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All The Ways Trump Changed The Government In 2025 Deseret News

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It’s been a whirlwind year for President Donald Trump since reentering the White House in January after winning the 2024 presidential election. From the get-go, his second administration garnered headlines about who he’d appoint to Cabinet positions and whether he’d follow up on his campaign promises. In the months since his inauguration, Trump has drastically changed the federal government in Washington, D.C., and beyond, while also pressuring Congress to pass his signature “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which will permanently... Here’s a look at some of the other Trump administration actions that made 2025 a year of federal transformation. Trump promised to downsize the federal government in an attempt to manage the country’s spending. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and appointed tech billionaire Elon Musk to be its leader.

From there, Musk moved quickly to overhaul government positions with a promise to reduce wasteful spending. Deemed a “special government employee,” he enacted changes across federal agencies and departments. So much has happened since President Trump took office again that it can be hard to keep track of it all. At home and abroad, he has driven change at warp speed, upending policy and challenging democratic norms. Along the way, he’s provided an often unfiltered narration of his own presidency, almost in real time. Here, out of the blur of events, are some of the most consequential, illuminating or just plain remarkable moments from his first year back in the White House.

On the afternoon of Sept. 2, Mr. Trump was in the Oval Office delivering remarks about the U.S. Space Command’s headquarters when he casually mentioned that “we just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat.” I had been chronicling all the ways Mr. Trump was expanding executive power, but this immediately stood apart.

Amanda Becker, The 19th Amanda Becker, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th This story was originally published by The 19th. In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to... As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in...

Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency and immediately began reshaping Washington in his image. A new cast of MAGA loyalists took power: JD Vance emerged as the vice president with real muscle; Marco Rubio gained Kissinger-like influence across matters of national security and foreign affairs; and Karoline Leavitt,... Behind the scenes, Stephen Miller and Susie Wiles pulled the levers of policy and discipline that defined Trump’s second act. But the year’s churn didn’t lift everyone. The Epstein files cast a shadow over the FBI and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who saw her credibility undercut not only by the White House’s own inner circle but also by some of Trump’s... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also found himself in the headlines more often than the president might have liked, with embarrassing leaks pouring out of the Pentagon.

And Elon Musk, briefly hailed as Trump’s secret weapon on the campaign trail, became an electoral liability—disrupting the federal government and turning into a political headache for both the president and congressional Republicans. Democrats, meanwhile, were left wandering — and scrambling. Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani gained stature in the opposition, embracing a more confrontational tone and giving voice to what many progressive voters wanted. In doing so, they exposed the limits of party leaders like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer—who, despite ending the year in strong positions, continue to struggle to connect with younger generations. For all the wins and losses on paper, the broader reality was clear: in 2025, Trump called the plays—and Washington reacted. Here are Newsweek's biggest political winners and losers of the year.

WASHINGTON - From the structure of the global economy to the use of plastic straws, Donald Trump's second term has already overseen a whirlwind of change. Not since Franklin Roosevelt has a new president driven so many shifts, so fast. Actually, Trump may have FDR beat on the signature first-100-days marker, even though his predecessor was inaugurated with a Great Depression to tackle. It takes most presidents months or even years to make a difference in the daily lives of Americans, not to mention those who live around the world. But this time, Trump's unprecedented use of executive powers has already slashed the federal workforce, banned diversity programs, dismantled USAID, divided opposition Democrats over how to respond and prompted longstanding U.S. allies to calculate how to navigate a new global reality.

He even seems to have had an effect on the most popular baby names. Here's a look at 100 things that have changed during Trump's first 100 days − the momentous and the less so. Donald Trump's first year in office was marked by a barrage of stark policy shifts and dramatic political moments. At times, it was hard to keep up. Here's a timeline of the biggest moments since Trump's Inauguration on Jan. 20.

Takes the oath of office inside the Capitol Rotunda Grants clemency to more than 1,500 charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol Withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse-­gas emissions Factbox-What Trump Has Done to Remake the US Government So Far

U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions as he speaks to reporters about Wednesday's deadly midair collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Eagle flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on January 20 to remake and reduce the size of the United States' 2.2 million-strong... The moves include offering buyouts to most government workers, dismissing or reassigning hundreds of officials, removing agency watchdogs, and issuing an order that could make it easier to fire thousands of civil servants.

He has appointed the world's richest person, Elon Musk, as a "special government employee" to oversee a drastic overhaul of the federal workforce. Here are some of the actions Trump and his Republican administration have taken so far.

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