Trump Action Archive

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• House Speaker Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Grijalva — Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was elected by voters on September 23, 2025, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has steadfastly refused to swear her into office. Grijalva has stated she will provide the final signature necessary on a discharge petition to force a vote on the public release of the Epstein files. Survivors of Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise sent a letter to Speaker Johnson on October 30 demanding that Grijalva be sworn in, stating that Johnson's refusal appears to be a deliberate attempt to block her participation in the discharge petition and obstruct transparency regarding Trump's connection to the Epstein files.

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• Complaint filed — Reproductive Freedom for All v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Reproductive Freedom for All (RFA), a nonprofit organization, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the FDA and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted on August 4, 2025. RFA sought records related to the FDA's alleged investigation of mifepristone (an abortion medication) announced in May 2025 and CMS's alleged June 2023 rescission of guidance on emergency abortion care under EMTALA. RFA's complaint alleges statutory violations of FOIA and seeks an order compelling production of all non-exempt responsive records and an injunction against continued withholding.

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• USDA removes contingency funding plan from website and denies legal authority to use emergency reserves for SNAP — The USDA removed its late-September contingency funding plan from its website while simultaneously issuing a memo claiming emergency reserve funds are "not legally available" to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown. The removed plan had previously stated Congress's "evident" intent was for SNAP operations to continue during closures and identified "multi-year contingency funds" available for that purpose. The agency's current position contradicts its own earlier legal analysis and denies access to approximately $6 billion in reserves despite having authority to use them.
• USDA removes guidance authorizing contingency funds for SNAP benefits — The USDA issued guidance on September 30, 2025, explicitly stating that multi-year contingency funds could be used to fund SNAP participant benefits during a lapse in appropriations. The guidance cited Congressional intent and the plain language of appropriations bills (2024 and 2025) reserving funds "to carry out program operations." The Trump administration has since removed this guidance from the USDA website, now asserting that the $6 billion contingency reserve "are not legally available to cover regular benefits" and can only be used for disaster response. The removal occurred after the administration determined that withholding funds was "politically advantageous."

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• Complaint filed: American Oversight v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA (D.D.C. 1:25-cv-03788) — American Oversight, a nonprofit government transparency organization, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency, alleging they failed to search for and produce records responsive to Freedom of Information Act requests submitted between May and August 2025. The complaint seeks records concerning military strikes in Yemen, National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, a June 14, 2025 military parade in Washington D.C., third-country removals of deportees to South Sudan, and operations of the Department of Government Efficiency. American Oversight seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, including orders for adequate searches, production of non-exempt records, and indexes of withheld materials.