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This order reinstates servicemembers who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic.

This order directs the Secretary of Defense to allow servicemembers who refused the COVID-19 vaccine during the military's 2021-2023 mandate to seek reinstatement and backpay. The order claims that the short-lived vaccine mandate was a burden on the military, but provides no evidence. Moreover, the mandate was lifted in 2023, so these members could already have sought to re-enlist without getting vaccinated.

This policy cuts off all foreign aid to South Africa and prioritizes refugee resettlement for white South African farmers.

This policy expresses outrage at the treatment of "ethnic minority Afrikaners" in South Africa experiencing "racially discriminatory property confiscation," i.e., white South African farmers whose land is being redistributed by the government to promote domestic policy goals. In response, the executive order directs the government -- including USAID, which the administration is attempting to dismantle -- to stop providing any foreign aid to South Africa. The Order also directs the Departments of State and Homeland Security to prioritize humanitarian relief, including refugee admission and resettlement, for white South African farmers, despite the fact that the President suspended the U.S. Refugee Assistance Program three weeks ago.

This order claims that being transgender is incompatible with military service and directs the Secretary of Defense to take steps to erase the existence of transgender troops.

Falsely claiming that the acceptance and inclusion of transgender people within the Armed Forces is detrimental to unit cohesion, this order seeks to revive President Trump's trans military ban, which was challenged and blocked numerous times under the first Trump administration. The order states that the policy of the United States Government is to exclude from military service people with gender dysphoria and people who use pronouns that do not reflect their sex assigned at birth. The order directs the Secretary of Defense to promptly issue directives to the Department of Defense revoking inclusive pronoun usage and states that the Armed Forces shall not allow people to use sex-segregated facilities that do not align with their sex assigned at birth.

The order eliminated the Federal Executive Institute, which has grown leadership and management skills in over 30,000 senior federal leaders since 1968.

The order eliminated the Federal Executive Institute, which has developed leadership and management skills in over 30,000 senior federal leaders since 1968.

This order siphons money from struggling public schools for the benefit of private entities

This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to submit guidance within 60 days on how states can use federal funds to support K-12 so-called educational choice initiatives and within 90 days, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Education must issue guidance to use discretionary grant programs to allegedly expand choice. It also orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on how states receiving block grants can use them to expand educational choice, "including private and faith-based options." Lastly, it also orders a review within 90 days of school choice for military-connected families and for students eligible to attend Bureau of Indian Education schools. This order will siphon federal money that should have been for public schools to unaccountable private corporations with little to no oversight. These subsidies for mostly wealthy families will also hurt students and magnify existing educational inequalities.

This order rescinds key protections enacted after Dobbs to ensure access to abortion.

This order rescinds two Biden administration EOs — issued weeks after the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade — that strengthened or clarified abortion protections nationwide. This Trump order rests on false claims that the rescinded Biden EOs required "forced" federal funding of abortions. The first rescinded EO directed agencies to seek ways to expand access to and share information about reproductive healthcare, and created an interagency task force to coordinate those efforts. That task force made significant gains for people whose rights had been stripped, including clarifying rules for hospitals required to provide emergency care by federal law. The second rescinded Biden EO promoted non-discrimination in, and data collection for, reproductive healthcare.