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Keeping Track of the 2nd Trump administration!

One thing Donald Trump and the extreme right were very good at doing is burying the track record of his first presidency from 2017 to 2021.

Keep Track is dedicated to literally keeping track, day by day, of the policy decisions made by the new Trump Administration.

That is not to say we're interested in the crazy things he says or tweets, he clocked over 30,000 lies the last time he was in office, I don't see how it's possible to track all of that. This is about POLICY. Nominees, executive orders, signed laws, and so on.

Subject line format should be {{date}} {{event}} so: "01-20-2025 - Trump is sworn in."

The international date format of 2025-01-20 is also acceptable!

Links should be to verifiable news sources, not social media or blog sites. So no Xitter/Truth/Youtube/Substack/etc. etc.

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Devin Gerald Nunes, Chair
Scott Glabe
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy
Brad Robert Wenstrup
Wayne Berman
Reince Priebus
Robert O’Brien
Joshua Lobel
Sander R. Gerber
Katie Miller
Jeremy Katz
Thomas Ollis Hicks, Jr.

Note on Devin Nunes:

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/03/package-russian-asset-derkach-nunes-looks

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“Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia. President Trump, Steve Witkoff and the President’s advisors negotiated an exchange that serves as a show of good faith from the Russians and a sign we are moving in the right direction to end the brutal and terrible war in Ukraine."

That terrible war he said he could end in 24 hours?

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-trump-war-2018906

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25447103

This here is official US Congress Bill. Red White and Blueland! Here we come!

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He has or has tried to fire all of the investigators and the record keepers. He is fully set up to not be accountable. Classic dictator move.

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'In particular, the Federal Executive Institute, which was created by the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson more than 50 years ago, is a Government program purportedly designed to provide leadership training to bureaucrats.  But bureaucratic leadership over the past half-century has led to Federal policies that enlarge and entrench the Washington, D.C., managerial class, a development that has not benefited the American family.  The Federal Executive Institute should therefore be eliminated to refocus Government on serving taxpayers, competence, and dedication to our Constitution, rather than serving the Federal bureaucracy."

Great, so more un-trained personnel. What could possibly go wrong?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Executive_Institute

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Finally, one I'm fine with.

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Hope this is kosher but I can't think of where else to post. Anyway man I have been seeing more join the military commercials and in particular a marine one is disturbing as fuck sounding. Anyone else seeing this?

EDITED - searching around man just the marine youtube channel and whats been coming out in the last month:

https://www.youtube.com/@marinecorps/videos

this is the one I saw that got me to post today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ot5tToz9BE

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This is from a new york times gift article from the nyt.

TikTok ban

What the administration did

  • Ordered the Justice Department not to enforce a ban on TikTok for 75 days and to notify the app and its business partners that defying the law is no criminal offense.

What it could be violating

  • Law barring TikTok from operating in the United States unless and until its Chinese owner sells it.

Foreign aid freeze

What the administration did

  • Required blanket temporary freeze on most foreign aid.

What it could be violating

  • The longer it lasts, blocking congressionally approved spending comes into greater tension with Impoundment Control Act.

Domestic grants freeze

What the administration did

  • The Office of Management and Budget ordered agencies to carry out a blanket temporary freeze up to $3 trillion in domestic grants and other government spending.

What it could be violating

  • The freeze has been temporarily blocked by two courts after plaintiffs raised challenges, including provisions in the Administrative Procedure Act and First Amendment rights.

U.S. Agency for International Development

What the administration did

  • Moved to apparently dismantle the agency and fold its functions into the State Department, including by making Secretary of State Marco Rubio its acting director.

What it could be violating

  • A law in which Congress created U.S.A.I.D. and structured it as a stand-alone entity.

Inspectors general

What the administration did

  • Summarily fired 17 inspectors general, the watchdog officials who hunt for waste, fraud, abuse and illegality in government agencies.

What it could be violating

  • A law that says presidents have to give Congress 30 days’ notice and a written “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons” before any such removal.

National Labor Relations Board

What the administration did

  • Summarily fired a Democratic member of the independent agency before her term was up, paralyzing the board by leaving it without a quorum.

What it could be violating

  • A law that says presidents may only remove board members “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.”

Federal prosecutors

What the administration did

  • Summarily fired prosecutors involved in the cases against President Trump or the Jan. 6 rioters.

What it could be violating

  • Civil service job protections against arbitrarily firing federal workers without a good cause and without hearings before the Merit System Protection Board.

Birthright citizenship

What the administration did

  • Declared that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment will no longer be interpreted as granting citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented parents or other visitors and instructed agencies not to issue citizenship-affirming documents, like Social Security cards, to such infants.

What it could be violating

  • The longstanding understanding that the 14th Amendment does grant citizenship to such infants; a federal judge has barred agencies from obeying this order for now.
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