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Framework for Navigating the 2025 Administration Transition (Updated May 13, 2025)
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COGR's Summary Tracker of Executive Orders (V.13, Released June 20, 2025)
COGR Letters to Trump Administration on Reducing Red Tape Affecting Research (January 29, 2025)
COGR Quoted on NIH 15% Cap on Cost Reimbursements
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Executive Orders & Related Resources
- Presidential Actions (White House)
- 2025 Donald J. Trump Executive Orders (Federal Register)
- Executive Order Overview & Tracker (Akin Gump)
- Recent Executive Actions on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) (Congressional Research Service)
- Trump is signing a flurry of executive orders. Here's how those work (NPR)
- Executive Orders: An Introduction (Congressional Research Service)
Department/Agency Directives/Memoranda
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders
- OPM Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women
- Office of Management and Budget Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs
- OMB QA on M-25-13
- Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
- See Lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in D.C. 1/28/25
- Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit, Seeks Immediate Court Order to Block Sweeping OMB Directive Freezing up to $3 Trillion in Vital Federal Funding
- Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
- Judge blocks Trump’s spending freeze
- Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants
- White House budget office rescinds federal funding freeze
- OMB Memo M-25-14 Recission of M-25-13
- White House says Trump funding freeze remains in effect despite rescinding OMB memo
- Judge signals toward granting Dem challenge to OMB freeze after order rescinded
- A 2nd U.S. judge says Trump administration must pause its federal spending freeze
- D.C. federal judge likely to extend ban on Trump OMB funding freeze
- Office of Management & Budget M-25-11 "Guidance Regarding Section 7 of the Executive Order Unleashing American Energy"
- Office of Management & Budget: Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
- Department of Energy (DOE) Agency-wide Review of Program and Administrative Activities
- Department of Defense (DoD): Class Deviation, Restoring Merit Based Opportunity in Federal Contracts
- DOE PF 2025-16 Rescission of DEI, CBP, and Justice40 Policy Flashes, Acquisition Letters, and Financial Assistance Letters
- DOE Memorandum for All DOE Funding Agreements or Awards: Cease All Activities Associated with DEO and CBP
- DOE Notice of Court Order New York et al. v. Trump
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Immediate Pause on Issuing Documents and Public Communications
- DHHS Acquisition Guidance on Acting Secretary Memo entitled, “Immediate Pause on Issuing Documents and Public Communications – ACTION” (January 21, 2025)
- DHHS Immediate Pause on Issuing Documents and Public Communications (January 21, 2025)
- DHHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again (March 27, 2025)
- NASA Initial Guidance Regarding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) Executive Orders
- NASA Amendment 109: Removing DEIA Requirements from ROSES-2024
- NASA Initial Guidance Regarding Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order
- NASA Guidance Regarding OMB Memorandum M-25-14 and Recent Temporary Restraining Orders
- NASA Implementation of Executive Orders
- Department of Labor: Immediate Implementation of Executive Orders “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity”
- U.S. Department of Education Takes Action to Eliminate DEI
- USAID: Notice on Implementation of Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
- Department of Labor: Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246
- NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders & FAQs
- Contact NSF Regarding the Agency's Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
- General Services Administration: Acquisition Pause
- U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transporation: Ranking Member Ted Cruz. D.E.I. Division, Extremism, Ideology. How the Biden-Harris NSF Politicized Science.
- DOJ Fiscal Year 2025 Open Notices of Funding Opportunities
- CDC Guidance on Complying with Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government
- CDC Guidance on Complying with Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Action
- Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership: Implementation of a 15% Indirect Cost Cap on Assistance Awards to Institutions of Higher Education (DOD/ONR)
Institutional Communications on Federal Funding Updates
Federal Funding Updates Under the New Administration (Arizona State University)
Federal Funding Under the New Administration - General Updates (UMass Amherst)
Tracking Federal Changes 2025 (University of Michigan)
Federal Research Updates 2025 (Columbia University)
Federal Funding Updates: Stay Informed (Washington State University)
2025 Federal Administration Transition Guidance (University of New Hampshire)
New Administration Federal Funding Updates (University of Hawaii)
Federal Funding Updates (University of Houston)
Update on Federal Funding (University of Utah)
University Resources to Navigate the Federal Research Funding Landscape (Boston University)
2025 Federal Administration Transition Information & Resources (Stanford University)
Memo to the Caltech Community Regarding Federal Policy Changes (Cal Tech)
Federal Executive Orders (EOs) & Other Policy Directives (University of Michigan)
2025 Federal Administration Transition (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Biden Administration OSTP News & Updates (Archived)
Biden Administration OMB Memoranda (Archived)
Biden Administration OMB Circulars (Archived)
- United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (May 2024)
- IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE for the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (May 2024)
- Guidelines for Research Security Programs at Covered Institutions
- Updated Report to the U.S. Congress on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research
- Memorandum on Guidelines for Federal Research Agencies Regarding Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs
- Memorandum on Policy Regarding Use of Common Disclosure Forms for the “Biographical Sketch” and the “Current and Pending (Other) Support” Sections of Applications by Federal Research Funding Agencies
- GUIDANCE FOR IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM 33 (NSPM-33) ON NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT-SUPPORTED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (January 2022)
