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DOGE attempted to cut entire AmeriCorps programs and thousands of staff and grants that are providing essential disaster resilience and rebuilding services around the country.

Since its inception in 1993, AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) has recruited thousands of people every year between the ages of 18 and 26 to work on projects across the country, including disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery efforts, in exchange for early career experience and assistance with federal student loans. But on April 15, 2025, AmeriCorps NCCC emailed all members to announce that, in alignment with DOGE cost-cutting priorities, all NCCC members are being terminated from the program, ending their pay on April 30 and restricting their eligibility for NCCC's student loan assistance.

This order suspends security clearances and access to federal buildings for employees of Susman Godfrey, and terminates government contracts with the firm.

Similar to earlier EOs from President Trump that targeted other private law firms, this EO focused on Susman Godfrey - a well-respected U.S. law firm of over 200 attorneys - largely because of its work defending the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. This EO directs agencies to suspend security clearances held by Susman Godfrey employees, deny them access to federal buildings, avoid meeting with them, and refuse to hire them. The EO also directs agencies to terminate any contracts between the federal government and the firm. The order also criticizes Susman Godfrey for seeking to support and hire law students of color, and accuses the firm of "spearhead[ing] efforts to weaponize the American legal system and degrade the quality of American elections."

The administration announced the firing of about 10,000 full-time HHS employees and the closure of dozens of agencies and regional offices that serve the American people.

On March 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a "dramatic restructuring" in line with President Trump and DOGE's priorities to gut the federal workforce and reduce access to critical services, ostensibly to "Make America Healthy Again." But these cuts would eliminate about 10,000 full-time jobs, shutter dozens of agencies, and close about half the number of regional offices within the department, severely hampering the department's ability to protect the health and welfare of the American people.

The administration cited to various executive orders to impose vague and contradictory new requirements that could threaten existing grants designed to reduce teen pregnancy.

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, established by Congress in 2010 and continuously funded for the last 15 years, relies on evidence-based policy to fund diverse organizations working to give adolescents, and the adults supporting them, the knowledge and tools needed to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes and promote positive experiences, relationships, and environments in order to help youth thrive. But grantees who were approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in June 2023 for five-year projects to reduce teen pregnancy now face newly imposed requirements that programs must "align" with President Trump's anti-gender and anti-DEI executive orders, in direct conflict with the evidence-based principles on which the TPP Program was established.

This order suspends security clearances and access to federal buildings for employees of WilmerHale and cancels government contracts with the firm.

Like other executive orders from March 2025, EO 14250 directed agencies to suspend law firm WilmerHale's security clearances, terminate federal contracts with the firm, block access to government buildings for the firm's employees, and discourage federal officials from interacting with WilmerHale employees. The EO cited the firm’s former affiliation with Robert Mueller and alleged that WilmerHale "employs lawyers who weaponize the prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process."

Wrongly claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic is now over, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services attempted to slash billions in research and healthcare funding overnight.

On March 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) abruptly cancelled over $11 billion in critical public health funding that supports identifying and addressing infectious diseases, ensuring access to immunizations, fortifying emergency preparedness, providing mental health and substance abuse services, and modernizing critical public health infrastructure. The next day, an HHS spokesperson justified the cuts by incorrectly stating that "the COVID-19 pandemic is over," despite the fact that the funding also supported essential projects unrelated to COVID-19.