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Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end deportation protection for Venezuelans — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

US Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours in Congress criticizing the Trump administration: set a new record for the longest continuous speech in the Senate, surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond's 24-hour speech in 1957 to try to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act. — — 1 April 2025 (LINK)

Trump accuses Ukraine's Zelensky of 'trying to back out' of proposed minerals deal — 30 March 2025 (LINK)

— "I see he's trying to back out of the rare earth deal. And if he does that, he's got some problems. Big, big problems," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. "We made a deal on rare earth and now he's saying, 'well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal.' He wants to be a member of NATO. Well, he was never going to be a member of NATO. He understands that. So if he's looking to renegotiate the deal, he's got big problems," Trump said.

Trump lashes out at Putin as Ukraine ceasefire talks stall: said he was "very angry, p---ed off" with Putin demanding that Volodymyr Zelensky be replaced with a transitional government as the price for peace negotiations. — 30 March 2025 (LINK)

— However, Mr Trump reiterated that he and Putin have a "very good relationship", and later on Sunday he shifted some of his criticism to Mr Zelensky."He's trying to back out of the rare earth deal," Mr Trump told reporters on board Air Force One. "Now he's saying, well you know, I want to renegotiate the deal. He wants to be a member of Nato. He was never going to be a member of Nato. He understands that."

Trump threatens to bomb Iran unless it ends nuclear weapons programme and begins talks on new deal — 30 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump won't rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News 'there are methods' for doing so — 30 March 2025 (LINK)

U.S. federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve the agency. — 29 March 2025 (LINK)

US Peace Institute lays off staff after dramatic DOGE standoff — 29 March 2025 (LINK)

US to revoke authorizations to foreign partners of Venezuela's PDVSA, sources say — 29 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles' without the people or resources to move quickly to pull out survivors from collapsed buildings and otherwise save lives. — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him deport migrants without due process — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

U.S. appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent agencies — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Top FDA vaccine official Peter Marks resigns in opposition to RFK Jr. citing his "misinformation and lies" around immunization. — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Columbia University President resigns after school accepts Trump's demands — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Hegseth says leaked Signal group text didn't have 'war plans'. But screenshots show attack details — 26 March 2025 (LINK)

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for a "transitional administration" to be put in place in Ukraine and vows his army will "finish off" Ukrainian troops, as US President Donald Trump pushes for a ceasefire. — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Heather Cox Richardson: Walloping Wall St and more — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

White House: President Donald J. Trump restores truth and sanity to American history — 27 March 2025 (LINK)

— "The Order directs the Vice President, who is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

— The Order directs the Administration to work with Congress to ensure that future Smithsonian appropriations: (1) prohibit funding for exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race, or promote ideologies inconsistent with Federal law; and (2) celebrate women's achievements in the American Women's History Museum and do not recognize men as women.

— The Vice President will work with congressional leaders to appoint members to the Smithsonian Board of Regents who are committed to advancing the celebration of America's extraordinary heritage and progress.

— The Order also directs the Secretary of the Interior restore Federal parks, monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties that have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events."s

USAGM withdraws termination of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty grant — 27 March 2025 (LINK)

— RFE/RL was informed March 15 that USAGM had terminated the broadcaster's federal grant agreement. The move came as part of a directive issued by the White House to reduce statutory functions of "unnecessary governmental entities to what is required by law."

Judge in crosshairs of Trump deportation case orders preservation of Signal messages on proposed U.S. military strike on Yemen — 27 March 2025 (LINK)

CNN: The White House says the Yemen security breach is a hoax. Here's why it's not: naive and sloppy behavior by top Trump aides could have endangered US pilots. — 27 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump to impose 25% tariff on all automobiles and foreign auto parts brought into the U.S. — 26 March 2025 (LINK)

— The White House later clarified that foreign auto parts would also be taxed at the 25% rate even if the cars they go into are assembled in the United States. However, companies that import vehicles under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will get special consideration until the Commerce Department establishes a process for levying the 25% duties, the White House said.

DOGE cuts up 315,000 government credit cards: 'More work to do,' Elon Musk group says: Trump implemented a 30-day freeze on credit cards held by government employees, giving them $1 credit limits. — 26 March 2025 (LINK)

By 2-1, U.S. federal appeals court maintains temporary block on Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations — 26 March 2025 (LINK)

Appeals court halts order for DOGE records to be turned over to court — 26 March 2025 (LINK)

Social Security Administration delays by 2 weeks and curtails Musk's new anti-fraud policy: new identity verification policy requiring some to apply in person at field offices will only apply to those filing for retirement, survivors or family benefits — 26 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump unveils Black Sea deal With Russia, Ukraine — 25 March 2025 (LINK)

— The White House said Russia and Ukraine have both agreed to "eliminate the use of force" in the Black Sea. In two separate statements on the outcomes of the talks between the sides, the White House said Moscow and Kyiv had "agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea."

— Moreover, the United States "will help restore Russia's access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions." Russia and Ukraine also agreed "to develop measures for implementing" the "agreement to ban strikes against energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine." Since the initial agreement last week, each side has accused the other of striking key infrastructure.

The White House: Outcomes of the United States and Ukraine Expert Groups On the Black Sea — (LINK)

Trump signs order to overhaul federal elections process: includes a proof of citizenship requirement and aims to prevent states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. — 25 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump seeks revenge on MSNBC legal analyst in new executive order — 25 March 2025 (LINK)

— A few weeks after targeting another firm which had re-hired a lawyer who had worked in the Manhattan district attorney's office during its investigation into Trump, the president singled out Jenner & Block. A primary reason: it once employed Andrew Weissmann, a current MSNBC legal analyst and former deputy to Robert Mueller, the special counsel who led an investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

USPS's Louis DeJoy resigns as banks "salivate" over Musk goal of privatization — 25 March 2025 (LINK)

Greenland's leader says US officials' visit is 'highly aggressive'. Trump says it's 'friendliness, not provocation'. — 24 March 2025 (LINK)

Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland as Trump talks up US takeover — 24 March 2025 (LINK)

Vox: There are 132 lawsuits against Trump. Pay attention to these two: whether Trump can simply cancel federal spending that is mandated by an act of Congress, and birthright citizenship. — 22 March 2025 (LINK)

Fox News: Here's what happened during Trump's ninth week in office — 22 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants — 22 March 2025 (LINK)

— Those migrants have been warned to leave the country before their permits and deportation shield are cancelled on 24 April, according to a notice posted by the federal government. The 530,000 migrants were brought into the US under a Biden-era sponsorship process known as CHNV that was designed to open legal migration pathways. Trump suspended the programme once he took office. It is unclear how many of these migrants have been able to secure another status in the interim that would allow them to stay in the US legally.

Columbia University agrees to ban masks on campus after $400M funding freeze by Donald Trump — 22 March 2025 (LINK)

— NY Times: 25 years ago, Columbia, looking to expand, refused to pay Trump $400 million to buy property he owned. He did not forget it. — (LINK)

Trump said 3 months ago federal minimum wages don't work — now he's slashed Biden's $17.75 minimum for federal contractors to state minimums — 22 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump says Small Business Administration will take over Department of Education's student loan portfolio — 21 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump revokes access to classified material for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Biden officials: He previously cut off former President Joe Biden's access to intelligence material. — 21 March 2025 (LINK)

— Others named in the directive include former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former national security adviser Jake Sullivan and New York Attorney General Letitia James. It also applies to any members of the Biden family. Many of the people in Trump's memo already had their clearances revoked this month by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions — 20 March 2025 (LINK)

Judge temporarily blocks DOGE access to Social Security records — 20 March 2025 (LINK)

Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients from March 31st — 19 March 2025 (LINK)

Fed cuts US growth forecast blaming tariffs — 19 March 2025 (LINK)

We finally learned how many federal probationary workers the White House fired and where they worked; In declarations from 18 departments or agencies, officials said roughly 25,000 federal workers had been terminated across the government. — 19 March 2025 (LINK)

Swiss drugmakers Novartis and Roche ditch some diversity programmes on U.S. concerns — see_link — 19 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump heads toward courts clash over migrant flights; annuls pardons issued by Biden with autopen — see_link — 18 March 2025 (LINK)

USAID shutdown likely unconstitutional federal judge says — 18 March 2025 (LINK)

Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights — 19 March 2025 (LINK)

— Some turned up at a massive El Salvador prison, where visitors, recreation and education are not allowed. The U.S. has paid El Salvador's government $6 million to hold immigrants, many of them Venezuelan, whose government rarely accepts deportees from the U.S.

Indian prime minister joins Trump’s Truth Social platform — 17 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump appoints Kellogg as Special Envoy to Ukraine, removes him from dealings with Russia. — 15 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, also targets agencies providing funding for museums, libraries and tackling homelessness. — 15 March 2025 (LINK)

US expels South Africa's ambassador, calling him 'race-baiting' Trump hater. — 15 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump says he was being a 'bit sarcastic' when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

Fox News: Trump undoes stack of 'harmful' Biden executive orders, shrinks multiple agencies: Some of the Biden executive orders included policies that prioritized labour unions and others that were harmful for economic development, the White House said. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza: to Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

— Officials from Sudan said they have rejected overtures from the U.S., while officials from Somalia and Somaliland told The Associated Press that they were not aware of any contacts.

Gold surges above $3,000 for the first time as investors seek a haven from Trump tariffs. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

Stock Market: S&P 500 ends Friday with biggest daily gain since November (2.1%) as Big Tech stocks rally. But it was a rough week for U.S. equities amid tariffs worries. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

— All three major benchmarks booked weekly losses, with the Dow seeing its worst week since March 2023.

Online database Just Security tracks the 100+ legal challenges against Trump. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

— In the first 24 hours of Donald Trump's new administration, the president signed 26 executive orders, setting an anti-progressive agenda in motion. Dozens more orders followed in the weeks after, with the Trump administration enacting 89 executive actions as of March, according to the nonpartisan American Presidency Project.

Trump's war on women comes to the UN. And he's also gunning for the SDGs! — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump falsely claimed US spent $350bn on military aid to Ukraine. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

— While it is possible to arrive at varying totals using different ways to categorize or count the financial figures, none amounts to $350 billion. As of this writing, the United States had allocated nearly $183 billion for the response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to the U.S. government's inspector general overseeing the situation. That amount includes more than just what the U.S. government directly sent to Ukraine — and only $83 billion had actually been paid out as of December 2024.

Second federal judge orders temporary reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees fired by the Trump administration. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol in response to the European Union's retaliation against his steel and aluminum tariffs with a 50% tariff on U.S. spirits. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

White House to pull anti-vaccine CDC director nomination, sources. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

A (nearly) complete list of Trump's actions in his seventh week in office. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

Greenland opposition party wins election amid Trump takeover talk. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

Stock market sell-off deepens after Trump doubles tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium imports to 50%. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump calls Tesla cars 'as good as it gets' in surreal promo for Musk — before admitting he's never driven one. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

Billionaires who attended Trump's inauguration have since lost $209 billion. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump says he'll buy a Tesla on 12 March to support Elon Musk, whose companies are struggling. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

— "Elon Musk is' 'putting it on the line' in order to help our Nation, and he is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "I'm going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American."

Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile, explained. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

US rescinds Biden memos prioritizing climate in infrastructure projects. — 10 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump family project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) also suffered from the big decline: $110m — 10 March 2025 (LINK)

— According to the data, the current loss in the portfolio of the Trump family project has reached $ 110 million. The total value of the largest altcoins in the portfolio, purchased for $ 336 million, currently corresponds to $ 226 million.

Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo following human rights criticism. — 8 March 2025 (LINK)

President Trump lied about auditing Fort Knox, like he did with releasing Epstein files. — 8 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump threatens new sanctions and tariffs on Russia to force peace talks. — 7 March 2025 (LINK)

— This is the first time since taking office that Trump has issued a public threat against Russia.

Crypto prices fall as US strategic reserve plan disappoints traders: bitcoin reserve based on assets forfeited to authorities. — 7 March 2025 (LINK)

Reuters: United States quits board of UN climate damage fund dedicated to help poor and vulnerable countries cope with climate-change-fueled disasters, letter shows. — 7 March 2025 (LINK)

— Since January 1, it has stopped the participation of U.S. climate scientists in global assessments, pulled out of funding deals that help countries reduce their coal use, as well as again removed the country from the Paris Climate Agreement. According to U.N. statistics, wealthy countries pledged $741 millions to the fund as of January 23. The United States contributed $17.5 million. It's unclear whether it will honour this pledge.

Trump signs executive order establishing U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump hits pause on Canada and Mexico tariffs — again: imports that comply with the USMCA trade agreement won't be hit with new tariffs this month. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

— About 50% of Mexican imports and 38% of Canadian imports are covered by the trade agreement, according to a White House official. — (LINK)

Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

EU leaders hold emergency Ukraine talks after Trump suspends aid. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

UN slashes support for Rohingya refugees in Indonesia due to U.S. cuts, sources say. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

— The U.N. says about 2,800 Rohingya refugees live in Indonesia. Reuters reported on 5 March that the World Food Programme would halve rations to more than a million Rohingya living in Bangladesh, which hosts the world's largest refugee settlement, to $6 per month.

Dow slides more than 200 points as traders await more clarity on Canada and Mexico tariffs. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump admits Musk is head of DOGE: During his address before Congress Tuesday, Donald Trump lauded Elon Musk as the head of DOGE, contradicting previous White House claims. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

Right Side Broadcasting Network, the White House's favoured outlet of reporter Brian Glenn (the one who scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit, and the manfriend of Marjorie Taylor Greene), took payments of $192K for covering Trump. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

— Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as "production" costs.

Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy's Ukrainian opponents. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

Polish official warns of international crisis if US cuts Ukraine from Starlink. — 5 March 2025 (LINK)

Economist Peter Schiff accuses Trump of manipulating BTC, ETH, ADA, XRP prices, claims crypto reserve is inflationary. — 5 March 2025 (LINK)

— Trump surprised everyone on Monday by announcing that a U.S. crypto reserve would include Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. As a result, Bitcoin and Ethereum jumped 10% in price, while XRP and Solana jumped around 20%.

— Schiff initially supported a Bitcoin reserve if it excluded Ripple's XRP, but he backpedaled on this comment and rejected the reserve treasury altogether. He now claims that Bitcoin supporters engaged in fraudulent behaviour by spreading false information about the currency online and benefiting from short-term market conditions.

— Schiff further states that the posts were carefully timed to benefit people who knew about the event in advance. The people he alludes to could be members of Trump's family and politicians who are aware of the announcement, possibly buying cryptocurrencies like XRP in advance, only to sell them at a market high.

Trump admin plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo says. — 5 March 2025 (LINK)

US stocks rally on Trump's tariff exemption for autos. — 5 March 2025 (LINK)

Canadian stores pull U.S. liquor from shelves as Trump's tariffs take effect. — 5 March 2025 (LINK)

BBC: Six takeaways from Trump's big speech: longest presidential speech to lawmakers on record.Trump was heckled by Democrats and he goaded them in turn during the rowdy primetime address. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

— Tariffs: *There'll be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that. It won't be much."

— Trump added that reciprocal tariffs tailored to US trading partners would "kick in" on 2 April.

— Earlier in the day, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox Business that Trump could announce a trade deal with Mexico and Canada as soon as Wednesday.

— Ukraine's president said he was now ready to work under Trump's "strong leadership" to end the war and "come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer". "I appreciate that he sent this letter," Trump told lawmakers. Trump was reportedly hoping to announce during his speech to Congress that the deal had finally been sealed. But it did not materialize.

— Repeating his desire for the US to acquire Greenland, he vowed "we're going to get it — one way or the other". And he said his administration would "reclaim" the Panama Canal.

— Liberia, Mali, Mozambique and Uganda were all places unfairly benefiting from US aid, he said. But his most pointed remark was about Lesotho, which he said was a country "nobody has ever heard of" despite receiving $8m (£6.2m) to promote LGBT rights.

— Many Democratic women arrived in the House chamber wearing pink pantsuits in protest. Dozens from their party — some of them wearing the words "Resist" printed on the backs of their shirts — exited the chamber during the speech. "There is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy," Trump said, appearing to revel in the partisan rancour.

— Trump pledged to voters that he would beat inflation on his return to office and he used the speech to say his focus would be to reduce the cost of energy, by opening up the country to new oil and gas drilling.

'Extremely dishonest': CNN fact-checker nails Trump on 13 'flat false' claims. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

IRS drafting plans to slash as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce leaving agency 'dysfunctional', AP sources say. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal today, sources say. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

— President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress this evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.

US firm, asset management giant BlackRock, agrees to buy HongKong-owned Panama Canal ports at centre of Trump fury. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

Hundreds of U.S. climate scientists just got fired and it could be a disaster. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

Bloomberg: Stellantis, VW Bear Brunt of €5.88 Billion Trump Tariff Risk. — 4 March 2025 (LINK) limited

Even the Wall Street Journal thinks Donald Trump's tariffs are 'the dumbest': "Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge". — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump's energy secretary pushed legal attack on green investing: former fracking company CEO Chris Wright played a key role in efforts to roll back workers' choices in socially conscious ESG investing. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

— Chris Wright, recently confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Energy, has been aiming to dismantle a U.S. Department of Labor rule that governs 401(k)s and other private retirement plans for more than 150 million people. The regulation allows asset managers to weigh environmental, social, and governance — or ESG — factors as long as they financially benefit retirees.

— Wright was CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy in 2023 when the company and about two dozen states sued the agency to overturn the rule. Liberty's case was dismissed in February by a federal judge in Texas. The conservative policy guide Project 2025 has called for the Trump administration to overturn current rules and prohibit ESG for most retirement plans.

Trump halt of arms aid to Ukraine 'painful, but not fatal', Kyiv says. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

US suspends all military aid to Ukraine effective immediately. — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

Dow drops nearly 650 points on worries about Trump's latest tariffs. — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

DOGE cuts hit Social Security With 7,000 layoffs and regional office closures, reducing its workforce by more than 12 percent — reducing offices from 10 to 4. — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

DOGE just keeps deleting its 'savings': another $4 billion was pulled off the "wall of receipts". — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

— The agency changed or removed more than 40% of the more than 1,000 contracts it claimed to have canceled over the previous week, according to the New York Times. Included in that overnight alteration was the outright removal of five of the seven largest contracts it claimed to have cut.

— The most recent examples of the agency's revisions included a $1.9 billion contract for IRS tech support that, while DOGE took credit for it, had actually been canceled in November by the Biden administration. A $133 million contract from USAID work in Libya was also canceled the year prior and had nothing to do with DOGE. And a $149 million contract that was supposedly for administrative assistants at the Department of Health and Human Services but linked to a completely different contract with a completely different company and a completely different amount also got trashed from the savings list, per the Times.

— According to the New York Times reporting, DOGE's initial claims of saving $16 billion last week have already shrunk to under $9 billion with the updates—and that's taking the agency at its word that all the other contracts it cut are in fact correct. Pair that with NPR's research that $46.5 billion of the agency's first $55 billion of savings reported had no specifically documented source, and you start to wonder just how much of the whole operation is accomplishing anything.

DOGE laid off workers who were protecting infrastructure from foreign hackers. — 3 March 2025 (LINK: limited)

The Justice Department on 28 February quietly took revenge on prosecutors who'd worked to hold Trump's allies accountable. — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

— The head of the Washington, DC, US attorney's office demoted seven high-ranking prosecutors on Friday, Reuters reports, moving them to entry-level positions in a bid to force them to quit. Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed new head of the DC office, claimed the moves reflected a shift in priorities and a focus on local crime in DC.

Democrats defeat Republican transgender sports ban bill in U.S. Senate. — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the International Crisis Group: Trump is trying to remake the United Nations. — 3 March 2025 (LINK)

— Trump believes the United Nations should refocus on its "founding purpose" of preserving international peace and security. It is not clear what the administration's appeal to the U.N.'s original ideals means in policy terms. The administration has emphasized what it does not like about the U.N., quitting or defunding multilateral arrangements on issues ranging from health to human rights.

Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve, sending prices up: Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana and Cardano. — 2 March 2025 (LINK)

Late on 28 February the Trump administration, as part of its push to modernize the government with software, laid off roughly 90 people from the General Services Administration — all federal technologists whose role was to modernize the government with software. — 2 March 2025 (LINK)

— For some of the workers, it was their second time being fired in a month. At least some of 18F's probationary employees, who typically have been in their government role for only one to two years, had previously been terminated in the Trump administration's mass firings — then reinstated this week, and then fired again Friday night.

Trump signs executive order making English the official language of the U.S.: rescinds a policy issued by former President Bill Clinton requiring agencies to provide assistance programs for people with limited English proficiency. — 1 March 2025 (LINK)

US judge declares Trump's firing of watchdog agency head illegal. — 1 March 2025 (LINK)

NPR: DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones: we found $2bn vs $55bn claimed. — 1 March 2025 (LINK)

— DOGE's savings page launched with a topline claim of $55 billion saved, with "receipts" that accounted for about $16.5 billion in contract cancellations. But an NPR review found the documented savings were grossly overstated, including with an apparent $8 billion typo, the misleading inclusion of procurement methods that act as lines of credit and billions of dollars in contracts that were not actually terminated. By matching DOGE's claims with federal contract data, that NPR analysis found estimated savings of only about $2 billion — a fraction of what the receipts claimed or the higher, unverifiable claim of $55 billion overall.

Trump in February 2025

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