Protectionism

Economic policy of regulating trade between states through government regulations

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July 4 2025 On Independence Day, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, which extended 2017 tax cuts, added new tax deductions, increased immigration enforcement funding, and imposed additional Medicaid work requirements. The Congressional Budget Office projected the bill would increase the budget deficit by $3.4 trillion.
2025 Continued profiting from events held at his hotels and golf courses without placing assets in a blind trust.
June 22 2025 Trump ordered military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
June 2025 A significant split occurred in the MAGA movement over Trump's support for Israeli strikes against Iran, with prominent supporters like Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, Charlie Kirk, Saagar Enjeti, Mollie Hemingway, and Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizing potential United States involvement in the Middle East conflict.
June 10 2025 The Department of Homeland Security reported deporting over 207,000 migrants as part of Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement strategy.
2025 George Simion ran as a candidate in the Romanian presidential election, drawing comparisons to Donald Trump due to his political style and ideological alignment.
2025 Diversified Truth Social into financial services while maintaining ownership of the publicly traded company.
2025 Trump promoted false claims of white genocide in South Africa.
2025 Dropped corruption charges against politicians with ties to him.
2025 Trump disbanded the Public Integrity Section and fired more than twelve inspectors general across the government.
May 2025 Trump issued Executive Order 14290 instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors and all executive departments to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.
2025 Launched two cryptocurrency tokens, $Trump and $Melania, which he personally promoted and benefited from.
2025 Trump nominated 23 former Fox News employees to his administration, including John Bolton as National Security Advisor.
2025
Merchant Marine Act of 1920
The Connecticut House of Representatives passes a committee resolution calling for amendments to the Jones Act.
2025 Trump pursues new overseas real estate deals involving state-affiliated entities during his presidency.
May 5 2025 In a CNBC interview, FCC Chair Carr stated he would consider pulling CBS's broadcast license.
2025 Trump repeals existing ethics guidelines and enforcement mechanisms for anti-corruption laws, effectively removing legal barriers to potential conflicts of interest.
2025 Trump maintains ownership of Truth Social, a publicly traded company, while serving as president, breaking traditional presidential ethical norms.
2025 Trump's family company World Liberty Financial begins operations, mixing government policy with private cryptocurrency enterprise in an unprecedented manner.
2025 Trump grants thousands of shares of stock to cabinet officials, further blurring lines between government service and personal financial interests.
2025 Trump launches and promotes $Trump, a cryptocurrency memecoin, directly benefiting from its promotion while serving as president.
May 1 2025 By May 1, his orders and actions had been challenged by over 300 lawsuits nationwide, with most still moving through the courts.
2025 Trump reversed pro-diversity policies in the federal government, moved against transgender rights, and threatened cultural institutions and universities on grounds of DEI and antisemitism.
April 21 2025 Reuters and Wall Street Journal reported that Harvard began pushing back against the Trump administration's financially punitive policies, resulting in additional sanctions of one billion dollars from Trump.
2025 Resumed the 'remain in Mexico' policy and ordered construction to be resumed on the border wall.
2025 Moved aggressively against transgender rights and what his administration termed 'gender ideology'.
April 2025 Trump's administration and DOGE declared approximately 6,300 living immigrants as dead in Social Security's Death Master File, in an attempt to encourage 'self-deportation'.
2025 Threatened sixty universities and cultural institutions over DEI and antisemitism grounds, forcing law firms to comply with his administration's directives.
2025 The White House released a health examination report by physician Sean Barbabella, stating Trump was in 'excellent cognitive and physical health' with well-controlled high cholesterol.
2025 Trump engaged in an unprecedented targeting of law firms and lawyers who previously represented positions adverse to him, raising concerns about potential constitutional challenges.
2025 Banned transgender people from the military and prevented transgender women from competing in women's sports programs at federally funded institutions.
2025 Initiated a review of the EPA endangerment finding and withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
2025 Ended the ability to change gender on passports and halted federal funding for gender-affirming care to minors.
April 2025 Trump triggered a stock market crash following a global tariff announcement, causing large drops in consumer sentiment and increased expectations of higher inflation rates.
2025 Trump canceled and paused federal grants, making significant cuts to scientific research during his second presidency.
April 2025 Imposes tariffs on nearly all countries, raising them to their highest levels since World War II.
2025 Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change for a second time.
2025 Legal experts raised concerns about a potential constitutional crisis due to Trump's defiance of judicial orders and his claimed right to disobey court rulings.
2025 Trump threatened and signed executive actions targeting his political opponents, critics, and organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, demonstrating an aggressive political strategy.
2025 Donald Trump began increasing criticism of the judiciary and called for impeaching federal judges who ruled against him, signaling a confrontational approach to judicial challenges during his second presidency.
2025 Trump proposed expansionist plans to acquire Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, drawing comparisons to 19th-century Manifest Destiny doctrine as part of his 'America First' nationalist agenda.
2025 Attempted to remove birthright citizenship and suspend the Refugee Admissions Program.
2025 Trump pardoned approximately 1,500 January 6 rioters, including those who violently attacked police.
2025 Within the first four days of his second term, Trump's executive actions were found to closely align with approximately two-thirds of the proposals from Project 2025, according to a Time magazine analysis.
2025 Becomes the 47th President of the United States.
2025 Commuted the sentences of 14 individuals.
2025 Issued more executive orders on his first day in office than any other president in history, with 30 out of 47 executive actions aligning with Project 2025 proposals.
2025 Trump granted clemency to all participants of the January 6 Capitol riot, including those who had been involved in violent attacks against police officers, in a sweeping and unprecedented presidential pardon.
2025 Donald Trump began his second presidential term, immediately launching a series of controversial executive orders that challenged existing legal and constitutional boundaries.
2025 Trump ordered the U.S. Government to stop funding and working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and announced the U.S.'s intention to formally leave the organization.

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