Tag: Executive Orders and Memorandums
The Road to Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans
It was May 2019 and national security officials were in the Situation Room discussing Iran when President Trump abruptly changed the subject. He...
Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees as He Shuts Out Afghans...
On the same day that dozens of white South Africans arrived in the United States as refugees, at the invitation of President Trump...
Afrikaners Arrive in U.S. as Trump-Approved Refugees
President Trump signed an executive order in February establishing refugee status for Afrikaners, the white ethnic minority in South Africa that created and...
Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters
President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that...
Trump’s New Way to Kill Regulations: Because I Say So
President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission —...
Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry
President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort...
Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown
Almost all the employees of the Wilson Center, a prominent nonpartisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, were placed on leave on Thursday...
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive...
Here Is What to Know About U.S. Foreign Aid and the...
President Trump’s executive order freezing most U.S. foreign aid for 90 days has thrown into turmoil programs that fight starvation and deadly diseases,...
Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of...
President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of...
