– Trump puts Bannon on security council, dropping joint chiefs https://goo.gl/PYR8nY
– Protesters Gather At Airports Around The Country https://goo.gl/uyYVf5
– Court grants temporary, emergency stay of Trump’s immigration ban https://goo.gl/iNSz6l
– This Week In Trump’s ‘Alternative Facts’ https://goo.gl/Ayw2pV
– Trump blasts ‘fake news’ and ‘failing’ New York Times https://goo.gl/8CtPM1
– Trump and Putin discuss ‘partnership’ on issues including Ukraine, Kremlin says https://goo.gl/k9qtjf
– Protests broke out at airports in several U.S. cities, continuing days of pro-immigrant and pro-refugee actions under the banner #nobannowall, and the ACLU sued the government in an effort to block the order.https://goo.gl/QCXiTe
– Green card holders included in Trump ban: Homeland Security https://goo.gl/ND9rWE
-Trump immigrant curbs cause chaos, panic, anger worldwide https://goo.gl/91RgOP
– Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin hold historic telephone call https://goo.gl/499KNh
– Peru and Colombia vow to stand with Mexico after row with Trump https://goo.gl/PBBTNM
– Trump refugee ban blocks migrants from boarding jets, leads to airport detentions https://goo.gl/VCwi9c
– How Does Trump’s Immigration Freeze Square With His Business Interests? https://goo.gl/q7XKNq
– Trump Executive Order Could Block 500,000 Legal U.S. Residents From Returning to America From Trips https://goo.gl/RoR6ex
– GOP’s vs. Trump’s border taxes explained https://goo.gl/dD5bZM
– Trump executive order prompts Google to recall staff https://goo.gl/KQkaxX
– Trump: ‘We’ll See What Happens’ on Russian Sanctions
Phone call between Mr. Trump and Russian President Putin is scheduled for today https://goo.gl/M7SW3c
– Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns, ‘It all looks as if the world is preparing for war’ https://goo.gl/g0sTf0
– Trump fails to mention Jews in Holocaust remembrance statement https://goo.gl/keM4O6
– 12 Nobel laureates, thousands of academics sign protest of Trump immigration order https://goo.gl/KttIqh
– Donald Trump’s immigrant crimes list labelled ‘shocking in the extreme’ by human rights groups https://goo.gl/gHCmW9
– Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May discuss NATO, trade, Brexit https://goo.gl/U5al55
– At Anti-Abortion Rally, Pence Tells Protesters: ‘Life Is Winning In America!’ https://goo.gl/SxRvYB
-Trump’s flashy executive actions could run aground
The White House failed to consult with many of the agencies and lawmakers who will be critical for their success. https://goo.gl/0vRiwY
– GOP makes plans to invalidate Endangered Species Act https://goo.gl/5ZiWpI
– Trump spokesman walks back on import tax idea amid uproar, jokes https://goo.gl/qq0tmn
– Fact check: President Trump’s first week of inaccurate statements https://goo.gl/9s0Ybx
– Trump now claims a source for his Voter Fraud claim “Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!” https://goo.gl/ElSn9x
– Annual ‘March for Life’ in DC – a protest against legalized abortion https://goo.gl/cbxVON
– What’s an executive order? And, more importantly, how is Trump using them? https://goo.gl/Ngcr2y
– Stephen Bannon (Breitbart), a top White House official told the media to ‘keep its mouth shut’. That’s a threat https://goo.gl/WEovVq
– China’s gamble for global supremacy in era of Trump https://goo.gl/aUzSP4
– Trump plans to slash EPA’s budget by $1 billion https://goo.gl/8DXQeV
– BREAKING: The White House says President Trump has decided to pay for the border wall by imposing a 20 percent tax on all imported goods from Mexico. https://goo.gl/Cttqq5
– EO: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States – Trump calls for removing Illegals who “Have been charged with any criminal offense, where such charge has not been resolved” as well as “have committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense” & “In the judgment of an immigration officer, otherwise pose a risk to public safety or national security.” https://goo.gl/vR30ED
– Agriculture Department lifts USDA gag order after public outcry https://goo.gl/4k6uIq
– U.S. Border Patrol Chief Morgan asked to leave agency https://goo.gl/x6kNpW
– The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s https://goo.gl/slzUCm
– The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned https://goo.gl/dOoon4
– Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington https://goo.gl/5eGf95
– South Dakota Legislators Seek Hasty Repeal of Ethics Law Voters Passed https://goo.gl/jV836R
– Breitbart’s influence grows inside White House https://goo.gl/nHnYVn
– In First Interview as President, Donald Trump Rejects Reality https://goo.gl/tYprCc
Fact Checked Interview – SAD – https://goo.gl/Yar9nD
– Senior Trump administration staffers, including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon, have active accounts on a Republican National Committee (RNC) email system, Newsweek has learned. https://goo.gl/6x2iSP
– Government employees from more than a dozen federal agencies in the United States have opened rogue Twitter accounts https://goo.gl/zhiF8S
– Criminalizing abortion makes women ‘more personally responsible,’ Texas lawmaker said https://goo.gl/LbxSVv
– Donald Trump ‘considering two draft proposals outlining ways of cutting (up to 40%) UN funding’ https://goo.gl/lnySTr
– Trump’s Mar-a-Lago doubles initiation fee to $200K https://goo.gl/koCc6C
– US no longer a ‘full democracy,’ report claims US is ‘flawed democracy'(Fox News btw!) https://goo.gl/RaiJoU
– “We are going to restore the rule of law in the United States,” Trump said & signed a pair of executive actions Wednesday to begin ramping up immigration enforcement, including a new border wall with Mexico, vowing that construction on his chief campaign pledge would begin in months. https://goo.gl/w1OrHT
– An executive order apparently drafted by the Trump administration calls for a policy review that could authorize the CIA to reopen “black site” prisons overseas and potentially restart an interrogation program that was dismantled in 2009 after using methods widely condemned as torture. https://goo.gl/8aE2Zp
– President Trump is expected to sign an executive order temporarily blocking visas for immigrants from seven “terror prone” Muslim-majority countries. https://goo.gl/gqwpIZ
– “Voter fraud” There is no benign explanation for President Trump’s false assertion that millions of people voted illegally in the last election. It is either a deliberate attempt to undermine faith in the democratic process, an exhortation to those who favor new restrictions on access to the ballot box or the worrisome trait of someone with immense power willing to make wild statements without any credible evidence. https://goo.gl/SjoxG2
*- Dow makes history: cracks 20,000 barrier! https://goo.gl/q9Qh5L
– President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night about Chicago’s violence, saying he will “send in the Feds!” if the city “doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on.” https://goo.gl/nAfPJd
Update – EPA Scientists’ Work May Face ‘Case By Case’ Review By Trump Team, Official Says https://goo.gl/UenyZY
– Federal agencies are clamping down on public information and social media in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, limiting employees’ ability to issue news releases, tweet, make policy pronouncements or otherwise communicate with the outside world, according to memos and sources from multiple agencies. https://goo.gl/hGnKfP
– The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reportedly lifted an order that called for scientists and employees of its research arm not to release any of its work to the public. https://goo.gl/6x4sI1
– US House of Representatives makes having an abortion harder if you are poor – Despite the recent demonstrations across US cities demanding women’s rights be protected, the ‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act’, also known as HR7, was approved by 238 votes to 183. https://goo.gl/3geCkk
– Russia to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence (Fox News) https://goo.gl/GrQ75V
– Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities https://goo.gl/513h8R
– President Donald Trump believes millions of votes were cast illegally in last year’s election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday, but he wouldn’t provide any concrete evidence for the claim and says it is a longstanding belief of the President but no investigation planned as of now
– FBI Director James B. Comey, who is under a DoJ Inspector General investigation for his handling of the Clinton email investigation, has been asked to stay in his post in the Trump administration
– President Trump has signed executive orders clearing the way for the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines to move forward
– NYT Headline – ‘Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers’ – as Trump lies again in front of peers that more than 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election
– Democrats hoping Trump fulfills infrastructure promise – A group of senior Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to unveil their own $1 trillion plan to revamp the nation’s airports, bridges, roads and seaports, urging President Trump to back their proposal, which they say would create 15 million jobs over 10 years.
– Trump meets with heads of Auto industry says “I am, to a large extent, an environmentalist, I believe in it, but it’s out of control,” and
that he intends to eliminate a majority of regulations and “massively” cut corporate taxes, but that in return those companies must keep production in the United States and preserve American jobs.
The executives were told to submit a “series of actions” that would boost U.S. manufacturing to Trump within the next 30 days.
– Trump says he’ll choose Supreme Court Nominee next week
