He expelled several thousand people who are in the country illegally from the country, and said that the United States successfully coped with the problem of illegal migration.
Trump - Peacemaker 1. Finally called Putin; 2. He called Zelensky and said that negotiations would “begin to immediately”; 3. He began the active criticism of Zelensky, called him on February 19 “a dictator without elections” and accused of spending American money on a “war that cannot be won”.
Other members of the Trump team, Vice President Jay Di Wans, and security adviser Michael Waltz, joined the criticism of the Ukrainian president. On February 25, Trump refused to call Putin dictator, saying that "he does not use this word frivolously." On February 28, at a meeting with reporters, he answered the question of this phrase: “I said that? I can't believe what he said. The next question "; 4. tried to force Zelensky to sign an agreement on Ukrainian “rare -earth metals” in exchange for security guarantees (in fact, the US permission to use Ukrainian mineral, oil and gas resources), and when Zelensky refused to send the text for revision and softened the terms of the transaction; 5. announced the stop of the United States of military assistance to Ukraine before a peace agreement with Russia; 6. stated that the United States will not go to weaken anti -Russian sanctions until the world comes between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and extended them for another year; The US State Department has stopped maintaining the restoration of the Ukrainian energy system; On February 8. Zelensky flew to the United States to sign a transaction on rare earth metals. The US President personally met the Ukrainian leader at the porch of the White House with the words: "Today he was applied." At a protocol meeting with journalists, the conversation of Zelensky, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance quickly grew into a dispute in high colors and eventually ended with a skirmish. As a result, the President of Ukraine left the White House ahead of schedule, and Trump said that he was waiting for Zelensky when he publicly apologizes and will be ready for the world. The media reports that the signing of an agreement on minerals has been canceled. Immediately after this, Zelensky phoned the president of France and the head of NATO, the details of the conversation are not revealed. The leaders of most European countries condemned Trump and expressed unconditional support to Ukraine.
Ilon Musk and the dog after the inauguration, Donald Trump established the Department of State Efficiency (DOGE) and said that he appointed him the head of Ilon Mask. It is assumed that this department will increase the efficiency of the American government in 18 months, and then cease to exist. The list of DOGE powers - eliminating "excessive" regulatory acts and reduction of expenses. Musk and Trump stated that DOGE "destroy the bureaucracy."
The lack of clear authority in the new department raised many questions. In February, 14 states of the United States filed a lawsuit, claiming that the position of businessman was contrary to the country's constitution. The main law of the United States states that the House of Congress representatives, and the candidate for this post, should approve the new position in the government. In the case of Ilon Mask, this procedure was broken. During the hearings on the case, it turned out that Elon Musk is technically neither an employee nor even the DOGE leader. According to official papers, the entrepreneur works as a "senior presidential adviser." The DOGE team itself is several people aged 18 to 24 years with minimal experience in government agencies.
After Trump’s post that the mask “should become more aggressive”, all federal employees received emails from the US personnel service department, in which employees were asked to tell about their achievements in five points. The absence of an answer “will be regarded as resignation,” Musk emphasized.
The federal departments responded to the situation differently. So, the leadership of the FBI, the Pentagon and the State Department ordered subordinates for consideration of confidentiality and security not to respond to the letter, prosecutors were recommended to answer “in general terms”, and in the Ministry of Finance, on the contrary, they encouraged the answer.
For February, the results of the department are as follows: 1. DOGE employees gained access to computers of various ministries and departments, which allowed them to see both official data and personal data of the country's residents; 2. More than 20 thousand civil servants were dismissed, including tax officials, the US Department of Education and the Federal Aviation Administration; 3. Numerous statements about how much and where fraudulent or ineffective schemes were revealed. If you believe these statements, the actions of the department have already helped the state budget save “hundreds of billions of dollars”; 4. The Department stopped the USAID (US Agency for International Development, which has financed many humanitarian projects throughout Mi RU), calling the agency a “criminal organization”. This caused panic and curses towards Trump among recipients of financial assistance, including some Russian opposition structures. Elon Musk joked over the Belarusian and Russian media, left without financing. “Independent media, I’m tearing off from laughter,” he wrote on social networks X, attaching a picture with the inscription “Independent media in Russia and Ukraine are losing financing due to freezing of USAID activity”. After some time, Musk urged to close the Voice of America and Radio Liberty.