Withdrawn

Updated:

3/17/25

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This memo indefinitely and illegally pauses billions or more in congressionally approved funding that supports people and communities in every state in America.

This harmful and illegal memo from the temporary head of the Office of Management and Budget puts an indefinite pause on billions, possibly more, in congressionally approved funding that supports people in every state in the country. This could pause research on cures for childhood cancer, halt housing and food assistance, shutter domestic violence and homeless shelters, close suicide hotlines, block funding for schools, shutter essential services for small businesses like workforce training and childcare programs, and more.

Challenged

Updated:

3/14/25

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This order seeks to significantly weaken the government's progress on equity programs that support historically underserved communities.

This order seeks to end all equity programs in the federal government, including those that aim to create a more level playing field for communities that have experienced racial or economic discrimination, and support for historically underserved communities of all kinds. It targets all agencies, departments, personnel, expenditures, federal contractors, and grant recipients that have any equity actions, initiatives, or programs. This will harm countless people who have faced discrimination and move our government away from equity and opportunity for all.

Challenged

Updated:

3/14/25

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This order is another attack on diversity, equity, & inclusion initiatives in the federal government and a new attack on similar initiatives in private business & public education.

This is another anti-equity order from the Trump administration and goes further in several respects. It incorrectly claims that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives in the federal government, the private sector, and public education violate civil rights laws. It revokes several longstanding executive orders intended to address discrimination within the federal government, including one dating back to 1965, and it requires all federal contractors and grant recipients to certify that they do not operate any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws. In the private sector, the order directs the Attorney General to submit a report outlining a plan for misusing civil rights laws against companies that have equity initiatives, and it requires agencies to identify specific large companies, nonprofits, foundations, and associations for civil compliance investigations. The order also directs the Attorney General to work with the Secretary of Education to issue joint guidance to state and local educational agencies and higher education institutions on how to comply with federal funding requirements in light of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to hold two universities’ race-conscious admissions programs unconstitutional.

Challenged

Updated:

3/14/25

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This omnibus order covers various aspects of interior immigration enforcement, including criminal prosecutions, expanded enforcement, and threats to sanctuary jurisdictions.

This is an expansive, omnibus-style executive order focused on interior immigration enforcement, and touches on a number of discrete policy issues. First, it revokes the Biden administration's priorities memo, so the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not focus its resources on people with criminal convictions or people who pose threats to national security. In addition, this order directs the Department of Justice to prioritize prosecuting immigrants for unlawful entry and reentry — which already consumes significant resources for Assistant United States Attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico border. The order directs DHS to expand expedited removal (a fast-track deportation scheme) to its maximum extent, increase fine collection from noncitizens here without authorization, try to expand detention, and re-establish an office focused on crimes committed by noncitizens that existed in Trump's first term. DHS and DOJ are directed to establish a Task Force in each state, and prosecute noncitizens who don't register with the government (which would apply to all undocumented people). The order directs DHS to freeze funding to organizations that serve migrants until an audit is complete, cancel contracts, and even try to take back funds if the organizations don't pass the audit. On the issue of "sanctuary" jurisdictions, this order tells the Attorney General and DHS Secretary to deny them funding to the extent the law allows (which is contested), and tells DHS to issue guidance on existing law. DHS is instructed to expand 287(g) agreements, which allow state and local law enforcement organizations to enforce certain immigration laws in specific circumstances. The order also hints that a type of 287(g) agreement that allows local police and sheriffs to enforce immigration law in the community, while carrying out their law enforcement duties, could be revived after many years. The order directs the State Department, DOJ, and DHS to take a hard look at Temporary Protected Status and work permits, but doesn't rescind them. State and DHS are directed to pressure recalcitrant countries to take their citizens back when the U.S. wants to deport them.

Underway

Updated:

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.

Challenged

Updated:

3/13/25

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This order establishes the "Department of Government Efficiency," which has been tasked with modernizing federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency.

This executive order claims to create the "Department of Government Efficiency" as a Temporary Organization under 5 U.S.C. 3161, with a stated purpose to modernize federal technology and software in order to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity. Such a mission may appear to be benign, or even a positive development for the federal bureaucracy, but Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and others associated with DOGE have made clear their intent to target, overrule, or undermine civil servants; roll back important protections that keep us safe; and, cut massive programs that benefit tens of millions of Americans.