5

DAY

Trump

January 24, 2025​

On his fifth day in office Donald Trump...

• Ordered removal of third-gender option on IDs. The administration ordered the removal of “X” as a third-gender option for United States government-issued identification, including passports. Read more

• Suggested that FEMA should be shut down. Closing the Federal Emergency Management Agency would require congressional action. Read more

• Ended government security protection for Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. Read more

• Fired more than a dozen inspectors general. The firings defied a law that says presidents have to give Congress 30 days’ notice and a written “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons” before any such removal. Read more

• Sought to freeze foreign aid payments. Administration appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury’s sensitive payment system to block disbursements. Read more

• Reinstated anti-abortion policy. The so-called “Mexico City Rule” bars federal funding from going to any overseas nongovernmental organization that performs or promotes abortions. Read more

• Ended Biden’s book ban investigations. The government will no longer investigate schools that remove books from their libraries. Read more

• Moved to give state and local governments authority to enforce immigration laws. Read more

• Ordered only U.S. flags be flown at embassies and consulates. The State Department order was a departure from practice under the Biden administration, during which pride flags and Black Lives Matter flags were sometimes displayed. 
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• Pushed to allow militia leader to visit Washington.
  Ed Martin, the president’s pick to run the U.S. attorney’s office, sought to reverse a federal judge’s order barring the leader of the Oath Keepers militia from visiting Washington. Read more

• Withdrew proposal to take menthol cigarettes off the market. Read more

• Revoked two Biden orders on abortion. Trump affirmed his commitment to a longstanding law that bans the use of federal funds for most abortions, and he rescinded two Biden orders that directed agencies to improve access to abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Read more

• Sought to assert more control over California’s water. The order tasked more than half a dozen agencies with finding ways to circumvent federal and state laws that control various aspects of water management in California. It also directed the Interior Department to make decisions about how to supply water around the state. Read more

• Established a council to assess FEMA. Read more

• Moved transgender inmates into segregated housing. The Federal Bureau of Prisons began transferring transgender inmates in some facilities from the general population into segregated housing units, greatly restricting their movements and access to amenities given to other prisoners. Read more

  • ​PREVIOUSLY ON TRANS PRISON INMATES Required trans women to be housed in prisons for men Jan. 23

Added 2.2.25

• Abruptly Cancels Crucial Science Reviews at NIH, World’s Largest Public Funder of Biomedical Research. Read More