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Withdrawn

Updated:

3/17/25

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This memo indefinitely and illegally pauses billions or more in congressionally approved funding that supports people and communities in every state in America.

This harmful and illegal memo from the temporary head of the Office of Management and Budget puts an indefinite pause on billions, possibly more, in congressionally approved funding that supports people in every state in the country. This could pause research on cures for childhood cancer, halt housing and food assistance, shutter domestic violence and homeless shelters, close suicide hotlines, block funding for schools, shutter essential services for small businesses like workforce training and childcare programs, and more.

Underway

Updated:

4/2/25

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This executive order seeks to end all equity hiring programs in the Federal Aviation Administration.

Like other executive orders, this order repeats divisive falsehoods that the Federal Aviation Administration hired unqualified people for discriminatory reasons, rather than for merit. It singles out people with disabilities. The order then directs the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator to end all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and review all individuals in critical safety positions to ensure they are qualified to do their jobs. This order will harm the aspiring and current public servants who have traditionally had less access to hiring opportunities, and it reinforces the false idea that the government has only hired people with disabilities by lowering its standards for them.

Challenged

Updated:

3/14/25

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This order is another attack on diversity, equity, & inclusion initiatives in the federal government and a new attack on similar initiatives in private business & public education.

This is another anti-equity order from the Trump administration and goes further in several respects. It incorrectly claims that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives in the federal government, the private sector, and public education violate civil rights laws. It revokes several longstanding executive orders intended to address discrimination within the federal government, including one dating back to 1965, and it requires all federal contractors and grant recipients to certify that they do not operate any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws. In the private sector, the order directs the Attorney General to submit a report outlining a plan for misusing civil rights laws against companies that have equity initiatives, and it requires agencies to identify specific large companies, nonprofits, foundations, and associations for civil compliance investigations. The order also directs the Attorney General to work with the Secretary of Education to issue joint guidance to state and local educational agencies and higher education institutions on how to comply with federal funding requirements in light of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to hold two universities’ race-conscious admissions programs unconstitutional.

Underway

Updated:

3/14/25

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This order reinstates President Trump's anti-environment first term policies related to oil and natural gas production, logging, mining, hunting, and fishing in Alaska.

This order rescinds all Biden regulations and policies limiting the production, transportation, and sale of oil and natural gas in Alaska and reinstates related policies from Trump's first term. It also aims to increase logging, mining, hunting, and fishing, including on federal land, while denying the creation of an indigenous sacred site in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The order does not mention the harmful environmental effects that increased drilling, road construction, and destruction of nature will cause to plants, animals, and the communities that rely on them across Alaska.

Challenged

Updated:

3/14/25

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This order seeks to significantly weaken the government's progress on equity programs that support historically underserved communities.

This order seeks to end all equity programs in the federal government, including those that aim to create a more level playing field for communities that have experienced racial or economic discrimination, and support for historically underserved communities of all kinds. It targets all agencies, departments, personnel, expenditures, federal contractors, and grant recipients that have any equity actions, initiatives, or programs. This will harm countless people who have faced discrimination and move our government away from equity and opportunity for all.

Challenged

Updated:

3/13/25

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This order suspends all refugee entries indefinitely, starting on Jan. 27, 2025.

Starting on Jan. 27, 2025, all refugee entries into the U.S. under the auspices of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) will be suspended indefinitely until President Trump decides to resume them. The Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) must submit a report to the president within 90 days, and then every 90 days thereafter, analyzing whether resumption of the USRAP would be in line with the priorities outlined in the order. Given how those priorities are set out, a recommendation to resume the program would be highly unlikely. Refugees can be admitted on a case-by-case basis, if the Secretaries of State and DHS jointly determine it is in the national interest and doesn't pose a threat. Finally, DHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are directed to examine whether states and localities can play a larger role in determining where refugees are placed; this emboldens an anti-immigrant argument that states and localities should have essentially veto power over the placement of refugees in their communities.