### [2025-03-20](/feed/2025/03/20/index.md) ##### Second Trump presidency # US President Donald Trump signs an executive order that orders Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, which is responsible for allocating federal funds to schools and disbursing financial aid. ### Sources: 1. [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-signs-executive-order-dismantle-education-department-white-house-rcna197251) 2. [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333861/trump-executive-action-education-department) ### Related: 1. [United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order shutting down multiple state-funded broadcasters, including Voice of America, Radio y Televisión Martí and Alhurra, and ceasing grants to Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. ](/feed/2025/03/16/united-states-president-donald-trump-signs-an-executive-order-shutting-down-multiple-state-funded-broadcasters-includin.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 2. [United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order designating English as the country's official language. ](/feed/2025/03/1/united-states-president-donald-trump-signs-an-executive-order-designating-english-as-the-country-s-official-language.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 3. [The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low. ](/feed/2025/02/28/the-united-states-social-security-administration-announces-it-will-lay-off-over-7000-jobs-to-align-with-president-donal.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 4. [International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan becomes the first person to have economic and travel sanctions placed on him by the U.S. government following an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump intended to target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or allies. ](/feed/2025/02/8/international-criminal-court-prosecutor-karim-ahmad-khan-becomes-the-first-person-to-have-economic-and-travel-sanctions.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 5. [U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court officials that assist investigations into U.S. citizens or those of its allies, namely Israel. ](/feed/2025/02/6/us-president-donald-trump-signs-an-executive-order-imposing-sanctions-on-international-criminal-court-officials-that-a.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 6. [The United States Senate votes to confirm Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury Secretary, making him the highest rank LGBTQ official to run the U.S. Treasury and the highest-ranking LGBTQ person in the United States. [https:--time.com-7210423-scott-bessent-confirmed-trump-treasury-secretary- (TIME)]United States Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth orders federal government agencies to temporarily pause all federal financial assistance programs, with the exception of Medicare and Social Security, that could be implicated by select executive orders from President Donald Trump. [https:--www.politico.com-news-2025-01-27-trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-00200891 (Politico)]President Trump signs an executive order eliminating "gender radicalism in the military", targeting transgender personnel in the military, and another executive order that mandates a process to develop an American Iron Dome. [https:--www.france24.com-en-americas-20250128-trump-signs-executive-orders-aimed-at-trans-troops-mandates-american-iron-dome (France 24)]Second cabinet of Donald Trump](/feed/2025/01/27/the-united-states-senate-votes-to-confirm-scott-bessent-as-us-treasury-secretary-making-him-the-highest-rank-lgbtq-of.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 7. [U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. ](/feed/2025/01/23/us-president-donald-trump-signs-an-executive-order-to-declassify-files-related-to-the-assassinations-of-john-f-kenned.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 8. [The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocks U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order banning TikTok from smartphone app stores hours before it was to go into effect, after lawyers representing the app's company ByteDance argued its ban would constitute a form of censorship. ](/feed/2020/09/27/the-us-district-court-for-the-district-of-columbia-temporarily-blocks-us-president-donald-trump-s-executive-order-ba.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_ 9. [Protests in Iran, particularly the capital, Tehran, enter their second day as thousands of protestors demand action following a collapse in the value of the Iranian rial. President Hassan Rouhani takes to live TV to call the protests "foreign media propaganda" and says the United States is waging "psychological, economic and political war" with Iran. Protestors blame the Iranian government for the crisis, saying billions are being wasted on expensive conflicts. Iran blames sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump. ](/feed/2018/06/26/protests-in-iran-particularly-the-capital-tehran-enter-their-second-day-as-thousands-of-protestors-demand-action-foll.md) _Context: Donald Trump, US President_ 10. [U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order allowing the sale of health insurance plans that are exempt from some Obamacare regulations including purchases effective across state lines. ](/feed/2017/10/12/us-president-donald-trump-signs-an-executive-order-allowing-the-sale-of-health-insurance-plans-that-are-exempt-from-so.md) _Context: Donald Trump, executive order_