January 27, 2025​

On his eighth day in office Donald Trump...​

• went GOLFING.

  • HuffPost calculated the cost based off of a 2019 report from the Government Accountability Office that broke down the cost of Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago. That report, HuffPost said, said it cost taxpayers $3,383,250 for each trip.
    (Penn Live)

• Paused federal grants and loans. The directive from the White House budget office threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs. Read more

• Reinstated service members dismissed for refusing Covid vaccine. Read more

• Moved toward pushing transgender people out of the military. The order suggested that transgender identity is inherently dishonest, saying, “A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.” Read more

• Ordered development of a missile defense system like Israel’s. Experts immediately raised questions about whether an Iron Dome-style system was feasible for the United States, which is more than 400 times the size of Israel. 
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• Joked about running for a third term. President Trump has floated this idea several times. Read more

• Fired Democratic E.E.O.C. commissioners. Two of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s three Democratic commissioners were removed from their roles by President Trump in a round of late-night firings. The E.E.O.C’s general counsel was also fired. Read more

• Directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs. Read more

• Marked 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Read more

• Placed dozens of U.S.A.I.D. officials on leave.
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• Paralyzed an independent civil liberties watchdog agency. The three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were fired, leaving the agency unable to act. Read more

• Fired prosecutors involved in the cases against President Trump or the Jan. 6 rioters. The move could violate civil service job protections against arbitrarily firing federal workers without a good cause and without hearings before the Merit System Protection Board. Read more​​​​