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#10 Ramaswamy Forced Out of DOGE by Musk After Calling Us Workers ‘Mediocre,’ Report Says - Katie Hawkinson for The Independent, Richard Farr, Vivek Ramaswamy, George, Siraj Hashmi (community note), Marty Taylor, Mario Nawfal and DogeDesigner on X
Vivek Ramaswamy will launch a campaign for governor in Ohio early next week and is parting ways with President Donald Trump’s incoming Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, two sources familiar with his plans told NBC News. Ramaswamy’s interest in seeking office in his home state is not a surprise. But his decision to leave DOGE now removes him from the high command of a federal spending watchdog group that he was supposed to run with Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of X...
#9 Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship, Other Immigration Actions - ABC News, Benny Johnson, Proud Army Brat, Oli London, Dominic Michael Tripi, Dr. Maria Peiro, and Christian Heiens III on X
Among executive orders signed by President Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Inauguration Day is one ending birthright citizenship.The executive order is a "flagrantly illegal" attempt to redefine a right "enshrined in the very fabric of our country," argued a lawsuit filed overnight in Massachusetts federal court. The lawsuit -- brought by an undocumented expectant mother who is due in March and two nonprofit groups -- is expected to be one of the many legal challenges to the executive order that seeks to reinterpret the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to nearly every person born in the United States. "This unprecedented attempt to strip citizenship from millions of Americans with the stroke of a pen is flagrantly illegal. The President does not have the power to decide who becomes a citizen at birth," the lawsuit said...
#8 Trump Threatens 25 Percent Tariffs on Mexico and Canada Starting Feb. 1 - Brett Samuels for The Hill, Larry, XRPGOD, Joey Dearie, Uncle SA, and Shazi on X
President Trump on Monday indicated his administration would impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada beginning Feb. 1. “We are thinking in terms of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada because they’re allowing vast numbers of people … to come in, and fentanyl to come in,” Trump said when asked while signing executive orders about his thought process on tariffs toward the two countries. “I think we’ll do it Feb. 1,” he added when asked about a timeline. The action would make good on a threat Trump first made in the final days of the 2024 campaign when he threatened to impose a tariff of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico, which is the top trade partner with the U.S. unless the Mexican government curbed the flow of migrants at the southern border. He later expanded that threat to include Canada and China...
#7 Trump Orders US Exit From Paris Climate Agreement - DW In Focus and Who Pop Base, BRICS News, William Makis MD, Kyle Becker, and The Gateway Pundit on X
Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US president. Ceremony in Washington, DC, attended by outgoing President Joe Biden, Argentine President Javier Milei, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and others Trump. Signs executive order withdrawing from Paris climate agreement and announces US withdrawal from the WHO.
#6 Senate Votes to Confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, First Trump Cabinet Official to Be Approved - Clare Foran for CNN, Benny Johnson, Paul A. Szypula, Breaking 911, Gunther Eagleman, and Chuck Grassley on X
The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, the first high-level Cabinet official for the new administration to be approved by the chamber. The confirmation vote took place just hours after Trump was sworn in as president. The overwhelmingly bipartisan vote was 99 to 0 with no senators voting against the nomination. Rubio has served as a Republican senator from Florida since 2011, and his nomination drew strong support from a number of Senate Democrats, who called their colleague highly qualified for the role. Rubio went from Trump adversary to ally in recent years in a remarkable political turnaround. Now, he will play a key role as a high-ranking official in Trump’s new administration...
#5 Trump Pardons Nearly All Jan. 6 Defendants on Inauguration Day - Diana Stancy and Jamie Joseph for Fox News, ApeX, Donald Trump Jr., Paul A. Szypula, The Vigilant Fox/CNN (community note), and Sara Rose/Josh Dunlap on X
President Donald Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on Monday night, after promising at his inaugural parade to sign an executive order on the matter. Sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Trump signed off on releasing more than 1,500 charged with crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol. The order requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons to act immediately on receipt of the pardons. "Tonight I'm going to be signing on the J6 hostages, pardons to get them out," Trump said at the parade at Capital One Arena in Washington. "I'm going to the Oval Office and we'll be signing pardons for a lot of people."
#4 Senate Passes Laken Riley Act in First Move After Trump Inauguration - Al Weaver for The Hill, Raw Alerts, Charlie Kirk, Steve, Eric Daugherty, and Prem Thakker on X
The Senate on Monday passed the Laken Riley Act, making the immigration-related bill the first piece of legislation to make it through the upper chamber in the new Congress and putting it a step closer to being signed into law by President Trump. Senators voted 64-35 on the bill. Twelve Democrats voted with every Republican. The legislation — which mandates the federal detention of immigrants without legal status who are accused of theft and burglary, among other things — was a priority for Republicans after immigration emerged as a signature issue for Trump and an effective cudgel against Democrats in November...
#3 Trump Pauses US Foreign Development Aid for 90 Days Pending Review - Reuters, Gain of Fauci, Alan Knitowski, Kagens Looking Glass, and JKash Maga Queen
Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday ordered a 90-day pause in foreign development assistance pending assessments of efficiencies and consistency with his foreign policy."All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds," read the executive order signed by Trump just hours after he took office for a second term...
#2 India Set to Take Back 18,000 Citizens From US to Placate Trump - Sudhi Ranjan Sen and Dan Strumpf for Bloomberg News Financial Post, Eric Daugherty, John Rocker, Sarah Sansoni, and RT on X
India’s government is prepared to work with Donald Trump’s administration to identify and take back all its citizens residing illegally in the US, an early signal from New Delhi that it’s willing to comply with the incoming American president and avoid a trade war. The two countries have together identified some 18,000 illegal Indian migrants in the US to be sent back home, according to people familiar with the matter. The figure could be much higher than that, though, given it’s unclear how many illegal Indian migrants live in the US, the people added, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private...#1 Trump Revokes Clearances of Ex-Intel Officials Over Biden Laptop Claims - Katie Bo Lillis for CNN, End Wokeness, Benny Johnson, Eric Daugherty, Dr. Simon Goddek, and John Solomon on X
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton. Many of the former officials are long retired and no longer hold active clearances — meaning that the move may have limited practical impact on their careers — but the order nevertheless suggests that Trump intends to act on threats he’s made to penalize national security and intelligence professionals whom he deems to be his enemies.“They should be prosecuted for what they did,” Trump said of the 51 former officials who signed the letter, at a campaign rally in June...
