During its first few weeks, the Trump Administration has unleashed a flurry of measures to radically reshape the federal government. Many of these moves are overtly unlawful. This paper identifies the legal problems with many of the most prominent actions: freezing funding, amending or repealing rules, and denying citizenship to children born in the United States.^{[[2]](https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/many-trump-administration-fiscal-and-regulatory-actions-are-unlawful#_ftn2)}