Policies & Analysis

This memo seeks to weaponize security clearances to retaliate against against political opponents of the administration.

This memo directs relevant executive agencies throughout the federal government to revoke the security clearances and access to classified information for a specific list of individuals who are perceived as being opponents of the administration. These individuals include former members of the Biden administration, members of Joe Biden's family, lawyers, and advocates who have spoken out or litigated against the Trump administration, as well as others.

These layoffs effectively close the offices that investigate abuses and civil rights violations in DHS.

DHS is seeking to close their Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman and Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. The agency is pursuing massive layoffs which will hinder, if not entirely prevent, these offices from completing their statutorily created functions of resolving benefit issues, ensuring adequate detention conditions, and investigating violations to civil rights and civil liberties. This immediately puts individuals involved in the immigration system at risk of abuse and harm.

This memo cancels the government's contract to provide legal representation to represent unaccompanied migrant child in immigration court.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is required to provide legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children in immigration proceedings, and Congress regularly appropriates money to pay for those services. This ensures that young children can't be deported without at least being represented by a lawyer. The Trump Administration canceled its contract with non-profit legal service providers who actually provide those services, however, leaving unaccompanied migrant kids -- including babies and toddlers -- to navigate the immigration court system on their own.

This order directs the Department to begin its own closure sanctioning mass layoffs, transfer of functions and the interruption of essential programs to public education.

This executive order announces the Trump-Vance administration's effort to close the Department of Education. It also requires all programs and activities receiving federal funding---which is nearly all schools across the country--to terminate anything "under the label 'diversity, equity, and inclusion', gender ideology or similar terms. This will immediately result in the interruption of support for public schools across the country, including rural schools, schools serving underserved populations, colleges and universities, and schools serving students with disabilities. It will also greatly diminishes the Department's ability to ensure that schools are are complying with civil rights laws. This executive order will directly hinder the ability of all students to receive an education and will add significant burden to state and local educational authorities and parents.

This order, under the pretext of efficiency, jeopardizes data integrity and undermines the privacy of millions of Americans.

This order by the White House directs agencies across the federal government to consolidate data from different government databases. This is a dangerous violation of data integrity that undermines the privacy of millions of Americans and gives anti-democratic actors a powerful tool to consolidate power. Indeed, there are reports that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is seeking to connect sensitive information systems about American citizens into one centralized location that includes data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses as well as other private information. There are also reports that DOGE is seeking to centralize data across the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue System for immigration enforcement purposes and seeking to create a National Citizenship database. This presents serious threats to civil rights, civil liberties, and safety for the public.

The Social Security Administration cut personnel, physical offices, and key programs serving beneficiaries with disabilities, making it more challenging to access benefits.

The Social Security Administration and DOGE announced a series of changes to the agency that will severely impact the ability of people with disabilities to receive their benefits. SSA is planning to cut personnel and close regional and local offices, increasing wait times for assistance and crowding the remaining offices. The agency also eliminated the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, and the Office of Transformation. Finally, SSA announced a series of changes that would have made it harder to file benefits claims by phone, but later walked that back.

The President fired the two Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission

The President fired the two Democratic commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission, stating that their continued service was inconsistent with his administration's priorities. The FTC is an independent agency, historically led in a bipartisan manner by five commissioners, that protects consumers and promotes fair trade by enforcing federal consumer protection and antitrust laws. Multiple lawsuits regarding these actions are pending.

The EEOC sent a letter to 20 law firms with DEI-related employment practices demanding detailed demographic information on their employees and applicants.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the federal agency charged with enforcing federal laws against workplace discrimination. On March 17, 2025, the Acting Chair of the EEOC sent letters to 20 law firms requesting information about their diversity, equity, and inclusion-related employment practices, wrongly suggesting that lawful, longstanding programs intended to redress or prevent discrimination are themselves discriminatory. The information requested included detailed information about the law firms' applicants and employees, including law students' names, sex, race, contact information, academic performance, compensation, participation in affinity groups, and numerous details about their employment history.

Media reports indicate that senior officials use personal email and autodeleting message applications to conduct official business.

Senior national security officials have used personal devices and autodeleting messaging apps such as Signal to text about highly sensitive national security matters, including plans to launch a military strike in Yemen. This reckless use threatens national security by putting classified or other sensitive information into un-secure channels, susceptible to hacking or spyware. It also increases the risk of these officials inadvertently sending this information to the wrong recipients, as they did when then-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a Signal group chat. In addition to these national security threats, using autodeleting message apps may violate federal records law and undermines the public's right to a transparent and accountable government.

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 executive order rescinds 18 prior executive actions from the Biden administration related to worker's rights, national security, tribal rights, LGBTQ+ recognition, and more.

This order rescinds 18 executive actions that had been issued by the Biden-Harris administration. The rescinded orders sought to improve lives of Americans through raising the federal contractor minimum wage, calling for the protection of LGBTQ+ rights in America's foreign affairs, investing in biotechnology, preventing arms trades that would risk violating human rights, boosting support of tribal sovereignty, and more. Rescinding these orders demonstrates the Trump-Vance administration's abandonment of ordinary people and policies to promote stability, security, peace, and human rights.

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.