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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.

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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.

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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.

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4/2/25

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This memo functionally removes the United States from the OECD Global Tax Deal negotiated with about 140 countries.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal, negotiated by the Biden administration with about 140 countries, is a 15% global corporate minimum tax that addresses tax avoidance by multinational corporations and a race to the bottom on corporate tax rates. Congress never passed a law to bring the United States in compliance with the deal, but President Trump's commitment to withdraw our nation from it will undermine its effectiveness at combatting tax avoidance, including in the United States. Additionally, this memo orders an investigation into whether any foreign countries are not in compliance with any tax treaty with the United States, and if so, orders the development of protective measures the United States should take in response.

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3/17/25

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This order rescinds dozens of prior executive orders that sought to make progress across the economy, civil rights, health care, climate and more.

This order rescinds roughly 80 Biden-Harris administration executive orders that sought to improve the lives of millions of people, across issues like expanding access to health care, raising wages, protecting civil rights, and combatting climate change. For example, it eliminates the Task Force that sought to reunify families after Trump's family separation program; programs expanding economic opportunities for Native, Black, and Hispanic people; and an initiative promoting access to voting. Democracy Forward and its partners will continue assessing the impact of each individual rescission.

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4/2/25

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This memo asks for recommendations on how to make Federal public buildings more uniform, classical, and traditional.

This memo directs the Administrator of the Government Services Administration (GSA), together with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and agency heads, to make recommendations as to the the architectural style of federal public buildings. Specifically, it is focused on how to emphasize classical architecture and tradition.