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Undated: The
Federal Government of the United States (U.S. Federal Government)[a]
is the
national government of the
United States, a
federal republic in
North America, composed of 50
states,
a
federal district, five major
self-governing territories, and several
island possessions. The federal government is composed of three distinct
branches:
legislative,
executive, and
judicial, whose powers are vested by the
U.S. Constitution in the
Congress, the
President, and the federal courts, respectively. The powers and duties of
these branches are further defined by acts of congress, including the creation
of executive departments and courts inferior to the
Supreme Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States
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January/February: The Rise and Fall of the
U.S. Government
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-u-s-government/
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March 13: Trump Wants to Make Government
Huge Again ... The Republican front-runner is tapping the resentments of white
working-class voters—and promising to use federal power to address them.
A vote for Trump is a vote for action. For a wall along the southern border: 35
feet tall. No, 40 feet. Is Mexico complaining? Add another 10, and hand them the
tab. There’s nothing cost-effective about megalithic structures, which is their
whole point. There are cheaper ways to constrict the flow of migrants across the
border. Instead, Trump backs a big-government project. A yuuuuge
government project. And the crowds are eating it up.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/trump-government-ethnocentrism/473538/
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March 13:
A US WELFARE LAW EXPLORATION
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/welfare
August 23: Trump Widens Rift With Congress
as Critical Showdowns Loom
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/us/politics/trump-wall-flake.html
October 8:
This Is How Donald Trump Thinks the U.S. Government Works
And why his supporters should care about it.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/08/donald-trump-government-215691
November 5: Trump's Government of One ... In
late June, President Trump hosted a group of Native American tribal leaders at
the White House and urged them to "just do it" and extract whatever they want
from the land they control.
The exchange turned out to be an unusually vivid window into the almost kingly
power that Trump sees himself as holding, and which he has begun describing with
increasing bluntness. The scene was recounted by a source in the room and
confirmed by another. The White House didn't dispute the story.
The chiefs explained to Trump that there were regulatory barriers preventing
them from getting at their energy. Trump replied: "But now it's me. The
government's different now. Obama's gone; and we're doing things differently
here."
"Chief, chief," Trump continued,
addressing one of the tribal leaders, "what are they going to do? Once you get
it out of the ground are they going to make you put it back in there? I mean,
once it's out of the ground it can't go back in there. You've just got to do it.
I'm telling you, chief, you've just got to do it."
The tribal leader looked back at one of the White House officials in the room —
perhaps somebody from the White House Counsel's office — and he said "can we
just do that?" The official equivocated, saying the administration is making
progress and has a plan to roll back various regulations.
https://www.axios.com/trumps-government-of-one-1513306691-b7aed116-84c7-46fa-8375-570948a76374.html
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January 19: Donald Trump in 2013: Government
Shutdowns Happen When the President Is Bad at His Job
https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-government-shutdowns-blame
January 20: Trump's dealmaker image
tarnished by U.S. government shutdown ... His failure to win passage by the U.S.
Congress of a stopgap bill to maintain funding for the federal government
further damaged his self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the
broken culture in Washington.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-shutdown-trump/trumps-dealmaker-image-tarnished-by-u-s-government-shutdown-idUSKBN1F907B
January 20: Eric Trump: The government
shutdown is 'good for us' politically
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/369967-eric-trump-the-government-shutdown-is-good-for-us-politically
January 22: Trump declares victory after
senators strike deal to lift government shutdown ... Yet Democrats on Monday
made their own case for at least a partial victory. They noted that the new
spending plan lasts less than three weeks, winning them a commitment to work on
a permanent resolution to the issue of DREAMers, the undocumented immigrants who
came to the U.S. as children.
If there's no agreement by Feb. 8, they warned, there could be a rerun of what
Democrats called the "Trump shutdown," which took place as both parties
positioned themselves for congressional elections in a little less than ten
months.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/22/government-shutdown-day-three-trump-blames-democrats/1053104001/
January 22: Trump signs bill ending government
shutdown after 3 days
The federal government will be open for business Tuesday after President Trump
signed a bill funding the government until Feb. 8.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/22/dems-under-pressure-to-end-shutdown-as-showdown-vote-set-for-noon.html
January 22:
Trump Kept One Promise.
The Shutdown Is Proof. ... We all should have seen it coming.
Over and
over and
over, first as a candidate and then as president, Donald Trump made a pledge
to voters: He would run the White House just like he’s run his business. That’s
a promise that he’s kept.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-22/trump-runs-the-government-like-his-business-that-s-the-problem
January 24: Trump's porn star and government
shutdown
http://www.cleveland.com/darcy/index.ssf/2018/01/trumps_porn_star_and_governmen.html
January 29:
Trump administration's idea for
government-built 5G network met with loud resistance from U.S. telecoms
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/29/trump-administration-considering-government-takeover-5-g-network-report-says/1074159001/
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January 29: Hundreds of top government jobs
under Trump are unfilled. So who’s running things?
The federal government employs 2 million civilian workers nationwide, but many
positions at the top of the food chain remain empty a year into the Trump
presidency. Of more than 600 key jobs filled by presidential nomination, more
than half of them are currently vacant awaiting confirmation or have no nominee.
[For example] The opioid crisis. The White House Drug Control Office, meant to
work on the issue, has no director, and has seen several other appointees leave.
... Mr. Trump hasn’t made nominations for hundreds of ... jobs, and the 300-day
clock has run out. That’s creating an unprecedented situation. Those acting in
these jobs do not technically have the legal authority to do them anymore.
The president wants to shrink government. And that includes at the top. Mr.
Trump has fewer slots filled or nominated than any president in 25 years.
What we don’t know is whether this will make government impressively more
efficient or dangerously less functional.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hundreds-of-top-government-jobs-under-trump-are-unfilled-so-whos-running-things
January 31: State of the Union Over, Back to
the Chaos of Trump Government
http://www.newsweek.com/state-union-over-back-chaos-trump-government-796266
February 1: Trump to skip Super Bowl
interview | Republicans face shutdown threat from within
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-skip-super-bowl-interview-republicans-face-shutdown-threat-from-within-2018-02-01
February 2: Is the Deep State real — and is
it really at war with Donald Trump?
An
ABC News/Washington Post poll last year showed that nearly half the people
in America believe a Deep State — defined as “military, intelligence and
government officials who try to secretly manipulate government policy” — is
working behind the facade of the constitutional U.S. government.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article198038824.html
February 2: Is Trump trying to purge the
government of disloyal elements?
In his State of the Union speech this week Donald Trump
asked Congress to give him the power to purge cabinet agencies. He said:
"Tonight I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the
authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine
the public trust or fail the American people."
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2018/02/trump-trying-purge-government-disloyal-elements
February 2: President Donald Trump and his
Republican allies in Congress on Friday escalated a campaign against U.S. law
enforcement agencies over their probe of Trump’s ties to Russia, releasing a
disputed memo that the FBI warned was misleading and inaccurate.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/explosive-memo-released-as-trump-escalates-fight-over-russia-probe-idUSKBN1FM1FD
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February 2:
Husband of former Trump household aide
scores government job ... The home contractor
from New Jersey is now working as an official in the Environmental Protection
Agency's New York regional office.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/02/trump-household-aide-government-job-386727
February 2: America's most surprising new
pundit
James Comey — the
fired FBI director, who has a hotly awaited memoir, "A
Higher Loyalty," coming out May 1 — uses his
Twitter feed to lob some of the most biting, terse commentary on White House
handling of the Russia probe:
"That's it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intell committee,
destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA
court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen.
For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.
https://www.axios.com/james-comey-twitter-commentary-1517668453-81606630-c415-4e3c-b454-7440d00b37d8.html
February 3: The release of House
Republicans' memo alleging FBI abuses of its surveillance authority has
intensified an extraordinary feud between President Donald Trump and parts of
his own government.
Trump -- who campaigned on a theme of "law and order" -- and members of his
Republican Party, in power in Washington, are using the memo to sow distrust in
America's chief law enforcement agency and its investigation into Russia's
involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump on Saturday falsely claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him in
special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into whether his campaign
colluded with Russia.
This is an American disgrace!" he tweeted.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/03/politics/republican-memo-reaction/index.html
February 3: Trump says FBI was a "tool" of
his opponents
President Trump is going after the FBI again this evening in a series of tweets
citing a
Wall Street Journal editorial that says the agency influenced the 2016
election
President Trump's attacks on the FBI are having a profound effect, according to
a recent SurveyMonkey poll for Axios. Less than 40% of Republicans now approve
of America's main federal law enforcement agency.
https://www.axios.com/trump-says-fbi-influenced-election-1517705014-0a9556ad-cdc4-4900-82b4-e70daa93a606.html
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Undated: Prior to the inauguration of
President Donald Trump, Sunlight joined other transparency advocates in
expressing concern about the
future of open government data in the United States. We highlighted the ways
an
administration could alter government data that fell short of outright
removal, from defunding collection to limiting access to altering data sets.
Taking open government data offline entirely was the most extreme action we
anticipated.
Thankfully, that did not come to pass in 2017:
despite widespread concern, we do not have evidence that data has been
removed from federal websites after a year into the Trump presidency.
The singular exception we know of was the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
animal welfare datasets, documented below, which were taken down and then
partially returned following public outcry and several lawsuits.
https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-u-s-government-data-removed-from-the-internet-during-the-trump-administration/
August 13: Trump signs bill banning
government use of Huawei and ZTE tech
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/13/17686310/huawei-zte-us-government-contractor-ban-trump
August 14: Survey of U.S. government
scientists finds range of attitudes toward Trump policies
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/survey-us-government-scientists-finds-range-attitudes-toward-trump-policies
November 2: Migrants traveling to US sue
Trump, government; claim violation of constitutional rights
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrants-traveling-to-us-sue-trump-government-claim-violation-of-constitutional-rights
November 9: The U.S. Government’s 2018
Border Data Clearly Shows Why the Trump Administration is on the Wrong Track
https://www.wola.org/analysis/us-government-2018-border-data-trump-immigration-asylum-policy/
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January 4: Exactly one week after Donald
Trump
signed an executive order freezing the pay
of 2.1 million federal civilian workers, hundreds of high-level Trump
appointees, including members of his own cabinet, are set to get raises.
The raises, which amount to roughly $10,000 per year, will go into effect
tomorrow (Jan. 5), barring new legislation to stop them, according to
guidelines issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The members
of Trump’s cabinet, who are worth a combined $4.3 billion, will see their annual
pay go from from $199,700 to $210,700, courtesy of the US taxpayer. Deputy
secretaries will go from $179,700 to $189,600 per year. Vice president Mike
Pence’s salary will also increase, from $230,700 to $243,500. (Members of the
Senate and the House, who are still getting paid during the shutdown, will not
enjoy a bump in pay.)
https://qz.com/1515592/the-us-government-shutdown-means-raises-for-trumps-cabinet/
January 22: The Supreme Court just weakened
Trump's hand in government ...
The justices took no action Tuesday on a case before them concerning the
legality of the administration's decision to end the Obama-era immigration
policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
The inaction effectively allows the program to continue, reducing Trump's
already limited leverage in a high-stakes impasse over money for his proposed
border wall.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/22/supreme-court-takes-no-action-on-daca-weakens-trump-hand-in-shutdown-talks.html
January 22: Trump may have lost the Dreamer
issue as his main negotiating point on Tuesday [as regards the government
shutdown] when the Supreme Court refused, at least during this term, to consider
an administration appeal of lower court rulings allowing continued temporary
protections for the immigrant youths.
Instead, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program established by
then-President Barack Obama in 2012 lives on with or without approval by
Congress.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown/trump-plan-to-reopen-govt-build-border-wall-undercut-by-supreme-court-idUSKCN1PG235
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