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 (Day 3, 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 (Day 4, 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)
    • image: 2nd-hand report from an EPA staffer
    • (2017-01-25) Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources (via) : "The employees were notified by EPA officials on Tuesday that the administration had instructed EPA's communications team to remove the website's climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research, as well as detailed data on emissions. The page could go down as early as Wednesday, the sources said."
  • 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 (Day 5, 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 (Day 6, Thu)
  • State Department resignations:
    • The State Department's entire senior administrative team just resigned (via)
    • Entire State Department Management Team Fired By Trump Admin
  • Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Says Media Should 'Keep Its Mouth Shut' (via)
  • Philly protest:
    • Happening in #philly right now #GOPretreat: video
  • The White House will publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants (via)
  • Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd (via) (Event took place on 1/21)
  • Reports on climate change have disappeared from the State Department website (via)