The latest from the
Trump Action Tracker.
All text is from the tracker unless otherwise noted.
June 5: The US state department has criticised “two-tiered policing” in Britain in a social media post offering condolences to the family of the murder victim Henry Nowak, in a thinly veiled rebuke of the UK government. In a post on X, the department said: “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilisational decline. They must be rejected across the West. By talking of "two tier policing" the US is echoing the language of Elon Musk and the far right in Britain, including Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage.
- Aggressive foreign policy and global destabilisation
- Anti-immigration or militarised nationalism
Downing Street says it does not share state department’s view, which Lib Dems condemn as flagrant interference
www.theguardian.com
June 5: A majority of the U.S. Senate on Friday voted to pass legislation providing an additional $70 billion for migrant law-enforcement operations, including President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation program.
- Anti-immigration or militarised nationalism
A majority of the U.S. Senate on Friday voted to pass legislation providing an additional $70 billion for migrant law-enforcement operations, including President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation program.
www.reuters.com
June 5: U.S. plans to auction 689,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an arm of the Department of the Interior, offered 60 tracts in the refuge for auction to oil and gas drillers.
- Politicisation of science and health
The Trump administration's Friday auction of oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge attracted only $3.7 million in winning bids for five tracts of land, U.S. Department of the Interior officials said.
www.reuters.com
June 5: The US announced new economic sanctions on Cuba’s president and some of his immediate family as well as members of the Castro family. State Secretary Marco Rubio, said on X that the US was “targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba’s subversive and radical operations” because the US would “no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes” exporting their “poisonous and evil ‘revolution’” to the US and elsewhere.
- Aggressive foreign policy and global destabilisation
US secretary of state Marco Rubio says anyone providing services to listed entities ‘is at risk of sanctions themselves’
www.theguardian.com
June 5: Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting, as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research.
- Suppressing dissent or weaponising state against 'enemies'
- Politicisation of science and health
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
www.medpagetoday.com
June 5: A memo issued by the acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, David Venturella, has ordered the federal agency to cease reporting the deaths of newly released detainees. This rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.
- Dismantling social protections and civil rights
- Anti-immigration or militarised nationalism
Acting director David Venturella rescinds Biden-era policy that required agency to report and investigate such deaths
www.theguardian.com
June 5: In a new policy, the Pentagon cut religious identities for service personnel from 180 to just 33, of which 22 are Christian. Althought the Pentagon claimed the policy was an adminstrative exercise, Defense Secretary Hegseth back in March26 had stated that the military’s chaplain corps had been “infected by political correctness and secular humanism” under previous administrations.
- Dismantling social protections and civil rights
- Anti-immigration or militarised nationalism
June 5: Detainees at Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail said guards were denying them food and fresh water until they signed documents presented to them in English that they did not understand.
- Dismantling social protections and civil rights
- Anti-immigration or militarised nationalism
Detainees say they’re given ‘rotten’ water and denied meals for not signing papers in English that they don’t understand
www.theguardian.com
June 5: Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he wants acting director of national intelligence Bill Pulte to begin the process of firing a large number of employees as part of a shake-up of the U.S. intelligence community.
- Hollowing state or weakening federal institutions
June 5: The U.S. Department of the Treasury called on U.S. banks to detect and report identity theft, payroll fraud and other illicit activities tied to people not authorized to work in the United States. This comes following an executive order from May'26 directing financial institutions to increase their scrutiny of non-citizens' banking activities.
- Dismantling social protections and civil rights
- Anti-immigration or militarised nationalism
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday called on U.S. banks to detect and report identity theft, payroll fraud and other illicit activities tied to people not authorized to work in the United States, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month directing financial...
www.reuters.com
June 5: he FDA has launched a safety study of the abortion pill, also called mifepristone, a step that could pave the way for the Trump administration to restrict how it is distributed and used. Medical abortion, typically a two-drug regimen consisting of mifepristone followed by misoprostol, accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. abortions and is used to terminate a pregnancy within the first 10 weeks. Abortion rights advocates have called the legal challenges to mifepristone the biggest threat to abortion access in the U.S.
- Politicisation of science and health
The FDA has launched a safety study of the abortion pill, also called mifepristone, a step that could pave the way for the Trump administration to restrict how it is distributed and used, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
June 5: The Trump administration on Friday fired five F.B.I. employees tied to a 2023 internal intelligence document that conservatives have said was anti-Catholic, according to people familiar with the dismissals. The decision by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, is the latest move by the administration to push out law enforcement personnel it accuses of “weaponizing” the government against President Trump, his supporters and conservatives generally. Some former federal law enforcement officials have said those efforts amount to a purge of the ranks of independent civil servants, turning law enforcement agencies into ideologically driven arms of the presidency.
- Violating democratic norms or undermining rule of law
- Hollowing state or weakening federal institutions
- Suppressing dissent or weaponising state against 'enemies'
June 5: The Trump administration is preparing to allow off-road vehicles on millions of acres of national forest land. The move is a companion to President Trump’s decision on May 29 to repeal two executive orders that for decades had protected other public lands, including most national parks, from ATVs, dirt bikes and other off-road vehicles.
- Politicisation of science and health
President Trump just did what every real American has been waiting for. He dropped the mic, walked off the interview with Kristen Welker, and refused to waste another second.
