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
2019
2019-10-25 United Healthcare used racial bias in their healthcare algorithms.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2342
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/25/healthcare-algorithm-racial-biases-optum
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31649194/
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2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14012 Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14124 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14091 Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14089 Establishing the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14031 Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14045 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14049 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening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2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14050 White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans.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 EO Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy to dismantle the Minority Business Development Agency.
2025 September
2025-09-10 The DOE defunded 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/
2025-11-18 Texas Governor Greg Abbot deemed the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a terrorist organization and banned them or anyone associated with them from purchasing or acquiring Texas land. The organization later filed a lawsuit.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/greg-abbott-muslim-land-ownership-ban/
2025-11-26 The Trump Administration ended Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants
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/
2025-12-03 The Trump administration announced Operation Metro Surge, a task force designed to specifically target Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5631530-trump-targets-minnesota-somali-community/
https://www.house.mn.gov/members/Profile/News/15535/41031
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/ice-somali-immigrants-minneapolis-st-paul/
2025-12-06 The Trump administration had the US park service move free admission for Martin Luther King and Juneteenth to Flag Day and Trump’s birthday, and now charges an additional $100 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
2025-12-26 Right-wing vlogger Nick Shirley alleged widespread childcare fraud involving Somali communities. The claims prompted investigations, funding freezes, and harassment directed at Minnesota childcare centers. Both JD Vance and Pam Bondi publicly praised Shirley. Did You Know? The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 page 482 and 486 mandate defunding and dismantling childcare?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-fraud-nick-shirley-video-day-care-investigation/
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g-s1-104049/trump-minnesota-child-care-funding-freeze-fraud-schemes
https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2005764911427731459?s=20
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20260107/118796/HHRG-119-GO00-20260107-SD091.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118871/documents/HHRG-119-JU08-20260121-SD032.pdf
2025-12-27 JD Vance praised Nick Shirley “This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 @pulitzercenter prizes.”
https://x.com/JDVance/status/2005064947437650251?lang=en
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 to remove a slavery exhibit from a park in Philadelphia.
2026-01-24 The Texas Education Freedom Accounts allegedly excluded Muslim private schools from the State voucher program.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/texas-school-vouchers-opinion-terrorists-ken-paxton/
2026 April
2026-04-17 Congresswoman Terri Sewell asked RFK, “You said ‘every Black kid is now just standardly put on Adderall, SSRI, Benzos, which are known to induce violence’ and that ‘those children’ are going to have to go somewhere to get ‘re-parented’. Have you ever re-parented – or parented, I should say – a Black child?” RFK denied ever saying that. A recorded video of RFK saying that can be found on the High LVL Conversations podcast July 2024.
TIMESTAMP 10:15 AND 11:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG50Bq54IDU&list=WL&index=1&t=639s
2026 May
2026-05-01 Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation preventing Calvin Duncan from taking office as criminal court clerk after Duncan had been exonerated, earned a law degree, and won election to the position.
2026-05-06 Headline “The Rise of Anti-Muslim Policies and Rhetoric in Texas”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7M8XmaegRA&list=WL&index=5&t=15s
2026 June
2026-06-02 Hegseth again struck several female and Black Navy officers from a promotion list. This list was released by the Pentagon May 22. He did this in March to the Army
https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-blocks-promotion-navy-officers-1-star-rank/story?id=133498412
PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html
2026-06-09 GOP lawmakers accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of using funds to pay KKK members as informants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENqrqf4719g&list=WL&index=6
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl?inline
https://www.kcra.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-chair-congressional-hearing/71538668
2026-06-15 The DOJ intervened in a lawsuit in NAACP v. Elon Musk for violating a clean air act and polluting Black neighborhoods.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/18/abre_conner_naacp
https://naacp.org/articles/trump-administration-attempts-massive-power-grab-defense-musks-xai
THE LAWSUIT, April 14 2026 https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-data-center-power-plant