In the ten days since taking office in the U.S., President Donald Trump has caused significant national and international fear as threats are issued, executive orders signed, and soundbites made. In the last few days, there's been a rash of different, confusing executive orders, some of which originally planned to stop all Federal spending, and some of which were targeted at programs that are viewed as being anti-American by the current administration and some of its Project 2025 surrogates. While many of these orders have now been rescinded, we're going to try and do our best to explain what's going on - what we know, why things are likely going to get worse, and what you can do to try and counteract the scary bits. Our income this year is down a LOT - PLEASE help support the channel (if you are going to use Amazon) by using our Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/40xOyjm As amazon affiliates, we will earn money from qualifying purchases made using this code. 00:00 - Introduction 02:35 - Friendly reminder: policits are everywhere 04:53 - US Bills - 101 05:22 - Schoolhouse Rock! 06:48 - Skip here to avoid the lesson on civics 07:31 - A reign of chaos 08:38 - Musk-Led 'firing' 10:59 - Attacks on EVs and Clean Energy 14:14 - It's illegal 16:46 - Inebriated in a brewery 18:59 - What NOW? 20:00 - Falling behind as a nation 20:28 - The laughable hope 25:25 - Thanks, and Goodbye! Links: Schoolhouse Rock: I'm just a bill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8psP4S6BQ Rachel Maddow: "Rage" - https://youtu.be/B2CQDek7aNc Philliosphy Tune: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilosophyTube Presenter: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield. Camera, Editor, Colorist: Michael Horton Art and Animation: Erin Carlie Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Music supplied through Artlist.io © Transport Evolved LLC, 2025 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC675NhQ4EU5TzwCMwYp5XCw/join This video was made possible thanks to the kind donations of our supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi. Join them in supporting us. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transportevolved Buy the team a coffee -- or a meal! https://ko-fi.com/transportevolved Donate using bitcoin: BC1QRZRGCCXUKPDZ2DZ9KX9JYJXMZDYHYGFZ0MN4WH Support us by buying some merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/TransportEVd/shop Follow our 'second' channel - Transport Evolved Take Two, at https://www.youtube.com/transportevolvedtake2 Join our Discord server at https://discord.gg/U3tnkGNfCA Follow the show on Mastodon: https://mastodon.transportevolved.com/ Follow the show on PeerTube: [email protected] Use the TE Aptera referral code - i.refs.cc/zz56EbIi - but watch our explainer video FIRST: https://youtu.be/mwzwEssgqNI Sing up for EnergySage at https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-101290941-16952262