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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25140119

"Mr. Trump's tariff increase also eliminated a duty-free exemption for low-value packages coming from China. The "de minimis" exemption allows goods valued at $800 or below to come into the United States without paying duties or certain taxes.

But it has faced scrutiny due to a surge in shipments claiming the exemption in recent years.

U.S. officials pointed to the growth of Chinese-founded online retailers Shein and Temu as a key factor behind that increase — and Tuesday's halt could delay parcels from both companies from entering the country."

Edit Less than 24 hours later, the policy is reversed:

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/suspension-of-inbound-parcels-from-china-and-hong-kong.htm

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250205075353/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-withdraws-from-anti-american-un-organizations/

Just little things like the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the Near East (UNRWA).

"The UN Educational, Science, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in particular, will undergo a review under an expedited timeline due to its history of anti-Israel bias."

Looks like he's buying the lies about UNRWA and Hamas.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250205051029/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-2/

Not the most descriptive title.

"SUBJECT: Imposing Maximum Pressure on the Government of        the Islamic Republic of Iran, Denying Iran All        Paths to a Nuclear Weapon, and Countering Iran’s        Malign Influence"

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright_(energy_executive)

"He is the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America's second largest hydraulic fracturing company."

https://www.benzinga.com/sec/insider-trades/0001292100/christopher-a-wright

"Christopher A Wright has an estimated net worth of $171 Million. This is based on reported shares across multiple companies, which include Liberty Energy Inc., ACCRETION ACQUISITION CORP., CARBO CERAMICS INC, and Oklo Inc.."

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I should probably recuse myself on this one, as a survivor of 2 heart attacks, open heart surgery, a stent, and congestive heart failure, it's a little bit personal for me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250204010113/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/american-heart-month-2025/

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Well it's been another banner week for the dipshit parade you voted for. I know you're not paying attention to it, so let me round it up for you.

Dear leader Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in ‘horribly shortsighted’ decision. Surely that won't come back to bite us in the ass, right?

Dear leader proposes ‘getting rid of FEMA’ while touring disaster areas. You know, like a jackass might.

Dear leader giving a nazi oligarch office space in the Eisenhower building. (There's a fox news link just for you!) He has since gone on to lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems. But hey, those systems only contain dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of all government workers.

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications." (Good thing Dear Leader fired the cybersecurity team!)

Dear Leader's massive deportations are causing farm workers to stop showing up for harvest. Leaving American farmers high and dry, they're crop rotting in the field. I wonder what that will do to grocery prices? 🤔 But don't worry, Dear Leader is siding with his chief immigrant to extend the H1B Visa program, allowing immigrants to take the jobs of professional Americans too!

Dear Leader decided to speak at an anti-abortion rally in Washington attended heavily by, you guessed it, white supremacist group patriot front!

Dear Leader decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, because climate change is just a Chinese hoax, right?? He followed that up by curtailing wind energy projects, while expanding oil and gas drilling! Wow, good thing Climate change is a chinese hoax right??

Here's NASA saying it's not. Climate change is real and your dear leader is expediting the destruction of our planet.

Dear Leader released files on MLK and JFK assasination, but curiously didn't release the epstien files, Gee, I wonder why? Here's Dear Leader talking specifically about it, and here's why he won't release it. Wow, 7 trips to epstein's island, huh? Here's a Direct quote from Dear Leader;

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Dear Leader, in a gift to Russia and China, orders a freeze to all aid to Ukraine and Taiwan. Wow, who could have seen that coming?

Dear Leader nominated a white nationalist domestic abuser whose only qualification is being a fox news talking head to run the Defense Dept. While also nominating puppy killer ivanka stand-in as head of Dept. of Homeland Security. And can't forget your favorite worm-brained anti-vax moron that thinks wifi causes cancer, RFK!

Dear Leader attempts an illegal firing of Dept. Watchdog Inspectors Generals. Can't imagine why he wouldn't want corruption watchdogs on staff!

Dear Leader couldn't even make it a whole week without golfing, holding a gop retreat at his private resort, and funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into his pockets. Because, lest we forget, he never divested from ANY of his companies. Jimmy Carter sold his fucking peanut farm.

Dear Leader, in a sign of gratitude to their terrorism, pardoned jan 6th terrorists. Dozens of whom had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking (They're sending their best!). They immediately go on to get in a shoot out with police.

Dear Leader also pardoned violent anti-abortion extremists, while simultaneously announcing that his administration would no longer enforce the FACE Act, which protected abortion clinics from these violent religious extremists. An act that was put in place after the murder of Dr. David Gunn in 1993. Gee, can't foresee anything bad happening from these decisions!

Dear Leader fires justice dept. staff in blatant retaliation to their involvement in the legal prosecution of his criminal activities. Convicted felon gets elected, immediately fires people who investigated his felonies. The Onion couldn't write a headline like this!

Dear Leader also wasted no time in canceling student visas for pro-Palestinian protestors in a gift to the man currently genociding their people, natenyahu.

Dear Leader cancels all federal grants and loans, sending everything into chaos, from college students with FAFSA, to people with medicaid. Wow, what a fuckwit.

“This sort of came out of the blue,” said David Smith, a spokesperson for the Shawnee Mission School District in Kansas, one of countless districts that receive federal funding. Now they’re trying to figure out what it means “based on zero information.”

Dear Leader began purging any competence out of federal employees with sycophantic loyalty tests.

Dear Leader bans trans Americans from openly serving in the military. Cuz why not?

Dear Leader is setting up a 30 thousand bed concentration camp at a torture black site, but I'm sure for nothing nefarious! It's not like the 200 deported Colombians included pregnant women and children — but no criminals... oh wait.

Dear Leader fired the head of the U.S. Coast Guard and TSA, while terminating the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. (Cue Curb Your Enthusiasm Intro) which immediately resulted in a mid-air collision over the Potomac River that claimed 67 Americans, AND a crash in Philadelphia which saw 7 dead and 19 injured. Wow, what a short-sighted totally-stable genius! Almost like when he fired the pandemic response team immediately before a world-wide pandemic!

In response to these deadly crashes, Dear Leader blames minorities. Wow! So creative!

Dear Leader also, for some unknown reason, ordered a pause of all activities and events related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth, LGBTQ Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Wow! This guy really hates minorities and women, am I right?

And last (for now) but most assuredly not the least, Dear Leader ordered Army Corp. of Engineers to flood California farms in a nonsensical political stunt.

“Something really bad could happen because of their nonsensical approach,” the former official, who was granted anonymity because of the issue’s political sensitivity, said. “Floods are real. This isn’t playing around with a software company.”

Dumping the water from Lake Kaweah and Success Lake poses a flood risk to downstream communities, he said, like the town of Porterville, which nearly flooded during rainstorms in 2023. It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year. The snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada that California depends on for water supplies in the summer has dipped to 47 percent of average for this time of year after a dry January, according to state estimates released Friday.

“We need to keep every bit that we have, because this potentially is irrigation water that we have up there,” Hernandez said.

Wow! What a fucking moron!

That's all I have for this week, please let me know what sense you can make of all this horse-shittery, because I'm stumped!

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Ramifications:

Why tariffs on Mexico and Canada could drive up grocery costs, in 3 charts

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/us/food-prices-tariffs-trump-dg/index.html

"The two countries supply a significant share of several key food categories. For example, Mexico is the largest supplier of fruit and vegetables to the US, while Canada leads in exports of grain, livestock and meats, poultry and more."

Tariffs will halt North American auto production and trigger layoffs: Linamar

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tariffs-will-halt-north-american-auto-production-and-trigger-layoffs/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250201191010/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tariffs-will-halt-north-american-auto-production-and-trigger-layoffs/

"Ms. Hasenfratz said the costs of the tariffs will be borne by her customers — car makers — who require highly specialized components. It can take 12 to 18 months to source and engineer alternative parts, she said in an interview.

“It would just create an exorbitant amount of cost, and our customers can’t afford to absorb that,” Ms. Hasenfratz said in an interview Saturday. “Consumers certainly aren’t going pay it, so demand will disintegrate. So in my opinion, it wouldn’t be more than a week before we would see vehicle production in North America grind to a halt, and that means millions of people laid off, the majority of which would be in the U.S., and I can’t see how that’s a good thing for America.”"

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"Also on Friday, more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases were fired by the Justice Department, according to communications obtained by CNN,"

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