The Donald Trump Score Card

Republicans have empowered a lunatic who barely won the election
Sabrina Haake, Raw Story
July 6, 2025

Republicans have empowered a lunatic who barely won the election

 

Medicaid cuts after the November 2026 elections.


Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.
By Tony RommAndrew DuehrenMargot Sanger-KatzBrad Plumer and Daniel Wood
Reporting from Washington
July 2, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/tax-cuts-benefit-cuts.html

 

ICE raids derail LA economy as workers go into hiding.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/us/los-angeles-ghost-towns

 

Regarding the Texas floods, Trump's remarks on FEMA that he is dismantling.


https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/texas-flooding-camp-mystic-07-06-25-hnk

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On FEMA: Asked about his plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Trump said it was a matter for another time.

“FEMA is something we can talk about later, but right now, they’re busy working, so we’ll leave it at that,” he said.

 

Whatever that means. It sure doesn't sound definitive.

 

Another TACO.

Trump chickens out again.

Trump had set reciprocal tariff rates on April 2 but extended the deadline until July 9.

He has extended the July 9 deadline to August 1.


Trump team moves goalposts on tariffs again - POLITICO

 

Trump appears to have only two formal signed agreements for his tariffs wars during his second term: UK and Vietnam.

 

People in wheelchairs zip-tied and escorted out of Capitol Hill for protesting cuts to Medicaid that Trump in the end didn't care about (after previously saying, in his words, not to fuck with Medicaid) as he pushed for the bill to pass by July 4th so that he could sign it on the holiday as part of his PR stunts.


https://www.wcpo.com/politics/healt...during-medicaid-cuts-protest?dicbo=v2-jCDHEQy

 

Don't expect Trump to pardon them.

 

GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation” | Democracy Now!

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"You know, the Trump administration loves to say that it’s only going after the worst of the worst, but when they sent hundreds of people to Guantánamo Bay, fully a third of them had no criminal convictions at all. And we’ve seen with their deportation of people to CECOT in El Salvador to be imprisoned without trial, that hundreds of those people were likely innocent of any claimed gang ties and had no criminal records at all. So, this is not Alcatraz. It’s a detention camp that ICE is using to hold immigrants, many of whom will likely have no criminal record."

 

GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation” | Democracy Now!

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"This bill provides a whopping $170 billion to transform immigration enforcement and detention. This includes $45 billion for new detention jails. That’s 265% more than the current ICE detention budget and more than the budget of the federal prison system. ICE’s enforcement budget would increase by $30 billion, a threefold increase, and there’s some $46 billion for border walls and more. American Immigration Council calls the bill, quote, “the largest investment in detention and deportation in US history; a policy choice that does nothing to address the systemic failures of our immigration system while inflicting harm, sowing chaos, and tearing families apart,” unquote."

 

Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it.
By Myah Ward
07/05/2025 08:50 AM EDT

Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it. - POLITICO

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"The Trump administration has three-and-a-half years to drastically expand the nation’s border enforcement and deportation infrastructure, a massive logistical challenge for which there is no easy comparison. It must hire and train thousands of new immigration officials, secure contracts to ramp up detention capacity and expand the immigration court system. All of that is in pursuit of an ambitious White House target: 1 million annual deportations.

The megabill, which the president signed into law Friday, offers an unprecedented infusion of cash into the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus, but even Trump border czar Tom Homan acknowledges the administration has a great deal of work ahead, especially when it comes to fulfilling Trump’s pledge to hire 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents."

 

Judge clears way for U.S. to deport 8 men to South Sudan - POLITICO

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"Moss said he wasn’t reaching any legal conclusions about that, but he said he had “grave concerns about some of the issues” raised by lawyers for the men.

“It’s almost self-evident that the United States government cannot take human beings and send them to circumstances where their physical well being is at risk simply to punish them or to send a signal to others,” Moss said.

Moss also noted that the State Department has a public “do not travel” warning for South Sudan. “It does appear that placing people in South Sudan does pose or could pose significant risk to their safety,” he said."

 

Information about pardons from NOLO.


Pardons

 

List of Trump's 'two weeks' statements in his second term.


https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern

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Over the last two months, Trump has said repeatedly that various answers to questions about the war, including U.S. assistance to Ukraine, would be just two weeks away.

On April 24, he told a reporter who asked about continued military assistance for Ukraine: "You can ask that question in two weeks, and we'll see." He gave a similar answer days later when asked if he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he had publicly criticized in recent months.

Those weeks came and went. And on May 19, when asked if Ukraine was doing enough to support U.S.-led cease-fire negotiations, Trump replied, "I'd rather tell you in about two weeks from now because I can't say yes or no."

Over a month ago, on May 28, Trump gave Putin another two-week deadline when a reporter asked whether he believed the Russian leader truly wants the war to end.

"I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know within two weeks," Trump said.

Trump told reporters on May 5 that he would make a determination about pharmaceutical tariff rates "in the next two weeks,"

And he said on June 12 that he would notify trading partners about unilateral tariff rates within — you guessed it.

"We're going to be sending letters out in about a week and a half, two weeks, to countries, telling them what the deal is," Trump said.

 

A few examples from his first term.


https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern

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Trump told Fox News in July 2020 that he would be replacing Obamacare and "signing a health care plan within two weeks," which did not happen.

He told CBS News on May 1, 2017 that his administration's infrastructure plan would be coming in "the next two or three weeks, maybe sooner."

In March 2017, after baselessly alleging that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his Trump Tower phone ahead of the 2016 election, Trump told Fox News: "I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks."

 

Vermont dairy farm raided in April.


A Vermont dairy farm was raided. Mixed messages from Washington have increased fears

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“I saw through the window of the house that immigration were already there, inside the farm, and that’s when they detained us,” he said in a recent interview. “I was in the process of asylum, and even with that, they didn’t respect the document that I was still holding in my hands.”

Four of the workers were swiftly deported to Mexico. Molina-Aguilar, released after a month in a Texas detention center with his asylum case still pending, is now working at a different farm and speaking out.

“We must fight as a community so that we can all have, and keep fighting for, the rights that we have in this country,” he said.

 

Tesla stock down again.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/business/tesla-stock-musk-trump-intl

 

Trump threatens extra 10% tariffs on countries that associate themselves with BRICS.


Trump threatens extra 10% tariff on countries that align with 'Anti-American' BRICS policies

 

Trump to end protection for Hondurans and Nicaraguans.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/politics/honduras-nicaragua-migrants-legal-status

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"The Trump administration has stripped protections from multiple nationalities in the US who were protected from deportation and allowed to temporarily live in the country, arguing that conditions at home no longer justified those protections. The termination of the relief, known as Temporary Protected Status, has prompted legal challenges nationwide — and has been blocked by federal judges in some instances.

The latest move would affect approximately 72,000 migrants from Honduras and 4,000 from Nicaragua, according to government estimates."