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15 things Trump and team did this week

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Donald Trump and his team have pressed on with their agenda in the third week of his second term.

Trump proposed developing Gaza into the " Riviera of the Middle East " Thousands of USAID staff are expected to be placed on leave at midnight on Friday .

Trump imposed tariffs on China and pulled back threats on Canada and Mexico .

He also ordered air strikes on a senior Islamic State planner in Somalia .

The US sent the first group of migrants to Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday , after Trump announced plans to expand migrant detention at the US Navy base in Cuba .

The move came after Trump ordered that an existing migrant detention facility at the base be expanded to hold some 30,000 people.

Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California 's Central Valley after deadly wildfires.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) ordered to temporarily stop communicating with foreign nationals.

Change came after reports that staff from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) entered the offices of NOAA and took over the agency's internal websites.

Doge, an initiative to shrink the federal government led by tech billionaire Musk , is not an official government department.