January 29, 2025

• Guantanamo Bay ordered prepared for immigrants — Trump ordered detention camp readied to house “tens of thousands” of immigrants

January 27, 2025

• Transgender military ban signed — executive order banning trans service members from Armed Forces
• Military DEI programs gutted — ordered elimination of all DEI offices, programs, and initiatives
• Air Force removed Tuskegee Airmen training — materials featuring historic Black pilots classified as DEI content requiring elimination
• WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) training removed — also classified as DEI content

January 25, 2025

• 18 Inspectors General fired in Friday night purge — violated federal law requiring 30-day notice to Congress
• Watchdogs blindsided by termination emails — received notice from Presidential Personnel Office that positions “terminated, effective immediately”
• SpaceX investigator among those fired — Defense Department IG Robert Storch’s office had been reviewing SpaceX compliance
• DOJ reversed position on Black voting districts — abandoned support for second majority-Black district in Louisiana; Supreme Court requested re-argument
• Senior civil rights officials reassigned — DOJ officials overseeing transgender rights, police misconduct, and anti-discrimination issues removed
• Top FBI officials told to resign or be fired — purge of executives promoted under Director Christopher Wray
• DOJ attorneys fired for prosecuting Trump — career attorneys involved in Trump cases terminated

January 20, 2025 (Inauguration Day)

• Pardoned ~1,600 January 6 defendants — blanket clemency for all convicted or awaiting trial
• Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders’ sentences commuted — including Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Dominic Pezzola (first to breach Capitol)
• 600+ pardoned for assaulting police — 170 for using deadly weapons; ~140 officers had been injured with cracked ribs, smashed spinal disks, brain injuries
• Restitution requirements eliminated — costing victims an estimated $1.3 billion
• Pardoned defendants include those convicted of rape, domestic violence — at least 33 have since been rearrested for other crimes

Executive Orders (26 signed — most ever on first day)

• DOGE created — Department of Government Efficiency established with Elon Musk given unprecedented access to government systems
• Federal hiring freeze — froze civilian hiring across entire executive branch
• Birthright citizenship order — attempted to deny citizenship to children of undocumented parents (blocked by courts, now at Supreme Court)
• Transgender military ban signed — ordered removal of trans service members; affects up to 8,000 people
• DEI programs ordered eliminated — across all federal agencies
• “Extreme vetting” immigration order — restored prior vetting standards from first Trump administration
• Independent agencies targeted — ordered FEC, FCC, SEC, FTC to submit regulations to White House for review