Day 23

Hitler

February 21, 1933

“Hermann Göring, the new Nazi leader of Germany's largest state, Prussia, published a decree in the Party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, ordering the Prussian police to shoot any "enemies of the state", and providing for disciplinary action against any policeman who was "inappropriately considerate.”  (WIKI)

On this day in...

1929, A committee met in Paris to devise the Young Plan, a revision of the Dawes Plan of 1924, that renegotiated Germany's reparations for World War I. Read More

1945, The Yalta Conference between the Allied leaders of World War II came to a close. Read More

Trump

February 11, 2025

On his 23rd day in office, Donald Trump...

• Meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Washington D.C. for talks focusing on the president's proposal for the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and a subsequent United States takeover of the region, with President Trump threatening to withhold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to the proposal. (ABC News)

• Ordered plans for ‘large-scale’ federal work force cuts and expanded Elon Musk’s power. Most executive branch departments would now need hiring approval from an official working with Mr. Musk’s cost-cutting team. Read more ›

• Appointed loyalists as members of an independent advisory board on espionage policy. Those include Reince Priebus, his first White House chief of staff; Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the daughter-in-law of and former presidential campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; and Robert C. O’Brien, President Trump’s fourth and final national security adviser from his first term. Read more ›

• Barred a reporter for The Associated Press from an event at the White House. The A.P.’s executive editor said that the outlet had been informed by the White House that it would not be allowed to attend the event unless it started referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Read more ›

• Started to roll back regulations requiring companies to make disclosures about their impact on climate. Read more ›

• Announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million. The cuts, made by Elon Musk’s team, appeared particularly aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences. Read more ›

• Named Terry Cole to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration. Read more ›

• Named two nominees to lead top financial regulators: Jonathan McKernan for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Jonathan Gould as the comptroller of the currency. Read more 

• Reassigned two top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Russell Hott and his deputy Peter Berg were leading the agency’s deportation efforts. The move comes as ICE tries to meet the mandate set by President Trump for the largest deportation operation in American history. Those efforts have hit snags. Read more ›

• Fired the inspector general for U.S.A.I.D.. The office of Paul Martin, the inspector general, released a report a day earlier warning that staff reductions and spending freezes at the agency risked the misuse and waste of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.  Read more ›

  • PREVIOUSLY ON U.S.A.I.D.

    • Called for the closure of U.S.A.I.D. and accused the agency of rampant corruption Feb. 7 ›

    • Planned to reduce the work force at U.S.A.I.D. to 290 from more than 10,000 Feb. 6 ›

    • Forced nearly all U.S.A.I.D. employees to go on leave by Feb. 7 Feb. 4 ›

    • Moved to dismantle U.S.A.I.D. Feb. 3 ›

    • Put Secretary of State Marco Rubio in charge of U.S.A.I.D. Feb. 3 ›

    • Discussed shutting down U.S.A.I.D. Feb. 3 ›

    • Said U.S.A.I.D. was run by ‘radical lunatics’ Feb. 2 

    • Punished U.S.A.I.D. officials for denying access to Elon Musk’s team Feb. 1 ›

    • Placed dozens of U.S.A.I.D. officials on leave Jan. 27 ›

• Compiled a list of 3,600 probationary employees at the F.B.I.. These employees, hired in recent months, can be fired more readily than others whose probationary periods have passed. Read more ›

• Fired four employees from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Elon Musk claimed, misleadingly, that FEMA had recently sent $59 million meant for disaster relief to New York City to pay for “high end hotels” for migrants. Read more ›

• Made Elon Musk’s financial disclosure report to the White House confidential. Mr. Musk is serving President Trump as an unpaid “special government employee,” which means his financial disclosure is not required to be made public. Read more ›

• Directed the new Environmental Protection Agency head to end climate standards on household appliances, as well as toilets and lightbulbs.Read more ›

Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump

14210 Implementing The President’s "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative

• Russia releases U.S. citizen Marc Fogel, after talks with Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff. (The New York Times)

• Google Calendar confirms it has removed Black History Month, Pride Month and other cultural events from its service, saying the holidays were "not sustainable" for Google's new business model which is rolling back an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). (The Guardian)

Added 3/2/25

• Trump Spending Freeze on Rural Electric Co-ops Could Raise Energy Costs. Read More

• Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service. Read More

Added 3/6/25

• Strengthening US-Colombia Military Partnership. DialogoAmericas