Hitler
February 6, 1933
No recorded history for Hitler on this day.
Trump
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. Read more ›
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 ›
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 ›
14184 Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military's COVID-19 Vaccination
Mandate
14185 Restoring America's Fighting Force
14186 The Iron Dome for America
Additional News
United States Senate votes to confirm Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury Secretary, making him the highest rank LGBTQ official to run the U.S. Treasury and the highest-ranking LGBTQ person in the United States. (Time)
United States Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth orders federal government agencies to temporarily pause all federal financial assistance programs, with the exception of Medicare and Social Security, that could be implicated by select executive orders from President Donald Trump. (Politico)
Added 3/2/25
Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes. Read More
Added 3/6/25
Minister participates in ceremony marking International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. MinistryofForeignAffairs
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