Published on March 14, 2025
This executive order mandates the elimination of non-statutory components and reduction to minimum statutory functions of seven federal entities, including agencies focused on mediation, global media, scholarly research, museums and libraries, homelessness, community development, and minority business development. The order requires agency heads to report compliance within seven days and directs the Office of Management and Budget to reject funding requests inconsistent with these reductions.
While framed as bureaucratic streamlining, this order specifically targets agencies that serve marginalized communities, promote cultural education, and facilitate economic equity, suggesting a potential agenda to weaken federal oversight of social justice initiatives and public information channels. The rushed seven-day reporting requirement and immediate budget restrictions could force hasty decisions that permanently damage these institutions' capabilities, while the vague language around "minimum presence and function required by law" creates significant discretionary power that could be used to effectively neutralize these agencies while maintaining a facade of legal compliance.
Though presented as an efficiency measure, this executive order appears designed to systematically dismantle federal infrastructure supporting social equity, public education, and economic opportunity for underserved communities. The combination of targeted agency selection, accelerated timeline, and ambiguous implementation guidelines suggests a coordinated effort to reduce federal capacity for promoting social justice and public welfare while maintaining plausible deniability about the order's true intentions.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. This order continues the reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary. Sec. 2. Reducing the Scope of the Federal Bureaucracy.(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law:(i) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service;(ii) the United States Agency for Global Media;(iii) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution;(iv) the Institute of Museum and Library Services;(v) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness;(vi) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund; and(vii) the Minority Business Development Agency.(b) Within 7 days of the date of this order, the head of each governmental entity listed in subsection (a) of this section shall submit a report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget confirming full compliance with this order and explaining which components or functions of the governmental entity, if any, are statutorily required and to what extent.(c) In reviewing budget requests submitted by the governmental entities listed in subsection (a) of this section, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or the head of any executive department or agency charged with reviewing grant requests by such entities shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law and except insofar as necessary to effectuate an expected termination, reject funding requests for such governmental entities to the extent they are inconsistent with this order. Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.THE WHITE HOUSE,March 14, 2025.