Summarizing Trump’s Second Term Moves—Bigly!

March 14, 2025

Day of Trump's Second Term

Donald Trump on the $500 bill. A Congressional gold medal. An international airport.  It’s the Summer of Trump in the House of Representatives, where Republican lawmakers have flooded the chamber with bills and resolutions honoring the former president, convicted felon and 2024 GOP front-runner.  These largely symbolic gestures are a way to get noticed by
CNN  —  A federal judge ruled Saturday that the head of a government watchdog agency whom President Donald Trump is attempting to fire is entitled to remain in the post, setting up a dispute that will almost certainly be decided by the Supreme Court. The ruling from US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a
President Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Feb. 28. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., the first such designation in the
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. After the Trump administration moved to freeze nearly $60 billion in foreign aid in January, officials like Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly assured Americans that lifesaving operations would continue. “We don’t want
DETROIT — President Donald Trump’s trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry. If the president goes ahead with 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, he will disrupt more than $300 billion in annual U.S. automotive trade with its two neighbors, wreck supply chains
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Saturday that looks to unleash forest management efforts following this year's devastating Los Angeles wildfires, according to a White House official. The order takes steps for quicker federal permitting approvals of forestry projects under the Endangered Species Act so that clearing brush, timber
By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   President Donald Trump says he plans to issue “a complete PARDON of Pete Rose,” baseball’s late career hits leader who was banned from MLB and the Hall of Fame for sports betting. Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday night to say Rose
President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge’s ruling in Seattle late Friday. (AP video: Manuel Valdes) President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will
Soon after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White House on Friday after an astonishing Oval Office row with US President Donald Trump, Ukrainians rallied around Zelenskyy as a defender of his country’s interests. (AP video by Alex Babenko and produced by Dmytro Zhyhinas) Soon after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White House on
Seattle AP  —  President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge’s ruling in Seattle late Friday. US District Court Judge Lauren King previously granted a two-week restraining order after the Democratic attorneys general of Washington
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