Trump admin. lifts sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in attacks on Palestinians

“all sanctions imposed on Israeli settlers involved in violent attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and against organizations involved in the building of illegal West Bank outposts have been lifted and all frozen assets released.”

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/trump-lifts-sanctions-israeli-settlers-west-bank

Trump reinstates “Mexico City” policy on abortion

“President Trump will reinstate a policy cutting off U.S. global health funding to international organizations that provide legal abortion information, referrals or services”

“The gag rule has negatively affected global health care systems beyond family planning, according to a 2019 review of existing research on the policy.”

“Only a handful of studies actually examined the rule’s impact on abortion rates, and those three papers concluded that the policy does not decrease abortion rates, per the scope review.”

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/25/trump-reinstates-mexico-city-policy-abortion

Why Trump won’t be deporting “millions” of criminals

“Less than 1% of immigrants deported last fiscal year were kicked out of the U.S. for crimes other than immigration violations.”

“To deport millions of “criminals,” Trump would have to consider all undocumented immigrants as criminals. But being in the U.S. illegally is a civil violation, not a criminal one.”

“Those millions would have to include agricultural, construction and service workers, students and others who are unauthorized to be in the U.S. but have no criminal backgrounds, according to legal specialists and an Axios review of federal immigration data.”

“”There are not millions of people with criminal records to deport,” Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago, tells Axios.”

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/undocumented-immigrants-crime-deportations-trump

Why Does The US Import Oil When They Produce So Much?

Despite producing tons of oil, the U.S. still imports a lot of oil. The stuff we produce can’t be refined by our refineries, so we ship it out to be refined and import foreign oil to refine here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIAnt5mNGI

Trump’s Tariffs Will Shrink the Economy and Reduce Investment, CBO Says

“An increase in tariffs of 10 percent on all imports would reduce America’s gross domestic product (GDP) by about 0.3 percent, while 60 percent tariffs on all imports from China would knock GDP down by another 0.3 percent, the CBO projects.
Meanwhile, the tariffs would “make consumer goods and capital goods more expensive, thereby reducing the purchasing power of U.S. consumers and businesses,” the CBO found. The productivity of American businesses would decline due to “limiting competition from imports and causing resources to be used less efficiently than they otherwise would have been used.”

The higher tariffs would lower the budget deficit by about $2.7 trillion over the next 10 years, the CBO also estimated. In other words, American consumers would be paying $2.7 trillion more in federal taxes over the next 10 years if Trump’s tariff plans are implemented”

https://reason.com/2024/12/23/trumps-tariffs-will-shrink-the-economy-and-reduce-investment-cbo-says/