Projects

A no-bid contract awarded to a firm linked to Trump's golf club. Originally quoted at $1.8M, the cost ballooned more than sevenfold. A federal lawsuit challenges the project as violating historic preservation law.

The historic East Wing demolished in October 2025. Promised as privately funded; Republicans now seeking $1 billion in taxpayer money for security. No initial congressional approval obtained.

Trump fired the board, installed loyalists, named himself chairman, and secured $257 million — 6× the normal annual support — while proposing to eliminate the NEA. Two-year closure begins July 2026.

U.S. B-2 bombers struck three Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025. By February 2026, a full-scale war began including decapitation strikes. A girls' elementary school in Minab was struck, killing 165, mostly children.

U.S. special forces and DEA captured President Nicolás Maduro at Venezuela's largest military complex. CIA tracked Maduro for months. Delta Force rehearsed on a compound mockup. 32 Cuban forces killed.

52-day air campaign — launched after classified plans were shared in an unsecured Signal chat — killed nearly as many civilians as the previous 23 years of U.S. action in Yemen. Ceasefire declared May 6; Houthis kept firing at Israel.

"Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, 2025 were the largest U.S. tax increase as a share of GDP since 1993. The Supreme Court struck down the core IEEPA tariffs as unconstitutional in February 2026. Agricultural exports to China collapsed.

The largest cuts to social safety net programs in U.S. history. $1T+ from Medicaid, $186B from SNAP — to fund tax cuts that mostly benefit the highest earners. CBO: 12 million Americans lose health coverage.

Elon Musk's 130-day purge of the federal government. 300,000+ employees removed — the largest peacetime workforce reduction on record. Agencies dismantled. Spending actually rose. Musk: only "somewhat successful."

The U.S. Agency for International Development was effectively shut down without congressional authorization. Children died as aid lifelines ended. Musk: his team "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

A 1798 wartime law invoked for the first time since WWII. Planes sent while a federal judge's order was being defied. Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a man with legal status — mistakenly deported and imprisoned. Supreme Court ruled 7–2: due process violated.

Trump threatened military force and economic coercion to seize territory from a NATO ally. Danish PM: "If the U.S. attacks another NATO country militarily, everything stops." Republican Rep. Bacon: "This is appalling." Russia welcomed the NATO division.

Trump proposed the U.S. "take over" and "own" Gaza, displacing its 2.3 million Palestinian inhabitants to build a Mediterranean resort. Every Arab ally rejected it. UN Secretary-General: the plan risked ethnic cleansing. Violates the Geneva Conventions.

The Signal chat that leaked classified Yemen strike plans. The televised berating of Zelenskyy. The pardon of a drug lord president. Nigeria Tomahawk strikes. Golden Dome missile defense. January 6 mass pardons. 550+ lawsuits against the administration.