2025 Administration Transition and Resources

This page will be updated as new information is available.  Please send relevant federal agency communications, directives, and other information your institution receives to: memberservices@!zilch!cogr.edu.

COGR Communications & Resources

• Framework for Navigating the 2025 Administration Transition (Updated August 2025)

• Transition Impact Survey Questions 

• 2025 Administration Transition Impacts on Research - Tell Us Your Story (Ongoing)

• Actionable Ideas to Improve Government Efficiency Affecting the Performance of Research (April 9, 2025)

• National Organizations Announce Joint Effort to Develop a New Indirect Costs Funding Model (April 8, 2025)

• COGR Joins AAU and APLU Presidents in Submitting Joint Letter to Government Officials in Response to Unnecessary Disruptions to Federally Supported Research (February 18,2025)

• COGR's Summary Tracker of Executive Orders (V.17, Released September 22, 2025)

• COGR Letters to Trump Administration on Reducing Red Tape Affecting Research (January 29, 2025)

• COGR Quoted on NIH 15% Cap on Cost Reimbursements

• COGR Quoted on HHS's Policy on Adhering to the Text of the Administrative Procedure Act 

• COGR Quotes/Mentions in Press

• Recent Statements by COGR President Matt Owens

   

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)

Litigation Tracker 

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)

OSTP/OMB Archived Resources

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)