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This order renames and further empowers a previously established office that focuses on strengthening government assistance to faith-based organizations.

This executive order replaces the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) with the White House Faith Office. Though largely a semantic switch, the EO does strike the referral requirements for organizations receiving federal funding. This means that if providers have religious objections to services, like reproductive care or care in the LGBTQ+ community, they are no longer obligated to refer clients to alternative options. That change could impact a myriad of programs including in the healthcare and education spaces.

This order imposed tariffs on Canadian imports but was later paused.

This executive order further expanded President Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the Southern border (EO 10886) to include the Northern border with Canada. It then imposed 25% tariffs on most Canadian imports in response, creating conditions for an escalating trade war. The EO was paused two days later after Canada made gestures toward addressing the flow of fentanyl to the U.S and threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs.

This order directs a review of all federal funding to non-governmental organizations, risking vital services around healthcare, workers, families, and more.

This order directs all executive departments and agencies to review all federal funding provided to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to ensure it aligns with current administration priorities, including the executive orders already issued. While all administrations review their funding decisions, the breadth of this review is staggering, especially in light of the numerous harmful and illegal funding-related decisions the Trump-Vance administration has already made.

The Trump administration has taken steps to illegally shut down the government agency created by Congress to protect consumers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created by Congress in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect American consumers from predatory behavior in the financial sector. The agency has faced many attacks, even as recently as 2024, but the Supreme Court overwhelmingly upheld its constitutionality. Despite its congressional mandate, the Trump administration is attempting to dismantle the CFPB. Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), following its usual pattern of illegally bulldozing agencies, changed part of the website and accessed agency data, including HR and payroll systems, as well as financial information and enforcement records. Musk posted “CFPB RIP” on X (formerly known as Twitter), which is also launching a digital banking service that would likely have been regulated by the agency. President Trump also appointed Russell Vought as Acting Director of the CFPB. Within days of his appointment, Vought issued a stop-work order and refused to request critical funds, effectively hamstringing the agency. Undermining the agency means undermining protections for consumers on critical issues like credit reporting and discriminatory lending, and it means the CFPB cannot continue litigating cases like those that recover billions of dollars for consumers.

This order largely repeats American policy on Iran, including sanctions and stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear capabilities.

This order largely restates longstanding U.S. policy towards Iran. It highlights sanctions, although Iran is already heavily sanctioned. It directs the UN Ambassador to highlight the Iranian threat, which ambassadors of both parties have routinely highlighted. And it states that U.S. policy is to deny Iran a nuclear weapon, although President Trump withdrew America from the successful Iran nuclear deal during his first term which likely accelerated Iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon.

This order calls for reform of the Foreign Service such that State Department employees will be recruited, evaluated, and promoted based on their loyalty to President Trump.

The order tells the Secretary of State to reform recruitment, evaluation, and retention standards to ensure that all State Department employees fully carry out President Trump's America First foreign policy agenda. Foreign Service Officers have long implemented presidents' initiatives regardless of their party, but this order politicizes their work by suggesting any officer who shows dissent or contradicts Trump will be fired. The order expands President Trump's Schedule Policy/Career (formerly known as Schedule F) directive by trying to make it easier to fire non-political government workers who are not fully aligned with President Trump's agenda. It reverses the longstanding principle of the Foreign Service that officers are hired and promoted for their merit, expertise, and experience, rather than their political loyalty.