Discriminatory Defunding & Legislation
2017
2017-01-20 Trump proposed budget cuts to the Minority Business Development Agency during his first term.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics/trump-budget-cuts-programs
2017-01-28 Trump placed a travel ban on six Muslim majority countries.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/licence-discriminate-trumps-muslim-refugee-ban
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14012 Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14124 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14091 Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14089 Establishing the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14031 Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14045 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14049 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14050 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans.
2025 March
2025-03-14 Trump signed an executive order targeting the Minority Business Development Agency and other agencies to reduce their functions to the “minimum presence and function required by law”. After this, the administration dismantled staff, canceled grants, and removed signage.
https://www.epi.org/policywatch/targeting-economic-development-agencies-for-elimination/
2025-03-14 Trump signed an executive order “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy targeting the Minority Business Development Agency and other agencies to reduce their functions to the “minimum presence and function required by law”. After this, the administration dismantled staff, canceled grants, and removed signage.
2025 September
2025-09-10 The Department of Education announced it will be defunding minority-serving institutions such as Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, Strengthening Predominantly Black Institutions, Strengthening Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions, Strengthening Native American Serving Nontribal Institutions, Minority Science and Engineering Improvement, Developing Hispanic Service Institutions, and Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
2025-09-17 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove or censor exhibits at Harpers Ferry West Virginia, including the Civil War Museum and John Brown’s Fort (a key site in an 1859 abolitionist raid).
2025 November
2025-11-17 A federal judge ruled that Texas substantially racially gerrymandered in their redistricting efforts.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-blocks-texas-gerrymander/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-redistricting-push-texas-map-00658144
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5604412/redistricting-midterm-election-texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/texas-congressional-redistricting-maps
https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/federal-court-stops-texass-2025-redistricting-map/
2025-11-26 The Trump Administration announced it would be ending deportation protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants who fell under the Temporary Protected Status. A judge temporarily blocked the order February 2, 2026.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yxn7kqww8o
https://www.ncronline.org/news/judge-stops-noem-ending-haitians-protected-status-fear-ice-remains
2025 December
2025-12-02 Indiana proposed a new redistricting map which some claimed was politically gerrymandered.
https://www.aclu-in.org/campaigns-initiatives/fair-redistricting-indiana/
2025-12-06 The Trump administration had the US park service remove free entrance for Martin Luther King Jr. day and Juneteenth and moved the date for free admission to June 14th, which is both Flag Day and Trump’s birthday. The administration also forced an additional $100 fee for international visitors.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g-s1-101090/national-parks-fee-free-calendar-mlk-juneteenth
2025-12-16 The White House imposed a travel ban on 39 countries from Africa and Asia.
https://www.cfr.org/article/guide-countries-trumps-travel-ban-list
2026 January
2026-01-13 The Trump administration stated protection for Somali immigrants would be stopped and immigrants were expected to leave the country by March 17 2026.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/somalis-temporary-protected-status-trump-administration-ending/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0p9ld5egjo
2026-01-23 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service staff to remove a slavery exhibit from a park in Philadelphia in alignment with Trump’s Executive order to “restore truth and sanity to American history”.