Trump doles out security clearances to unvetted officials

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

89% : Donald Trump has addressed the Liberty Ball, thanking his "great family" and the "fantastic" vice president for their support.
79% : Donald Trump and Melania Trump are dancing at one of the inaugural balls, alongside the Vice President and Second Lady, JD Vance and Usha Vance to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
74% : President Trump, members of his family, and vice president JD Vance and his family will attend a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral.
66% : Asked by a reporter if Joe Biden had followed the tradition for outgoing presidents of leaving their successor a letter, Donald Trump opened the drawer of the desk and found an envelope.
63% : Donald Trump has started signing executive orders at the White House, providing an impromptu news conference as he signs nearly 200 executive actions.
62% : "Donald Trump has taken his seat at Washington National Cathedral for a prayer service taking place this morning.
62% : Donald Trump has signed an executive order on birthright citizenship - the principle that anyone born in the US automatically becomes a citizen.
61% : Mr Rubio also declared that "the era of mass migration must end" and that he would prioritise "energy dominance" over climate change.
61% : Donald Trump is poised to announced a $500 billion AI hub based in Texas.
61% : "Donald Trump has signed an executive order that while reform the US refugee admissions programme to "better align with American principles and American interests.
61% : "Another order reclassified drug cartels as "foreign terrorists" allowing potentially for US troops to engage on Mexican territory.
60% : "This is a socially awkward autistic man's wave to the crowd where he says 'my heart goes out to you.'
60% : He also noted that China would continue to support the World Health Organization after Mr Trump exited the agency, saying it should be strengthened not weakened.
59% : Donald and Melania Trump are joined on stage by his eldest children and their partners.
59% : Trump signed an executive order creating the "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE, which is expected to be headed by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.
56% : I drove through the snow across Nebraska - hundreds of miles and several hours to Topeka, Kansas, where I knocked on the door of Will Pope, a 6ft 5in PhD student, who is, as I write this, still charged with non-violent crimes for his alleged part in the storming of the Capitol back on Jan 6 2021.
56% : "We hope they come out tonight, frankly," Trump said.
55% : Donald Trump has defended issuing mass pardons to 1,500 Jan 6 rioters on his first day in office.
55% : Mr Homan, told Fox Business on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will begin large-scale immigration raids today.
53% : Moving on from Kansas, the road trip took me to Branson, Missouri, where four stores dedicated to selling Trump merchandise are thriving in a smallish resort town in the Ozarks.
52% : Donald Trump is granting security clearances to new White House officials before they have completed the vetting process, according to reports.
51% : Bitcoin hit a record high of $109,071 on Monday when Trump was sworn in, but later pared those gains and was last trading at $101,705.40.
50% : Representative Lauren Boebert has called on President Trump to intervene to speed up the process.
49% : "A bishop urged Donald Trump to "have mercy" on transgender children and immigrants during an inauguration church service attended by the president and his family.
46% : Questioned on his pledge to end the Ukraine war on his first day in office, Donald Trump replies: "Well this is only half a day, I have a half day left."Asked how long the war will continue by a second reporter, he says: "I have to speak to President Putin...
45% : In an opening address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ms von der Leyen emphasised cooperation rather than confrontation with Donald Trump.
45% : Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, has also called on the EU to "fight back" against Mr Musk and other social media owners.
44% : Donald Trump has said he is open to Elon Musk buying TikTok to keep the social media platform running.
43% : "Donald Trump is, as always, a skilled negotiator and will do what he can to keep his negotiating partners a little bit off balance.
43% : It comes as Donald Trump pledged to root out DEI politics during his inaugural speech on Monday.
43% : "Withdrawing from the World Health Organisation.
42% : Mr Johnson added: "It's a case-by-case evaluation as I've always said and I haven't had a chance to review it."Donald Trump has said he wants to beat China on artificial intelligence (AI) development as he announced $500bn in private investment into the technology.
41% : Out of 366 people who cast a ballot there, 351 went for Trump and just 15 for Harris.
39% : When Donald Trump was first inaugurated eight years ago, his network of close allies surrounded him as he took the sacred oath of office.
38% : "It's not about how President Trump says something...but we should look at why he says something," she said, adding thatthe focus should be on "what interests are behind [Trump's statements]... and then standing up for our own interests".
38% : Credit: C-Span/XGiorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, has said she is ready to build on her relationship with Donald Trump and act as a bridge for dialogue between the US and Europe.
37% : He added that he would follow Donald Trump's executive order to ban diversity programmes "in both letter and spirit", and that his new department must stop "pushing political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad".
36% : Mr Orban - who has criticised European Union sanctions on Russia and wants to 'make Europe great again' - said a "great patriotic faction in Brussels" would allow "the grand offensive to begin".
34% : Donald Trump says he is "thinking" of imposing tariffs of 25 per cent on Canada and Mexico on Feb 1.Donald Trump has floated the idea of the US buying 50 per cent of TikTok and "polices it".
33% : "It comes amid suggestions that the array of special envoys appointed by Donald Trump would tangle lines of diplomatic communication and undermine Mr Rubio.
29% : The shaman who stormed the US Capitol four years ago has said he intends to buy guns after being pardoned by Donald Trump.
28% : Donald Trump has wasted no time since he returned to the White House with a storm of executive orders and directions for his new government.
28% : Donald Trump has issued a mass pardon of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol four years ago.
27% : The European Commission has voiced "concerns" over Donald Trump's decision to pull the US from the World Health Organization, warning it could undermine the response to future pandemics.
26% : Donald Trump has sacked the head of the US coast guard over her excessive focus on diversity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
23% : Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders and directives as he seeks to put his stamp on his new administration on issues ranging from immigration, gender and energy, to criminal pardons.
21% : Donald Trump has rolled back sanctions on West Bank settlers while questioning whether the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza would hold, writes Jotam Confino.
21% : Donald Trump said earlier that he is "not confident" the Gaza ceasefire deal will be upheld.
20% : Donald Trump has reportedly cancelled the Secret Service protection detail for his former national security adviser John Bolton.
20% : The World Health Organization said that it "regrets" Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the UN agency and hopes that the president will change his mind.
19% : The leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys who helped orchestrate the January 6 Capitol riots has been released from prison after being pardoned by Donald Trump.
16% : Donald Trump has defended removing John Bolton's Secret Service protection, claiming it had been "enough time" and that "we're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives".
7% : John Bolton has said he is "disappointed" that Donald Trump terminated his Secret Service protection despite being targeted for assassination by Iran.
6% : John Bolton has said he is at risk of attack by Iran after Donald Trump removed his Secret Service protection within hours of taking office.
2% : Mr Bolton, a former national security adviser to Mr Trump and architect of the US strike on Iranian military officer Qassim Soleimani in 2020, wrote on social media:Hakeem Jeffries has criticised Donald Trump for issuing pardons to a "bloodthirsty mob" of Jan 6 rioters.

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