The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's dismantling of the Education Department.


'We're not prepared': States brace for Trump's plans to dismantle the Education Department

 

VA begins reversing contract cancellations caused by Musk.


Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump hosting UK PM Keir Starmer amid Ukraine war tensions

 

Republicans in Congress fearful of Trump.


Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says

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"Moss recalled Trump publicly attacking his boss, Mark Zaid, a Washington lawyer who represented the whistleblower who disclosed details of a call Trump made to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in 2019 that eventually led to his first impeachment.

“Donald Trump literally held up a photo of my boss, called him out by name, said he was scum, was a liar, etc,” Moss said during the webinar. “Next day, I woke up to, like, 150 voicemails. Texts were flooded throughout my inbox. We were getting death threats like crazy, and there was actually at least one gentleman who went to prison for making threats against my boss.”

He added: “We publicly called him out during that impeachment, when he was threatening the whistleblower in public statements, saying you are putting this person’s life in jeopardy. He made clear he doesn’t care. He’ll say it’s not my fault if something happens to that person."

 

Trump caught on hot mic telling Fox to tell people he did a great job at his first cabinet meeting.


Trump Caught on Hot Mic Telling Reporter to Say He Did ‘Great Job’

 

Trump is barring AP, Reuters, and Huffington Post.


Trump White House Boots Reuters and HuffPost From Press Pool, Blocks Coverage of Cabinet Meeting

 

After cutting off USAID money, the Trump administration says it will be difficult to reinstate it because it needs to be sure the money isn't going into the wrong hands.


Supreme Court temporarily pauses judge's order on releasing frozen foreign aid funding

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"For twelve days, Defendants have stonewalled and abjectly defied the district court’s unambiguous temporary restraining order," they contended, adding "it makes no sense that the State Department and USAID — which have had no trouble timely disbursing payments for decades before the unlawful funding freeze — would now be unable to do so, but for Defendants’ deliberate efforts to halt payments."

"Defendants have erected numerous new barriers to compliance at every turn. This conduct cannot be explained as anything other than willful defiance of the Court’s orders," the plaintiffs said in another filing.

 

It's currently in the wrong hands: Trump's.

He impounded it, arguably in violation of the Impoundment Control Act that Trump has said is un-Constitutional.

 

Supreme Court delays deadline for Trump administration to pay $1.9B in foreign aid

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"I'm not sure why I can't get a straight answer from you on this. Are you aware of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for those contracts and agreements that were frozen before February 13?" Ali asked. "Are you aware of steps taken to actually release those funds?"

"I'm not in a position to answer that," DOJ attorney Indraneel Sur said.
President Donald Trump hosts his first cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 2025.
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"We're 12 days in and you're here representing the government...and you can't answer me whether any funds that you've kind of acknowledged or covered by the court's order have been unfrozen?" Judge Ali responded.

"All I can do, really, is say that the preparations are underway for the joint status report on compliance," Sur said.

 

U.S. Supreme Court block federal judge ruling that would have required the Trump adiministration to reinstate USAID funding.

The Trump administration delayed reinstatement after the court order and now the Supreme Court has sided with Trump at least temporarily. The funding will remain frozen for the time being..


Supreme Court delays deadline for Trump administration to pay $1.9B in foreign aid

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"In proceedings earlier Wednesday denying a request to stay his deadline, U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali, a Biden-era appointee, balked at the government's insistence that it couldn't meet the midnight payout deadline and criticized the Trump administration for waiting until Tuesday to raise the argument that they lack the ability to restart the funding.

 

Supreme Court delays deadline for Trump administration to pay $1.9B in foreign aid

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"This is not something that Defendants have previously raised in this Court, whether at the hearing or any time before filing their notice of appeal and seeking a stay pending appeal. That is so even though Plaintiffs' motion to enforce explicitly proposed compliance on this time frame," Ali wrote."

 

Of course the Trump administration didn't raise those issues earlier. It wants to delay reinstatement of the funding indefinitely.

 

Agriculture Department tries to rehire people fired by Musk who were tied to bird flu response.


Agriculture Department tries to rehire fired workers tied to bird flu response

 

Egg prices may climb 41% in 2025 in the U.S.


https://www.usnews.com/news/busines...ar-usda-says-as-trumps-bird-flu-plan-unveiled

 

Trump's solution for high egg prices is to import them (from countries he's insulted and threatened with more tariffs) and to try to rehire bird flu related researchers who were fired by Musk.


Trump Finally Has a Plan to Solve Egg Costs, and It’s a Doozy

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"Donald Trump isn’t looking to “buy American” when it comes to restocking eggs in America’s fridges.

The president’s plan to bring down egg prices involves outsourcing the country’s need to three or four other nations by purchasing 70 to 100 million eggs for the American market, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday."

 

VA tries to reverse cancellation of contracts due to Musk that led to medical care not being able to be provided.

Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump hosting UK PM Keir Starmer amid Ukraine war tensions

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"One day after the Department of Veterans Affairs celebrated an estimated $2 billion in savings on canceled contracts, the agency began reversing some of the cancellations that may have affected veterans' medical care and other benefits, according to multiple sources familiar with the contracts and agency records reviewed by ABC News.

The hundreds of contracts set for cancellation included some for legally required technical inspections of medical equipment that produce radiation at VA facilities, including CT scanners, MRI machines and dental X-ray units.

Without annual inspections, some of which are conducted by contractors in part to save the agency money, VA staffers are not permitted to use the equipment

 

Trump's extreme tariffs threats followed by backing off.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariff-confusion-analysis-1.7469498

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First, there's no indication whether that a massive economy-wide tariff of 25 per cent is coming on March 4, or ever.

Second, different threats could whack Canada over the coming weeks, involving steel, aluminum, and possibly other products.

Third, this confusion may be intentional, in the run-up to the renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement. Creating uncertainty in international trade is a longstanding Trump policy, and it's now happening on steroids.

There are early signs that scared companies are reacting exactly the way Trump would like: by shifting production to the U.S.

"Create chaos," is how Gary Hufbauer, a decades-long veteran trade-watcher in Washington, describes Trump's strategy.

"That's not a bug [of Trump's trade policy], as they say. That's a feature of Trump. And we'll continue to see that over the next several years."

 

Musk joins Trump's first cabinet meeting.

The opening remarks were the praising of Musk who isn't even a member of Trump's cabinet.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...ump-cabinet-meeting-elon-musk-doge-rcna193745


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Alternate: Trump joins Musk at Musk's first cabinet meeting.

 

Weaponizing the government like "they " always accuse the dems of doing. You know--the usual--- with everything said by repubs AGAINST the dems--libs--is exactly what they do. They're SO dishonest.

 

Trump’s biggest power grab just reached the Supreme Court

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"But the current dispute before the Supreme Court is significant for at least two reasons. The first: it is the first Trump-era case involving impoundment, a legally dubious claim that the president may cancel federal spending that is mandated by laws enacted by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 places very strict limits on the president’s ability to second-guess Congress’s spending decisions — typically the president must seek permission from Congress before canceling spending.

But Trump has nonetheless claimed the power to do so without legislative approval."