this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
85 points (98.9% liked)

Keep Track

651 readers
317 users here now

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!

Links should be to verifiable news sources, not social media or blog sites. So no Xitter/Truth/Youtube/Substack/etc. etc.

founded 2 weeks ago
MODERATORS
 

This is from a new york times gift article from the nyt.

TikTok ban

What the administration did

    Ordered the Justice Department not to enforce a ban on TikTok for 75 days and to notify the app and its business partners that defying the law is no criminal offense.

What it could be violating

    Law barring TikTok from operating in the United States unless and until its Chinese owner sells it.

Foreign aid freeze

What the administration did

    Required blanket temporary freeze on most foreign aid.

What it could be violating

    The longer it lasts, blocking congressionally approved spending comes into greater tension with Impoundment Control Act.

Domestic grants freeze

What the administration did

    The Office of Management and Budget ordered agencies to carry out a blanket temporary freeze up to $3 trillion in domestic grants and other government spending.

What it could be violating

    The freeze has been temporarily blocked by two courts after plaintiffs raised challenges, including provisions in the Administrative Procedure Act and First Amendment rights.

U.S. Agency for International Development

What the administration did

    Moved to apparently dismantle the agency and fold its functions into the State Department, including by making Secretary of State Marco Rubio its acting director.

What it could be violating

    A law in which Congress created U.S.A.I.D. and structured it as a stand-alone entity.

Inspectors general

What the administration did

    Summarily fired 17 inspectors general, the watchdog officials who hunt for waste, fraud, abuse and illegality in government agencies.

What it could be violating

    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.

National Labor Relations Board

What the administration did

    Summarily fired a Democratic member of the independent agency before her term was up, paralyzing the board by leaving it without a quorum.

What it could be violating

    A law that says presidents may only remove board members “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.”

Federal prosecutors

What the administration did

    Summarily fired prosecutors involved in the cases against President Trump or the Jan. 6 rioters.

What it could be violating

    Civil service job protections against arbitrarily firing federal workers without a good cause and without hearings before the Merit System Protection Board.

Birthright citizenship

What the administration did

    Declared that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment will no longer be interpreted as granting citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented parents or other visitors and instructed agencies not to issue citizenship-affirming documents, like Social Security cards, to such infants.

What it could be violating

    The longstanding understanding that the 14th Amendment does grant citizenship to such infants; a federal judge has barred agencies from obeying this order for now.
all 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 10 points 6 hours ago

I mean, if nobody will impeach, and nobody can arrest him, are they really crimes at all ....... until someone can? *edit: and now that the supreme court has ruled that any action taken while president cannot be criminally prosecuted even after that president leaves office, then I'm not sure the President CAN commit a crime any longer, the word loses all meaning without the mechanism to enforce the law

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be faster if you tracked which of them don't break the law?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 18 minutes ago

Are they even laws if nobody applies them?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

yeah it is a bit like keeping track of when trump is lying.

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There is an easy trick to know - he opens his mouth.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

He lies on a screen at least as much as he does in person.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 6 hours ago

Here's all the unaddressed shit from round 1: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056

Organise offline, folks. The institutions are dead. Build your community. Much love in the days ahead.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

How many centuries will it take the courts to sort all this out?

Or is it millenniums? :)