President Trump Executive Actions
Trump Administration Actions (all actions available here):
- Launching the Genesis Mission (11/24/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring (10/15/25)
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions (9/23/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers (9/19/25)
- Memorandum: Use of Appropriated Funds for Illegal Lobbying and Partisan Political Activity by Federal Grantees (8/28/25)
- Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking (MORE INFORMATION) (8/7/25)
- Ensuring Transparency in Higher Education Admissions (MORE INFORMATION) (8/7/25)
- Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government (MORE INFORMATION) (7/23/25)
- Creating Schedule G in the Excepted Service (7/17/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Memorandum: Ensuring Accountability and Prioritizing Public Safety in Federal Hiring (7/7/25)
- Establishing the President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission (7/3/25)
- Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University (6/4/25)
- Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats (6/4/25)
- Restoring Gold Standard Science (5/23/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Increasing Efficiency at the Office of the Federal Register (5/9/25)
- Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research (5/5/25)
- Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research (5/5/25)
- Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service (4/24/25)
- White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (4/23/25)
- Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education (4/23/25)
- PROPOSED RULE: Improving Performance, Accountability, and the Civil Service (4/23/25)
- Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities (4/23/25)
- Extension of Hiring Freeze (4/17/25)
- Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History (3/27/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities (3/20/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy (3/14/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (3/14/25)
- Implementing the President’s DOGE Cost Efficiency Initiative (2/26/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s DOGE Deregulatory Initiative (2/19/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Radical Transparency about Wasteful Spending (2/18/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission (2/13/25)
- Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative (2/11/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Advancing United States Interests When Funding Nongovernmental Organizations (2/6/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling (1/29/25)
- President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (1/23/25)
- Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (1/23/25)
- Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (1/21/24) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (1/20/25)
- Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Trust to the Federal Government (1/20/25)
- Establishing and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (1/20/25)
- Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions within the Federal Workforce (1/20/25) – Reinstates Trump Administration’s 2020 EO creating a new Schedule F in the Federal Excepted Service
- Withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO (1/20/25)
- Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (1/20/25) – Withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, among other actions.
- Hiring Freeze (1/20/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Return to In-Person Work (1/20/25) (MORE INFORMATION)
- Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship (1/20/25)
- Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (1/20/25) – Rescinds dozens of Biden Administration Executive Orders
Find COSSA’s full list of Trump’s Executive Actions and more information here or on the Social Science Space Tracker.
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