President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order.
Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already selected nominees and chairs for key agencies that oversee tech. This time, Trump has the backing of many tech billionaires who attended his inauguration and showed up at his home in Mar-a-Lago.
Read on below as we keep track of all the ways Trump is leaving his mark on tech in his first 100 days in office.
- DOGE asks federal workers to justify their recent work or resign.
- The SEC drops its investigation against OpenSea.
- The new US Social Security head was suspected of secretly feeding info to Musk’s DOGE.
- The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’
- Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades
- Trump shed some light on his meeting with Tim Cook.
- Coinbase says the SEC has agreed to drop its crypto lawsuit
- I cannot describe how strange Elon Musk’s CPAC appearance was
- Not advertising on X could be bad for business.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook met with President Trump today.
- Some people who accepted the ‘fork in the road’ federal resignation offer got fired anyway.
- Nuclear whiplash.
- Trump administration hits disaster relief team with layoffs.
- A departing USDS leader’s thoughts on DOGE.
- Trump and Musk discuss DOGE and their relationship in a Fox News interview.
- Trump administration cancels approval for NYC congestion pricing.
- Trump issues an executive order claiming more oversight of independent agencies like the FTC and FCC.
- DOGE’s alleged cost-cutting achievements included a few extra zeroes.
- You’re (not) fired!
- DOGE can keep accessing government data for now, judge rules
- Elon Musk doesn’t work for DOGE
- DOGE is trying to access the IRS’s data on millions of taxpayers
- A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul the FAA’s air traffic control system
- A US agency has been told to stop its election security work.
- Trump admin pulls hundreds of videos from CFPB’s YouTube channel
- Judge temporarily blocks mass firings at CFPB.
- Three different court hearings over DOGE just today.
- Trump administration adds anti-trans notices to restored websites
- Climate group that called for ‘free Palestine’ stripped of federal funding
- Treasury inspector general will investigate DOGE payments access
- Small businesses are already feeling Trump’s tariffs
- The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
- Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it
- Trump administration ordered to temporarily unfreeze foreign aid funds.
- “Trump’s share of a $10 million settlement Elon Musk’s X agreed to this week is expected to go to him directly.”
- What’s with the EPA seizing ‘gold bars’?
- State Dept.’s plan to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas hastily changed to ‘armored EVs’
- Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook
- Trump’s January 6th Twitter lawsuit settled for ‘about $10 million’
- Waste.gov locks down after people discover it’s just a WordPress template
- NHTSA censors car crash data to only reflect two genders.
- The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order
- FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs
- Trump administration illegally allowed DOGE to access workers’ data, lawsuit alleges
- Donald Trump reignites the lightbulb wars
- Constitutional crisis intensifies.
- Elon Musk’s DOGE activities trigger protests, vandalism for Tesla
- Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government
- Trump’s next target: pennies.
- The CFPB’s headquarters are closing.
- Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury records
- RIP CFPB?
- Musk promises to reinstate DOGE staffer linked to racist account
- FEMA’s website started deleting ‘climate change’
- DOGE wreaked havoc on the government in just one week
- Federal employees who work to protect the environment are getting the ax.
- Mentions of trans kids scrubbed from national child safety clearinghouse website
- The ‘custom chatbot’ DOGE is reportedly building for the GSA.
- Trump’s energy secretary bypassed legal, IT warnings against giving a DOGE rep access.
- Mark Zuckerberg visits the White House.
- Deadline for government’s ‘Fork in the road’ mass resignation program delayed by court
- Trump has California’s high-speed rail in his crosshairs again
- Head of DOGE-controlled government tech task force resigns
- Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters
- Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
- The FDIC is “reevaluting” its approach crypto oversight.
- “I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”
- DOGE (reportedly) has full access to a major US payment system.
- ‘Scared and betrayed’ — workers are reeling from chaos at federal agencies
- Treasury Department sued over DOGE takeover
- An “AI-first” GSA.
- “There is not one single entity holding Musk accountable.”
- CBS is preparing to give Harris interview materials to the FCC.
- Trump agrees to a one-month pause on Mexico, Canada tariffs
- Trump orders a ‘sovereign wealth fund’ for the US.
- Data brokers can keep selling your social security number, says new CFPB chief
- Canada will retaliate against Trump with tariffs on US goods
- Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China
- Canadian officials have reportedly been notified of tariffs.
- Trump fires CFPB head Rohit Chopra
- Mr. Nvidia goes to the White House.
- Trump’s first round of tariffs is almost here
- Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump account suspension suit
- Lee Zeldin, who wants to “make America the AI capital of the world” will lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
- The new transportation secretary’s first act is to start letting cars pollute more.
- Trump’s media company is getting into fintech, too.
- Elon Musk saying he’ll ‘bring home’ two astronauts for Trump is as dumb as it sounds.
- Another change from Google’s maps team.
- Did Elon Musk write the federal worker buyout email?
- Donald Trump wants to claw back clean energy funding
- DeepSeek wakes up Trump.
- Trump says Microsoft wants TikTok (again).
- Google Maps in the US will change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley
- Trump says he’ll put tariffs on imported chips ‘in the near future’
- Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’
- Trump bends to the tech oligarchy.
- How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power
- Less Trump, unless you want it.
- Brendan Carr amps up his censorship campaign.
- NASA’s climate website is ‘moving.’
- Satya Nadella on Elon’s Stargate accusations: “All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.”
- Dozens of subreddits are banning links to X
- Trump’s war on electric cars has only just begun
- Elon Musk, White House adviser, says OpenAI deal announced at White House is a sham
- A PSA for all those wondering why you’re suddenly following Trump and Vance on social.
- Trump is absolutely going to make ByteDance sell TikTok or shut down again.
- Trump is discussing a 10 percent tariff on imports from China.
- Trump pardons Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht
- Donald Trump acknowledged his meme coin today.
- Trump says he’s open to Musk or Ellison buying TikTok
- OpenAI and SoftBank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company
- ACLU and 18 states sue Trump over his attempt to repeal birthright citizenship
- CBS News reports OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank will announce a ‘Stargate’ AI data center project.
- A federal website on reproductive rights has vanished
- The United States Digital Service is now DOGE — here’s what it was responsible for.
- Donald Trump rescinds Biden-era executive order on AI safety
- ‘There is no “EV mandate.”’
- Trump signs executive order to reverse Biden’s electric vehicle policies
- Trump signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days
- Brendan Carr is officially in charge of the FCC
- Vivek Ramaswamy steps down from DOGE
- Trump declares a ‘national energy emergency’