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99 matching recordsFederal Executive Institute abolition removed a leadership school used by more than 30,000 officials2025-02-10Donald J. Trumpabolished leadership institute throughEliminating the Federal Executive Institute2 sourcesTrump used sanctions power against the court investigating U.S. and Israeli personnel2025-02-06Donald J. TrumpissuedExecutive Order 142031 sourceTransgender-sports order made federal funding and enforcement turn on a contested Title IX reading2025-02-05Donald J. Trumpordered transgender sports exclusion throughKeeping Men Out of Women’s Sports2 sourcesTrump proposed U.S. ownership of Gaza, permanent Palestinian removal, and left troops on the table2025-02-04Donald J. Trumpannounced and declined to rule out troops forProposed United States takeover of Gaza1 sourceLame-duck bargaining rule constrains future administrations rather than present negotiations2025-01-31Donald J. Trumplimited collective bargaining throughLimiting Lame-Duck Collective Bargaining Agreements That Improperly Attempt to Constrain the New President1 sourceCampus immigration directive converted protected-speech allegations into visa and detention risk2025-01-29Donald J. Trumplinked campus enforcement to immigration throughAdditional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism3 sourcesK-12 ideology order threatened federal leverage against instruction the administration disfavored2025-01-29Donald J. Trumpordered K-12 ideological restrictions throughEnding Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling2 sourcesSchool-choice directive could not repurpose congressionally specified education funds by itself2025-01-29Donald J. Trumpdirected school-choice policy throughExpanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families2 sourcesYouth-care order drove funding and enforcement actions that courts reviewed separately2025-01-28Donald J. Trumprestricted youth gender care throughProtecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation2 sourcesTransgender military exclusion returned and remained in force2025-01-27Donald J. Trumpordered restrictive military-service policy2025 transgender military-service restrictions1 sourceHyde directive revoked broader abortion-access policy without changing the funding statute2025-01-24Donald J. Trumpreversed abortion-access directives throughEnforcing the Hyde Amendment2 sourcesContractor order ended OFCCP's proactive affirmative-action system while Title VII remained2025-01-21Donald J. Trumprevoked contractor affirmative-action policy throughEnding Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity2 sourcesDOGE structure embedded White House-aligned teams in agency personnel and technology decisions2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpestablished DOGE throughEstablishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency”2 sourcesFederal DEI termination produced program and grant cancellations, followed by partial court limits2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpordered DEI program termination throughEnding Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing2 sourcesCivilian hiring freeze constrained staffing while requiring a permanent workforce-reduction plan2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpfroze federal hiring throughHiring Freeze2 sourcesMerit-plan order added presidential-policy alignment to federal hiring screens2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpordered federal hiring rewrite throughReforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service2 sourcesFederal sex-definition order propagated into passports, detention, grants, and health policy2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpimposed federal sex definitions throughDefending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government2 sourcesClearance revocations expanded from access control into a recurring opponent-targeting tactic2025-01-20Donald J. Trumprevoked former officials’ access throughHolding Former Government Officials Accountable For Election Interference And Improper Disclosure Of Sensitive Governmental Information2 sourcesImmigration-enforcement reset widened detention and local-funding pressure across the system2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpordered immigration-enforcement reset throughProtecting The American People Against Invasion2 sourcesRefugee suspension stranded approved arrivals and cut resettlement support already under contract2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpsuspended refugee admissions throughRealigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program2 sourcesSchedule Policy/Career revived at-will exposure for policy-linked civil servants2025-01-20Donald J. Trumprevived excepted-service classification throughRestoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce3 sourcesBorder order replaced release and processing discretion with detention-first directives2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpordered border enforcement throughSecuring Our Borders2 sourcesBorder emergency used invasion language to mobilize reserve and military authority2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpdeclared border emergency throughDeclaring A National Emergency At The Southern Border Of The United States2 sourcesWeaponization order launched an opponent-focused review without identifying an adjudicated predicate2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpordered law-enforcement review throughEnding The Weaponization Of The Federal Government2 sourcesUnited States left the Paris Agreement again2025-01-20Donald J. Trumpordered United States withdrawalParis Agreement2 sourcesTrump said he would release Epstein files, then hedged that “phony stuff” could hurt people2024-06-02Donald J. Trumppromised and then qualified support for releasing Epstein filesTrump's 2024 position on releasing Epstein files1 sourceDACA rescission failed basic administrative-law review2020-06-18Donald J. Trumpdirected administration that rescinded DACA2017 DACA rescission1 sourceTrump withdrew the United States from the Open Skies Treaty2020-05-21Donald J. Trumpwithdrew the United States from the Open Skies Treaty2020 United States withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty1 sourceTrump's administration signed a Taliban deal setting a 14-month withdrawal timetable2020-02-29Donald J. Trumpheaded the administration that signed the Taliban withdrawal agreement2020 United States-Taliban Doha agreement1 sourceTrump lifted geographic limits on United States anti-personnel landmine use2020-01-31Donald J. Trumplifted geographic limits on U.S. anti-personnel landmine use2020 United States landmine policy1 sourceGAO found Trump's Ukraine aid hold violated federal law2020-01-16Donald J. Trumpheaded the administration whose aid hold GAO found unlawful2019 Ukraine security-assistance hold1 sourceAmerican armored vehicles reached Yemen during an arms-diversion investigation2019-11-07Donald J. TrumpVetoed the Yemen War Powers resolution on April 16, 20192019 veto of the Yemen War Powers resolution1 source2019 Clean Water repeal was superseded by replacement rules and a narrower Supreme Court test2019-10-22Donald J. Trumpled administration that repealed water rule2019 Waters of the United States repeal rule2 sourcesTrump administration imposes sanctions during Turkey's Syria offensive2019-10-14Donald J. Trumpadministration imposed sanctionsOctober 2019 Turkey sanctions1 sourceTrump completed the United States withdrawal from the INF Treaty2019-08-02Donald J. Trumpwithdrew the United States from the INF Treaty2019 United States withdrawal from the INF Treaty1 sourceAsylum bar vacated as contrary to statute2019-08-02Donald J. Trumpissued proclamation paired with unlawful asylum bar2018 asylum entry-bar rule and Proclamation 98222 sourcesTrump vetoed congressional efforts to block arms transfers tied to the Saudi-led coalition2019-07-24Donald J. Trumpvetoed resolutions blocking specified coalition arms transfers2019 vetoes of arms-sale disapproval resolutions3 sourcesCensus citizenship rationale exposed as contrived2019-06-27Donald J. Trumpoversaw challenged census decision2020 census citizenship-question decision1 sourceTrump's administration used an emergency declaration to bypass normal congressional arms-sale review2019-05-24Donald J. Trumpheaded the administration that bypassed normal review for 22 arms cases2019 emergency certification for Saudi and Emirati arms transfers1 sourceTrump vetoed Congress's direction to end United States support affecting the Yemen war2019-04-16Donald J. Trumpvetoed Congress's Yemen War Powers resolution2019 veto of the Yemen War Powers resolution1 source