🗞️ Trump Sworn In As President

January 20, 2025

January 20th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

3 key takeaways from Trump’s inauguration and 1st day back in office

In his speech at the U.S. Capitol, Trump outlined a flurry of executive orders he plans to sign during his first day back in office.

www.yahoo.com/news/3-key-takeaways-from-trumps-inauguration-and-1st-day-back-in-office-200152552.html

  • Today was inauguration day and Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States

  • President Biden gave preemptive pardons to General Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, members of Congress and staff of the January 6th committee, Capitol and D.C. police who testified before the January 6th committee, and 5 immediate family members this morning before Trump was sworn in

  • Over the weekend TikTok was disabled for people in the U.S., later on it was restored after Trump said he would issue an executive order after he was sworn in as president un-banning TikTok for 90 days so that a deal could be made, ideally with at least 50% American ownership of the app

  • The Senate officially passed the Laken Riley Act by a vote of 64-35 in which 12 Democrats voted with Republicans, the bill will crackdown on illegal immigration and will now be moved to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law

  • The Senate officially confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State

  • Vivek Ramaswamy will launch his campaign for governor of Ohio next week, Elon Musk will now be the only person running the new Department of Government Efficiency

  • The new Department of Government Efficiency was hit with multiple lawsuits shortly after Trump was sworn in today alleging the agency violates the transparency requirements of a 1972 law

  • A union representing 18,000 Costco employees voted to authorize a strike, paving the way for a work stoppage if the labor group and retailer do not reach an agreement for when their current contract expires on Jan. 31st

  • Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of $109,000 this morning

  • The stock market was closed today for MLK day

  • The Israel-Hamas ceasefire went into effect Sunday morning, the first three Israeli hostages were released by Hamas and returned home to Israel and 90 Palestinian prisoners were released as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal

Plus: A concerning look at relationship rates amongst young adults across the world…more and more people are single

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