Summarizing Trump’s Second Term Moves—Bigly!

April 19, 2025

Day of Trump's Second Term

Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at the Head Start program run by Easterseals, an organization that gets about a third of its funding from the federal government, on Jan. 29, in Miami. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption toggle caption Rebecca Blackwell/AP The Trump administration is considering eliminating
President Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Friday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to make it easier to fire some federal workers from their jobs, as part of its push to both shrink the federal government and
Bob Jones III, the president of Bob Jones University, speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 1982. The IRS rescinded the university's tax-exempt status in the 1976. Bettmann Archive/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/via Getty Images In an escalating fight over federal funding, President Trump has threatened to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt
The White House recently launched a web page entitled: "Lab Leak. The True Origins of COVID-19" Whitehouse.gov/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Whitehouse.gov/Screenshot by NPR The White House has taken down some government websites providing COVID-19 information and replaced them with a new boldly styled page dedicated to the controversial theory that the pandemic
Students, researchers and demonstrators rally during a protest against the Trump administration's funding cuts on research, health and higher education at the University of California Los Angeles on April 8. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images A French university courting U.S.-based academics said it has already received
The Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters is a block from the White House in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The US Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be backing off a plan to send telehealth therapists back to offices that may lack privacy, according to a memo obtained
The entrance of the Social Security Administration's main campus in Woodlawn, Md. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images A federal judge has once again blocked Department of Government Efficiency staffers who are operating inside the Social Security Administration (SSA) from accessing sensitive personal information of millions of Americans. The issuing of
The State Department releases the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices annually. Nicholas Kamm/AFP hide caption toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the
Are men in your life getting more political? This guy may be why. Is Stephen A. Smith running for president? Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paras Griffin/Getty Images Is Stephen A. Smith running for president? Paras Griffin/Getty Images Have you turned on ESPN recently? You might be surprised to find that the sports
Some employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired in the wake of a court ruling that cleared the way for layoffs. Here, CFPB union members and supporters rally outside CFPB's headquarters last month in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images/Getty Images North America Employees
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