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Keeping Track of the 2nd Trump administration!

One thing Donald Trump and the extreme right were very good at doing is burying the track record of his first presidency from 2017 to 2021.

Keep Track is dedicated to literally keeping track, day by day, of the policy decisions made by the new Trump Administration.

That is not to say we're interested in the crazy things he says or tweets, he clocked over 30,000 lies the last time he was in office, I don't see how it's possible to track all of that. This is about POLICY. Nominees, executive orders, signed laws, and so on.

Subject line format should be {{date}} {{event}} so: "01-20-2025 - Trump is sworn in."

The international date format of 2025-01-20 is also acceptable!

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01/29/2025 - President Donald J. Trump Signed S.5 into Law – The White House (www.whitehouse.gov)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250130000337/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/president-donald-j-trump-signed-s-5-into-law/

This one needs a little context as the headline isn't exactly clear:

"S. 5, the “Laken Riley Act,” which requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes."

Trump also stated his intention when signing the law to house the worst offenders at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stating that we have 30,000 beds there ready to go.

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[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 11 points 22 hours ago

It's held less than 800 people since 2002 (that we know of). That's a massive scale-up. I actually don't know if any existing prison can hold that many people, that's an incredible number.

Just looked it up, Rikers holds a maximum of 15,000 spread over 40 acres. And there is a steady flow of complaints about that prison system specifically. I'm too horrified to imagine what conditions would be for twice that number of prisoners.