Executive Orders
President Trump signed the following Executive Orders:
EO 14210 Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative
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Members of the UK’s Royal Society have signed an open letter to expel billionaire Elon Musk from its fellowship. According to The Guardian, fellows began expressing concern to the Royal Society last August over Musk’s comments about riots in the UK, saying “civil war is inevitable,” and calling for him to be stripped of his fellowship. Author Stephen Curry, an emeritus professor of structural biology at Imperial College London, says Musk’s new DOGE role further breaches the Society’s code of conduct :
The situation is rendered more serious because Mr Musk now occupies a position within a Trump administration in the USA that has over the past several weeks engaged in an assault on scientific research in the US that has fallen foul of federal courts. It has sought to impose huge cuts in funding and a regime of censorship (particularly with regard to EDI and climate issues) that is a direct threat to freedom of expression and academic freedom.
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When a reporter asked Musk to correct a statement he made online about the US sending $50 million in condoms for Gaza, he replied, “Some of the things that I say will be incorrect.”