Summarizing Trump’s Second Term Moves—Bigly!

June 7, 2025

Day of Trump's Second Term

President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court's decision limiting his ability to deport immigrants without a court hearing represents "a bad and dangerous day for America." In a post on his Truth Social site on May 16, Trump slammed the high court's ruling blocking his administration from using a 1798 wartime law to deport a
Following a torrent of polls released over the last few weeks, coinciding with President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, the few polls released this week indicate a slight uptick in support for the president. Trump's average approval rating is 45% as of Friday, May 16, with a 51% disapproval number, according to the
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump's sweeping tax bill failed to clear a key procedural hurdle on May 16, as hardline Republicans demanding deeper spending cuts blocked the measure in a rare political setback for the Republican president in Congress. The vote in the House Budget Committee came despite Trump's call for Republicans to "UNITE behind" the legislation. "We
Tiffany Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump and Marla Maples, gave birth to a boy on May 15. This is President Trump's 11th grandchild. The president seemed eager to return home from the Middle East to meet his new "beautiful grandson." President Donald Trump seems excited to meet his “beautiful grandson,” who has just arrived
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March in what the Trump administration admits was a mistake. His family has sued to get him back. Attorneys for Garcia say in court records the Justice Department has withheld information about what it has – or hasn’t – done to comply with court rulings that
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a federal judge's order to halt large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, part of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government. The Justice Department's May 16 request came after U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco blocked large-scale
A bronze statue of First Lady Melania Trump has reportedly gone missing in her home country of Slovenia, five years after it replaced a wooden statue that was burned. The statue, a life-sized likeness that perched atop a tree stump, was unveiled in 2020 in the village of Rozno near Sevnica, the small town in which
A lawyer for the Trump administration said Friday that its attempts to expand the president's power to fire people may not extend to the ability to fire the head of the Federal Reserve Board. "Nothing that we do here dictates what happens to the Fed, full stop," Harry Graver, a lawyer for the Department of
President Donald Trump is again taking aim at pop star Taylor Swift. The president took to right-leaning social platform Truth Social on May 16 to ask his followers: "Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she’s no longer 'HOT?'" Trump first said he hated Swift, one of the music industry's most
The U.S. Postal Service continues struggling to deliver mail on time, with delivery times for first-class letters slipping by 5% over the past two years, according to a new internal review. The report by the USPS Inspector General found that delivery times are slowing even though the service has repeatedly given itself more time to
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