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I would have thought other members of the Cabinet or perhaps Don Jr. would introduce this new practice. Maybe Sen. Tommy Tubberville from Alabama.
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Jersey Girl has added the current list of today’s proclamations, statements and executive orders here:
viewtopic.php?f=7&p=2885149#p2885149
Below is a recap from The Guardian on the significant Executive Orders and proclamations of the day.
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Ending birthright citizenship
The order: Along with a slew of immigration-focused orders, Trump is targeting automatic citizenship for US-born children of immigrants in the country illegally, to begin 30 days from today.
What Trump said: The order specifies that it would limit birthright citizenship if a person’s “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth”, or “when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary”.
What it means: Birthright citizenship, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil, is protected by the 14th amendment and any attempt to revoke it will likely bring immediate legal challenges. The order attempts to deny documents recognizing US citizenship for individuals who meet that criteria and are born in the US 30 days after the order was signed.
***
Leaving the World Health Organization
The order: Trump signed an order to have the US exit the World Health Organization (WHO).
What Trump said: “World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said at the signing. He accused the WHO mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
What it means: The US will leave the WHO in 12 months’ time and stop all financial contributions to its work. The US is biggest financial backer to the United Nations health agency.
***
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico
The order: Trump ordered two name changes: the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali.
What Trump said: “President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American Civilization,” the executive order said in part.
What it means: Trump ordered the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the “Gulf of America”, something he promised earlier this month at a press conference. He will rechristen Alaska’s Mount Denali as Mount McKinley, a change first made by former president Barack Obama in 2015 to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives as well as the preference of many Alaska residents.
It will have no bearing on what names are used internationally.
***
Revoking electric vehicle targets
The order: Trump revoked a non-binding executive order signed by Biden aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric.
What Trump said: “The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said on Monday afternoon.
What it means: Part of an effort to repeal Biden’s environmental protections, Trump has also promised to roll back auto pollution standards finalized by Biden’s administration last spring.
***
Reclassifying federal employees, making them easier to fire
The order: Trump’s executive order reclassified thousands of federal employees as political hires, making it much easier for them to be fired.
What Trump said: Aides to the president have long heralded mass government firings as part of an attack on the so-called “administrative” or “deep” state.
What it means: Trump effectively reinstates “Schedule F”, an executive order he signed in the last year of his first term, seeking to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers. (Biden rescinded the order.)
Key aides to Trump have called for mass government firings. Project 2025 made attacks on the deep or administrative state a core part of Trump’s second term. The rightwing playbook called for civil servants deemed politically unreliable to be fired and replaced by conservatives.
***
Declaring a national energy emergency
The order: Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a barrage of pro-fossil fuel actions and efforts to “unleash” already booming US energy production that included also rolling back restrictions in drilling in Alaska and undoing a pause on gas exports.
What Trump said: The order means “you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem and we do have that kind of emergency,” Trump said at the White House late on Monday.
What it means: The declaration would allow his administration to fast-track permits for new fossil fuel infrastructure. It is likely that the order, part of a broader effort to roll back climate policy, will face legal challenges.
***
Creating a policy recognizing only two genders
The order: Trump signed an order to remove “gender ideology guidance” from federal government communication, policies and forms. The order makes it official policy that there are “only two genders, male and female”.
What Trump said: “Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination,” the order states.
What it means: The order reverses a Biden-era executive action on the acceptance of gender identity.
***
Pausing the TikTok ban
The order: Trump signed an executive order temporarily delaying the enforcement of a federal ban on TikTok for at least 75 days.
What Trump said: “I guess I have a warm spot for TikTok that I didn’t have originally,” Trump said at the White House, as he signed executive orders according to the New York Times.
What it means: Trump ordered his attorney general to not enforce the law requiring TikTok’s sale. Trump says the pause allows for time to chart an “appropriate course forward” to protect national security and not abruptly shut down the popular app. In his first term, Trump favored a TikTok ban, but has since changed his position due to factors including his own popularity on the app.
***
Rescinding 78 Biden-era executive actions
The order: Trump ordered 78 Biden-era executive actions to be rescinded, including at least a dozen measures supporting racial equity and combating discrimination against gay and transgender people.
What Trump said: “I’ll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration,” Trump told a crowd in Washington after his inaugural speech. He also said he would end policy “trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life” and push for a “color blind and merit-based” society.
What it means: The orders signal a reversal of Biden-era policy that prioritized implementing diversity measures across the federal government. Trump repealed orders signed by Biden advancing racial equity for underserved communities and the aforementioned order combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
***
Declaring a national border emergency
The order: Trump signed an order at the White House declaring an emergency at the southern US border, along with several other immigration-related policies.
What Trump said: “All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said in his inauguration speech.
What it means: The executive action paves the way to send US troops to the southern border and makes good on campaign promises to implement hardline immigration policies. There are limited details about how the administration planned to execute its sprawling set of immigration actions that were all but certain to face legal and logistical challenges.
Immigrant communities across the country are bracing for Trump’s promise to carry out the “largest deportation program in American history”, beginning as early as Tuesday morning.
***
Issuing pardons for January 6 defendants
The order: Trump issued pardons for offenders and commutations related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He will direct the Department of Justice to dismiss cases currently in progress.
What Trump said: “I’m going to be signing on the J6 hostages, pardons, to get them out,” Trump said during his rally speech. “We’ll be signing pardons for a lot of people, a lot of people.” Trump said he has pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and issued six commutations.
What it means: Trump made his pledge to issue pardons for those with convictions related to the January 6 Capitol attack a core part of his re-election campaign. On the campaign trail, Trump often featured the national anthem sung by prisoners in a Washington DC jail. There are more than 1,500 people federally charged with associated charges.
With Trump back in the White House, justice department investigations into January 6 crimes are expected to cease.
***
Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement
The order: Trump issued executive action withdrawing the US from the 2015 Paris agreement, along with a letter informing the United Nations of the decision.
What Trump said: “I am immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accord rip off” Trump said during a rally at the Capital One Arena. In his inaugural speech, Trump said he would use executive action to “end the Green New Deal”.
What it means: In 2017, Trump exited the Paris agreement. Upon taking office in 2021, Biden rejoined. Monday’s order makes good on a Trump election promise to withdraw from the 2015 global treaty seeking to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
Exiting the Paris agreement is part of Trump’s broader efforts to roll back climate protections and policy. Trump has described Biden’s efforts to grow the US’s clean energy sector as “the green new scam”.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... plnews_d-1
From - https://www.littler.com/publication-pre ... ring-equal
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President Trump Revokes 60-Year-Old Executive Order Requiring Equal Employment Opportunity in Government Contracting
By David Goldstein on January 22, 2025
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The order is targeted at what the president describes as “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies that:
“. . . not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”
The order declares that it is the policy of the United States:
“… to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to promote individual initiative, excellence, and hard work. I therefore order all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.”
As part of this order, Executive Order 11246 is revoked and the agency within the U.S. Department of Labor that is responsible for implementing executive order 11246 is required to immediately cease:
(A) Promoting “diversity”;
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking “affirmative action”; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
As the obligations of government contractors and subcontractors under executive order 11246 are contractual, there are many questions as to how the revocation of the executive order will be implemented. Government contractors currently undergoing compliance reviews should consult with their legal counsel as to how to proceed. The same is true for contractors currently subject to conciliation agreements with OFCCP. Contractors under audit may want to hold off on responding to information requests pending further guidance from OFCCP or advice from legal counsel. The order does provide that contractors that wish to continue to comply with the current regulations may, at a minimum, do so for 90 days from the date of the order.
It should be noted that Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (protecting the disabled) and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) (protecting certain veterans) and OFCCP’s enforcement of these laws do not appear to be in any way impacted by the new executive order.
The executive order also includes provisions seeking to end so-called “DEI discrimination and preferences” throughout the government and in the private sector. As we continue to analyze the new executive order, we will not only be providing further information for government contractors, but will also publish additional ASAPs explaining the impact of these developments for health care providers, higher education, and employers in general.
viewtopic.php?f=7&p=2885149#p2885149
Below is a recap from The Guardian on the significant Executive Orders and proclamations of the day.
***
Ending birthright citizenship
The order: Along with a slew of immigration-focused orders, Trump is targeting automatic citizenship for US-born children of immigrants in the country illegally, to begin 30 days from today.
What Trump said: The order specifies that it would limit birthright citizenship if a person’s “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth”, or “when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary”.
What it means: Birthright citizenship, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil, is protected by the 14th amendment and any attempt to revoke it will likely bring immediate legal challenges. The order attempts to deny documents recognizing US citizenship for individuals who meet that criteria and are born in the US 30 days after the order was signed.
***
Leaving the World Health Organization
The order: Trump signed an order to have the US exit the World Health Organization (WHO).
What Trump said: “World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said at the signing. He accused the WHO mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
What it means: The US will leave the WHO in 12 months’ time and stop all financial contributions to its work. The US is biggest financial backer to the United Nations health agency.
***
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico
The order: Trump ordered two name changes: the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali.
What Trump said: “President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American Civilization,” the executive order said in part.
What it means: Trump ordered the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the “Gulf of America”, something he promised earlier this month at a press conference. He will rechristen Alaska’s Mount Denali as Mount McKinley, a change first made by former president Barack Obama in 2015 to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives as well as the preference of many Alaska residents.
It will have no bearing on what names are used internationally.
***
Revoking electric vehicle targets
The order: Trump revoked a non-binding executive order signed by Biden aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric.
What Trump said: “The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said on Monday afternoon.
What it means: Part of an effort to repeal Biden’s environmental protections, Trump has also promised to roll back auto pollution standards finalized by Biden’s administration last spring.
***
Reclassifying federal employees, making them easier to fire
The order: Trump’s executive order reclassified thousands of federal employees as political hires, making it much easier for them to be fired.
What Trump said: Aides to the president have long heralded mass government firings as part of an attack on the so-called “administrative” or “deep” state.
What it means: Trump effectively reinstates “Schedule F”, an executive order he signed in the last year of his first term, seeking to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers. (Biden rescinded the order.)
Key aides to Trump have called for mass government firings. Project 2025 made attacks on the deep or administrative state a core part of Trump’s second term. The rightwing playbook called for civil servants deemed politically unreliable to be fired and replaced by conservatives.
***
Declaring a national energy emergency
The order: Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a barrage of pro-fossil fuel actions and efforts to “unleash” already booming US energy production that included also rolling back restrictions in drilling in Alaska and undoing a pause on gas exports.
What Trump said: The order means “you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem and we do have that kind of emergency,” Trump said at the White House late on Monday.
What it means: The declaration would allow his administration to fast-track permits for new fossil fuel infrastructure. It is likely that the order, part of a broader effort to roll back climate policy, will face legal challenges.
***
Creating a policy recognizing only two genders
The order: Trump signed an order to remove “gender ideology guidance” from federal government communication, policies and forms. The order makes it official policy that there are “only two genders, male and female”.
What Trump said: “Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination,” the order states.
What it means: The order reverses a Biden-era executive action on the acceptance of gender identity.
***
Pausing the TikTok ban
The order: Trump signed an executive order temporarily delaying the enforcement of a federal ban on TikTok for at least 75 days.
What Trump said: “I guess I have a warm spot for TikTok that I didn’t have originally,” Trump said at the White House, as he signed executive orders according to the New York Times.
What it means: Trump ordered his attorney general to not enforce the law requiring TikTok’s sale. Trump says the pause allows for time to chart an “appropriate course forward” to protect national security and not abruptly shut down the popular app. In his first term, Trump favored a TikTok ban, but has since changed his position due to factors including his own popularity on the app.
***
Rescinding 78 Biden-era executive actions
The order: Trump ordered 78 Biden-era executive actions to be rescinded, including at least a dozen measures supporting racial equity and combating discrimination against gay and transgender people.
What Trump said: “I’ll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration,” Trump told a crowd in Washington after his inaugural speech. He also said he would end policy “trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life” and push for a “color blind and merit-based” society.
What it means: The orders signal a reversal of Biden-era policy that prioritized implementing diversity measures across the federal government. Trump repealed orders signed by Biden advancing racial equity for underserved communities and the aforementioned order combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
***
Declaring a national border emergency
The order: Trump signed an order at the White House declaring an emergency at the southern US border, along with several other immigration-related policies.
What Trump said: “All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said in his inauguration speech.
What it means: The executive action paves the way to send US troops to the southern border and makes good on campaign promises to implement hardline immigration policies. There are limited details about how the administration planned to execute its sprawling set of immigration actions that were all but certain to face legal and logistical challenges.
Immigrant communities across the country are bracing for Trump’s promise to carry out the “largest deportation program in American history”, beginning as early as Tuesday morning.
***
Issuing pardons for January 6 defendants
The order: Trump issued pardons for offenders and commutations related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He will direct the Department of Justice to dismiss cases currently in progress.
What Trump said: “I’m going to be signing on the J6 hostages, pardons, to get them out,” Trump said during his rally speech. “We’ll be signing pardons for a lot of people, a lot of people.” Trump said he has pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and issued six commutations.
What it means: Trump made his pledge to issue pardons for those with convictions related to the January 6 Capitol attack a core part of his re-election campaign. On the campaign trail, Trump often featured the national anthem sung by prisoners in a Washington DC jail. There are more than 1,500 people federally charged with associated charges.
With Trump back in the White House, justice department investigations into January 6 crimes are expected to cease.
***
Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement
The order: Trump issued executive action withdrawing the US from the 2015 Paris agreement, along with a letter informing the United Nations of the decision.
What Trump said: “I am immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accord rip off” Trump said during a rally at the Capital One Arena. In his inaugural speech, Trump said he would use executive action to “end the Green New Deal”.
What it means: In 2017, Trump exited the Paris agreement. Upon taking office in 2021, Biden rejoined. Monday’s order makes good on a Trump election promise to withdraw from the 2015 global treaty seeking to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
Exiting the Paris agreement is part of Trump’s broader efforts to roll back climate protections and policy. Trump has described Biden’s efforts to grow the US’s clean energy sector as “the green new scam”.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... plnews_d-1
From - https://www.littler.com/publication-pre ... ring-equal
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President Trump Revokes 60-Year-Old Executive Order Requiring Equal Employment Opportunity in Government Contracting
By David Goldstein on January 22, 2025
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The order is targeted at what the president describes as “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies that:
“. . . not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”
The order declares that it is the policy of the United States:
“… to protect the civil rights of all Americans and to promote individual initiative, excellence, and hard work. I therefore order all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.”
As part of this order, Executive Order 11246 is revoked and the agency within the U.S. Department of Labor that is responsible for implementing executive order 11246 is required to immediately cease:
(A) Promoting “diversity”;
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking “affirmative action”; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
As the obligations of government contractors and subcontractors under executive order 11246 are contractual, there are many questions as to how the revocation of the executive order will be implemented. Government contractors currently undergoing compliance reviews should consult with their legal counsel as to how to proceed. The same is true for contractors currently subject to conciliation agreements with OFCCP. Contractors under audit may want to hold off on responding to information requests pending further guidance from OFCCP or advice from legal counsel. The order does provide that contractors that wish to continue to comply with the current regulations may, at a minimum, do so for 90 days from the date of the order.
It should be noted that Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (protecting the disabled) and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) (protecting certain veterans) and OFCCP’s enforcement of these laws do not appear to be in any way impacted by the new executive order.
The executive order also includes provisions seeking to end so-called “DEI discrimination and preferences” throughout the government and in the private sector. As we continue to analyze the new executive order, we will not only be providing further information for government contractors, but will also publish additional ASAPs explaining the impact of these developments for health care providers, higher education, and employers in general.
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Thank you, canpakes, for keeping us up-to-date on what is going on! 
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
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From - https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-heal ... ions-Trump
Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
JANUARY 22, 20253:25 PM ET
Gabrielle Emanuel, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Rob Stein
Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday.
NPR obtained a memo issued by the acting head of HHS, Dorothy Fink, to the heads of all the agency's operating divisions directing them to refrain from most external communications such as issuing documents, guidance, or notices until such documents can be approved by "a presidential appointee."
The action is "consistent with precedent," according to the memo, and applies until Feb. 1. The communications freeze was first reported by the Washington Post. It includes public speaking and social media.
"I look at what's going on as this administration coming in and getting their ducks in a row," said one federal official, who spoke to NPR on the condition that they not be named for fear their job could be at risk. "I think this will be temporary. How temporary? That remains to be seen. There are a lot of discussions going on right now."
One HHS employee who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity out of fear for their job said it was unclear if their team would receive permission to post information they had planned to release this week.
Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, said he was giving the HHS team that issued this memo "the benefit of the doubt that they're simply trying to get their hands around the administration — this is a big government." He did find the memo surprising and said that it could create confusion.
He also asserted the pause could have been avoided if there had been a smoother transition between the Biden and Trump administrations.
The head of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Dr. Joseph Kanter, wrote to NPR in a statement that his group's assumption is that "the new Administration is taking time to assess the current public health landscape." He added that he understands the communication pause "will be short-lived, and that an expedited pathway exists to ensure that critical information reaches clinicians and health officials in a timely manner."
There are 13 operating divisions at HHS, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and the National Institutes of Health, among other lesser known health agencies. Overall, HHS has one of the biggest budgets in the federal government — $1.7 trillion annually — and employs about 90,000 people across these agencies.
Fink wrote in Tuesday's memo that some exceptions would be made for communications affecting "critical health, safety, environmental, financial or nation security functions," but that those would be subject to review. It also warned that any items or actions inconsistent with the request for review should be immediately withdrawn.
The media relations team at HHS did not reply to a request for comment about the communications pause. When NPR tried to reach media contacts at CDC, CMS and FDA, they referred inquiries to HHS. Media contacts at HRSA and NIH did not reply to requests for comment.
Stefanie Spear, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President Trump's nominee to lead HHS, is currently working as senior counselor to the health secretary and principal deputy chief of staff. Spear did not respond to NPR's request for comment. Kennedy's confirmation hearing has not been scheduled and his prospects for confirmation by the Senate are unclear.
Will Stone and Carmel Wroth contributed reporting.
From - https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-heal ... ions-Trump
Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
JANUARY 22, 20253:25 PM ET
Gabrielle Emanuel, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Rob Stein
Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday.
NPR obtained a memo issued by the acting head of HHS, Dorothy Fink, to the heads of all the agency's operating divisions directing them to refrain from most external communications such as issuing documents, guidance, or notices until such documents can be approved by "a presidential appointee."
The action is "consistent with precedent," according to the memo, and applies until Feb. 1. The communications freeze was first reported by the Washington Post. It includes public speaking and social media.
"I look at what's going on as this administration coming in and getting their ducks in a row," said one federal official, who spoke to NPR on the condition that they not be named for fear their job could be at risk. "I think this will be temporary. How temporary? That remains to be seen. There are a lot of discussions going on right now."
One HHS employee who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity out of fear for their job said it was unclear if their team would receive permission to post information they had planned to release this week.
Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, said he was giving the HHS team that issued this memo "the benefit of the doubt that they're simply trying to get their hands around the administration — this is a big government." He did find the memo surprising and said that it could create confusion.
He also asserted the pause could have been avoided if there had been a smoother transition between the Biden and Trump administrations.
The head of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Dr. Joseph Kanter, wrote to NPR in a statement that his group's assumption is that "the new Administration is taking time to assess the current public health landscape." He added that he understands the communication pause "will be short-lived, and that an expedited pathway exists to ensure that critical information reaches clinicians and health officials in a timely manner."
There are 13 operating divisions at HHS, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and the National Institutes of Health, among other lesser known health agencies. Overall, HHS has one of the biggest budgets in the federal government — $1.7 trillion annually — and employs about 90,000 people across these agencies.
Fink wrote in Tuesday's memo that some exceptions would be made for communications affecting "critical health, safety, environmental, financial or nation security functions," but that those would be subject to review. It also warned that any items or actions inconsistent with the request for review should be immediately withdrawn.
The media relations team at HHS did not reply to a request for comment about the communications pause. When NPR tried to reach media contacts at CDC, CMS and FDA, they referred inquiries to HHS. Media contacts at HRSA and NIH did not reply to requests for comment.
Stefanie Spear, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President Trump's nominee to lead HHS, is currently working as senior counselor to the health secretary and principal deputy chief of staff. Spear did not respond to NPR's request for comment. Kennedy's confirmation hearing has not been scheduled and his prospects for confirmation by the Senate are unclear.
Will Stone and Carmel Wroth contributed reporting.
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Secrecy and suppression of real information, how very 1930's Germany and current day North Korea.
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
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Already working toward retuning federal workers back to the workplace versus working from home.
"Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." Psalm 139:16 ESV
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oh boy, really making America great there. Sure, he can pull executive orders on federal employees, pardon criminals, and all kinds of other nonsense but none of that is why he got voted in. He hasn't said crap about inflation. I get it that none of you really care now that he's won. Sure, you don't want inflation, but you won't hold it against him either.
He's got a major vested interest against lowering inflation now (not that he can, but in right-wing pretend world), since meme coins are a liquidity sponge and will crash hard as interest rates go up.
He's got a major vested interest against lowering inflation now (not that he can, but in right-wing pretend world), since meme coins are a liquidity sponge and will crash hard as interest rates go up.
"if you can't admire Joe Biden as a person then it's probably, you got a problem." -- Lindsey Graham
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Today sees a fairly mundane day with only a few proclamations and executive order’s issued, including notice of intent to establish a ‘cryptocurrency czar’, and to restrict regulations on crypto as much as is necessary to allow the President to continue to grift off of memecoin scams.
The executive order for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a routine re-chartering (typically every few years) of this council, but it will be interesting to see who ends up being appointed to it.
Releasing more documents on JFK and RFK will help some MAGA members move beyond their conspiratorial belief that either will suddenly return and become Trump’s running mate, especially since the election is now over.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Action to Enhance America’s AI Leadership
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Fact Sheet: Executive Order to Establish United States Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches PCAST to Restore American Leadership in Science and Technology
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Orders Declassification of JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassination Files
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
President’s Couuncil of Advisors on Science and Technology
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has now disbanded its Cyber Safety Review Board. This board included officials who had been investigating one of the biggest phone and computer hacking campaigns in U.S. history, a China-linked attack known as “Salt Typhoon.” Experts are concerned this decision could hamper efforts to fight back against similar hacks.
The executive order for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a routine re-chartering (typically every few years) of this council, but it will be interesting to see who ends up being appointed to it.
Releasing more documents on JFK and RFK will help some MAGA members move beyond their conspiratorial belief that either will suddenly return and become Trump’s running mate, especially since the election is now over.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Action to Enhance America’s AI Leadership
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Fact Sheet: Executive Order to Establish United States Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches PCAST to Restore American Leadership in Science and Technology
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Orders Declassification of JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassination Files
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
President’s Couuncil of Advisors on Science and Technology
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
Briefings & Statements January 23, 2025
Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
Presidential Actions January 23, 2025
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has now disbanded its Cyber Safety Review Board. This board included officials who had been investigating one of the biggest phone and computer hacking campaigns in U.S. history, a China-linked attack known as “Salt Typhoon.” Experts are concerned this decision could hamper efforts to fight back against similar hacks.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/38078 ... hacks.htmlTrump disbands Cyber Safety Review Board, Salt Typhoon inquiry in limbo
22 Jan 2025
John Leyden - Senior Writer
Category: Advanced Persistent Threats
The administration of US President Donald Trump has dismissed all members of its Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), including those investigating the China-linked hacking group Salt Typhoon. Other groups affected by a general clear-out include the AI Safety and Security Board and the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Cybersecurity experts have expressed concern about the move, arguing that US cybersecurity will suffer unless the board or something similar is re-established.
In a short statement, Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified members on all advisory committees within the department that their services were no longer required. The move was framed as part of plan to clamp down of the “misuse of resources” in rationalising Homeland Security resources and focusing more keenly on national security issues.
“In alignment with the Department of Homeland Security’s commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security, I am directing the termination of all current memberships on advisory committees within DHS, effective immediately,” Huffman said in the statement.
“Future committee activities will be focused solely on advancing our critical mission to protect the homeland and support DHS’s strategic priorities. To outgoing advisory board members, you are welcome to reapply, thank you for your service.”
The CSRB was a creation of the Biden administration
Members of the Cyber Safety Board include an array of cybersecurity luminaries — including former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) head Chris Krebs, who was dismissed from his leadership role in the organization towards the end of the previous Trump administration. Other members included veteran cybersecurity author, investigator, and CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch and US security advisor Rob Joyce.
The CSRB was created by an executive order by the Biden administration and tasked with reviewing significant cyber incidents affecting the US federal government.
Both the CISA’s advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon’s on US telecommunication networks, have been disbanded (at least in their current form). The CSRB previous investigated hacking group Lapsus$ and the high profile 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online breach.
Dismissing the board removes a ‘security blanket,’ experts say
“[It’s] disappointing that the CSRB was disbanded, especially given their work looking into Salt Typhoon”, Daniel Cuthbert, a security researcher and co-chair of the UK government’s Cyber Security Advisory Board, said in a post on X ( formerly Twitter). “That report would have been vitally important for not just the US but many others.”
Brian Fox, co-founder and chief technology officer at technology vendor Sonatype, told CSO that “any change in administration means we’re hitting reset on the national cybersecurity strategy.” Although the CSRB has been disbanded, “it is absolutely critical that work continues to progress at the federal level,” Fox said.
Fox added that CISA has also made progress on multiple fronts with the launch of cyber advisory boards such as the CSRB, maintenance of the National Vulnerability Database, the Secure by Design initiative, the agency’s work to champion SBOM (software bill of materials) adoption, and more.
“CISA’s work, in particular, is a security blanket that we cannot afford to lose,” Fox said. “Though CISA primarily serves to protect federal systems, the agency operates as a guiding voice for the private sector’s cybersecurity workforce.” He expressed concern that without this protection and guidance, “sophisticated state-backed threat actors have a much easier path into the networks of American organizations”.
“Incidents like the Salt Typhoon hacks which is still ongoing and being investigated by the CSRB, or the Ascension ransomware attack, which resulted in hospitals relying on handwritten notes and unable to provide care, will only become more frequent,” Fox said.
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Today, Trump has rescinded two earlier Executive Orders regarding reproductive/women’s health:
The now-rescinded executive order 14076 addressed, in part, the following:The following Executive Orders are hereby revoked:
(a) Executive Order 14076 of July 8, 2022; and
(b) Executive Order 14079 of August 3, 2022.
Well, we can’t allow that sort of data protection for women any longer, apparently. .- … identifying steps to ensure that all patients—including pregnant women and those experiencing pregnancy loss, such as miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies—receive the full protections for emergency medical care afforded under the law, including by considering updates to current guidance on obligations specific to emergency conditions and stabilizing care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, 42 U.S.C. 1395dd, and providing data from the Department of Health and Human Services concerning implementation of these efforts.
- … address potential heightened safety and security risks related to the provision of reproductive healthcare services, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall consider actions, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to ensure the safety of patients, providers, and third parties, and to protect the security of clinics (including mobile clinics), pharmacies, and other entities providing, dispensing, or delivering reproductive and related healthcare services.
- … address the potential threat to patient privacy caused by the transfer and sale of sensitive health-related data and by digital surveillance related to reproductive healthcare services, and to protect people seeking reproductive health services from fraudulent schemes or deceptive practices:
- …protect(ing) consumers' privacy when seeking information about and provision of reproductive healthcare services.