Trump Action Archive

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• White House rescinds $20m EPA grant for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California — The Trump administration's EPA rescinded a $20 million grant awarded by the Biden administration in December 2024 to provide clean drinking water to approximately 5,500 residents in pesticide-contaminated rural Monterey County, California. The EPA labeled the grant a "wasteful DEI program." The funding would have improved municipal water infrastructure and connected contaminated wells to clean municipal lines in majority-Spanish-speaking agricultural communities where residents have relied on bottled water for decades due to carcinogenic pesticide contamination including 1,2,3-TCP, arsenic, and hexacolium chromium.

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• Trump administration implements tariffs reaching 20.6% average effective rate, highest since 1910 — The Trump administration has rolled out tariffs on overseas products that have reached a 20.6% average effective tariff rate—the highest level since 1910, according to Yale's Budget Lab. The erratic rollout, characterized by daily warnings, threats, and delays, has driven up consumer prices across categories including food, appliances, and clothing. Federal Reserve Chair Powell has stated that tariff costs will ultimately be passed to consumers and will contribute to inflation above the Fed's 2% target, contradicting Trump's campaign promise to reduce prices.

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• Mehmet Oz suggests Medicare/Medicaid recipients "stay healthy" and avoid carbohydrates — On Fox News, Mehmet Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid programs, suggested that recipients of these programs need to "stay healthy" themselves and advised them to "don't eat carrot cake" and "eat real food." His comments came just over a week after Trump signed a bill cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for the programs.

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• Trump administration orders incineration of 500 metric tons of emergency food — The Atlantic reported that the Trump administration ordered the incineration of nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food allocated for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan after it reaches its expiration date on Tuesday. The food, which sat in storage for months, could have fed approximately 1.5 million children for a week.