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Shortly after returning to office in January, President Donald Trump made major cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the 63-year-old government agency that oversees worldwide efforts to improve health, education, poverty, and hunger. Trump’s cuts have already affected at least 50 countries, and halted life-saving services and medications for millions of people worldwide. Trump called the impact of his own cuts “devastating.”
Harvard University has filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration for slashing billions of dollars from the university’s research funding and preventing them from enrolling international students. The White House announced these cuts after Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands and made similar threats to 60 U.S. higher education institutions in March. Harvard is the first to pursue legal action.
On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order regarding birthright citizenship stating that, in order to be considered a U.S. citizen, a person must have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. The Executive Order is a significant shift in how birthright citizenship has been applied in the United States over the past 150 years.
More Southeast Asian immigrants living in Los Angeles and Orange Counties are being detained and deported in recent months under President Trump’s administration, the Los Angeles Times reported. Immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos have been targeted after showing up for their routine check-ins at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices.
Claim: President Donald Trump has claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his new task force to cut federal spending, has already identified “tens of billions of dollars” in “waste, fraud and abuse” and could end up saving the government “close to a trillion dollars.”
Rating: This claim is FALSE.
President Donald Trump has wasted no time fulfilling his promise to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives since taking office this January, signing executive orders that target decades-old practices dating back to the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s.