The Donald Trump Score Card

Effect of Trump's semiconductor tariff threats on U.S. consumers.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/economy/semiconductor-chips-tariffs-trump/index.html

 

Inflation and trade wars cause consumer confidence to tumble, lowest since August 2021.


https://www.ktsm.com/news/business/...-february-biggest-monthly-decline-since-2021/

 

Giuliani has fully satisfied the judgement in election workers case.


Rudy Giuliani 'fully satisfied' judgement in defamation case

 

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings

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"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows."

 

GOP wants to impeach Englemayer, McConnell and other judges because their upholding of the law is interfering with Trump.


Some GOP lawmakers eye impeaching judges who stand in Trump’s way

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Elon Musk, the president’s biggest campaign donor, has already called for a “wave of judicial impeachments, not just one.” (This came after the billionaire demanded the immediate impeachment of a specific district court judge.) Asked about the statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters, “That’s not going to happen now.” She quickly added, however, “We’re going to look at everything.”

 

A look at Ukraine's minerals and rare earth elements, which Trump wants as payback for wartime aid

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"Roughly 20% of Ukrainian land — a vast swath of the eastern Donbas region plus Crimea — is now under Russian control. The occupied territory includes a significant portion of Ukraine's mineral reserves, including highly sought-after rare earth elements used in defense, aerospace, technology and energy production.

The ground beneath Ukraine is believed to hold about 5% of the world's total reserves of rare earth elements. The U.S., which covers about 12 times as much ground, is estimated to have only 1-2% of the world's rare earths, by comparison."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/hickenlooper-trump-cuts-republicans-00205934

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“If these cuts continue and suddenly farmers aren’t going to be able to get crop insurance, right, for their crops, that’s going to cripple small farmers way more than the big guys,” the moderate Colorado Democrat said at POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days breakfast series Tuesday.

 

The American farmers need crop insurance to protect them from Trump.

Hurricanes, droughts, fires, pestilence, and floods (like the flood Trump caused by releasing billions of gallons of water from dams in California).

 

Trump's numbers are expected to drop much more when higher prices caused by his protectionist, retaliatory policies start hitting consumers' wallets.

Just the thought of it has already reduced his approval rating.


More Americans now disapprove of how Trump is handling the economy

 

Consumer confidence declines as Trump implements his tariffs.


Inflation fears surge in February as consumer sentiment plunges over tariff uncertainty

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"What we're seeing is a very broad-based conclusion or opinion among consumers that inflation is going to pick up in the year ahead, as well as the next five years," Joanne Hsu, director of consumer surveys at the University of Michigan, told Yahoo Finance on Friday.

"It's not necessarily cause for panic at this moment, but these expectations are clearly being driven by concerns over policy and concerns that tariffs are going to lead to price hikes."

 

Impoundment and the Impoundment Control Act.


Can a president refuse to spend funds approved by Congress? | Constitution Center

What you need to know about impoundment, and how Trump vows to use it

 

The budget reconciliation process.


https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/g-s1-50474/reconciliation-trump-republicans-congress

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"Reconciliation is a two-stage process.

It starts with a budget resolution that gives instructions to congressional committees to write legislation that achieves certain budgetary outcomes. For example, a resolution might include instructions to the Committee on Armed Services to report changes in laws within its jurisdiction that result in increasing or reducing the deficit by a certain amount.

Once the budget resolution passes out of committee, all the committees that received instructions get to work.

The Budget Committee then incorporates all those bills into one big bill that's considered by the House and the Senate.

If there are disputes between the chambers, they have to resolve them."

 

Shapiro says federal funding for Pa. cut off by Trump administration is unfrozen • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

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The money was frozen as part of a sweeping set of orders from President Donald Trump aimed at reining in federal spending. Earlier this month, Shapiro’s office filed a lawsuit against five federal agencies over the looming loss of congressionally-approved money for Pennsylvania. Most of those dollars were for environmental programs like plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, building out clean-water infrastructure, and helping low-income households retrofit their homes to lower utility bills. Shapiro said all of the funding identified in the lawsuit would be unfrozen.

“With the funding restored, we will now resume critical programs and infrastructure projects that have been jeopardized by this illegal freeze,” Shapiro said.

 

EXCLUSIVE: Trump warns major Dem against move that could cost voters trillions

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"The Trump Administration is living in a fantasy land," Kaine and Heinrich told Fox News Digital in a joint statement. "Energy demand is high and only getting higher, which is why it’s great that America is producing more energy than at any other point in our history. Decreasing the supply of American-made energy when demand is high is the quickest way to raise prices—and that’s exactly what President Trump’s sham energy emergency will do. By tampering with the market to favor some forms of energy over others and making it easier for fossil fuel companies to take Americans’ private property, Trump’s emergency declaration will benefit Big Oil, but leave American consumers with fewer choices and higher bills."

 

A comprehensive look at DOGE's firings and layoffs so far

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“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” said a memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-...1-5304255/federal-workers-fired-mental-health

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Administration officials have suggested that making federal workers feel targeted is one of its goals. Just before the election, ProPublica and Documented surfaced a speech from Russell Vought, now Trump's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in which Vought said, "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected."

Vought's office did not respond to requests for comments for this story, nor did other federal agencies contacted. "We want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains," said Vought in the speech. He went on to say, "We want to put them in trauma."

 

Russel Vought is Trump's Director of the Office of Management and Budget


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Vought comments about traumatizing federal workers.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-...1-5304255/federal-workers-fired-mental-health

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"Some experts warn that destabilizing the collective mental health of the workforce with these kinds of unprecedented firings will undermine productivity. "I have never seen anything that from the outside looks so random, sloppy — the impact is intimidation and fear," says Amy Edmondson, who studies organizational psychology at Harvard Business School.

Employees still working in such environments will be less productive, Edmonson's research shows.

Last week, Musk brandished a chainsaw on stage at the CPAC conference, referencing the job cuts. On Saturday, employees across the government got an email asking them to list five things they got done last week by midnight Monday. On X, Musk said not answering the email would amount to a resignation."

 

Trump backs Musk as he roils the federal workforce with demands and threats

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The Department of Health and Human Services told staff that “there is no HHS expectation that HHS employees respond.” If anyone wanted to write back, they were directed to be vague.

“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly,” said an email to employees.

 

Also domestic actors (Musk and Trump) who malign.