Updated May 2, 2025
** new updates highlighted
After his inauguration, President Trump signed dozens of Executive Orders (EOs) covering a broad range of issues, many of which could impact the nonprofit community.
Some of the EOs won’t take effect immediately, and many are expected to be immediately challenged in court.
Related: What is an Executive Order? (American Bar Association)
Related: FAQ on Executive Orders Impacting Nonprofits (National Council of Nonprofits)
Executive Orders quick links
– Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
– Federal Government
– Immigration
– LGBTQ+
– Environment
– Census
– Civic Engagement
– House of Worship / Faith-based Groups
– Other
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Thanks to National Council of Nonprofits, here’s what we know so far about those EOs that will directly or peripherally impact the charitable nonprofit sector.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Nonprofit Impact: Federal government DEI programs and trainings, often provided by or in partnership with nonprofits, will be eliminated. In addition, President Trump has signed EOs extending “anti-DEI” efforts to the private sector.
Resource: Maintaining DEI Commitments: Legal Considerations in Today’s Climate (MCN)
Resource: Multi-State Guidance Concerning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Employment Initiatives (Massachusetts and Illinois Offices of the Attorney General)
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
Implications
Requires every federal grant or contract to agree it is compliant with “anti-discrimination” laws and does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate “anti-discrimination” laws.
Directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review all processes, directives, and guidance, and remove all references to DEIA “under whatever name they appear” and terminate all mandates, requirements, programs, and activities.
Requires a report by the Attorney General and each agency to identify up to 9 potential investigations of corporations, large nonprofits or associations, or foundations with assets of $500 million or more or state and local bar and medical associations and higher education institutions with endowments of $1 billion or more.
Requires guidance for all education agencies and higher education institutions that receive federal funds or federal student loan assistance.
Rescinds EO 11246 which required government contracts to include antidiscrimination provisions and affirmative action requirements.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Partially challenged by: NADOHE v. Trump.
Status: In effect, litigation ongoing (Preliminary Injunction; Appellate Court overruling the PI).
Lawsuit Summary: Seeking to block EOs prohibiting federal grants and contract recipients from engaging in DEI initiatives.
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
Implications
Directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to coordinate with all federal agencies to terminate all DEI programs in federal agencies, including equity related grants, and equity action plans.
Full Executive Order.
OMB Funding Freeze Memo.
MCN Statement: OMB Freeze of Federal Grants & Loans.
MCN Statement: Widespread Distress from Nonprofits in Response to Federal Grants Freeze.
OMB Funding Freeze Recession.
OPM DEIA Guidance.
DOJ DEI / DEIA Memo.
EEOC What to Do DEI Guidance.
EEOC What to Know DEI Guidance.
Status
Challenged by: NCN v. OMB, NY v. Trump (23 state Attorneys General).
Status: OMB Memo rescinded, blocked.
Lawsuit Summary: Seeking to block the OMB Memo freezing federal funds. (NCN Administrative Stay; NCN Temporary Restraining Order; NCN Preliminary Order; NCN Opinion; NY Temporary Restraining Order; NY Preliminary Injunction)
Partially Challenged: NADOHE v. Trump.
Status: In effect, litigation ongoing.
Lawsuit Summary: Seeking to block EOs prohibiting federal grant and contract recipients from engaging in DEI initiatives. (Preliminary Injunction; Appellate Court overruling the PI).
Challenged: Chicago Women in Trade v. Trump.
Status: Blocked.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenging making diversity, equity, and inclusion illegal (CWT Preliminary Injunction).
Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization
Implications
Assigned agency leads must prepare for “large-scale reductions in force,” prioritizing any initiatives, operations, or components that include diversity, equity, and inclusion or other functions “not mandated by statute or other law.”
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Implications
Rescinds previous Biden Executive Orders to expand DEI in in federal government programs, the federal workforce, and underserved communities.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
Implications
Directs the Secretary of Education to hold accountable accreditors who fail to meet applicable recognition criteria or violated Federal law by requiring institutions to engage in “unlawful discrimination…under the guise of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives.”
Directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Education to investigate and terminate unlawful discrimination by law schools, medical schools, or graduate medical education entities, including unlawful DEI requirements, and to require accreditors to rely on student outcomes without reference to race, ethnicity, or sex.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies
Implications
Directs a report on discriminatory-equity-ideology-based school discipline and behavior modification techniques, including an assessment of the role of nonprofit organizations that are Federal grant recipients in promoting discriminatory-equity-ideology-based discipline and behavior modification techniques and recommendations to prevent federal funding from going to those programs.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
Implications
Eliminates the use of disparate impact theory, as a matter of federal policy, to the maximum degree possible. Disparate Impact is a legal tool used to challenge seemingly neutral policies or practices that disproportionately impact protected classes, even when there is no discriminatory intent.
Revokes presidential approvals of Department of Justice Title IV of the Civil Rights Act regulations.
Directs agencies to deprioritize the enforcement of disparate-impact rules and regulations and to assess current proceedings based on disparate impact and to bring those proceedings into compliance with the EO.
Directs the Attorney General to initiate the repeal or amendment of implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Federal Government
Nonprofit Impact: Nonprofits partnering with federal government agencies or receiving federal funding, especially through government grants and contracts, may experience longer wait times and slower processing, loss of points of contacts or difficulty reaching them, and increased strain on relationships.
Nonprofits should advocate for and talk to government partners about government grants and contracting reform and provide specific examples of how processes and reporting requirements
could be streamlined.
Nonprofits will no longer have direct White House connections through the Office of Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships.
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
Implications
States that “[i]t is the policy of the Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest.”
Does not define “nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Directs the heads of executive departments and agencies to “review all funding that agencies provide to NGOs.”
Requires agencies to “align future funding decisions with the interests of the United States and with the goals and priorities of my Administration, as expressed in executive actions; as otherwise determined in the judgment of the heads of agencies; and on the basis of applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.”
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Status: In effect.
Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
Implications
Requires the Secretary of Education to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative
Implications
Directs the heads of federal agencies to coordinate with their DOGE Team Leads and the OMB Director to review all regulations within their jurisdiction for “consistency with law and Administration policy.”
Requires federal agencies identify regulation categories such as those that “implicate matters of social, political, or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority.”
Directs OIRA’s Administrator to develop a Unified Regulator Agenda that will modify or rescind those regulations.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Ensuring Accountability for all Agencies
Implications
Requires all federal agencies to submit proposed and final regulations to the Executive Office for review before they are published in the Federal Register.
Sets Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of Law and that “[t]he President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties.”
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending
Implications
Requires the heads of federal agencies to make as many details as possible of “every terminated program, cancelled contract, terminated grant, or any other discontinued obligation of Federal funds” public. Federal agencies must comply with “applicable laws, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the underlying contract, grant, or other award.”
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce
Implications
Changes human resources policies and allows for easier termination.
Creates a new category to exempt federal employees in “policy-determining, policy-making, or policy advocating” position from accessing tools to appeal termination. Positions federal agencies can consider include those with duties such as “substantive participation and discretionary authority in agency grantmaking.”
Full Executive Order.
OPM Guidance on Revocation of EO.
Status
Challenged: AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, NTEU vs. Trump (unions), Stainmak v. Trump (class action).
Status: In effect.
Lawsuit Summary: Seeking to have probationary employees reinstated. OPM ordered to rescind memos directing agencies to fire probationary employees (AFGE, AFL-CIO Preliminary Injunction; SCOTUS overruling AFGE, AFL-CIO PI).
Establishing and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency”
Implications
Establishes the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to implement the DOGE Agenda, modernize federal technology and software and provide access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Challenged: Public Citizen v. Trump, NY v. Trump, AFT v. Bessent, CREW v. DOGE, Japanese American Citizens League v. Musk, Maryland v. AG.
Status: DOGE blocked access to Treasury, DoED and OPM blocked from sharing information DOGE required to produce documents.
Lawsuit Summary: Multiple cases challenging the creation and status of DOGE as a government agency, its access to information, circumvention of FOIA, and Reduction in Force (RIF). (NY Preliminary Injunction; AFT Temporary Restraining Order; CREW Opinion; Maryland Temporary Restraining Order.)
Return to In-Person Work
Implications
Directs full-time, in-person work.
Full Executive Action.
OPM Memo Deferred Resignation.
Status
Challenged: AFGE v. Ezell.
Status: In effect.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenging the related Deferred Resignation Program for federal workers. The judge allowed the program to proceed and the program is now closed.
Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
Implications
Freezes outstanding regulations pending review.
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Status: In effect.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Implications
Removes pay transparency and equity requirements for federal workers.
Rescinds previous Biden Executive Order requiring executive employees to commit to an ethics code and not accept gifts from lobbyists.
Rescinds previous Biden Executive Order establishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Memorandum on Ensuring the Enforcement of Federal Rule of Civic Procedure 65(c)
Implications
Requires all federal agencies to request plaintiffs seeking an injunction to post a bond equal to the federal government’s potential costs and damages.
Full Presidential Action.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures the Enforcement of Federal Rule of Civic Procedure 65(c)
Status
Status: In effect.
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
Implications
Eliminates to the maximum extent possible the: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, United States Agency for Global Media, Woodrow Wilson International center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Museum and Library Services, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and Minority Business Development Agency.
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Challenged by: Rhode Island v. Trump, American Liberty Association v. Sonderling.
Status: In effect.
Lawsuit Summary: Seeking to stop the elimination of IMLS and other agencies.
Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
Implications
Consolidate all domestic federal procurement into the General Services Administration (GSA).
Require all agencies to submit proposals for GSA to conduct domestic procurement within 60 days.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Cost Efficiency Initiative
Implications
Requires each agency to build a centralized technological systems to record payments issued by covered contacts and grants.
Requires a brief, written justification for each payment to be posted publicly, as permitted by law.
Requires a mechanism to pause and rapidly review any payment.
Requires review of all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate, termination or modification to reduce overall spending or reallocation to promote efficiency and advance policies.
Prioritizes review of covered contracts and grants to educational institutions and foreign entities for waste, fraud, and abuse within 30 days.
Requires new guidance for new contracts or modifying existing contracts.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
Implications
Directs Agency Heads to authorize and facilitate intra- and inter- agency sharing and consolidation of unclassified agency records.
Requires Agency Heads to ensure the Federal Government “has unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive Federal funding.”
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Hiring Freeze
Implications
Implements federal hiring freeze.
Full Executive Order.
OMB / OPM Hiring Freeze Guidance.
OPM DEIA Guidance.
DOJ DEI / DEIA Memo.
EEOC What to Do DEI Guidance.
EEOC What to Know DEI Guidance.
Status
Status: In effect.
Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations
Implications
Requires review and repeal of unlawful and potentially unlawful regulations within 60 days.
Directs agencies to finalize rules without notice and comment where consistent with the “good cause” exception.
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Status: In effect.
Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers
Implications
Requires agencies to identify anti-competitive regulations that create or facilitate monopolies, create unnecessary barriers to entry, limit competition between competing entities, create or facilitate licensure or accreditation requirements that unduly limit competition, unnecessarily burden the procurement processes, or otherwise impose anti-competitive restraints or distortions on the operation of the free market.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
Implications
Requires agencies to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to only contain provisions required by statute or are otherwise necessary to support simplicity and usability, strengthen the efficiency of the procurement system, or protect economic or national security interests.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Ensuring Commercial Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts
Implications
Requires agency contracting officers to conduct a review of all open agency solicitations and notices for non-commercial products or services and consolidate them into a proposed application requesting approval for the agency’s approval authority.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
**Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media
Implications
Ceases all Federal funding and cancels existing funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Immigration
Nonprofit Impact: Nonprofits working with immigrant populations, providing legal assistance or training, or delivering humanitarian or other direct aid, may see the need for services increase, may lose funding, and could be targeted by law enforcement. Human services and social services could also be targeted.
Protecting the American People Against Invasion
Implications
Directs relevant federal agencies to take action to remove undocumented immigrants from the country.
Requires the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to review all federal contracts, grants, and other agreements providing funding to nongovernmental organizations supporting or providing services to “illegal aliens” for conformity, waste, fraud, abuse, and compliance with immigration laws and pauses funding.
Terminates agreements determined to be in violation and initiates clawback or recoupment.
Directs the creation of statewide Homeland Security Taskforces and detention centers.
Requires the identification of all “unregistered illegal aliens”.
Directs relevant agencies to take action to block federal funding to sanctuary cities.
Requires all federal agencies to ensure undocumented immigrants do not receive any public benefits.
Full Executive Order.
DOJ Sanctuary Jurisdiction Memo.
Status
Challenged: San Francisco v. Trump; Chelsea v. Trump; Make The Road New York v. Huffman; Amica Center for Immigration Rights v. DOJ.
Status: Blocked.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenging targeting sanctuary cities, expedited removal, and immigrants’ access to counsel.
Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program
Implications
Suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Challenged: Pacito v. Trump.
Status: In effect.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenging the termination of the USRAP. (Pacito Preliminary Injunction; State Stop Work Order.)
Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
Implications
Challenges birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment when the person’s mother was unlawfully in the US and the father was not a US citizen or permanent resident or the mother’s presence was lawful but temporary and the father was not a US citizen or permanent resident.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Challenged: CASA v. Trump; Washington v. Trump; New Jersey v. Trump.
Status: Blocked.
Lawsuit Summary: Multiple cases in several states challenging the Executive Order as unconstitutional. The Administration has appealed all three cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. (CASA Preliminary Injunction; Washington Preliminary Injunction; New Jersey Preliminary Injunction.)
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders
Implications
Directs federal departments and agencies to identify federally funded programs that “illegal aliens” can access, including cash and non-cash public benefits and ensure payments to states and localities do not subsidize or promote “illegal immigration” or “abet so-called ‘sanctuary’ policies.”
Requires enhanced eligibility verification systems to exclude any “ineligible alien.”
Requires the OMB and other assigned staff to identify all sources of federal funding for “illegal aliens,” recommend other actions, and refer “improper receipt or use of Federal benefit” to DOJ and DHS within 30 days.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Securing Our Borders
Implications
Prioritizes building a physical wall, deterrent and prevention
of entry, detention, removal, criminal charges, cooperation
with State and local law enforcement, and obtaining
operational control of the borders.
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Status: In effect.
LGBTQ+
Nonprofit Impact: Charitable nonprofits serving LGBTQ+ communities, and providing gender-affirming care and other services, may experience loss of federal funding, increase in demand for services, and strained relationships with government partners.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Implications
Revokes previous executive order (EO 13988) preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
Implications
Requires the United States to recognize only two sexes, male and female.
Directs the Executive Branch to enforce all sex protective laws under the lens of two sexes.
Directs government-issued identification documents to only recognize two sexes.
Prohibits federal funds to be used to promote gender ideology.
Requires all agencies to remove all references that promote gender ideology.
Full Executive Order.
HHS Action.
Status
Challenged by: National Urban League v. Trump; Rhode Island Latino Arts v. NEA.
Status: In effect.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenging this executive order and related actions enforcement as unconstitutional. (RI Order Denying Preliminary Injunction.)
Environment
Nonprofit Impact: Nonprofits receiving or expecting funding from Elective Pay (sometimes known as “Direct Pay”), Inflation Reduction Act, or other Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act programs may have the programs and funds terminated.
Charitable nonprofits may also be contacted to comment on their experience before, during, and after
natural disasters.
Council to Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Implications
Creates a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council that shall meet regularly and “solicit information and ideas from a broad range of stakeholders, including… nonprofit organizations.” This Council will give the President a report on FEMA’s response to natural disasters since 2020 that evaluates whether the agency can serve its functions. The first public meeting will be held 90 days from Jan. 24, 2025.
Full Executive Order.
FEMA Memo.
Status
Status: In effect.
Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
Implications
Requires a National Resilience Strategy.
Requires review of and recommendations on critical infrastructure policies.
Requires a National Risk Register.
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Status: In effect.
Unleashing American Energy
Implications
Expands energy exploration on Federal lands and waters, eliminates electric vehicle (EV) mandate, terminates Green New Deal.
Full Executive Order.
EPA’s Press Release.
Status
Challenged by: Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, NCN v. AG.
Status: Blocked.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenging the Administration’s freeze on funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), known also as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. (Woonasquatucket Preliminary Injunction.)
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Implications
Revokes previous executive order (EO 14052) to implement the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Census
Nonprofit Impact: Lays the groundwork for legislation and other actions to exclude noncitizens from future Censuses. The National Council of Nonprofits submitted an amicus brief when this issue was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court for the 2020 Census.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Implications
Rescinds previous Biden Executive Order that required all persons, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, to be counted in the Census.
Rescinds previous Biden Executive Order directing federal agencies to provide access to voter information.
Full Executive Order.
Termination of Census Committees.
Status
Status: In effect.
Civic Engagement
Nonprofit Impact: Restricts voting access and nonprofit advocacy rights.
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
Implications
Requires the mail voter registration form to require proof of citizenship.
Requires recording of the type of document an applicant uses as proof of citizenship.
Requires identification of “unqualified voters registered in the States”.
Requires information on foreign nationals who have registered or have voted.
Requires assessment of citizenship prior to providing voter registration forms for public assistance programs.
Prioritizes enforcement against noncitizens registering to vote.
Removes federal funds to states that do not comply.
Changes voting standards, guidelines, administration, and electronic systems.
Conditions funding for the states on “uniform and nondiscriminatory standards…that define what constitutes a vote and what will be counted as a vote.”
Prioritizes enforcement against foreign nationals from contributing or donating in elections.
Prioritizes enforcement of a federal statute that prohibits nonprofits and businesses to use federal funds to influence federal funding decisions.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Challenged by: League of Women Voters Education Fund v. Trump (consolidated case)
Status: Partially blocked regarding documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and assessment of citizenship prior to registration assistance.
Lawsuit Summary: Challenges the executive order as unconstitutional and in violation of federal statues.
House of Worship / Faith-Based Groups
Nonprofit Impact: Houses of worship and faith-based groups and community organizations may be now eligible to receive or access federal grants, contracts, programs, and other federal funding opportunities.
Establishment of the White House Faith Office
Implications
Establishes the White House Faith Office to “empower faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to serve families and communities.”
Replaces the former White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Charges the White House Faith Office to make recommendations; convene meetings; advise on the implementation of policy; showcase innovative initiatives; coordinate and support on training and education; consult on volunteerism, charitable giving, and payroll deductions; identify and promote grant opportunities; identify concerns; and make proposals to reduce burdens on the free exercise of religion.
Clarifies that the “executive branch wants faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to compete on a level playing field for grants, contracts, programs, and other Federal funding opportunities.”
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
**Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission
Implications
Establishes a 14-person Commission to produce a report on religious liberty in America.
Requires the Commission to consider the First Amendment rights of pastors, religious leaders, houses of worship, faith-based
institutions, and religious speakers; attacks on houses of worship; debanking of religious entities; First Amendment rights of teachers, students, military chaplains, service members, employers, and employees; conscience protections concerning vaccine mandates; parents’ authority; Government displays; and free exercise of faith without fear or Government censorship or retaliation.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Other
Nonprofit Impact: Nonprofits working on specific issues and from various subsectors seen as and providing information contrary to the Administration may be targeted.
Arts and culture nonprofits, museums, and libraries will no longer be “integrated into strategies, policies, and programs that advance the economic development, well-being, and resilience of all communities”, among other things, by the Trump Administration.
Nonprofits that provide foreign assistance may be targeted.
Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
Implications
Claims combatting “misinformation”, “disinformation”, and “malinformation” are infringements on First Amendment freedom of speech.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
Implications
Requires foreign assistance to be disbursed in a manner aligned with the foreign policy of the President and places a 90-day pause on foreign development assistance.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Challenged by: State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition.
Status: Blocked, payment are to resume.
Lawsuit Summary: Seeking to require the State Department and USAID to resume foreign aid payments.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Implications
Rescinds previous Order promoting the arts, humanities, and museum and library services.
Full Executive Order.
Status
Status: In effect.
Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Implications
Directs the Dep. of Ed to propose changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program to exclude certain nonprofit
organizations “whose activities have a substantial illegal purpose,” including “terrorism”, “child abuse,” “illegal discrimination,” or “disorderly conduct.”
Full Presidential Action.
Status
Status: In effect.