Trump's Policies

Critical look into the political decisions of Donald Trump on key issues such as economy, inflation, taxes, immigration, climate, healthcare, trade, and foreign policy

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• The meeting that sparked Monarez’s dismissal - Politico 29.08.25 485968
• Trump's plan to create Guard units to quell civil unrest alarms experts - ABC 25.08.25 485324
• White House joins TikTok after delaying enforcement of sale-or-ban law - CNN 19.08.25 485329
• Video: 'Feckless': The Weeknight panel on Trump's authoritarian power grab - MSNBC 14.08.25 484095
• Trump’s 7 most authoritarian moves so far - CNN 13.08.25 484094
• Senate Democrat: Trump ‘playing dictator,’ pushing democracy to ‘brink’ - The Hill 11.08.25 484099
• Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. We’re now past day 200 - Guardian 10.08.25 484098
• Trump’s East Wing expansion requires a reimagined White House tour - CNN 09.08.25 485330
• Trump’s War on the Truth: Robert Reich on Firing of BLS Head & Push to Replace Fed Chair - DN! 06.08.25 483625
• Campaign's Interactive Tool Tracks How Much Trump and GOP Are Raising the Cost of Living - CD 31.07.25 484466
• Trump administration leans in on memes, AI and MAGA messaging online - NBC 26.07.25 485331
• The real winners from Trump’s ‘AI action plan’? Tech companies - Guardian 25.07.25 481926
• Video: Trump signs executive order making it easier to remove homeless people from streets - CNN 25.07.25 481932
• ‘Bomb first’: Trump’s approach to war-making in his second term - Al Jazeera 24.07.25 483390
• Trump’s Poll Numbers Hit a New Low, as He Bleeds Support from Independents - TIME 24.07.25 482875
• Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low - Gallup 24.07.25 482400
• Wide Acclaim for President Trump’s Visionary AI Action Plan - The White House 24.07.25 481931
• Video: Trump’s AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here’s how it may affect energy in the US - AP News 24.07.25 481920
• Video: The Opportunities and Risks Inherent to Trump's AI Action Plan - CFR 24.07.25 481922
• Trump signs executive order aimed at making it easier to remove homeless people from the streets - CBS 24.07.25 481936
• Video: Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets - NPR 24.07.25 481933
• Video: Trump signs order pushing cities and states to remove homeless people from streets - USA Today 24.07.25 481935
• Video: California leaders react to Trump's executive order aimed at removing homeless people from streets - ABC7 24.07.25 481934
• Video: From tech podcasts to policy: Trump’s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas - AP News 23.07.25 481925
• Trump unveils AI plan that aims to clamp down on regulations and 'bias' - BBC 23.07.25 481927
• Trump’s AI plan: Pull back restraints on tech - CNN 23.07.25 481928
• Trump administration unveils wide ranging AI action plan - Al Jazeera 23.07.25 481929
• Experts react: What Trump’s new AI Action Plan means for tech, energy, the economy, and more - Atlantic Council 23.07.25 481930
• Map Shows Which Countries Will Have to Pay Visa Integrity Fee to Enter US - NewsWeek 22.07.25 480962
• Trump administration withdraws from UNESCO again, only 2 years after US rejoined - AP News 22.07.25 481001
• US to withdraw from UN scientific and cultural agency UNESCO again, White House says - CNN 22.07.25 481002
• Withdrawal of the United States of America from UNESCO: statement by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General - UNESCO 22.07.25 480995
• U.S. again withdraws from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias and "woke" causes - Axios 22.07.25 481003
• Visiting the US will soon require a $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ - CNN 21.07.25 480960
• Video: Why the U.S. is charging a $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ - CNBC 21.07.25 480963
• Trump worked to kill a story about his friendship with Epstein. Now we know why - Guardian 18.07.25 480228
• Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ — what to know - CNBC 18.07.25 480959
• Millions of travelers to the U.S. could be charged a new $250 "visa integrity fee" - CBS 18.07.25 480961
• Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for libel - Guardian 18.07.25 480229
• Trump’s plan to dismantle FEMA hits stumbling block after Texas floods - El Pais 16.07.25 480562
• The Supreme Court Won’t Explain Itself - The Atlantic 15.07.25 480574
• Reports of DOGE’s demise are greatly exaggerated — it’s just getting started - The Hill 14.07.25 499058
• Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good? - TFF 14.07.25 480724
• Trump Admin Announces $200 Million Contract for Musk's AI After Grok Hitler Incident - CD 14.07.25 479618
• Democratic Congressman Introduces Resolution Demanding Trump Release Epstein Files - Time 14.07.25 479414
• Trump cuts questioned as role of Fema in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response - Guardian 12.07.25 480570
• The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities - CAP 10.07.25 480566
• 'Lives are at stake:' Deadly Texas storms put spotlight on Trump's weather agency cuts - BBC 09.07.25 480569
• What Is the Trump Doctrine? John Bellamy Foster on U.S. Foreign Policy & the “New MAGA Imperialism” - DN! 08.07.25 478744
• Did US government cuts contribute to the Texas tragedy? - BBC 07.07.25 480560
• Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods - AP News 07.07.25 480564
• Trump’s government cuts and the catastrophe in Texas: Here’s what we know - CNN 07.07.25 480561
• Texas flood deaths leave some asking whether weather service cuts played role in tragedy - CBC 07.07.25 480567
• National Weather Service defends its flood warnings amid fresh scrutiny of Trump staff cuts - NBC 06.07.25 480563
• Republicans now own America’s broken health care system - VOX 01.07.25 476941
• ‘We are privileged’: liberal Afrikaners reject Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims - Guardian 28.06.25 477293
• Donald Trump, Insulter-in-Chief - Bracing Views 27.06.25 476588
• Busting the Myth of Trump as an Anti-War President - CD 24.06.25 477618
• “Harming Young People”: Chase Strangio on SCOTUS Trans Heathcare Ban & End of LGBTQ Suicide Hotline - DN! 20.06.25 475481
• 'Incomprehensible': Trump Admin To Shut Down LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline - CD 19.06.25 475480
• Trump's VA cut a program that's saving vets' homes. Republicans have questions - NPR 19.06.25 475170
• US veterans angry at Trump administration's cost-cutting plans - France24 18.06.25 475168
• Thousands of young Americans at risk of homelessness if Job Corps ends - CNN 18.06.25 474743
• Trump pardons allowed recipients to skirt more than $1.3B in restitution - The Hill 17.06.25 474748
• Trump’s pardons could have erased more than $1.3 billion in fines and restitution, Democrats say - CNN 17.06.25 474749
• VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination - Guardian 16.06.25 475169
• Trump plans to phase out FEMA. Here's what it could mean if you live in a floodplain - USA Today 12.06.25 473747
• Trump's pardons have shortchanged fraud victims of millions of dollars in restitution, lawyers say - ABC 12.06.25 474751
• Authoritarianism Isn't Coming—It's Here - CD 11.06.25 474572
• Trump says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season - CNN 11.06.25 473745
• US foreign aid cuts threaten decades of progress on driving down malaria - CNN 11.06.25 474223
• Trump plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 Atlantic hurricane season - CBS 11.06.25 473749
• No Kings. No Redcoats. No Occupying Armies. - American Prospect 11.06.25 474003
• Trump says he will phase out federal disaster agency after 2025 hurricane season - Anadolu Ajansı 11.06.25 473748
• Trump’s plan to begin ‘phasing out’ FEMA after hurricane season burdens states, experts warn - AP News 11.06.25 473746
• Struggling to make sense of the Trump Regime's madness? Here is its playbook - TFF 10.06.25 473919
• This is what autocracy looks like - IPS 10.06.25 473695
• Fact-checking claims Trump’s pardons wiped out $1bn in debt owed to US - Al Jazeera 08.06.25 474750
• Promises Kept, Promises Broken: Trump’s 100-Day Scorecard - U.S. News 29.04.25 473213
• 'A gut punch': Job Corps alumni and faculty lament Trump administration threats to the program - NBC 05.06.25 474747
• Trump pushes Congress to cut $9.4bn in funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid - Guardian 04.06.25 472342
• Thousands of students in limbo as Trump administration seeks to shut down Job Corps centers - CBS 04.06.25 474746
• Did South Africa's White 'refugees' sell a lie to the US? - France24 03.06.25 477299
• Job Corps programs in Pa., across the U.S., ordered to close - ABC6 03.06.25 474745
• Analysis: An outline is emerging of the US offer to Iran in their high-stakes nuclear negotiations - AP News 03.06.25 472078
• Congress finally gets Trump’s request to codify DOGE cuts to NPR, PBS, foreign aid - Politico 03.06.25 472345
• Trump Touts Progress on Iran Nuclear Deal - ACA 03.06.25 472040
• Trump says US will not allow Iran to enrich 'any' uranium under nuclear deal - France24 03.06.25 472041
• US will not allow any enrichment of uranium by Iran: Trump - Anadolu Ajansı 03.06.25 472043
• More white South Africans arrive in the US under a new refugee program - AP News 02.06.25 477291
• U.S. nuclear deal offer allows Iran to enrich uranium - Axios 02.06.25 472039
• Iran demands sanctions relief guarantee in nuclear talks with US - Al Jazeera 02.06.25 472080
• Iranian official says US nuclear proposal is ‘incoherent and disjointed,’ as sources warn talks momentum is collapsing - CNN 02.06.25 472084
• Iran poised to dismiss US nuclear proposal, Iranian diplomat says - Reuters 02.06.25 472042
• Iran on brink of rejecting US proposal on nuclear programme - Guardian 02.06.25 472082
• Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions - Guardian 02.06.25 472142
• Iran confirms receiving 'elements of US proposal' on nuclear talks via Oman - Anadolu Ajansı 01.06.25 472079
• Video: White South African defends refugee status in US - BBC 06/25 477294
• Trump administration’s deep cuts to public health leave system reeling - PBS 31.05.25 472344
• US sends nuclear deal proposal to Iran - BBC 31.05.25 472076

• Project 2025
• Broken Promises & Lies
• Weaken Regulatory Agencies
• Feed the Military-Industrial Complex
• Nuclear Button
• Immigration Policy & Dreamers
• Exit from Paris Climate Accord
• Enrich the Ultra-Rich, Banks & Corporations
• Trump"s "Solution': Giving Teachers Guns.
• The GOP Tax Plan / Scam (2017)
• Donald Trump
• Trump's Budget
• Trump (USA) blocks Climate Deal - We boycott Trump (USA)
• Donald Trump
• The War on Drugs