Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away
One thing I’ve been attempting to track under Trump 2.0 are all the nice things Americans used to have that Trump has deliberately taken away. This is the running list, which will be a page (like my DOGE Debunking and lawsuit declaration pages) here.
I’m posting this now in super raw form for several reasons.
- I’m missing a ton! Especially datasets that have been taken down (some of the stuff that was memory-holed appears in the main list). Let me know what I’m missing below.
- I’m wondering how this will be most useful. Obviously, right now I’ve just been capturing links when I see stories. Are these links sufficient?
- Steal my work! I’m hoping someone with more resources can do a better version of this. So if you want to steal this list and expand on it, feel free!
General EOs
Lower drug prices
Infrastructure
Free wind energy
Health and Science
NIH matching funds
Immunotherapy cancer cures
Bird flu (rehired)
Telehealth and cheaper broadband
Protections for the disabled
USAID programs targeting polio, malaria, TB, HIV, and malnourishment
Indian Health Services (rehired)
Fentanyl disruption in Mexico
Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam
Energy and Environmental
Grants for farmers in IRA
Renewable energy for farmers
Other farm grants
Halting EV plug-ins (including at government buildings)
Bonneville Power Service (rehired)
New oil drilling
Weather forecasting stations
Volcano warnings
Keeping the Colorado River flowing
National Park Service (partly rehired, plus seasonal hires)
Michigan sea lamprey eradication
Prairie education
Food aid for schools
Financial
Investigations for rich tax cheats
Consumer protection from financial entities
Easy tax returns
Experts on complex tax collection
Affordable housing
Security
National Security research
Terrorism research
FAA Litigation (tracking pilots who shouldn’t fly and flight schools who shoudn’t teach)
Union protections for TSA workers
Bird flu workers (attempted reversal)
NNSA (attempted reversal)
Justice
Complaints about tech companies
International
Finding kidnapped Ukrainian children
Data
Climate change
Air quality (internationally)
Personnel
Eight Inspectors General who found $183B in waste, fraud and abuse (from this complaint)
USAID economist Dean Karlan resigns
NIH principal deputy director Tabak resigns
NIH head Francis Collins resigns
Genome project lead Eric Green ousted
David Lebryk leaves Treasury
Doug O’Donnell leaves IRS