WTF Just Happened Today?“Worth the price.”
🤮 WTF just happened today in one thread for Day 1476.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/02/03/day-1476/
1/ Trump signed executive orders imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, but agreed to “immediately pause” tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month.
2/ Elon Musk said Trump agreed to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, calling it “beyond repair” and a “criminal organization. Time for it to die.”
3/ USAID closed its Washington headquarters, with yellow police tape and officers blocking the entrances.
4/ Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he’s taken over as the acting administrator of USAID and that any programs that are aligned with U.S. foreign policy would continue under the State Department.
5/ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency “full access” to the federal payment system.
6/ Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as “acting director” of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after firing Rohit Chopra, a Biden appointee who led the agency since October 2021. Bessent immediately ordered the agency to halt all regulatory, enforcement, and investigative work, pending a review.
7/ Trump is considering an executive order to dismantle the Education Department by shutting down non-legally mandated functions and shifting some responsibilities to other agencies.
8/ The Trump administration warned over 1,100 EPA employees that they could be fired “immediately” for their work on climate initiatives, air pollution, or environmental law enforcement.
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