Trump-Pence administration/year 1

2017-01-20 - 2018-01-19

Week 0: 2017-01-20 - 2017-01-26

see also day 1, day 2

• 2017-01-23 (Mon)
  • Sean Spicer Got Milder (via)
  • The Trump administration just told a whopper about the size of the federal workforce (via)
  • Trump reinstates Reagan-era Anti-abortion policy (via via)
    • 2017-01-25 The Netherlands 'counters' Trump with international abortion fund (via)
• 2017-01-24 (Tue)
  • Rep. Lamar Smith urges Americans to get their new facts and news 'directly from the president' (via)
  • EPA muzzling:
    • Trump orders media blackout for all employees of top environmental agency (via) "According to the Associated Press, President Trump has instructed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff to freeze all grants — including funding for research, redevelopment of industrial sites, air quality monitoring, and education (among others) — as well as barring employees from discussing this or other EPA news outside of the agency."
    • Trump administration tells EPA to freeze all grants, contracts (via)
  • USDA muzzling (may have been overstated):
    • USDA Scientists Have Been Put On Lockdown Under Trump (via)
    • USDA scrambles to ease concerns after researchers were ordered to stop publishing news releases, other documents (via)
    • USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit (via comment)
  • A free flow of information no longer (via): reactions to the EPA and USDA changes
  • At Today’s White House Press Conference, the First Question Came From an Actual Fake News Site
  • Donald Trump is already trying to muzzle leakers – but government employees have broad free speech rights (via) by Amanda Marcotte
• 2017-01-25 (Wed)
  • Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities (share)
    • Related: 2017-01-18 How sanctuary cities work and what might happen to them under Trump
  • Trump vows federal intervention to quell Chicago gun violence
  • Trump seeks 'major investigation' into unsupported claims of voter fraud: an investigation might not find quite what he's hoping to find...
• 2017-01-26
  • The State Department's entire senior administrative team just resigned (via)