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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• 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
• Trump strikes upbeat tone on Gaza ceasefire, Iran nuclear deal - Anadolu Ajansı 30.05.25 472077
• Trump's big, beautiful handout to the AI industry - Intercept 29.05.25 480021
• Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history - The Conversation 29.05.25 477296
• Why are the US and Israel not on the same page over how to deal with Iran? Expert Q&A - The Conversation 29.05.25 472044
• Tracking Trump’s presidential promises - AP News 28.05.25 473214
• Trump warns Netanyahu off Iran strike as nuclear talks continue - Al Jazeera 28.05.25 472083
• Iran-US nuclear talks: Is a new deal imminent? - DW 27.05.25 472081
• 'It's not fair': Other refugees in limbo as US welcomes white South Africans - BBC 24.05.25 477295
• 'This Dinner Is Corruption Embodied': Protest Planned as Trump Dines With Crypto Investors - CD 22.05.25 472286
• Video: Trump says U.S. takes refugees of ‘persecution or genocide,’ including Afrikaners - PBS 21.05.25 477300
• Trump fast-tracked processing of White South African refugees. But not everyone wants to leave - CNN 21.05.25 477298
• 'What Don't They Want You to Know?' GOP Sets 1 AM Hearing to Advance Disastrous Medicaid Cuts - CD 20.05.25 470581
• Trump signs bill outlawing ‘revenge porn’ - Al Jazeera 20.05.25 469945
• Melania Trump says new revenge porn law will protect children online - BBC 19.05.25 469944
• President Trump to sign bill addressing rise of revenge porn and deep fakes - NPR 19.05.25 469946
• Victims of explicit deepfakes will now be able to take legal action against people who create them - CNN 19.05.25 469943
• Trump signs Take It Down Act to combat fake images and online exploitation - Guardian 19.05.25 469942
• ‘They’ll be back’: White Afrikaners leave South Africa to be refugees in US - Al Jazeera 15.05.25 477297
• Video: Trump lifting sanctions on Syria is major boost for al-Sharaa: Analysis - Al Jazeera 14.05.25 469079
• Trump’s Mistaken Belief That What Happens Elsewhere Isn’t Washington’s Concern - Carnegie Endowment 13.05.25 471479
• Trump says US to lift Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal - Reuters 13.05.25 469080
• US decision to lift sanctions on Syria: Here’s what you need to know - Al Jazeera 13.05.25 469076
• Trump to remove US sanctions on Syria in major policy shift - Reuters 13.05.25 469075
• Trump announces plan to lift punishing sanctions on Syria - CNN 13.05.25 469078
• Trump pledges to lift Syria sanctions as he seals $142bn arms deal on Saudi visit - BBC 13.05.24 469077
• Trump administration welcomes 59 white South Africans as refugees to the US - Al Jazeera 12.05.25 477301
• Trump's Greed New Deal - CD 12.05.25 470983
• Dozens of white South Africans arrive in US under Trump refugee plan - BBC 12.05.25 477292
• Grifter-in-Chief Trump and the Grift That Keeps on Grifting - CD 12.05.25 470984
• Trump health cuts create ‘real danger’ around disease outbreaks, workers warn - Guardian 11.05.25 474271
• The Extinction Order: Trump’s Executive Order 14270 Doesn’t Deregulate; It Dismantles - CD 11.05.25 471467
• How the military is dealing with Hegseth's order to remove transgender troops - Dailykos 09.05.25 475746
• The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts - Atlantic 08.05.25 468714
• America First? No, Corporations First. - Otherwords 07.05.25 467842
• 'Aggressive Step' Toward Privatization as Trump Picks FedEx Board Member to Lead USPS - CD 07.05.25 471225
• Trump once promised to end HIV in America. His deep funding cuts are rolling back progress in the South - CBS 06.05.25 474268
• Trump Pushes Supreme Court to Let Musk's Cronies Seize Social Security Data - CD 03.05.25 467875
• 5 Ways Trump's Order to Eliminate NPR and PBS Is an Assault on American Democracy - CD 02.05.25 467824
• One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern - Guardian 02.05.25 466973
• Trump white-collar criminal pardons cost public $1bn, says ex-DoJ official - Guardian 02.05.25 474753
• Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term - Guardian 01.05.25 467588
• Trump's First 100 Days of Unchecked Power - CD 30.04.25 467552
• The Long List of Trump’s Harmful Reproductive Rights Restrictions - HRW 30.04.25 467509
• Trump is losing - VOX 30.04.25 466830
• Trump and his campaign promises: Mapping his first 100 days - Reuters 30.04.25 473210
• ‘Tearing down’: What drives Trump’s foreign policy? - Al Jazeera 29.04.25 467236
• Promises kept, broken and TBD: Defining Trump’s first 100 days - Politico 29.04.25 473205
• Hitler's First 100 Days — And Trump's - CD 27.04.25 467879
• Trump wasted no time breaking his campaign promises. It's been 100 days of lies, Opinion - USA Today 27.04.25 473204
• Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns - Nature 25.04.25 466672
• 100 Human Rights Harms in 100 Days: The Trump Administration’s Assault on Rights in the United States and Abroad - HRW 24.04.25 470444
• Approaching 100 Days in Office, Voters Increasingly Disapprove of Trump’s Handling of the Economy - Data for Progress 24.04.25 466551
• Trump crypto soars as president offers dinner to top holders - 23.04.25 466838
• Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism - NPR 22.04.25 466400
• Let the Data Show: Trump Killed Biden's Manufacturing Boom on Day One - CD 19.04.25 466975
• 'Victory for Scammers' as Trump Fires 90% of Consumer Protection Agency Staff - CD 18.04.25 466531
• “Co-Presidents” Trump and Musk Attack Social Security - DN! 17.04.25 466411
• 'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad - NPR 16.04.25 465623
• The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You - CD 15.04.25 466293
• What Trump really wants from Canada - BBC 14.04.25 465446
• What’s the true cost of Donald Trump? All the crises around the world that we’ve no time to fix - Guardian 11.04.25 464594
• 'They're Lying': Despite Claims, Social Security Office Closures—Which Mean Cuts—Are Coming - CD 08.04.25 466097
• 'There Will Be Blood': JPMorgan Hikes Odds of Trump-Triggered Recession to 60% - CD 04.04.25 465614
• Consumers are boycotting US goods around the world. Should Trump be worried? - Conversation 04.04.25 465452
• When Fascism Comes to America - CD 03.04.25 466087
• On “Liberation Day,” Trump Signed America Up for Stagflation - Jacobin 03.04.25 464176
• Under the new Trump administration, this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility has a different tenor - AP News 31.03.25 474286
• Trump Is Right To Cut Waste and Save Malaria Initiatives - The Heritage Foundation 27.03.25 474224
• US stands on the brink of a constitutional crisis as Donald Trump takes on America’s legal system - Conversation 27.03.25 462961
• Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care - NPR 27.03.25 462952
• 'Cuts to the Bone': Leaked Trump Doc Shows Feds Plan to Slash Up to 50% of Agencies' Staff - CD 27.03.25 462814
• Trump Administration Slammed for Slashing $12​ Billion in Funding for State Health Services - CD 26.03.25 462787

• 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