Trump-Pence administration/week 01

Week 0: 2017-01-27 – 2017-02-03

Trump tried to go for the Muslims.

2017-01-27 (Day 8, Fri)

• New Trump Executive Order Says Federal Agencies Should Exclude Foreigners From Privacy Protections (via)
• McConnell: No need for voting review, opposes rollback of Russia sanctions
• Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare "Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party's quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act at a closed-door meeting Thursday..."
• Executive Order 13769

2017-01-28 (Day 9, Sat)

• Executive Order: ETHICS COMMITMENTS BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTEES (archive.org, archive.is)
• Trump boots top officials – but includes Steve Bannon – in reshuffled National Security Council (via)
• University Of Michigan Defies Trump Prejudice By Refusing To Release Immigration Status Of Students (via)
• photos and video from immigration protests at JFK airport (via)

2017-01-29 (Day 10, Sun)

• President Trump's First Defeat - re Executive Order 13769
• Department Of Homeland Security Response To Recent Litigation "The Department of Homeland Security will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders..."
• The Inevitability Of Impeachment (via)

2017-01-30 (Day 11, Mon)

• Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs (archive.org, archive.is)
• Trial Balloon for a Coup? by Yonatan Zunger - re Executive Order 13769
• Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban - re Executive Order 13769
• Trump orders "1 in, 2 out" rule for federal regulations
• Trump Fires Attorney General Sally Yates for Refusal to Support Muslim Ban
  • 2017-01-31
    • Sally Yates Has Been Nominated For JFK Profile In Courage Award (via)
    • That Time Jeff Sessions Asked Sally Yates If She Would Follow An Unlawful Order And She Was Like 'Nah' (via): apparently Jeff Sessions believed it was very important for the Attorney General not to follow illegal presidential orders when the president was Obama, but is now on the side which agrees she should have been fired for refusing illegal orders from Trump (though it's not clear whether Sessions himself has overtly taken this position).
• When Muslims Got Blocked at Airports, US Veterans Rushed to Help (via)

2017-01-31 (Day 12, Tue)

• Trump trip canceled; Harley-Davidson wasn't comfortable with likely protests, per source (via)
• Homeland Security's Kelly Defends Trump Travel Ban
• New York priest tells anti-Trump protesters to commit suicide (via), but it was just a joke
• House Moves to Encourage Drilling in National Parks (via)
• Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution (via): apparently inspired by Trump's "Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community" edict (date uncertain)
• Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees (via) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) doesn't understand why
• Resistance from within: Federal workers push back against Trump
• White House ices out CNN
  • 2017-02-01 White House retaliates against CNN: No Trump officials will appear on the network

2017-02-01 (Day 13, Wed)

• US Senate confirms former Exxon CEO as Secretary of State
• Reuters Instructs Reporters to Cover Trump Like Any Other Authoritarian (via)
• US Republicans launch effort to abolish Environmental Protection Agency with new bill (via)
• Berkeley: 'Masked agitators' sparked violence before Milo Yiannopoulos talk

2017-02-02 (Day 14, Thu)

• Trump threatens funding cut if UC Berkeley 'does not allow free speech' "A scheduled appearance by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled Wednesday night, about two hours before the Breitbart editor was scheduled to speak."
• Republicans back off bill to sell 3.3m acres of public land after outcry (via): HB621
• Mining rule first to be killed by U.S. Congress, others near chopping block (via) "The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to overturn a rule aimed at cutting water pollution from coal-mining waste, the first of a number of Obama-era regulations congressional Republicans are aiming to kill. [...] The resolution now goes to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it quickly."
• Spicer On Anti-LGBT Order: "Ideas Are Being Floated" But The Pendulum Is Swinging To "Religious Liberty" (via)
• Trump’s Presidency Is Crashing And Burning As 40% Of Americans Want Him Impeached (via)
• Uber CEO Travis Kalanick leaves Trump advisory board:
  • Uber CEO quits Trump advisory board amid criticism
  • Uber CEO quits Trump's economic advisory council (via)