# February 2025 <details> <summary style="font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold;"> Domestic Executive Actions </summary> <p>Trump's second term executive actions conducted on U.S. soil:</p> <ul> <li>Trump and Elon Musk <a href = "https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-classified-information-usaid-security-35101dee28a766e0d9705e0d47958611">coordinated</a> to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), pausing function and preventing staff from entering the headquarters. USAID provides aid that funds epidemic prevention, education, and fights starvation in foreign nations. <ol> <li>The Trump administration also <a href = "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/usaid-security-chiefs-put-on-leave-after-trying-to-stop-musks-team-from-accessing-classified-info-officials-say">placed</a> 2 USAID security chiefs on leave, after the chiefs rightfully denied Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)" crew access to classified intelligence that the crew did not have the security clearance for.</li> <li>JFK created USAID in 1961 via <a href = "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10973-administration-foreign-assistance-and-related-functions">executive order</a> after Congress passed the <a href = "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf">Foreign Assistance Act of 1961</a>. However, in 1998, PL 105-277 was <a href = "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ277/pdf/PLAW-105publ277.pdf">passed</a> by Congress, and section 1413 (page 791) explicitly establishes USAID as it's own independent establishment in the Executive Branch, as <a href = "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/104">defined</a> under 5 U.S. Code § 104. </li> </ol> <li>The Trump administration <a href = "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.58912/gov.uscourts.rid.58912.96.0_5.pdf">defied</a> a court order requiring the Executive Branch to no longer "pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate" federal funds to the states, after Trump ordered a federal freeze of funds. The <a href = "https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/state-of-new-york-et-al-v-trump-tro-2025.pdf">original</a> Temporary Restraining Order that the Trump administration defied explicitly ordered the Federal government to undo the freeze.</li> <li>The Trump administration is still <a href = "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463.24.1.pdf">employing</a> and working with tech billionaire Elon Musk, even after Musk explicitly <a href = "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891310595397292169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1891310595397292169%7Ctwgr%5Ea12a78310376eb2b6894dff243925bf9dee2ec60%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fnews%2Felon-musk-says-60-minutes-staffers-deserve-a-long-prison-sentence-in-response-to-shows-interview-with-a-gop-doge-critic%2F">called</a> for the jailing of journalists who report in a manner he does not agree with. Likewise, Vice President J.D. Vance is also dodging <a href = "https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1891558339869360187">questions</a> from journalists about Elon Musk's advocation for jailing journalists.</li> <li>Trump signed an <a href = "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/">Executive Order</a> that attempts to give the President and the Attorney General power to provide authoritative interpretations of the law for the Executive Branch, a power <a href = "https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/judiciary">explicitly</a> <a href = "https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S1-3/ALDE_00013514/">granted</a> to the Judicial Branch. Section 7 of the EO, titled "Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees' Interpretation of the Law", states that the President and Attorney General's opinion on the law is binding on all Executive Branch employees, even if it contravenes judicial interpretations. </li> </ul> </details> <br> <details> <summary style="font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold;"> Foreign Executive Actions </summary> <p> Trump's second term executive actions not conducted on U.S. soil:</p> </details> <br> <details> <summary style="font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold;"> Public Statements </summary> <p>Notable public statements made by Trump in his second term:</p> <ul> <li>Trump <a href = "https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114056934528746786">expressed</a> that television journalists are breaking laws with their reporting, calling their programs "an illegal arm of the Democrat Party".</li> </ul> </details>