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COGR Communications & Resources
Executive Orders & Related Resources
Department/Agency Directives & Memoranda
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) News
Lawsuits Related to Freeze on Payments for Grants/Contracts
Institutional Communications on Federal Funding Updates
COGR Communications & Resources
COGR's Summary Tracker of Executive Orders (V.4, February 6, 2025)
COGR Letters to Trump Administration on Reducing Red Tape Affecting Research (January 29, 2025)
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)
- Payment Management System (PMS) Payment Delays Due to Executive Orders:
1/29/25: Effective immediately, PMS is only available during the hours of 5:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST Monday through Friday. The limited hours are in effect until a further notice.
Department/Agency Directives/Memoranda
- National Institute of Health: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (NOT-OD-25-068)
- 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- Judge signals toward granting Dem challenge to OMB freeze after order rescinded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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 2/2/25: Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025. See the FAQs below for more information.
- 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
- 2/3/25: Agency employees told to no longer block any funding from Trump's EOs (https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/02/agency-employees-told-no-longer-block-any-funding-trumps-eos/402695/)
- 2/3/25: Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/education-department-trump-executive-order-eeaf1cb6
- 2/3/25: Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders (Nature) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00365-z
- 2/3/25: NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause (Science) https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-eases-freeze-grant-reviews-imposed-after-trump-communications-pause
- 2/2/25: National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist (STAT) https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/nsf-national-science-foundation-payments-resume-after-trump-freeze/
- 2/2/25: USAID website goes dark, staff emails deactivated amid DOGE takeover, source says (FedScoop) https://fedscoop.com/usaid-website-goes-dark-staff-emails-deactivated-amid-doge-takeover-source-says/
- 2/1/25: Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html
- 1/31/25: For every new rule, Trump tells federal agencies to eliminate 10 old ones (USA Today) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/31/trump-reduces-government-regulation-10-to-1/78103293007/
- 1/31/25: Health agencies purge Trump-targeted programs and websites (Science) https://www.science.org/content/article/health-agencies-purge-trump-targeted-programs-and-websites
- 1/31/25: Here’s what Trump’s HHS orders really mean (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/31/trump-hhs-nih-who-pepfar-letters/
- 1/31/25: Universities Close Offices, Halt Research in Response to Trump’s Ban on DEI (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-dei-ban-federal-funding-higher-education-8ae81c40
- 1/30/25: ‘High anxiety moment’: Biden’s NIH chief talks Trump 2.0 and the future of US science (Nature) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00238-5
- 1/30/25: Universities fear Trump is using lucrative research grants as leverage to dismantle their DEI programs (STAT) https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/trump-executive-orders-pressure-universities-to-end-dei-programs/
- 1/29/25: Stop Work Orders Under the Trump Administration’s New Executive Orders and “Pause” of Federal Grants: Seven Practical Steps Federal Grantees May Consider in Response (Arnold & Porter) https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/advisories/2025/01/stop-work-orders-and-pause-of-federal-grants-eo
- 1/29/25: NSF and NIH Grant Reviews Still On Hold After White House Rescinds Memo (Inside Higher Ed) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/01/29/grant-reviews-nsf-and-nih-still-paused#
- 1/28/25: Is your research on Trump’s spending hit list? (Science) https://www.science.org/content/article/your-research-trump-s-spending-hit-list
- 1/28/25: Democratic state AGs to sue over Trump's freeze on grants, loans (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/non-profits-health-groups-sue-over-trumps-freeze-grants-loans-2025-01-28/
- 1/28/25: States Will Sue Trump to Stop Federal Grant Freeze (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/states-lawsuit-trump-federal-grants-pause.html
- 1/28/25: Officials Scramble to Interpret White House Pause on Federal Financial-Assistance Programs (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-orders-pause-of-federal-financial-assistance-programs-8362a8e0
- 1/27/25: Trump’s Executive Orders Shift Higher Education Landscape (American Council on Education) https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Trump-EOs-Shift-Higher-Education-Landscape.aspx
- 1/27/25: White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/ & White House Orders Pause of Federal Financial Assistance Programs (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-orders-pause-of-federal-financial-assistance-programs-8362a8e0
- 1/27/25: NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump’s broad freeze sparked chaos Article Link
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) News
- DOGE Official Government Website: https://doge.gov/
- Executive Order: ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S
- “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY”: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/
- Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Executive Order: Early Implementation (Congressional Research Service)
- Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/
- With a new home for DOGE in the White House, here's what you need to know (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5270893/doge-united-states-digital-service-elon-musk-usds-trump-white-house-eop-omb
- Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/musk-says-doge-is-halting-treasury-payments-to-us-contractors/ar-AA1yibZc
- Musk visits OPM following workforce assignments for DOGE (NextGov): https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/musk-visits-opm-following-workforce-assignments-doge/402533/?oref=ngfcw_alert_nl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nextgov/FCW%20Alert2%20-%20January%2027%2C%202025&utm_term=newsletter_ng_alert
- DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside (Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk/
- ‘DOGE’ formally established under White House (Roll Call) https://rollcall.com/2025/01/21/doge-formally-established-under-white-house/
- What DOGE actually is now (Politico): https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/01/23/what-doge-actually-is-now-00200306
- Trump made DOGE part of the government. Here’s what that might mean (Axios): https://apnews.com/article/doge-government-trump-executive-order-1a2fb7235b9d6f178c764cf6c78d3317
- The most chaotic new committee in Congress (Axios): https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/doge-mtg-crockett-casar-congress-stansbury
Lawsuits Related to the Freeze on Payments for Grants & Contracts
Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management, CDC, FDA and DHHS
- Docket number 1:25-cv-00322
- District Court, District of Columbia
- Filed 2/4/25
- Seeks restoration of data and information deleted from CDC, HHS, and FDA websites that was removed in violation of Administrative Procedures Act and Paperwork Reduction Act.
Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump
- Docket Number: 1:25-cv-00333
- District Ct., D. Maryland
- Filed Feb. 3, 2025
National Council of Nonprofits v. Office of Management and Budget
- Docket Number: 1:25-cv-00239
- Dist. Ct., District of Columbia
- Filed Jan. 28, 2025
State of New York v. Trump
- Docket Number: 1:25-cv-00039
- District Ct., Rhode Island
- Filed Jan. 28, 2025
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)
