | Immigration Reorganization |
| 2025-03-21 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Homeland Security | Eliminate the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman. | Immigration Reorganization |
| 2025-03-21 | FRED Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 483.96 | |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Revoked security clearances for a slew of opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Other |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Said it would end a Biden-era program for migrants from four Caribbean and Latin American nations | Immigration |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Filed a motion seeking to disqualify a federal judge from presiding over a lawsuit | Law |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Said he did not want Elon Musk to have access to top-secret U.S. plans for a potential war with China | Defense Military |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Announced that the Education Department would no longer manage the nation’s student loan portfolio or supervise “special needs” programs | Education |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Canceled a briefing with military leaders on top-secret war plans that Elon Musk had been expected to attend | Defense Military |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Halted funding for legal representation of migrant children | Immigration |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Opened a leak investigation after a New York Times article questioned President Trump’s assertion | Media Defense Immigration |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Threatened to jail Tesla vandals in El Salvador’s notorious prisons | Law Other |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Attacked reporting on Elon Musk’s planned meeting on China war plans | Defense Military |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Shut down three watchdog agencies in the Homeland Security Department | Immigration DOGE |
| 2025-03-21 | Media | News | Moved to detain an international student at Cornell University who has led pro-Palestinian protests | Immigration Antisemitism |
| 2025-03-22 | Media | News | Broadened campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes | Law |
| 2025-03-22 | Media | News | Planned to use protected taxpayer information to help in mass deportation push | Immigration |
| 2025-03-22 | Media | News | Reached an agreement with Venezuela for the country to resume accepting deporation flights | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Said a judge who blocked deportations should be disbarred | Law |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Said that federal education grants for children with disabilities wouldn’t be altered or be given to states to be appropriated for other purposes | Education |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Planned to court corporate sponsors for the White House Easter Egg Roll | Other |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Announced plans to send U.S. officials to Greenland amid Trump’s talk of a takeover | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Complained about a Trump portrait in the Colorado State Capitol | Other |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Repeated false claims about Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-23 | Media | News | Demanded that Iran undertake a ‘full dismantlement’ of its nuclear program | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-24 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 1 | ||
| 2025-03-24 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Disclosed war plans in a group chat that included a journalist, before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen | Foreign Policy Military Trade |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Invoked state secrets privilege in declining to provide a federal judge with details about deportation flights to El Salvador | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling from a federal judge who ordered the administration to rehire thousands of fired federal workers | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Said trips to Greenland planned for the second lady, Usha Vance, and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, were ‘not provocation’ | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Appointed President Trump’s spokeswoman and former personal lawyer as New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney | Staffing |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Announced E.P.A. would take 31 deregulatory actions on environmental regulations | Climate Environment |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Planned to nominate Susan Moranez, the acting director of the C.D.C., to permanently lead the agency | Staffing |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Granted Chevron a two-month reprieve from an order to wind down oil operations in Venezuela | Foreign Policy Economy Tariffs |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Threatened 25 percent tariffs against any country that buys Venezuelan oil | Tariffs Economy Trade |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Planned to extradite a handful of Venezuelan men to Chile after declaring them subject to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 | Immigration |
| 2025-03-24 | Media | News | Attacked Democratic leaders in New Jersey | Politics Other |
| 2025-03-25 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-03-25 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Downplayed the leak of war plans to a journalist who was inadvertently invited to a group chat via a messenger app | Foreign Policy Military |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Called for proof of citizenship when voting | Voting |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Declassified documents from the F.B.I.’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia | Law |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt fighting in the Black Sea | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Detained an international student from Tufts University for her alleged support of Hamas | Immigration Foreign Policy Education Antisemtism |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Said the president would look into the case of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed during the Jan. 6 riots | Jan6 |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Added another law firm, Jenner & Block, to the list of those he targeted with executive orders | Law |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Planned to give briefings to an influential group of conservative donors allied with JD Vance | Other |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Pardoned Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter Biden whose congressional testimony two years ago helped fuel House Republicans’ investigation into the Biden family | Law Pardon |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Nominated L. Brent Bozell III, a conservative media critic and a fierce defender of Israel, to be the next U.S. ambassador to South Africa | Staffing |
| 2025-03-25 | Media | News | Published a threat assessment report that did not mention dangers posed by accelerating climate change | DOGE Climate |
| 2025-03-26 | Media | News | Announced 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and car parts | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-03-26 | Media | News | Deflected blame for the leak of attack plans shared in a Signal chat among high-level officials | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-26 | Media | News | Announced JD Vance would lead a U.S. visit to Greenland | Foreign Policy Defense |
| 2025-03-26 | Media | News | Abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal health grants to states | Health DOGE Funding |
| 2025-03-26 | Media | News | Canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases | Health Funding |
| 2025-03-26 | Media | News | Asked the Supreme Court to allow the cancellation of $65 million in grants for training teachers | Education DEI Funding |
| 2025-03-27 | Project 2025 | Personnel | Weaken federal employee unions. EO: Strip collective bargaining rights from federal workers in 18 departments. |
Personnel Unions |
| 2025-03-27 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 4 | ||
| 2025-03-27 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Announced plans to lay off 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department | Health Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Asked Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, to stay in Congress rather than serve as ambassador to the United Nations | Staffing Foreign Policy Politics |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Moved to strip labor protections from civil servants across the federal government | Labor Staffing |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Directed Vice President JD Vance “to eliminate improper, divisive or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums” | Religion Other |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Suggested that federal judges be removed from cases scrutinizing Trump administration policies | Law |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Unleashed a series of challenges to and investigations into California’s laws and policies, particularly those governing education | Education DEI Immigration |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Announced a plan to create a vaccine injury agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Health |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Seemed to rule out a criminal investigation into how details of a military operation were shared in an insecure text group | Military |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Moved to investigate whether California universities are complying with the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning the consideration of race in admissions | Educaiton DEI |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Restored funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Media Funding |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Issued an executive order to punish WilmerHale, the law firm where Robert S. Mueller III worked before and after he served as special counsel in the Trump-Russia investigation | Law |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Said the State Department had revoked the visas of roughly 300 students and visitors | Education Immigration Antisemitism Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-27 | Media | News | Considered a major restructuring of the Justice Department | Staffing Law |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Reiterated his desire to take the territory of Greenland, saying the United States ‘cannot do without it’ | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Toned down his rhetoric on Canada after his first phone call with its new prime minister, Mark Carney | Foreign Policy Trade Tariffs |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Laid out plans to effectively eliminate U.S.A.I.D. by moving the agency under the State Department and reducing its staff to some 15 positions | DOGE Foreign Policy Staffing |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Made a deal with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a law firm, after threatening an executive order that would have punished the firm for its past work against the president | Law |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Said he had picked a conservative journalist and Fox News contributor to be his ‘drug czar’ | Staffing |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Posted on social media a video promoting the United States’ relationship with Greenland | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Urged the House, in a social media post, to pass a bill approved by the Senate that would allow Washington, D.C., to continue operating under its current budget | Funding Shutdown |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Pardoned Trevor Milton, the founder of the Nikola Corporation, an electric truck manufacturer that went bankrupt | Clemency Pardon |
| 2025-03-28 | Media | News | Commuted the sentence of a media executive convicted of fraud, on the day he was set to surrender to prison | Tech Clemency Pardon |
| 2025-03-29 | Media | News | Fired nearly all U.S.-based staff at the Institute of Peace | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-29 | Media | News | Said he wouldn’t fire the officials involved in a leaked Signal chat. | Staffing |
| 2025-03-29 | Media | News | Said he ‘couldn’t care less’ if car prices went up in response to his tariffs | Economy Tariffs |
| 2025-03-29 | Media | News | Announced plans to purchase and develop icebreakers in an effort to build stronger ties with Finland | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Fired two longtime career prosecutors in Los Angeles and Memphis | Staffing Law |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Said he was serious about running for a third term in office | Elections |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Criticized President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over the lack of a cease-fire with Ukraine | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Suggested imposing so-called secondary tariffs on Iran and possibly bombing the country if Tehran didn’t make a nuclear deal | Foreign Policy Military |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Deported 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | ||
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Referred to three people who were arrested on the suspicion of vandalizing a Trump golf resort in Scotland with pro-Palestinian messages as ‘terrorists’ | Other |
| 2025-03-30 | Media | News | Gave Elon Musk’s cost cutters access to a federal payroll system | DOGE |
| 2025-03-31 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 2 | ||
| 2025-03-31 | Executive Order(s) |
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| 2025-03-31 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | 3 Component Index | 297 | |
| 2025-03-31 | Economic Policy Uncertainty | News Based Index | 446 | |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Said President Trump had commuted the setence of another former business associate of Hunter Biden’s | Law Other |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Said there would be no exemptions for tariffs set to begin on April 2 | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Dropped a Biden-era voting rights lawsuit in Georgia | Law Voting |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Directed Federal Trade Commission to combat price-gouging of concert tickets | Economy |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | ||
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Nominated Anthony D’Esposito, a former U.S. representative of New York, as the next inspector general for the Labor Department | Staffing Ethics |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat units | Military DEI Women |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Said it was important for the public to see harsh treatment of deportees in El Salvador | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Made a DOGE employee the new acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Granted itself the authority to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being members of a violent street gang on the basis of little more than whether they have tattoos or have worn clothing associated with the criminal organization | Immigration Defense Law Foreign Policy |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Said the administration would relax limits on pollution from cars, saying the move wouldn’t make a difference to the environment | Climate |
| 2025-03-31 | Media | News | Admitted that the U.S. has deported a legal immigrant because of an “administrative error” | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-01 | Project 2025 | Dept. of Agriculture | Restrict the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). All LIHEAP staff fired. |
Welfare |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Said federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering a UnitedHealthcare Executive | Law |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Removed between 350 and 400 books from the Naval Academy library to comply with a verbal order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth | DEI Defense Military |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Resumed buyout programs for federal employees to cut down the government workforce | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Announced T. Elliot Gaiser, the conservative solicitor general of Ohio, would be the assistant attorney general leading the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel | Staffing |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program (LIHEAP) to help low-income households across the United States pay their utility bills | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Walked back letters to foreign contractors that instructed them to comply with executive orders aimed at dismantling diversity programs | DEI Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Revoked the visa of a Nobel Prize laureate and former Costa Rican president | Immigration Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Forced the head of the Wilson Center, a federally funded foreign policy think tank, to resign | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Said the Department of Defense had spent $376 million in shoring up immigration enforcement activities | Immigration Military Defense |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Fired thousands of federal health workers | Staffing DOGE |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Paused dozens of federal grants to Princeton University, the fourth Ivy League school that has seen its federal funding reduced or threatened | Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Planned to target another law firm that brought lawsuits against President Trump and his allies | Law Jan6 Other |
| 2025-04-01 | Media | News | Undermined President Biden’s pardons by questioning his mental acuity | Other |
| 2025-04-02 | Executive Order(s) Signed Count | 3 | ||
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| 2025-04-02 | Media | News | Cut a deal with the law firm Milbank after accusing the firm of ‘illegal D.E.I. discrimination’ in hiring | DEI |
| 2025-04-02 | Media | News | Picked a lawyer who has defended several key Trump loyalists for the Justice Department’s No. 3 post | Staffing |
| 2025-04-02 | Media | News | Demanded additional cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after extensive staff reductions | Health Staffing |
| 2025-04-02 | Media | News | Froze funding from the Agriculture Department for education programs in Maine | Education Trade |
| 2025-04-02 | Media | News | Unveiled expansive global tariffs in a significant escalation of President Trump’s trade fight, sending shock waves through the global economy | Tariffs Economy Trade |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Restored gun rights to Mel Gibson and nine other people with criminal convictions | Guns Law |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Canceled most grant programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities | Staffing DOGE Education |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Supported proxy voting for new parents in Congress | Congress Other |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Moved to shut down the Wilson Center, a prominent nonpartisan foreign policy think tank in Washington | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Said Elon Musk would depart the government in a few months | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Condemned the conviction of Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Threatened to withhold federal funding from public schools unless states verified the elimination of all diversity programs | DEI Education |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Threatened to cut funding at more universities | Education Antisemitism |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Reinstated some programs at the Department of Health and Human Services that had been cut in the Trump administration’s purge of the agency | Health Staffing |
| 2025-04-03 | Media | News | Fired head of National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command | Staffing Defense |
| 2025-04-04 | Media | News | Extended the deadline by which TikTok must separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States | Tech |
| 2025-04-04 | Media | News | Instructed the I.R.S. to begin another round of mass layoffs | DOGE Staffing |
| 2025-04-04 | Media | News | Called on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, to cut interest rates | Economy |
| 2025-04-04 | Media | News | Awarded multibillion-dollar space launch contracts to SpaceX, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance | Defense Military |
| 2025-04-05 | Media | News | Fired U.S. aid workers in the quake zone in Myanmar | Staffing Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-05 | Media | News | Put on leave a Justice Dept. lawyer who questioned the decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador | Staffing Law |
| 2025-04-05 | Media | News | Revoked the visas held by South Sudanese passport holders | Immigration |
| 2025-04-06 | Media | News | Defended President Trump’s tariff policies | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-04-06 | Media | News | Wished Trump could be president for 20 years | Power |
| 2025-04-06 | Media | News | Attended the funeral of an 8-year-old girl who died of measles in the West Texas outbreak | Health |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Declined an invitation to testify before the Senate health committee on the layoffs of 10,000 federal health officials | Staffing Health DOGE |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Canceled a scheduled press conference featuring President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and moved the venue for reporters’ questions to a smaller room | Economy Tariffs Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Claimed executive privilege to try to bar a lawyer dismissed from the Justice Department from testifying to Congress | Law |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Said other countries’ offers to drop their tariffs on American goods would be insufficient to convince the president to retreat on his own tariffs | Tariffs Trade Economy |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Signaled that the administration might be ready to negotiate with foreign countries on tariffs | Tariffs Economy Trade |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Said President Trump would be the ultimate decider about whether to accept concessions from foreign nations and rescind tariff proposals | Tariffs Economy Trade |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Offered a buyout or an early retirement option to Department of Homeland Security employees | Staffing |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Fired Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, in what seemed to be a continued push to dismiss female and minority military leaders | DEI Women Military Staffing |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Threw its support behind the budget passed by the Senate | Budget |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Again called on the federal reserve to cut interest rates | Economy |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Said the United States would hold ‘direct’ talks with Iran to discuss a new nuclear deal | Foreign Policy |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Threatened to impose huge tariffs on China in response to Beijing’s retaliation | Tariffs Economy Foreign Policy Trade |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Terminated U.S. funding for the World Food Program | Foreign Policy Health |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Cut more than $300 million in disaster funding for New York | Other |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Called on states to ban fluoride in drinking water | Health |
| 2025-04-07 | Media | News | Praised an emergency ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed the administration to continue to deport Venezuelan migrants under a wartime powers act | Immigration Law |