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March 28, 2017 – Donald Trump sought to slash $18 billion of federal funding from support for mental health, foreign aid, public housing, and other categories of discretionary funding.
Among the many eliminated programs would be the McGovern-Dole International Food program, which provides meals to 40 million impoverished school children abroad.
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March 28, 2017 – In response to the defamation suit brought against Donald Trump by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, Trump’s lawyers invoked the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
This clause, argued the Trump’s personal legal team, prevented civil lawsuits against the president while he held office.
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March 28, 2017 – Donald Trump signed a bill that killed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces regulation.
Signed by Barack Obama, the legislation protected workers against serious safety hazards and labor law violations in any government contract above $500,000.
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March 28, 2018 – The EPA sent an internal memo to staff describing a list of “approved talking points” downplaying the certainty of climate change.
These included statements like, "While there has been extensive research and a host of published reports on climate change, clear gaps remain in our understanding of the role of human activity and what we can do about it.”
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March 27, 2020 – Trump boasted that “We’ve now established great testing. … We’ve tested now more than anybody.”
The U.S. did test more people for the coronavirus than South Korea, but South Koreans were tested much earlier, conducted five times as many tests per capita than the U.S., and had a per capita death toll twenty-five times lower than the United States death toll per capita.
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March 27, 2020 – Trump boasted that “We’ve now established great testing. … We’ve tested now more than anybody.”
The U.S. did test more people for the coronavirus than South Korea, but South Koreans were tested much earlier, conducted five times as many tests per capita than the U.S., and had a per capita death toll twenty-five times lower than the United States death toll per capita.
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March 27, 2020 – Trump singled out the governors of Michigan and Washington for not being sufficiently grateful for federal government aid during the pandemic.
“I want them to be appreciative,” he said. “If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call.”
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March 26, 2018 – The Census Bureau announced it would include a question regarding citizenship status on the 2020 U.S. Census.
The State of California alleged this would include citizens and non-citizens alike.
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March 26, 2018 – Donald Trump kept in touch with Rob Porter after Porter left the White House amid credible allegations against him of domestic abuse from two of his ex-wives.
In the final few weeks of March, Trump’s phone calls with Porter became increasingly frequent, with some speculating Trump would bring Porter back to the White House soon.
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March 26, 2020 – Although health experts around the world have been warning about a pandemic for years, Trump claimed that the coronavirus crisis caught the U.S. by surprise.
“This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country,” he said.
“Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”
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