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Trump Administration

Vox's coverage of what's happening in the Donald Trump administration, from big new policy initiatives to the meaning of the latest tweet.

Mike Pence is a man without a constituency

By Li Zhou

Why immigration policy is so inhumane

By Kelsey Piper

The indictment adds to a long list of times Republicans have backed Trump

By Li Zhou

Trump-era banking law paved way for Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse

By Nicole Narea

How Biden came to embrace Trumpian border policies

By Nicole Narea

Will Trump’s tax returns change anything?

By Ellen Ioanes

Reading between the lines of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit

By Ellen Ioanes

5 takeaways from the January 6 hearing

By Ben Jacobs

Donald Trump’s tampering, a rioter’s remorse, and other January 6 hearing takeaways

By Ben Jacobs

Trump’s totally “unhinged” West Wing meeting

By Ben Jacobs

The January 6 committee calls Trump out for his scams

By Li Zhou

Title 42, the controversial Trump-era border policy, explained

By Nicole Narea

The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington

By Jonathan Guyer

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

Biden’s bewildering decision to expand a Trump-era immigration policy

By Nicole Narea

What is the price of separated immigrant families’ trauma?

By Nicole Narea

Biden’s immigration policy isn’t Trump’s — but it’s still a disappointment

By Nicole Narea

These immigrants have one shot to come to the US. But Biden has to act.

By Nicole Narea

Trump’s aggressive efforts to overturn election results come to light

By Maryam Gamar

The Texas GOP’s border wall fantasy

By Nicole Narea

Trump is nowhere to be found on the Twitter clone his former spokesperson launched

By Shirin Ghaffary

How Apple helped Trump’s DOJ seize lawmakers’ data without realizing it

By Rebecca Heilweil

TikTok’s Trump problem is now TikTok’s Biden problem

By Shirin Ghaffary

Giuliani raid has Trumpworld on alert

By Gabby Birenbaum

Biden is quietly enforcing one of Trump’s most anti-immigrant policies

By Nicole Narea

Foreign workers blocked by Trump are no longer banned from entering the US

By Nicole Narea

Biden just partially lifted Trump’s pandemic-related restrictions on legal immigration

By Nicole Narea

Biden to allow asylum seekers Trump kept in Mexico to enter US

By Nicole Narea

“We did the worst job in the world”: Lawrence Wright on America’s botched Covid-19 response

By Sean Illing

Biden’s next executive actions address family separations, legal immigration, and asylum

By Nicole Narea

Trans people can serve openly in the US military once again

By Katelyn Burns

Biden’s LGBTQ rights executive order and the transphobic backlash, explained

By Katelyn Burns

Biden is starting to roll back Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program

By Nicole Narea

Biden is ending Trump’s travel ban

By Nicole Narea

The moment Trump officially left Washington

By Jerusalem Demsas

Deep cleaning, packing supplies, and a concession: The Trumps plan their White House exit

By Jerusalem Demsas

Trump’s plan to weaponize the census against immigrants has failed

By Nicole Narea

Trump’s border visit was a desperate attempt to preserve his legacy on immigration

By Nicole Narea

Chad Wolf just resigned as acting homeland security secretary

By Nicole Narea

Why Democrats are moving toward impeachment — 12 days before Trump leaves office

By Ella Nilsen and Li Zhou