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2026

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2025

10 topics

JAN 20, 2025🏛️

OPM implements Schedule F affecting 50,000 career positions

Career officials face at-will firing as civil service protections stripped immediately

JAN 20, 2025⚔️

Judge Howell cites First Amendment as law firms surrender $1 billion under DOJ threats

Tech giants capitulate to Trump threats while resistance fights back.

JAN 20, 2025⚖️

Executive Order 14110 bans diversity training for 2 million federal employees

Federal diversity programs ended as contractors scramble to comply with ban

JAN 20, 2025📜

DOJ drops charges against 1,500 January 6 defendants in presidential clemency

Trump pardons 1,500 Jan. 6th defendants testing mercy versus justice

JAN 20, 2025🌍

State Department confirms U.S. exit from Paris Climate Accord

US exits Paris Climate Agreement for second time affecting energy and trade

JAN 20, 2025🏛️

White House issues 191 executive orders bypassing Congress on Day One

Trump outlines most aggressive Day One agenda in presidential history

JAN 20, 2025⚠️

Trump freezes OSHA heat protections affecting 36 million workers as OSHRC regains quorum

Trump's Jan. 20 regulatory freeze paused OSHA's heat safety rule requiring water and rest breaks at 80°F, while Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer oversees former Amazon safety executive David Keeling leading OSHA under the administration's '10-to-1' deregulation mandate.

JAN 20, 2025🚪

Trump axes Biden's ethics pledge on Day One, letting political appointees accept lobbyist gifts and revolve through the door faster

Appointees who came from industries they now regulate face no ethics restrictions on gifts from those same industries

JAN 20, 2025🏠

HUD targets building codes while states control construction regulations

Emergency housing order targets regulations adding 25% to construction costs

JAN 20, 2025🏭

EPA shutters Office of Environmental Justice despite Civil Rights Act

EPA environmental justice office eliminated, $1.7B grants canceled, 168 laid off