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5 Trump Moves From 2025 You Didn't Hear About From Legacy Media

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | December 28, 2025

   About 70% of Americans said they didn't have "very much" or any trust that
   news outlets would fairly cover President Donald Trump's second term,
   according to a YouGov poll.

   Media Research Center found that 92% of the major network media coverage
   of Trump during his first 100 days in office was negative.

   As Trump's second administration nears its one year anniversary, here are
   five stories about the president's achievements that you won't find in
   legacy media coverage.

1. Pardoning the FACE Act Prisoners

   On Jan. 23, Trump pardoned the 23 pro-lifers who were convicted for
   actions including praying outside abortion clinics and encouraging women
   in unplanned pregnancies to choose life.

   "They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people.
   They should not have been prosecuted," the president said.

   The predecessor Biden-Harris administration's Justice Department had
   brought criminal or civil cases under the Freedom of Access to Clinic
   Entrances (FACE) Act against at least 50 pro-life advocates. Twenty-three
   were convicted. Ten were released from prison after the pardons.

   The Daily Signal spoke to several of the pardoned pro-life advocates, who
   thanked the president for setting them free.

   "I'm very thankful to the Lord to be pardoned and to get back into the
   fight against baby-murdering and to serve the Lord and to be with my
   family," Calvin Zastrow, 64, told The Daily Signal.

   "I really believe that President Trump saved my life," Paulette Harlow,
   75, told The Daily Signal. "Because if I had ever gone to prison, I don't
   think I would have made it. And I certainly would not have been able to
   have my back surgeries and everything that I needed to have and have taken
   care of."

2. Expanding the Mexico City Policy

   On Jan. 24, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy after
   President Joe Biden rescinded it.

   The State Department announced in October that it was working to expand
   the scope of the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of taxpayer
   dollars for foreign abortions.

   "The department will soon take additional steps to close loopholes that
   allowed taxpayer funding for promotion of abortion in previous iterations
   of the Mexico City Policy and expand the scope of the policy to ensure
   every penny of U.S. foreign assistance prioritizes American values, not
   the woke agenda," a senior State Department official told The Daily
   Signal.

   The expanded policy will prohibit U.S. funding for gender ideology, and
   diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. For example, the State
   Department is ending a $2 million grant to
   fund gender-affirming operations in Guatemala.

   The new provision restricts a broader range of nongovernmental
   organization programming, such as those for HIV/AIDS, President's
   Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, maternal and child health, nutrition, and
   infectious diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.

   This scope of the policy will apply across all non-military foreign
   assistance.

   Trump also renewed America's membership in the Geneva Consensus
   Declaration, a 40-nation coalition of countries that declare that there is
   no international right to abortion.

3. Classifying Transgender Procedures for Kids as Human Rights Violations

   As of November, the State Department is classifying "destructive
   ideologies" formerly promoted by the Biden administration in the United
   States as human rights violations.

   The State Department's annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
   will now account for transgender procedures for minors, DEI hiring,
   attacks on free speech, and state-funded abortions, a State Department
   official told The Daily Signal.

   The State Department submits Human Rights Reports on all countries
   receiving assistance and all United Nations member states to Congress in
   accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of
   1974.

   Member states will be required to count the number of abortions taking
   place in their countries, and they will be denounced for funding abortions
   or the distribution of drugs which end an unborn baby's life.

4. Ending Taxpayer-Funded Abortions for Illegal Migrant Children

   The Department of Health and Human Services is moving to roll back a
   Biden-era regulation that allows taxpayer dollars to pay for unaccompanied
   illegal alien children in the U.S. to travel to get abortions, The Daily
   Signal first reported.

   HHS is cleaning up the Biden administration regulation so that it is in
   compliance with the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for
   abortions, HHS officials told The Daily Signal. 

   "HHS is reviewing the relevant regulations and guidance to ensure they
   align with all applicable laws, including the Hyde Amendment," an HHS
   official told The Daily Signal in a statement.

   On Nov. 10, 2022, the Biden administration proposed the "Unaccompanied
   Children Program Foundational Rule," which required the Office of Refugee
   Resettlement to "ensure unaccompanied children have access to medical
   care, including transportation across state lines and associated ancillary
   services if necessary to access appropriate medical services, including
   access to medical specialists, family planning services, and medical
   services requiring heightened ORR involvement."

   The Biden rule violates the Hyde Amendment, the 1976 law prohibiting the
   use of federal funds to pay for most abortions, according to a July
   memorandum of opinion from Trump's Office of Legal Counsel, a branch of
   the Department of Justice. 

   Now, the Department of Health and Human Services is undergoing the task of
   challenging a final rule on a topic with a history of court precedent. 

5. Upgrading Human Trafficking Hotline

   The Trump administration has chosen a new provider to run its human
   trafficking hotline after complaints that the Biden administration's
   provider failed to answer calls from victims, The Daily Signal first
   reported.

   HHS' Administration for Children and Families announced a five-year,
   projected $35 million grant to Compass Connections to run the National
   Human Trafficking Hotline.

   HHS received complaints from victims and state attorneys general that with
   the previous provider under the Biden administration, wait times were too
   long, calls were dropped, and victims could not rely on the hotline to
   deliver the necessary quality of service.

   "State attorneys general were telling us that third-party tips were not
   getting delivered to law enforcement, so their investigations into human
   trafficking were hindered," acting Administration for Children and
   Families Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison told The Daily Signal, "and
   they had a much harder time getting criminals off the streets of human
   trafficking, to get information where it needs to go on time in an
   accurate way, so that law enforcement can make arrests and end human
   trafficking."

   The award includes an increase of $1 million annually and will bring
   annual funding to $7 million, showing Trump's commitment to protecting
   survivors of human trafficking, according to Gradison.

   This article was originally published Dec. 27, 2025.
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