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    2025 Presidential Actions
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    February 19, 2025

    Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders

    An EO directing several actions to ensure full enforcement of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which generally prohibits illegal aliens from obtaining most taxpayer-funded benefits. A fact sheet on the EO can be found on the White House website.
     
    February 18, 2025

    Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending

    A memorandum directing the heads of executive departments and agencies to publicly disclose the details of every terminated program, canceled contract or terminated grant, or any other discontinued use of federal funds. A fact sheet on the memorandum can be found on the White House website.
     
    February 15, 2025

    Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools

    An EO directing the Secretary of Education to issue guidelines to educational entities regarding their legal obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection in the context of COVID-19 school mandates. The order also instructs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to develop a plan within 90 days to end COVID-19 school mandates. This plan must include a process for ensuring that federal funds are withheld from entities that do not comply with the issued guidelines. A fact sheet on the EO can be found on the White House website.
     
    February 6, 2025

    Advancing United States Interests When Funding Nongovernmental Organizations

    A memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies directing them to review all funding provided to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and to align all future funding decisions with the goals and priorities of the current administration.
     
    February 5, 2025

    Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports

    An EO stating that it is the policy of the US to rescind all funds from educational programs that deny women and girls fair athletic opportunities, including those that permit biological males to compete in women’s sports. The order outlines several directives to implement this policy, including by requiring all executive departments and agencies to review grants awarded to educational institutions and rescind funding from programs that do not comply with the EO.
     
    January 20, 2025

    Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

    A memorandum pausing federal rulemaking until approved by a department or agency head appointed or designated by President Trump. The EO additionally pauses pending regulatory actions and orders the withdrawal of rules sent to the Office of the Federal Register but not yet published.