In his first full day in office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump continued a wide range of actions, including ordering the closure of all executive branch diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and furloughing all employees who work in such offices. Ordered.
In addition, Trump revoked Secret Service protection for former UN Ambassador John Bolton, who previously served as national security adviser during his first term. He also announced private sector investment of up to $500 million to build artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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Trump’s executive order changes civil rights hiring protections.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday revoked a 1965 civil rights executive order, rolling back authorities long used to prevent employment discrimination by federal contractors, subcontractors and grant recipients. He also ordered agencies to plan potential civil rights investigations against private sector entities that hire diversity workers.
i His own executive orderTrump attacked policies such as “dangerous, degrading, and immoral race- and gender-based preferences” under the guise of so-called ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’.
Trump’s order flips the script, arguing that affirmative action provisions are unlawfully discriminatory. Instead federal agencies must now “enforce our longstanding civil rights laws and counter illegal private sector DEI priorities, mandates, policies, programs and activities.”
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What’s on President Trump’s schedule today?
According to Politico, Trump will sit down for an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity before the Oval Office today. The interview will air at 9 pm.
The outlet also reported that the president is also expected to meet with a group of “centrist Republicans” at the White House.
The White House has not yet released a public schedule for the president. The in-town press pool (a rotation of the small group of reporters shadowing the president) is told to report at 9 a.m.
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy
Career Justice Department officials reshuffled to advance Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
Justice Department officials were quickly reassigned after President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday to help align the department with the new administration’s priorities — particularly on immigration, a department official familiar with the matter said. An official told USA Today.
In a speech to supporters on Monday, Trump called immigration his “number one issue.”
The Justice Department’s swift moves, which were in place as of Tuesday, show the administration is moving to implement its immigration agenda at the department level.
— Ayesha Bagchi
President Trump said Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online black market Silk Road that enabled consumers to buy and sell illegal drugs.
The President announced his decision on Sachai Social.
–Supana Venugopal Ramaswamy
President Trump on Tuesday announced up to $500 billion in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, with the goal of outpacing rival countries in the business-critical technology.
Trump said the joint venture, called Stargate, would build data centers and create more than 100,000 jobs in the United States. ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle, along with Stargate’s other equity backers, have committed $100 billion to the immediate deployment, with the remaining investment expected over the next four years.
And SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Sun and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined Trump at the White House for the launch, along with Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison.
–Supana Venugopal Ramaswamy
