This post will be updated daily as the Biden administration works to Trump-proof our government as much as it can before January 20, 2025.
During 2018-19, I maintained a running post called “Things Trump Did While You Weren’t Looking”
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More student loans canceled in Biden’s final round of forgiveness before leaving office
President Joe Biden is abandoning his effort to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first step in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.
The White House expects to pull back unfinished rules across several agencies if there isn’t enough time to finalize them before Trump takes office. If the proposed regulations were left in their current state, the next administration would be able to rewrite them and advance its agenda more quickly.
Read at WUSA TV 9, Washington D.C.
Democrats pledge to work through Christmas on funding to rebuff Trump’s demands
“Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Friday said she’s ready to stay in Washington “through Christmas” to fight off President-elect Trump’s demand to strip negotiated provisions out of a bill to fund the government into 2025.”
Read at The Hill
Musk says he’ll fund ‘moderate’ Democratic primary challengers
“Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this jacka‑‑,” Musk wrote Thursday night on his social media platform X.
Read at The Hill
Biden admin completes under-the-wire endangered species rules for California water projects
President-elect Donald Trump has already vowed to send more water to Central Valley farmers and could start undoing Biden’s plan in as soon as a few weeks.
The Biden administration signed off on Friday on its plan for how to run the massive system of pumps, canals, reservoirs that moves water across California, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with a very different vision.
The Bureau of Reclamation’s record of decision closes a four-year process to overturn Trump’s previous rules for the Central Valley Project, which both environmentalists and the state of California claimed did not adequately protect endangered fish like the Chinook salmon and Delta smelt and sued over.
Continue reading at Politico
Biden administration withdraws birth control rules
“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other agencies involved said the rules were being withdrawn in order “to focus their time and resources on matters other than finalizing these rules.””
Continue reading at The Hill
Biden signs 50 bills, including 1 backed by Paris Hilton, on Christmas Eve
“President Biden spent Christmas Eve signing new bills into law approving everything from the country’s official bird to protections for children in youth care facilities.
Here are a few of the most pressing pieces of holiday legislation:”
Continue reading at The Hill
Long an unofficial symbol, bald eagle becomes official US bird
“President Biden signed 50 bills into law on Tuesday. Among them was Senate Bill 4610, legislation amending Title 36 of the U.S. Code to designate the predator as the national bird.”
Continue reading at The Hill
List of bills passed by both Houses of Congress in 2024
President Biden signs 50 bills into law ahead of Christmas. Here’s the list
WASHINGTON, DC – The White House announced that President Joe Biden signed 50 bills into law on Monday, just a couple of days before Christmas.
These new laws include rules involving Native American tribes, AEDs in public schools, hazing on college campuses, and much more.
Continue reading at WKMG
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