Policies & Analysis

This Proclamation asserts that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has "invaded" the United States and invokes the 1798 "Alien Enemies Act" to deport them.

This Proclamation invokes a 1798 law about war powers and invasion, the Alien Enemies Act, against members of a Venezuelan gang that is not at war with or invading the United States, to claim vast executive power to deport people without due process. The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime authority that can only be invoked against "a foreign nation or government" and that does not allow summary deportations without due process. The Act is the only remaining element of the reviled Alien and Sedition Acts from the John Adams administration and has only been invoked three other times in American history, always during declared wars (the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II). The Trump Administration has applied the Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they are currently being detained indefinitely without charge at a maximum-security prison infamous for human rights violations and torture, at U.S. taxpayer expense.

This order calls for severe reductions in the size of seven independent federal agencies that provide valuable education, housing, and business development grants

The Trump Administration has called for cuts to more small government agencies, including the United States Agency for Global Media, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and the Minority Business Development Agency. These agencies provide grants to small businesses and nonprofits working across America. They are chartered by Congress and receive funding that was appropriated by Congress. This action threatens the ability of these agencies to support independent journalism, fund libraries and museums, promote the growth of small businesses, research global mews developments, and end homelessness.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has unlawfully cancelled billions of dollars worth of grants already distributed through the Inflation Reduction Act and other environmental programs.

The grants cancelled by the Trump administration were intended for projects reducing pollution, improving climate resiliency, increasing water quality, accelerating clean energy, and more. Without federal money, grant recipients may have to lay off staff and shutter projects, putting communities across the country at greater risk of suffering the dangerous effects of pollution, extreme weather, and unaffordable energy costs.

This order directs the Secretary of Education to unlawfully disqualify non-profits from student loan forgiveness programs if the administration disagrees with their missions.

This Executive Order directs the Secretary of Education to propose revisions to the bipartisan Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PLSF) program that would wrongfully target groups with which the administration disagrees. PSLF was established by Congress in 2007 to encourage people to work in lower-paying nonprofit and government jobs by forgiving their remaining federal student loans after they made 10 years of repayments over 10 years of service in those jobs. The Executive Order unlawfully singles out for exclusion from this program organizations that it claims have "a substantial illegal purpose," which its broad and vague definition could include organizations supporting immigrants, transgender children, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

This executive order attempts to legitimize questionable monetary policies through the purchase of bitcoin.

This Executive Order creating a "strategic bitcoin reserve" in the United States attempts to legitimize volatile and risky asset class that does not benefit the US economy. This EO builds on other questionable pro-cryptocurrency policies of the Trump administration, including directing the SEC to reduce its enforcement efforts against cryptocurrency interests.

This order suspended security clearances and cut off access to federal buildings for all Perkins Coie employees and ended all federal contracts with the firm.

This Executive Order targeted the Perkins Coie law firm in retaliation for its representation of clients that Trump disfavors. The EO was designed to punish Perkins Coie and interfere with its ability to represent clients by accusing the law firm of being "dishonest and dangerous" in its legal representation and of engaging in unlawful discrimination through its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives. The EO sought to immediately suspend all security clearances, government benefits and services, and previously granted federal contracts held by Perkins Coie or its employees.

This order designates English as the official language of the U.S. as part of a push to make the country less welcoming to non-English speakers.

This Executive Order designates English as the official language of the United States and revokes a quarter-century-old executive order intended to make public services more accessible to people with limited English proficiency. The United States has never before had an official language, nor is there a clear legal basis for doing so. This order is consistent with a widespread effort by the Trump administration to make public services less accessible. While the messaging of the EO is clear in its effort to stigmatize people who do not speak English, it does not direct agencies to take specific actions other than removing prior guidance related to the revoked EO.

This memorandum directs various government agencies to suspend security clearances for Covington & Burling LLP attorneys and employees who assisted in representing Jack Smith.

This memorandum was the first executive action taken by the Trump Administration to target a specific law firm in retaliation for its legal work. With this memorandum, President Trump directed various government agencies to suspend security clearances for any Covington & Burling LLP attorneys and employees — specifically Peter Koski — and to terminate any contracts between the federal government and the firm.

This Notice immediately reduces the validity of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to citizens and nationals of Haiti by 6 months.

This DHS Notice immediately reduces the time period of the temporary protected status (TPS) designation and extension for Haitians that the Biden administration granted in June 2024. Now, instead of expiring in February 2026, Haitians' TPS will expire in August 2025. The Trump-Vance administration's main justification for this decision is that "the ever-increasing population of Haitian TPS recipients" is contrary to the national interests of the United States. Although the Notice does not explain why the presence of Haitians is contrary to the national interest, it alludes to false narratives of gang violence and negative effects on U.S. workers and communities. These narratives build on the debunked claims made by then-candidates Trump and Vance about the Haitian community in Springfield, OH.

The Department of Education prevented student loan borrowers from applying for all income-driven repayment plans after the Eighth Circuit put one of those plans on hold.

In February 2025, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision pausing the entire SAVE income-driven repayment (IDR) plan for student loans. The Biden-Harris administration introduced the SAVE Plan in 2023 as the most affordable option for borrowers seeking to have their payments reduced and their loans ultimately forgiven. Three days after the Eighth Circuit's decision, the Trump administration paused all IDR plan applications, including ones not affected by the Eighth Circuit's decision, and directed student loan servicers not to process existing IDR applications. Because borrowers must be enrolled in an IDR plan to qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, this drastic decision also jeopardized the ability of teachers, nurses, first responders, and other public servants to receive forgiveness after ten years of qualifying payments. One week after a national teachers' union filed a lawsuit to revive IDR plan application processing, the Department of Education filed a notice with the court stating that it had reopened the IDR online application and was coordinating with student loan servicers to resume processing IDR applications.

This order directs the federal government to embark on a reckless and unlawful deregulatory agenda.

This executive order directs senior government officials, including those associated with DOGE, to initiate a process to review all government regulations. According to the EO, the review is for the purposes of modifying or rescinding regulations, and in some cases, deprioritizing agency actions to enforce them. Under the guise of confronting "federal overreach," this EO is likely to lead the federal government to engage in a reckless campaign of deregulation, undermining or eliminating important regulations that are essential for the public health, economic stability, and environmental safety.

This executive order calls for the elimination of government offices, advisory councils, and the Presidential Management Fellows program.

In this order, the president called for the elimination of the Inter-American Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the United States African Development Foundation, and the Presidio Trust. These independent agencies fund community-led development projects abroad, promote research and policies on conflict resolution, and protect national land. The order also purports to eliminate certain Federal Advisory Committees related to Medicare and Medicaid, long COVID, community banking, foreign aid, and more, as well as end the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program. The committees provided the government with expert advice and recommendations for sound policymaking, while the PMF program supplied the federal government with talented early-career civil servants. This order will reduce the positive presence of the United States in the world, rid the federal government of valuable channels of expertise, and stunt its ability to hire early-career professionals.