Large list of political happenings I've been keeping up with
EDIT: I have gone ahead and made a Gitbook with all the info and plan on keeping it updated. https://kvdolphin.gitbook.io/kvdolphin
Trump announces that he plans on enacting 25% Tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and then 35% Tariffs on China 11/23/24
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-promises-25-tariff-products-mexico-canada-2024-11-25/
Trump is trying to have his cabinet picks bypass FBI background checks until after he takes office and can appoint sympathizers in the FBI 11/26/24
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz/index.html
Elon Musk, in charge of the Department of Government efficiency, wants to delete the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They are the ones who go after corporations for price gouging and unfair business practices. 11/27/24
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/27/elon-musk-delete-cfpb-doge/
Donald Trump says he had a phone call with mexican president and said that she agreed to shut down the southern border. Shortly after saying this, the Mexican president came out and said that he lied and that she did not say anything about shutting down the border, but that they did have a productive conversation. She also mentioned the possibility of enacting tariffs against the US as well. 11/28/24
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89v4w51dzyo
Trump mentioned wanting to launch a "soft invasion" of mexico to combat drug cartels. This would be an act of war against Mexico 11/28/24
Donald Trump "joked" to Justin Trudeau, that he would annex Canada and have it become the USs 51st state if Canada did not comply with Trumps tariffs 12/2/24
Trump vows to block the US Steel and Japan deal. Nipon Japan is a steel company currently purchasing US Steel, another steel company. Trump is trying to stop that deal 12/3/24
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-to-block-us-steel-nippon-steel-acquisition/
In North Carolina, the republicans pushed forward a bill that would remove several rights from the incoming democratic governor. The current governor Vetoed the bill but the republicans had enough votes to overturn his veto. The bill makes it where any position that the incoming governor wants to fill, he has to fill it based on a list provided exclusively from the Republicans. 12/4/24
Senator Elect David Gregory of Missouri put forth a bill that would offer a $1,000 for any citizen turning in undocumented immigrants to the highway patrol and would set up a phone and email hotline for people to turn in immigrants. 12/6/24
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article296685389.html
Donald Trump says that he will use an executive order to remove birthright citizenship, aka, the 14th Ammendment 12/10/24
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/10/trump-birthright-citizenship-what-to-know-00193371
Donald Trump doubles down on potentially annexing Canada 12/10/24
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-836732
Donald Trump admits that he cannot guarantee that his tariffs wont increase costs for americans 12/12/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0uwCci6gDA
Donald Trump proposes utilizing the military for his mass deportation plan and mentions using camps to hold all undocumented immigrants before they are deported 12/12/24
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/trump-military-mass-deportation.html
Due to Trumps remarks about annexing Canada, they have proposed stopping all exportation of energy to the US 12/14/24
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/business/canadian-us-energy/index.html
RFK had his lawyer request that the FDA revoke its approval of the Polio Vaccine 12/14/24
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/health/kennedy-lawyer-fda-polio-vaccine/index.html
Trump floats the idea of privatizing the USPS 12/14/24
Trump and his lawyers are preparing to launch lawsuits against media organizations for release disfavorable news coverage against him. 12/16/24
The new government spending bill that had wide bi partisan support and was set to pass has been killed after Elon Musk declared that it was a bad bill and the house Republicans flipped their votes. This bill included vital spending for disaster relief following the events this year 12/17/24
12 House republicans voted against re authorizing the Holocaust Education programs under the Never Again Education Act that would have kept holocaust learning in schools until 2030 Arrington, Biggs, Boebert, Brecheen, Burchett, Crane, Good, Greene, Massie, Rosendale, Roy, and Rutherford (It did still pass the house and will likely pass the senate) 12/17/24
Senator Rand Paul has called for Elon Musk to be elected as Speaker of the House 12/18/24
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5048431-rand-paul-elon-musk-speaker/
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sers up billboards telling immigrants that illegally crossing may lead to them being kidnapped or raped 12/22/24
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/24/texas-billboards-migrants-central-america-mexico/
Donald Trump says he is going to take the Panama Canal from Panama 12/22/24
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-might-demand-panama-hand-over-canal-2024-12-22/
Trump says he plans on buying or taking over Greenland. Trumps plan to take over Greenland is to convice its residents to want to join the US, and then ratify Greenland as a sort of martial island. Denmark responds by saying that Denmark is not for sale, however, with Trump in charge, America and its government clearly is, and they may be interested in buying the US. Saying that they would buy the US, institute quality education and universal healthcare, and thay the US would transform from a landmass into a great nation. 12/23/24
Mexico’s president comes out and says that the Panama Canal belongs to Panama. 12/23/24
South Carolina reintroduces a bill to the house that would classify any purposeful abortion as a homicide. Homicide is punishable by death in SC. 12/23/24
Trump team confirms that they plan to restart the family separation deportation policy 12/26/24
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/12/26/immigration-border-tom-homan-trump/
Inauguration----------------------------
Trump disables CBP One, an app migrants use to help gain LEGAL access to the US 1/20/25
Trump team takes down reproductiverights.gov, a site to help women understand their rights 1/20/25
Trump pardons 1,500 J6ers who partook in the break in at the capital and the deaths of several officers 1/20/25
Trump removes the US from the Paris Climate Accord the World Health Organization 1/20/25
https://apnews.com/article/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-788907bb89fe307a964be757313cdfb0
Trump removes the US from the World Health Organization 1/20/25
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-world-health-organization.html
Elon Musk gives a nazi salute at the inauguration 1/20/25
Trump removed the Spanish version of the white house website 1/20/25
Trump rescinded the Biden executive order to lower drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid 1/20/25
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5098715-trump-executive-order-biden-prescription-drug-costs/
Trump signs an executive order removing birthright citizenship, aka, the 14th Amendment 1/20/25
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/20/trump-immigration-executive-orders/
Trump fired top immigration court officials 1/21/25
Trump declares national emergency at the border due to immigration 1/21/25
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-immigration-emergency-executive-order
Trump rolled back all DEI practices in the white house 1/21/25
https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-executive-order-diversity-834a241a60ee92722ef2443b62572540
Executive order to rename gulf of Mexico and mount denali to gulf of America and mount mckinley 1/21/25
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rename-gulf-of-mexico-denali/
Trump removed the following from the Whitehouse.gov website: Constitution, Judical Branch, Executive Branch, and the Legislative Branch 1/21/25
Trump gives an unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, he was serving a life sentence for the creation and running of the Silk Road, which sold primarily illicit narcotics on the dark web. 1/21/25
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o
Trump allows ICE to conduct raids in daycares, schools, and churches 1/21/25
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-authorizes-ice-target-schools-churches/story?id=117954409
Trump puts a freeze on all federal hiring. This causes thousands of individuals to have job offers rescinded on extremely short notice 1/21/25
Trump revoked the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Order 1/22/25
Trump blocks external reports and studies from the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH 1/22/25
Trump suspends entry of all migrants across the southern border with no exceptions 1/22/25
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/22/trump-asylum-border-troops-immigration/
Trump suggests defunding FEMA in an interview with Sean Hannity 1/22/25
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-fema-states-sean-hannity-interview
Trump blocked 1500 Afghans who helped us during the war from coming into the US, despite all being cleared by the CIA and the FBI. 1/23/25