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Tag: Executive Orders and Memorandums
With Sweeping Executive Orders, Trump Tests Local Control of Schools
With a series of executive orders, President Trump has demonstrated that he has the appetite for an audacious fight to remake public education in the […]
Trump Signs Executive Order to Promote ‘Patriotic Education’ in Schools
President Trump signed several executive orders on Wednesday aimed at reshaping American schools, including restricting how racism is taught in classrooms, curbing antisemitism and allowing […]
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s […]
Trump Takes Victory Lap in Las Vegas With Speech on Ending Taxes on Tips
President Trump was supposed to cap his first week since returning to the White House with a speech on Saturday in Las Vegas about an […]
How Trump Shifted Policy in Week 1, on Immigration, DEI and More
President Trump’s blunt message after a whirlwind week of executive orders and presidential proclamations may boil down to this: Take me at my word. During […]
U.S. Military Planes Carrying Migrants Land in Guatemala
Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the […]
Justice Department Orders a Halt to Civil Rights Work
The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of […]
Federal Workers Ordered to Report on Colleagues Over D.E.I. Crackdown
The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity […]
White House to Old Staff: Go Home. Don’t Call Us. We’ll Call You.
When the career staff of the National Security Council popped onto a video call at 11:30 on Wednesday morning, a sense of dread had already […]