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Anti-democratic actions
After Punchbowl News first reported that Amazon planned to show how much products’ costs would change after Trump’s tariffs, Trump called up Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain. Amazon then refuted claims of the new policy change, CNN reported.
Mother Jones reported that state organizations in New Jersey and Arkansas that advocate for disabled residents haven’t received their full federal funding, forcing them to limit their work.
Trump signed an executive order creating a “religious liberty commission,” citing a need to address policies that prevent parents from sending kids to nonsecular schools, jeopardize faith-based institutions’ funding or non-profit statuses, and exclude faith-based groups from federal programs.
Trump signed another executive order revoking federal funding for NPR and PBS, each of which respectively receives about 1 percent and 15 percent of their total funding from the government.
Trump said the White House will revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
Immigration
- A judge released Mohsen Madawi, a Columbia student and campus pro-Palestine organizer, on bail after Madawi was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a citizenship interview in April. New The The first directs Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to create a list of sanctuary cities that are in “defiance of federal immigration law enforcement.” The second expands law enforcements’ ability to go after undocumented people.
- Reproductive rights
- News From the States reported that federal cuts to the CDC’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System will harm pregnant people and babies, according to researchers.
- LGBTQ+ rights
- NPR reported that the White House is considering eliminating funding for the national suicide hotline dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth.
The White House accused the University of Pennsylvania of violating Title IX by allowing a transgender swimmer to participate on the women’s team in 2022, when Joe Biden was president, NBC News reported.
- The White House announced that it will explore “every avenue to increase access to detransition care.” The administration is also expected to use pseudoscience to misstate that gender-affirming care is not evidence-backed, Erin Reed reported.
- Days after the White House announcement, the HHS released a report on “treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria,” which Reed reported was not peer-reviewed, displayed no authors, and recommended conversion therapy for transgender youth. The American Academy of Pediatrics has already condemned the HHS report.
- Health and science
- According to NBC News, the Food and Drug Administration appears to be slowing down the vaccine approval process by adding more steps to the regulatory process.
- All of the nearly 400 authors of the Congressionally-mandated National Climate Assessment, the country’s premier climate report, were dismissed by the White House, NPR reported.
- Health Secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents to do their own research before allowing their children to be vaccinated, according to the New York Times.
- DEI and civil rights
- The Department of Justice ended a Civil Rights Movement-era desegregation order in Louisiana, paving the way for others to end, the Associated Press reported.
More than 100 lawyers are expected to leave the civil rights division of the DOJ, which is likely to target universities and liberal cities under Trump–rather than its usual work of protecting minorities’ constitutional rights, the New York Times reported.
- After the Department of Education threatened further funding cuts, Harvard University told campus groups that the school would no longer hold affinity group celebrations during graduation, the Harvard Crimson reported.
Hegseth said he plans to end a program that helps create opportunities for women in his agency, falsely stating that it was a Biden-era program. In fact, the program was created during the first Trump administration, and was written by Noem and co-sponsored by Rubio when they served in Congress, according to NBC News.
- Recommended reading
- Medicaid is being threatened on multiple fronts. Medi My My hospital could face closure entirely or the shuttering of units or services … Every second counts for our trauma patients who won’t survive transfer.”
- TIME magazine took a look at how the first 100 days of Trump’s second term have reshaped reproductive rights and health so far.
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