Here’s What Trump’s Declaration of an Emergency at the Southern Border Means
Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.
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Trump Starts Immigration Crackdown, Enlisting the Military and Testing the Law
The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Trump Signs Two Orders to Dismantle Gender and Racial Equity Policies
The administration will take steps to roll back federal support for racial equity and protections for transgender people.
What to Know About Trump’s Broad Grant of Clemency to Jan. 6 Rioters
He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.
How Trump Plans to Kill the Refugee System
President Trump, who has criticized refugee resettlement, moved on his first day in office to suspend the decades-old program to admit persecuted people to the United States.
Packed In for Trump’s Indoor Inauguration, Awkwardness Abounds
Tech billionaires, foreign leaders, ex-presidents and political nemeses. How did everyone behave?
Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
Trump Demands Search for Political Bias in Justice Dept., Other Agencies
His ‘weaponization’ executive order begins with a list of misleading accusations against the Biden administration.
Trump Commutes Sentence of Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers Founder
The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.
Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban
Shortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban by at least 75 days. The law went into effect on Sunday.