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This executive order calls for the elimination of government offices, advisory councils, and the Presidential Management Fellows program.

In this order, the president called for the elimination of the Inter-American Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the United States African Development Foundation, and the Presidio Trust. These independent agencies fund community-led development projects abroad, promote research and policies on conflict resolution, and protect national land. The order also purports to eliminate certain Federal Advisory Committees related to Medicare and Medicaid, long COVID, community banking, foreign aid, and more, as well as end the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program. The committees provided the government with expert advice and recommendations for sound policymaking, while the PMF program supplied the federal government with talented early-career civil servants. This order will reduce the positive presence of the United States in the world, rid the federal government of valuable channels of expertise, and stunt its ability to hire early-career professionals.

This order claims to protect IVF access, but it excludes same-sex couples and single people.

This short, non-binding executive order proclaims that our public policy must make in vitro fertilization (IVF) more available to men and women experiencing fertility challenges. However, this deceptive order excludes many types of families, including same-sex couples and single people, and does not meaningfully make IVF more available to anyone. This order is part of the Trump-Vance administration's pronatalist agenda, seeking to increase birthrates among married heterosexual couples. The order does not address same-sex couples or single individuals who wish to have children, both of whom can face additional obstacles to receiving IVF treatment.

This order empowers "DOGE" agents to control workforce decisions in most federal agencies, specifically directing large-scale reductions in force and other limitations on hiring.

This order empowers "DOGE" agents, who typically have no experience in the federal government, to control workforce decisions in most federal agencies. Agency heads must consult DOGE on all hiring decisions, and are limited to hiring one person for every four that depart the agency. The order directs agency heads to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs) and directs the Office of Personnel Management to change regulations to make it easier to find applicants not suitable for federal employment. Employees necessary for national security, homeland, security, or public safety may be exempted from the order.

The Trump administration unlawfully removed the head of the Federal Labor Relations Authority from her role before her term expired.

The Trump administration tried to remove Federal Labor Relations Authority Chairwoman Susan Tsui Grundmann from her role. Her term was not expiring until July 2025, and according to federal law, FLRA members can only be removed for "inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office," and must have a hearing first. This removal follows the Trump administration's trend of unlawfully trying to remove Democratic appointees from independent agency boards. It politicizes agencies that were intended to be somewhat removed from politics and could hamper the protection of rights of federal employees.

This order ends President Biden's efforts to protect workers by regulating Artificial Intelligence

This order ends President Biden's efforts to regulate Artificial Intelligence and sets a 180-day deadline for a new plan to "sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance." This order rejects priorities for AI set by the Biden administration, including a commitment to support American workers, protection of individual privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties, and the responsible development of technology at home and abroad. The order also withdraws guidance for federal procurement of AI resources, and sets a 60-day deadline for a new plan.

This policy guidance directs all schools to stop any recognition of race or diversity in curriculum, programming, or activities.

This policy guidance incorrectly asserts that the 2023 Supreme Court opinion about race in college admissions prohibits all schools (pre-K through higher education) from any use of race in all aspects of "student, academic and campus life." This seemingly includes curriculum, affinity groups or programming (such as recognizing Black History Month), race-neutral programs, and initiatives aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion.