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This order threatens providers of gender-affirming healthcare with loss of federal research and education grant funds, and potential enforcement of unrelated criminal laws.

This order is a full-throated attack on the ability of transgender youth to access gender-affirming medical care, even when their parents and doctors agree that such care is in their best interest, and even though similar procedures are allowed for cisgender individuals. The order directs the federal government to take immediate steps to ensure that any institution receiving federal research or education grants does not provide puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, or gender-affirming surgery to anyone under the age of 19 (including 18-year-olds, who are legally adults). It also directs agencies to rescind guidance based on the WPATH Standards of Care, the leading medical authority on gender-affirming healthcare standards. It directs the Attorney General to weaponize the enforcement of unrelated laws, like those prohibiting consumer fraud and female genital mutilation, against the provision of gender-affirming healthcare. The order also contains numerous instructions for other federal agencies to roll out over time.

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9/10/25

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This omnibus order covers various aspects of interior immigration enforcement, including criminal prosecutions, expanded enforcement, and threats to sanctuary jurisdictions.

This is an expansive, omnibus-style executive order focused on interior immigration enforcement, and touches on a number of discrete policy issues. First, it revokes the Biden administration's priorities memo, so the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not focus its resources on people with criminal convictions or people who pose threats to national security. In addition, this order directs the Department of Justice to prioritize prosecuting immigrants for unlawful entry and reentry — which already consumes significant resources for Assistant United States Attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico border. The order directs DHS to expand expedited removal (a fast-track deportation scheme) to its maximum extent, increase fine collection from noncitizens here without authorization, try to expand detention, and re-establish an office focused on crimes committed by noncitizens that existed in Trump's first term. DHS and DOJ are directed to establish a Task Force in each state, and prosecute noncitizens who don't register with the government (which would apply to all undocumented people). The order directs DHS to freeze funding to organizations that serve migrants until an audit is complete, cancel contracts, and even try to take back funds if the organizations don't pass the audit. On the issue of "sanctuary" jurisdictions, this order tells the Attorney General and DHS Secretary to deny them funding to the extent the law allows (which is contested), and tells DHS to issue guidance on existing law. DHS is instructed to expand 287(g) agreements, which allow state and local law enforcement organizations to enforce certain immigration laws in specific circumstances. The order also hints that a type of 287(g) agreement that allows local police and sheriffs to enforce immigration law in the community, while carrying out their law enforcement duties, could be revived after many years. The order directs the State Department, DOJ, and DHS to take a hard look at Temporary Protected Status and work permits, but doesn't rescind them. State and DHS are directed to pressure recalcitrant countries to take their citizens back when the U.S. wants to deport them.

This DHS policy expands a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal" so that it applies nationwide to immigrants who have been in the country less than two years.

"Expedited removal" is a fast-track deportation process that was created via legislation in 1996. Since then, the government has applied it only at the U.S.-Mexico border and only to immigrants who entered the country recently — within the previous two weeks. The first Trump administration tried to expand expedited removal to its statutory limits — nationwide, to immigrants in the country for less than two years. Now, they are doing it again. Any immigrant anywhere in the U.S. who was not admitted or paroled into the country and who cannot affirmatively prove that they have been here more than two years will be subject to a fast-track deportation system that lacks critical due process safeguards, including for people who fear persecution in their home countries.

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.

The order promotes the militarization of local law enforcement and decreases accountability for officer misconduct.

This EO directs the Attorney General to work on creating resources for law enforcement officers accused of misconduct and on rethinking civil rights consent decrees holding local law enforcement accountable for crimes committed while in uniform. It also directs the Secretary of Defense to produce a report on how to use military assets for local policing, along with continuing the Trump administration's attacks on policies supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Taken together, this EO stands to harm over-policed communities, undo civil rights protections, and undermine local governments.

This order directs various federal agencies to find ways to promote the use of coal for energy production, including by opening up federal land for coal mining.

This Executive Order promotes the mining and use of coal and makes it a "national priority" to support the dirty and dangerous coal industry. The order directs federal agencies to identify coal resources on federal lands, prioritize coal leasing on those lands, and fast-track coal mining permits. Coal is reclassified as a "mineral" under the terms of EO 14241, another order signed by Trump that aims to increase mineral production. The order also instructs various federal agencies to identify and "consider revising or rescinding" any policies aimed at transitioning the country to cleaner energy sources.