Trump Action Archive

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• Trump Administration Shuts Down Climate Change Website — ABC News reported on July 1, 2025, that the Trump administration shut down the US Global Change Research Program's website, which featured climate change reports and resources.

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• Trump Administration Plans to Restrict Congressional Access to Classified Information — Axios reported that the Trump administration plans to restrict congressional access to classified information following a leak of an intelligence assessment.
• Trump administration limits classified information shared with Congress — The Trump administration announced it would restrict the classified information shared with Congress following the leak of the DIA report.

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• ICE restricts congressional access to detention facilities — ICE officials stated that members of Congress must provide at least 72 hours' notice before visiting detention facilities, despite federal law allowing unannounced inspections.

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• Appeal filed — Thakur v. Trump (N.D. Cal.) 3:25-cv-04737 — Judge Rita Lin granted a preliminary injunction .
• Case update — North America's Building Trades Unions v. Department of Defense (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-01070 — Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction after DOD and GSA formally rescinded the policies at issue in this case, disavowed continued reliance on those policies, and instructed their
• Case update — President and Fellows of Harvard College v. US Department of Health and Human Services (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-11048 — State Attorneys General submitted an amicus brief in support of Defendants.

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• DHS issues new guidance restricting lawmaker visits to detention centers — The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued new guidance requiring lawmakers to provide 72 hours' notice before visiting detention centers.

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• GAO Finds Trump Administration Broke Law — The Government Accountability Office concluded that the Trump administration violated the law by freezing federal funding for libraries, archives, and museums that Congress had already approved.

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• Trump administration censors words and phrases from government websites — Federal agencies have removed over 250 words and phrases from their websites to comply with Trump's executive orders on DEI and gender ideology.
• Trump administration targets medical journals for "political bias" — The Trump administration has accused medical journals of political bias, with officials suggesting they mislead readers and suppress opposing viewpoints.

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• House Oversight Committee Democrats Demand Epstein Files — The House Oversight Committee Democrats formally demanded that FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi release all files and evidence related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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• White House Stops Publishing Transcripts of Trump's Speeches — The White House has ceased publishing a database of official transcripts of President Donald J.

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• Verizon Ends DEI Policies and Programs — Verizon has officially ended its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, as revealed in a letter from Verizon Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer Vandana Venkatesh to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

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• Case update — Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10814 — The court found that it has subject matter jurisdiction over the action.
• Case update — Democracy Forward Foundation v. U.S. Department of the Treasury (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00684 — All Defendants answered the complaint and the Department of Education and Small Business Administration filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings .
• Case update — National Education Association v. U.S. Department of Education (D.N.H.) 1:25-cv-00091 — Plaintiffs amended their complaint .

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• Case update — Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York v. U.S. Department of Agriculture (S.D.N.Y.) 1:25-cv-01529 — USDA wrote a letter to notify the court that it would restore the climate-change-related web content that was removed post-Inauguration, including all USDA webpages and interactive tools enumerated in Plaintiffs'
• Motion granted — Gunaydin v. Trump (D. Minn.) 0:25-cv-01151 — The court granted Günaydin's motion to extend the TRO for an additional fourteen days while the merits of his underlying habeas action are determined.
• Preliminary injunction ruling — Centro de Trabajadores Unidos v. Bessent (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00677 — The Court denied the Plaintiffs' motion for Preliminary Injunction, stating that the Plaintiffs failed to show that they are likely to succeed on their claims.

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• Appeal filed — Grundmann v. Trump et al . (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00425 — Defendants appealed Judge Sooknanan's March 12 order granting Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment to the D.C.
• Case update — State of California v. Trump (N.D. Cal.) 3:25-cv-03372 — Defendants replied in support of their motion to transfer the case to the U.S.
• Case update — Svitlana Doe v. Noem (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10495 — Defendants petitioned the Supreme Court for an emergency stay.

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• Trump Fires Biden Appointees from Holocaust Museum Board — Trump fired several Biden appointees, including former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, from the board overseeing the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Trump Administration Fires Doug Emhoff and Other Officials — The Trump administration has fired Doug Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris, along with other senior Biden White House officials from the board overseeing the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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• Trump Administration Dismisses Scientists from Climate Assessment — The Trump administration informed nearly 400 scientists they would no longer contribute to the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report.
• Trump administration dismisses contributors to climate report — The Trump administration has dismissed nearly 400 contributors to the sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA), a key US government study on climate crisis preparedness.

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• Case update — American Oversight v. Hegseth (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00883 — Plaintiff filed an amended complaint reflecting additional details of Defendants' alleged violations of federal record-keeping laws, including additional reporting on their use of Signal group chats and admissions by

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• Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in private Signal chat — Pete Hegseth, the US Defense Secretary, reportedly shared detailed information about planned military strikes on Yemen in a private Signal group chat that included his family and personal associates.
• Allegations of Chaos at the Pentagon Under Hegseth — Former spokesman for Hegseth, John Ullyot, published an editorial claiming that the Department of Defense has been in "total chaos" since Hegseth's appointment, citing mass firings and leaks of sensitive operational
• New Signal Chat Group Created by SecDef Hegseth — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly created a new Signal chat group called "Team Huddle" that included discussions on sensitive Department of Defense operations, including bombing targets in Yemen.

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• Watchdog group sues White House over removal of spending tracker — On April 15, 2025, the non-profit group Protect Democracy filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in the US district court in Washington DC.
• Protect Democracy Project files lawsuit against OMB — The Protect Democracy Project has filed a lawsuit against the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Ross Vought, alleging violations of transparency laws due to the removal of a government website that provided

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• White House Refuses to Release Trade Deal Countries List — The White House has declined to release a list of 75 countries that President Trump claimed reached out for trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.

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• Case update — Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (N.D. Cal.) 3:25-cv-02847 — Plaintiffs filed an emergency motion to enforce the TRO, alleging that Defendants have not complied with the court's order.
• Case update — Sustainability Institute v. Trump (D.S.C.) 2:25-cv-02152 — Judge Richard Mark Gergel narrowed Plaintiffs' expedited discovery requests to a single request and ordered the five defendant agencies named in Plaintiffs' motion to produce all documents from Jan.
• Motion denied — D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10676 — The First Circuit denied the stay on jurisdictional grounds involving the temporary status of the district court's order.

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• National Park Service alters Harriet Tubman webpage — The National Park Service has removed a quote and image of Harriet Tubman from its webpage about the Underground Railroad, replacing them with content emphasizing "Black/White Cooperation." This change is part of a
• Trump administration orders DEI content removal from Pentagon — In February, the Trump administration issued a directive to the Pentagon to conduct a "digital content refresh," removing mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from its public platforms.

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• White House deletes Navarro OpEd post — The White House official social media account deleted a previous post featuring an OpEd by Peter Navarro in the Financial Times, which stated that the tariffs were non-negotiable once imposed.

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• Mike Waltz's team used Signal for national security work — Mike Waltz, the national security adviser under Donald Trump, and his team reportedly set up at least 20 Signal group chats to coordinate sensitive national security work.

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• Trump Administration Reportedly Skirts Presidential Records Laws — A report by John Hudson of the Washington Post revealed that members of Donald Trump's National Security Council, including national security advisor Michael Waltz, have been using personal Gmail accounts for

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• American Oversight Sues Trump Administration Over Signal Use — The non-profit organization American Oversight has filed a lawsuit against members of the Trump administration, claiming that their use of the Signal app for government discussions violates the Federal Records Act.