Tuesday marked the 100th day of President Trump’s second term in office. 

And compared to his first term, it has been characterized by a blistering pace of action and ongoing disruption. Since taking office, Trump has wielded executive powers — and pushed constitutional limits — to expand his authority and reshape federal government and policy. 

While many of the actions face legal challenges in court, many others have spurred seismic shifts across the country and in Massachusetts, from cuts to federally funded programs to 401k losses to local residents’ civil rights.

WBUR’s newsroom reviewed the whirlwind of executive orders, directives, counter-actions and lawsuits over the past three-plus months to chronicle the real-world effects.

Here’s a look at the first 100 days of the Trump administration, with a special focus on how federal actions are affecting Massachusetts and New England.

Environment

Jan. 20: Trump signed an executive action to stop all federal permitting and leasing for offshore wind projects. Though the move was a blow to the young industry, its impact in New England is expected to be limited, since many local projects already have all of their federal permits.

Jan. 27: Trump’s Office of Management and Budget issued a memo that froze millions of dollars in federal grants for Massachusetts climate and environmental nonprofits. Some money, like $17.5 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for habitat restoration on Cape Cod, is back for now. Other grants, like $500,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to study cooling strategies in Chelsea, Everett and Malden, have been canceled.

Jan. 27: The EPA froze $156 million awarded to Massachusetts for its Solar for All program. After two federal judges ordered the administration to unfreeze the money, it did — briefly. But the money was soon frozen again. And then unfrozen once again, creating chaos and uncertainty among state officials and hired contractors. 

Feb. 1: Trump threatened a 10% tariff on Canadian energy imports, which experts said would send the price of heating oil and diesel fuel skyrocketing in New England. The tariffs went into effect on March 4, but two days later, Trump exempted certain goods, including almost all energy products.

Feb. 6: The Federal Highway Administration announced it was reviewing the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, which was designed to help states build out  EV charging networks. The agency said it would honor obligated funds, but suspend any future funding. For Massachusetts, this means the state will get $50 million of the $63 million it was originally awarded.

Feb. 6: The EPA canceled all programs relating to environmental justice and DEI, leading to seven layoffs at Boston’s Region 1 EPA headquarters. It will not disclose how many staffers at the New England office have been fired, quit or taken a buyout. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wants to cut the agency’s total budget by 65%.

Feb. 28: The director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s New England Water Science Center — which monitors ground and surface water, including drinking water supplies — warned that the Trump administration is making it “almost impossible” to provide services. The center estimated that  layoffs, buyouts and rescinded job offers will likely result in the loss of a third of its 180-person staff.

April 1: The Department of Health and Human Services fired all federal workers who oversee a program that helps low-income households pay for heat. Funding for this winter, including $145 million for Massachusetts residents, is mostly safe. But the future of the program is up in the air.

April 4: The Federal Emergency Management Agency canceled its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, better known as “BRIC.” Massachusetts lost $90 million in grants, including money for flood prevention projects at Tenean Beach in Dorchester and Moakley Park in South Boston.

April 8: Trump issued an executive action targeting state and local efforts to address climate change and environmental justice. The action directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify relevant laws and take action to stop their enforcement. Massachusetts has some of the strongest climate laws in the country and will almost certainly be a target.

April 10: The Trump administration proposed cutting $1.6 billion — about 25% — from NOAA’s budget. If Congress approves the budget, cuts include all funds for habitat restoration and species recovery, MIT and Woods Hole Sea Grant programs, and the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.

Business and economics

Feb. 1: Trump signed executive orders to implement 25% tariffs on imports from close trading partners Canada and Mexico, as well as a 10% tariff on China. While he delayed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico only two days later, the tariffs on China took effect Feb. 4. Anxiety began to rise among consumers and business groups.

Feb. 11: Big cuts to National Institutes of Health science and research funding sent a shock wave through Boston’s for-profit biotech and science industries. Startups here often partner with or fund ideas coming out of the city’s universities and research centers. Boston’s venture capital and private equity giants also invest in these companies.

February: Trump ran his election campaign on lowering prices on consumer goods, namely eggs. But Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired staffers working on bird flu, before trying to reverse course. The administration later rolled out a $1 billion plan to prevent the illness among birds and boost the supply of eggs. Egg prices remain high, according to local prices tracked by WBUR.

February: As ICE raids began happening at various businesses and cities around Greater Boston, small businesses say they’re suffering. Some immigrants are afraid to go to work; others won’t go out to restaurants. It has caused stress for business owners and left some business districts wanting for their usual customers.

March 4: Tariffs of 25% officially took effect for imports from Canada and Mexico, and Trump doubles China’s tariffs to 20%. All three countries said they would retaliate. The increases were expected to affect prices from energy and car parts to electrical equipment and avocados.

March 18: The Social Security Administration announced plans to no longer allow recipients to verify their identity over the phone, meaning some people filing claims or benefits changes would be required to visit a field office. However, following an outcry from groups like AARP over access barriers, the administration backed off the change on April 10.

March 27: As part of an unprecedented wave of retaliation against law firms, Trump signed an executive order seeking to punish Boston-based WilmerHale over its diversity policies and work with his political opponents. Unlike some law firms that acquiesced to the president’s demands, WilmerHale sued and won a temporary block to Trump’s order by a federal judge.

March: DOGE cut thousands of jobs and shuttered offices at the Social Security Administration, and customer service has taken a big hit. Though no cuts have been made to individual benefits, Social Security recipients in Massachusetts report delayed benefits, long wait times and unexplained errors.

April 2: Trump announced a minimum 10% tariff on all trading partners, with higher rates to come for various countries, especially China — sending stocks into a multi-day nosedive. The Dow plunged 2,200 points in a single day and global markets followed, as consumers and businesses fretted over huge price increases on goods to come. And big Boston investment firms like Fidelity Investments and State Street Corp., which oversee trillions of dollars in retirement funds, got a front row seat on the turmoil.

April 4: Trump (again) postponed the potential ban on TikTok, giving the video app’s China-based owners until mid-June to sell the platform or face prohibition in the U.S.

April 9: After the stock selloff began to shake the bond market, Trump announced a 90-day halt on his tariffs for all countries, except for China. That was cold comfort for the governor and business leaders, who met that day to figure out how to navigate the tariffs. “The fact remains: we do not know what is going to happen next,” Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said. “This is causing considerable harm to our residents, to our economy and to our businesses.”

April 17: Trump roiled markets further by attacking Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on social media, pushing for an interest rate cut and threatening to fire him. Investors globally revolted at the possible threat to the Fed’s independence — sending rates higher, including those on home mortgages in Greater Boston’s already costly housing market. Powell stood firm and said the president can’t legally fire him. Days later, Trump backed off, saying he had “no intention” of axing the Fed chief.

April 17: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent layoff notices to the vast majority of its staff, but was halted by a federal judge a day later. Formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the CFPB has cracked down on fraud and abuse by financial firms to the tune of billions of dollars returned to consumers. As Trump and DOGE try to gut the agency, Massachusetts consumers, like others across the country, could be left without a dedicated watchdog in financial services.

Immigration

Jan. 20: Trump signed an executive order instructing the Department of Homeland Security to “terminate all categorical parole programs,” which provide temporary legal status for people fleeing countries like Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The move set off a chain of events that left hundreds of thousands of people in limbo who’d lawfully entered the country. Trump’s order has been temporarily paused by a judge in Boston.

Jan. 27: ICE arrested Lucas Dos Santos Amaral in Marlborough during a traffic stop and sent him to a Texas detention facility. It was an early sign that immigration agents aren’t just looking for “criminals,” but anyone without legal status. A father and husband whose tourist visa had expired seven years ago, Amaral was later permitted to return home to await deportation proceedings.

Jan. 29: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced plans to revoke Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans, though the move was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

Jan. 29: Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which allows ICE to detain and deport those without legal status who have been charged with certain crimes, even if they have yet to be convicted.

Early February: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services froze $300,000 in funding for a Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition program that provided free citizenship assistance. The freeze forced MIRA to cut back on services and stop accepting new clients. The funding was officially canceled on April 14.

Feb. 20: DHS announced it would also revoke TPS for Haitians, though that too is being challenged in court. Massachusetts officials estimate Haitians account for about 15,000 of the nearly 27,800 people with temporary legal status in the state.

Feb. 22 to March 24: Trump border czar Tom Homan lashed out at Boston for limiting police cooperation with ICE to criminal matters. Homan said he’d be “bringing hell” to the city. (Boston Mayor Michelle Wu fired back at these claims during a congressional hearing in early March over so-called “sanctuary” cities.) A month later, Homan bragged that he’d kept his promise with a week-long series of ICE raids that agents say led to the arrests of roughly 370 people around the Boston area.

March 17: The Trump administration went after immigrant professionals with visas, including aggressive treatment of two people at Logan Airport. A doctor specializing in kidney transplants was held at Logan for 36 hours and sent back to Lebanon, against a judge’s order, on allegations she sympathized with Hezbollah. And a German engineer and green card holder who lives in New Hampshire was allegedly showered with ice water and “violently interrogated” over decade-old drug charges. (He still remains jailed at an ICE detention center.)

March 21: A pair of violent ICE arrests in New Bedford highlighted what critics say is a lawless approach to immigration enforcement.

April 28: Trump issued an executive order instructing Bondi and the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, to “pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures” against so-called sanctuary cities, including potential cuts to federal funding. While Boston is not specifically called out in the order, the city was previously targeted as a “sanctuary city” during a March congressional hearing so local officials are wary. As NPR reports, Trump also attempted to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities in his first term, but was blocked in court.

March 25: ICE agents arrested and detained Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville and took her on a harrowing ride to Vermont overnight, before transporting her to a Louisiana immigration detention center the next day. Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish national, said she feared for her life during what Massachusetts lawmakers have called a kidnapping. Her lawyers say she was targeted for an op-ed she co-wrote in the Tufts student newspaper that was critical of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. It’s one of the most high-profile instances of the administration revoking student visas and empowering ICE agents to detain pro-Palestinian students who are not U.S. citizens.

March 27: An ICE agent arrested a man as he walked out of a jury trial at a Boston courthouse, sparking a clash between local and federal prosecutors. The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts argued neither the judge nor the Suffolk County district attorney have authority to file contempt charges against ICE. Court records show the DA’s office knew an ICE agent planned to arrest the man. But the DA said his staff was unaware of the timing and later blasted the judge for dismissing the case after the man’s arrest.

April 4: The State Department began revoking hundreds of international students’ visas nationwide — often without explanation. At least 119 students at Massachusetts schools were affected. Following several lawsuits, the administration reversed some of the revocations three weeks later, leaving local colleges scrambling for answers.

Education

Jan. 21: DHS rescinded a Biden-era guidance barring immigration enforcement officials from entering “sensitive spaces,” including schools and churches. Superintendents across Massachusetts assured families they will not share student information with federal agents without a court order and will protect children’s right to attend school no matter their immigration status.

Jan. 21: After Trump signed an executive order banning policies tied to diversity, equity and inclusion from all executive agencies Northeastern University scrubbed all DEI messaging from websites and renamed its “Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to the “Office of Belonging,” according to the university’s student paper. It also changed the webpage to read, “Belonging at Northeastern,” an early example of local college administrators making subtle changes to evade the government’s scrutiny. On April 28, Harvard became the latest Mass. school to re-brand its “Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging” to the “Office of Community and Campus Life,” according to the Harvard Crimson.

Jan. 30: Trump signed an executive order vowing to deport and revoke the visas of “all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses.” In response to the order, along with Trump’s pledge to issue mass deportations and other immigration enforcement actions, colleges started issuing travel-related and visa paperwork guidance to students. Schools also canceled study abroad programs.

Feb. 14: The Department of Education sent a letter directing educational institutions receiving federal funds to cease race-based practices in admissions, hiring, scholarships, housing and ceremonies within 14 days or lose funds. (Following several lawsuits, the order has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.)

Feb. 17: The Department of Education announced the cancellation of more than $600 million in grants to K-12 districts for teacher training, recruitment and preparation. Massachusetts is one of several states that sued to block the order, but the Supreme Court ultimately sided with the Trump administration. The canceled grants include $2.3 million to UMass Amherst to train paraprofessionals to become licensed early childhood educators, and $5.9 million to train bilingual teachers in Boston Public Schools.

March 10: Sixty colleges and universities — including six in Massachusetts — were alerted by the Dept. of Ed that they are under investigation for alleged failure to address reports of antisemitic discrimination. This followed a March 7 announcement by the joint task force to combat antisemitism that it was canceling $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University in New York over alleged inaction to antisemitism.

March 11: The Dept. of Ed announced mass layoffs, eliminating more than 1,300 roles, including 25 Massachusetts-based staff. A coalition of 20 states, including Massachusetts, have sued in an attempt to block the layoffs.

March 14: The Dept. of Ed announced investigations into 50-plus universities, including MIT, over racial preferences in education programs or race-based scholarships.

March 20: Trump signed an order to dismantle the federal Department of Education, prompting more legal challenges, including a lawsuit filed in Boston by two Massachusetts school districts and a teachers union.

March 31: The Trump administration announced the review of nearly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts to Harvard University over alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus. Faculty and students reacted in frustration.

March 28: The Dept. of Ed canceled more than $2 billion in K-12 grants geared toward pandemic-era learning loss, including more than $100 million worth of grants for Massachusetts. The commonwealth and 15 other states have sued the administration to try to restore access.

April 3: The Dept. of Ed ordered all K-12 school commissioners to compile local school districts’ certification against DEI efforts or risk loss of federal funding. Patrick Tutwiler, Massachusetts’ education secretary and acting K-12 commissioner, curtly responded that the Dept. of Ed “does not have the legal authority to demand individual certifications from school districts.” Local ACLU chapters won a temporary pause in enforcement.

April 4: The Trump administration sent an initial list of demands for Harvard to comply with in order to avert a loss of $9 billion in federal funding. Harvard professors sued the government over the funding cut threat.

April 15: The Trump administration pulled back $2.2 billion in federal funds to Harvard one day after school leadership vowed to stand up to the government’s new demands. Trump officials also moved to have the IRS strip the institution of its tax-exempt status and demanded the school release the disciplinary records of international students, as well as records of foreign donations. A week later, Harvard sued the Trump administration, seeking to lift the freeze.

April 28: The Trump administration launched investigations into the Harvard Law Review and Harvard University for alleged reports of race-based discrimination. Specifically, the government is reviewing policies and practices involving the journal’s membership and article selection, claiming the publication favors submissions from scholars of color.

Health and science

Jan. 20: Trump signed an executive order announcing his administration will only recognize two sexes — male and female — leading to concerns about the future of transgender health care, and the mass deletion of research and information on government websites mentioning the terms “transgender” or “LGBTQ.” Some of the material has been restored following a public outcry and court order, but not all of it. Two Harvard researchers are suing to reinstate their work.

Jan. 20: Trump signed an executive order beginning the dismantlement of USAID, a federal agency focused on improving global health and education, among other things. While the shutdown, which was not approved by Congress, is being challenged in court, it has already led a Boston-based nonprofit to lay off over 1,000 workers and ended funding for other locally-based aid programs. Meanwhile, a Rhode Island warehouse that produces peanut paste waits for $20 million owed by the federal government.

Jan. 28: Seeking to end gender-affirming care for people under 19, Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for health care providers that offer such care. A federal judge put the enforcement on hold while a court challenge plays out. In the meantime, providers who treat transgender and nonbinary youth in Massachusetts say that care will continue.

Feb. 7: The Trump administration announced a new policy limiting NIH research funding for “indirect costs,” which was quickly blocked by a federal judge and remains on hold. If allowed to take effect, the funding cap could result in major NIH grant recipients, like Harvard Medical School, losing tens of millions in funding. Mass General Brigham, Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s hospitals are three of the country’s top five largest NIH grant recipients.

February: The Trump administration threatened to cut funding to local health care facilities if they didn’t reassign staff working on diversity, equity and inclusion, and remove select words from their websites.

March 6: A Maine program that allowed parents to fill out a form at the hospital to register newborns for a Social Security Number was briefly canceled by the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration after Trump clashed with the state’s governor over transgender athletes. The Trump administration quickly backtracked on the move.

March 25: The Trump administration moved to pull back $11 billion in COVID-era public health grants that the CDC distributed to states, cities and organizations — including nearly $100 million to Massachusetts. State officials say much of the affected funding supports the core functions of the State Public Health Laboratory and community-based vaccine programs. A federal judge has at least temporarily blocked this move.

March 25: The Trump administration cut funding for the Patient Safety Network, a government-funded website that publishes resources and research to reduce medical errors.

April 1: The impact of mass layoffs at HHS was beginning to take shape. A federal office in Boston that administers child care and fuel assistance for New England families was gutted, its layoffs part of a larger move to shrink the HHS workforce by up to 10,000.

April 1: The Boston Globe reported that nearly three dozen research programs led by Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital were recently terminated by the NIH and other federal agencies. The programs include research into the roots of long COVID and how the pandemic affected the mental health of LGBTQ+ people. An NIH spokesperson said they were terminating research funding that is not aligned with the administration’s priorities.

April 14: As a result of the administration’s freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard, researchers received orders to halt research into ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease, cancer and tuberculosis. Harvard is challenging the freeze in court.

April 16: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared autism a growing epidemic and promised to find its environmental cause as early as September. To do so, the agency has said it will gather private medical records from federal and commercial databases to support its renewed autism study. Not only do some scientists say this timeline is too short to produce reliable results, but researchers who have been studying autism for years have repeatedly debunked the notion that autism is linked to vaccines. Instead they point to a complex interplay of factors.

April 21: The Women’s Health Initiative, a decades-long federal project studying women’s health, announced that HHS had decided to terminate its contracts to fund the program. Two days later, the administration reverses course and says it will fully restore funding.

April 21: NIH announced a ban on future grants to universities that have diversity, equity and inclusion programs or those that boycott companies with ties to Israel.

April 25: Healey’s office announced the EPA canceled most of a multi-year $1 million federal grant to address some of the causes of asthma in Hampden County — once dubbed the “asthma capital” of the U.S..The funds were intended for in-home air quality remediations, like mold removal and improved air ventilation, in Chicopee, Holyoke and Springfield.

Civil rights

Jan. 20: Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office seeking to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. for those whose parents are in the country without legal status. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and a coalition of state AGs quickly filed a lawsuit to block the order. The Supreme Court said it would hear arguments in the case in May, with a decision likely by late June or early July.

Jan. 20: Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology” led to the removal of gender-neutral options from federal identification documents, such as passports and visas. State officials in Massachusetts said state-issued identification cards that let transgender, queer and nonbinary residents choose “X” instead of male or female remain valid in Massachusetts — for now.

Jan. 20: Making good on a campaign promise, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of approximately 1,500 people convicted of crimes committed during the Jan. 6 insurrection, including at least three from Massachusetts who were serving prison sentences as a result of their participation in the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Looking more broadly across the region, the clemency also applied to 55 New Englanders who took part in the insurrection.

Jan. 27: Trump signed an executive order aiming to block transgender people from serving in the military. The Defense Department told NPR that an estimated 4,240 active duty service members, or less than 1%, have gender dysphoria, though others think the numbers are likely higher. Multiple federal judges have blocked the ban from taking effect.

Feb. 3: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division launched a probe of several major American cities, including Boston, for “alleged harassment and discrimination against Jewish people” at schools across the city. Trump administration officials were in Boston earlier this month for an “advance site visit” — and then stopped responding to communications when Wu pushed for more specifics on what they are investigating, according to city officials.

Feb. 5: Trump followed through on his campaign promise to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports, signing an executive order to slash federal funding and increase enforcement of schools that allow trans women and girls to compete in women’s sports. The NCAA, led by former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, changed its policy to restrict competition in women’s sports to players who were assigned female at birth. Some governors, like Maine Gov. Janet Mills, have refused to comply.

Feb. 5: Trump’s AG Bondi sent a memo to Justice Department staff saying any private companies that continue their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives will be flagged for potential “criminal investigation.” Several Boston-based companies told the Boston Business Journal they would continue their DEI programs on the “down-low.”

February: National Park Service sites in the Boston area like Faneuil Hall and the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters scrubbed mentions of LGBTQ+ history and activism from their websites following an executive order from Trump.

March 25: In what advocates call a blow to voting rights, Trump signed an executive order that would require voters to show proof of citizenship when using a federal form to register to vote. Several lawsuits have been filed seeking to block the changes, including one filed by 19 state attorneys general in federal court in Boston, leading to a court-ordered pause on a key part of Trump’s order.

April 24: Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Somerville-based ActBlue, a top fundraising platform for Democrats. It’s the latest example of Trump using his position of power to attack his political opponents. Findings from the investigation will reportedly be shared within 180 days of this memorandum.

Arts and culture

Jan. 20: In response to Trump’s two separate executive orders objecting to “illegal and immoral” diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Massachusetts arts organizations who receive support allocated by the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a number of local artists applying for grants, were flagged for funding cuts due to DEI-related language and materials. The ACLU is leading a lawsuit challenging the NEA’s restrictions in federal court in Rhode Island.

Feb. 12: From the moment Trump appointed himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and then made his special envoy Richard Grenell the center’s president, artists and at least one local Boston rock legend canceled scheduled performances in protest. Among them: Peter Wolf, the J. Geils Band frontman and Guster. Others decided to go forward with their performances.

Feb. 14: 826 Boston, a nonprofit that offers tutoring and writing programs to local Boston students, had a grant application flagged. To receive $250,000 in federal funds from AmeriCorps that would’ve paid for 11 tutors, they needed to take out any reference to diversity, equity and inclusion. The nonprofit’s board unanimously voted to let go of federal funding rather than betray its values.

Feb. 18: The JFK Presidential Library briefly shut down as a result of federal firings. It’s one of 16 presidential libraries overseen by the Office of Presidential Libraries and the National Archives and Records Administration. Five probationary employees were laid off and then reinstated, as their salaries are paid by museum admissions and not federal funds.

March 4: Trump’s 25% tariffs on many Canadians imports — including aluminum and steel — took effect, worrying Massachusetts breweries and maple syrup makers about the rising costs of materials’ impact on their bottom line.

March 14: The Trump administration put the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services on leave, leading to concerns that some Massachusetts museums and libraries will lose grants and need to cut back on services.

March 27: An executive order claiming to restore “truth and sanity to American history” has directly impacted local museums, including the Museum of African American History. It’s losing nearly half a million in federal funding, affecting both its Boston and Nantucket locations. This order could also impact other institutions such as the Smithsonian, as well as monuments.

April 22: The New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill was hit by the Trump administration’s funding cuts. Officials at the Boylston nonprofit said the administration canceled a $250,000 grant they got through the Institute of Museum and Library Services — without giving a reason.

April: A local Boston restaurant is just one of many local eateries reconsidering their menu offerings due to tariffs. The Vietnamese restaurant in Quincy, Lê Madeline, recently removed a $24 dish with giant prawns sourced from Africa because tariffs would make the main ingredient too expensive.

Transportation

Jan. 28: Shortly after his confirmation, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a directive to review grants awarded during the Biden administration to ensure they line up with Trump’s priorities and “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Massachusetts had some of the lowest marriage rates in the country in 2022, raising concerns about the future of federal transportation funding in the state.

Feb. 14: The Federal Aviation Administration began laying off about 400 employees as part of its government downsizing effort, though at least 132 were later reinstated after a court order, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists. A union spokesperson told WBUR that none of the affected employees work at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

March 3: When Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada, some Canadians decided to boycott American products and cancel trips to the Northeast. According to the national nonprofit organization U.S. Travel Association, Canada is a “top source of international visitors to the United States, “generating $20.5 billion in 2024.” The organization estimates even a 10% reduction in Canadian travel to the U.S. would result in a loss of $2 billion in spending and cost 14,000 jobs. Industry experts worry the decline could particularly hit Greater Boston’s tourism sector.

April 3: Trump imposed a 25% tariff on imported automobiles, aiming to boost local manufacturing. The news led to a surge in car sales in March, while some dealerships — including in Massachusetts — worked to stock up on pre-owned vehicles. Since the tariffs took effect, car dealers have responded with a mix of layoffs, pauses in car shipments and delayed price hikes.

April 17: The Trump administration announced new fees on Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports. The fees were softened after some — including the Massachusetts Port Authority — expressed fear that the original proposal would hurt smaller ports like Boston’s Conley Terminal. The fees are expected to start in October and will gradually increase.

April: MBTA General Manager Phil Eng told WBUR he expects Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products to raise the costs of new Red and Orange line trains. MBTA deputy press secretary Lisa Battiston said in an email that the leadership of CRRC, which is producing the train shells in China, “assures us they are committed to the contract but the new tariffs will likely have impacts on their subcontractors, including the suppliers of materials.”