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Trump Reverses Some Biden Actions Favoring Terrorists
by Clare M. Lopez
February 2025
This month’s newsletter will be something of a transition list, to include some of the last actions of the outgoing Biden administration as well as a first collection of Trump administration initiatives. Many of those final Biden admin orders and policies were intended to hamstring the incoming Trump admin, while the blitzkrieg flurry of new Trump Executive Orders & Memoranda overturned or superseded Biden policies. Lots more of the latter to come in our 2025 Federal Government Watch newsletters!
We’ll begin with
End of Term Biden Actions
“On Election Day, Biden-Harris Admin Quietly Waived Terrorism Sanctions on Palestinian Government, Docs Show” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, November 7, 2024
“Biden Admin Quietly Funneled $3 Mil to Palestinian Government 'Security Forces' for Weapons Training—After Its Members Carried Out Attacks on Israelis” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, February 3, 2025
“Biden Admin Quietly Spent $15 Mil To Distribute 'Contraceptives and Condoms' in Afghanistan—and Said Doing So Would Take 'Some Coordination' With Taliban” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, January 27, 2025
“Biden Program Meant To 'Protect Jewish Institutions' Pays Out Six-Figure Grants to Mosques That Preach Anti-Semitic Hate” by Chuck Ross at The Washington Free Beacon, January 10, 2025
“President Biden extends order permitting sanctions on Judea and Samaria residents” at 7 Israel Arutz Sheva, January 15, 2025
“Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers With Over $1,300,000,000 Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball To Foreign Aid” by Hudson Croizier at Daily Caller, February 4, 2025
“Watchdogs Sue US Government over Qatar’s Billions in University Funding” by the Geller Report Staff, February 3, 2025
“Musk accuses Treasury 'approval officers' of allowing fraudulent payments to terrorist groups” by Nicholas Ballasy at Just the News, February 2, 2025
Now for the Trump Team
Here is a list of Presidential Actions – Executive Orders, Executive Memoranda, More – at the White House website, inclusive up to February 5, 2025 – a few of the standouts are detailed below.
“Trump Removes Biden’s Sanctions against Judea and Samaria Jews” by David Israel at The Jewish Press, January 21, 2025
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Maximum Pressure on Iran”, February 4, 2025
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Forceful and Unprecedented Steps to Combat Anti-Semitism”, January 30, 2025
“FACT SHEET: President Donald J. Trump Re-designates the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization”, January 22, 2025
Trump Reverses Some Biden Actions Favoring Terrorists
by Clare M. Lopez
February 2025
This month’s newsletter will be something of a transition list, to include some of the last actions of the outgoing Biden administration as well as a first collection of Trump administration initiatives. Many of those final Biden admin orders and policies were intended to hamstring the incoming Trump admin, while the blitzkrieg flurry of new Trump Executive Orders & Memoranda overturned or superseded Biden policies. Lots more of the latter to come in our 2025 Federal Government Watch newsletters!
We’ll begin with
End of Term Biden Actions
“On Election Day, Biden-Harris Admin Quietly Waived Terrorism Sanctions on Palestinian Government, Docs Show” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, November 7, 2024
- Even though the State Department “determined that the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization were not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the “pay-to-slay” program”, the Biden admin just waived the mandatory sanctions that remain in effect, but simply have not been enforced.
“Biden Admin Quietly Funneled $3 Mil to Palestinian Government 'Security Forces' for Weapons Training—After Its Members Carried Out Attacks on Israelis” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, February 3, 2025
- Just weeks before the end of the Biden-Harris admin, it sent more than $3 million to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASC). The PASC is under the authority of the Palestinian Authority, over which sanctions for failing to end the “pay-to-slay” program had been waived in November 2024.
“Biden Admin Quietly Spent $15 Mil To Distribute 'Contraceptives and Condoms' in Afghanistan—and Said Doing So Would Take 'Some Coordination' With Taliban” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, January 27, 2025
“Biden Program Meant To 'Protect Jewish Institutions' Pays Out Six-Figure Grants to Mosques That Preach Anti-Semitic Hate” by Chuck Ross at The Washington Free Beacon, January 10, 2025
- This largesse came from the Department of Homeland Security in late 2024 and was paid out to mosques where imams regularly preach antisemitic hate.
“President Biden extends order permitting sanctions on Judea and Samaria residents” at 7 Israel Arutz Sheva, January 15, 2025
- See below for President Trump’s removal of these sanctions – what was done by Executive Order is now undone by Executive Order.
“Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers With Over $1,300,000,000 Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball To Foreign Aid” by Hudson Croizier at Daily Caller, February 4, 2025
“Watchdogs Sue US Government over Qatar’s Billions in University Funding” by the Geller Report Staff, February 3, 2025
“Musk accuses Treasury 'approval officers' of allowing fraudulent payments to terrorist groups” by Nicholas Ballasy at Just the News, February 2, 2025
Now for the Trump Team
Here is a list of Presidential Actions – Executive Orders, Executive Memoranda, More – at the White House website, inclusive up to February 5, 2025 – a few of the standouts are detailed below.
“Trump Removes Biden’s Sanctions against Judea and Samaria Jews” by David Israel at The Jewish Press, January 21, 2025
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Maximum Pressure on Iran”, February 4, 2025
- This action restores enforcement of sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran with a key objective to prevent it from deploying a deliverable nuclear weapon and neutralize Iran’s terror network.
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Forceful and Unprecedented Steps to Combat Anti-Semitism”, January 30, 2025
- This Executive Order marshals federal resources across the U.S. Government to combat antisemitism, on college campuses and throughout American society.
“FACT SHEET: President Donald J. Trump Re-designates the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization”, January 22, 2025
- This Executive Order Re-Designates the Ansar Allah (Houthi) Iran-sponsored Yemeni terror group to the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization list from which it was removed by the Biden administration.