Trump's first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies and igniting trade wars

Presidential memos call for scrutiny of Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official from the first Trump administration who has become a rump critic, and Chris Krebs, a former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who angered Trump after he declared the 2020 election to be secure and the ballot counts to be accurate. The NEH homepage includes a headline stating that the endowment “supports the humanities in every state and U.S. jurisdiction.” The NEA’s website highlights a recent government study showing that the arts added $1.2 trillion to the economy in 2023 and, at a time when Trump has placed steep tariffs on countries worldwide, notes that “the total value of the nation’s arts exports was nearly $37 billion greater than the value of arts imports from other countries.” The AP sued the administration after it reduced the outlet’s access to presidential events for not following Trump’s lead in renaming the Gulf of Mexico, winning a court ruling that the government could not punish the organization for free speech.