Trump Administration Executive Action Tracker
The second Trump administration has attacked nearly all of the freedoms, public services and protections, and programs that our communities rely for health care, housing, education, safety, and more. NETWORK is committed to keeping justice-seekers informed by tracking the Trump administration's executive orders and actions--which harm us all and threaten all aspects of NETWORK’s An Economy for All agenda.
In the charts below, you will find the executive orders and their impacts. To see lawsuits that may be in progress, please visit NETWORK's complete Executive Action Tracker on Google Drive. They are organized according to how they undermine NETWORK's An Economy for All agenda areas. Please continue to monitor the Executive Action Tracker as we will update it regularly.
Last update: April 7, 2025
| Imposed blanket tariffs worldwide, sending financial markets into a tailspin and threatening widespread price increases that will hit ordinary families the hardest. | 19 states filed suit to block President Trump’s executive order threatening voting rights, arguing that it is an unconstitutional attempt by the Administration to seize control of elections that will create barriers to voting that could disenfranchise millions. There are three other lawsuits challenging the order. |
| Increased the numbers of illegitimate ICE arrests and detentions of naturalized U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and visitors to the U.S. without due process. | A coalition of states sued to block the Administration from cutting off $11 billion in federal funding for public health projects across the country. |
| Ramped up the purging of government websites, databases, and other information sources to remove information not deemed favorable to the Trump administration and its Project 2025 agenda. | A federal judge paused Administration plans to end TPS protection for 350,000 Venezuelans, finding that the ending TPS would inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives and livelihoods would be severely disrupted, cost the U.S. billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety. |
| Fired cyber-defense leaders and gutted government offices responsible for preventing, identifying, and alerting state and local governments to cybercrimes, including threats to election security. | Several unions sued to block DOGE from accessing private Social Security data that would reveal highly sensitive personal and financial information. |
| A coalition of unions sued the Administration over its directive to agencies to terminate their collective bargaining agreements with federal employee unions. | |
| A federal judge ordered the return of a Maryland man who the Administration wrongly deported to prison in El Salvador despite a valid order allowing him to stay in the U.S. |
The charts below show
The Trump administration’s attacks on:
Jobs with paid leave and wages that cover our bills, retirement, and more
| Executive Order or Action | |
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| Impose a sweeping halt to federal grant funding: Shuts down all federal grant funding, imperiling the lives and livelihood of our neighbors and the non-profits that provide life-saving support to those in need in our communities. The Trump administration continues to clawback money authorized by Congress, including the termination of $11 billion in COVID-19 funding for state and local health departments. | This action would endanger millions of people by decimating the non-profit providers who feed, clothe, educate, house and care for our communities. |
| Action on labor: Fires two members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), naming no successors. Fires head of Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). | Leaves the NLRB without a quorum, preventing it from taking any official action to certify union elections, find labor law violations, and more. |
| Actions on collective bargaining: Two executive orders authorize the heads of most federal agencies to end collective bargaining in many of their offices on vague “national security” grounds, and refuse to honor contracts entered into in the last 30 days of the Biden administration which do not comply with Trump administration priorities (with exceptions for law enforcement). DHS has also already terminated its contract with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers. | Violates federal employees’ collective bargaining rights. |
| Ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs: Terminates federal programs, executive orders, private sector, and educational programs that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal government and in external programs that receive federal support. Mandates measures to deter future related programs. The Department of Education terminated $600 million in K-12 grants, alleging that the grants involved diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. DOE has also shut down the office that investigates race- and sex-based discrimination. | This action will terminate funding for programs nationwide that help realize individuals’ potential and foster respect and belonging in workplaces. This action will severely limit opportunities for education and workforce development, especially for people with disabilities, Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, and other individuals who have historically had fewer opportunities to be considered for jobs, and if chosen, to be supported in their workplaces. |
| Withholding funding from universities: The Department of Education posted a letter threatening to withhold federal funding from universities with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. | This threatens to withhold funds from educational institutions that teach accurate history about enslavement and foster respect, belonging, and individual potential. |
Affordable housing, food, and health care for all
| Executive Order or Action | |
|---|---|
| Dismantling USAID: Paused all international aid for 90 days. On Mar. 28, 2025, the Trump administration announced that it was shutting down USAID and transferring its functions to the State Department, which will prioritize funding that “prevents illegal immigration and promotes access to rare minerals.” | This action risks the health, economic well-being, and political stability of people in the U.S. and across the world. Eliminating USAID will increase conflict around the world, discourage democratic processes, increase suffering from disease and death, discourage sustainable economic growth, accelerate environmental destruction, and exacerbate climate change around the world. This action also marks the Trump administration’s first blatant usurpation of Congress’s mandate in establishing a federal agency. |
| On prescription drug costs: Rescinds the Biden Executive Order on lowering prescription drug costs. | Ends drug price negotiations and other Biden administration measures to lower drug costs. |
| Establishing DOGE: Establishes programs to “modernize” federal government by slashing federal jobs and cutting off funding to vital programs. DOGE has been granted further access to the sensitive personal information of private citizens. | In the name of “efficiency,” DOGE leadership has promised to eliminate programs and benefits that serve persons living in or near poverty and to rescind regulations that protect vulnerable communities. |
| Trade policy: Orders federal agency to develop plans for the implementation of tariffs and other trade measures to advance “American First” foreign policy. | Tariffs used strategically to address unfair trade practices can be an important economic tool, but across the board tariffs are ineffective and can raise prices for low-income consumers. |
| Withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO): Removes U.S. from participation in WHO; ends U.S. participation in negotiations for a global Pandemic Agreement. | Harms U.S. ability to respond to pandemics and other global health crises, increasing risk of severe medical threats and economic dislocation. |
| Threatening truthful education on race: Authorizes recission of federal funds to any K-12 education program that acknowledges or discusses matters of racial or ethnic equity or gender identity; establishes a “1776 Commission” to develop a “patriotic education” program. | Threatens schools and school systems with loss of all federal funds for virtually any mention of racial or ethnic discrimination or any recognition of gender identity in schools. |
| Banning funds for gender-affirming care: Bans the use of federal funds through any federal health insurance program for gender-affirming care and authorizes the withholding of federal research or education grant funding for institutions that provide such care. | Forbids the use of federal funds (Medicaid, Medicare, ACA, military coverage) for gender-affirming care and threatens hospitals, medical schools, and other providers with loss of research and education grants if they provide even privately-funded gender-affirming care. |
| Removing health information from Health and Human Services (HHS) websites. | Removing this information puts the health of patients at risk and further endangers research that improves the health and health care of all people in the U.S. |
| Reducing funding for research: Imposes an across the board 15 percent reimbursement rate for indirect costs of medical research, which research institutions have historically negotiated on an individual basis, and suspends research activities in important areas affecting health. | These actions threaten the nation’s ability to continue high level research in science and medicine, imperiling the health and safety of our country and progress towards future innovation. |
| Blocking public health information: Bans external communications and meetings with outside scientists by NIH, CDC and other health agencies pending Administration review of their operations and priorities. | This action keopardizes public health by blocking the public from receiving information about public health emergencies, including the bird flu outbreak, and new treatment breakthroughs. |
| Student debt: The Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court put on hold its upcoming case regarding the Biden administration’s student loan relief program. | This action signals that the Trump administration is likely to rescind the student loan relief program at issue, as well as others not yet before SCOTUS. |
| Cancelling $1.5 billion in food assistance: The Department of Agriculture cancelled $500 million worth of food deliveries and cut $1 billion in funding to food banks and school lunch programs. | These actions leave food banks and school meal programs, which are critical food sources for families, struggling to meet the growing needs in our communities. |
| Closure of agencies that protect our communities: The Trump administration’s orders and other actions have effectively closed the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) and agencies that support community development and prevent homelessness. They have rescinded Biden administration orders that protect the supply of infant formula, minimum wage protections, federal funding for tribal nations, and worker training programs. | These actions leave our communities without federal protections to our health and economic stability and leave us more vulnerable to corporate abuses. |
| Eliminating the Department of Education (DOE): With an executive order and a reduction of half of the Department’s workforce, the Trump administration will hollow out the DOE, sending core statutory functions (IDEA, Title I, and Pell Grants) to other agencies, and entirely eliminate all of its education evaluation, accountability, and civil rights oversight. | These actions will throw into chaos the education of children with disabilities, support for low income students, and other key public school functions. These actions will bring the potential loss of needed funding and accountability safeguards. |
| Cutting Health and Human Services staff by 20% and closing or gutting offices that protect the public health. These reductions to HHS staff by 20,000 will disproportionately affect the CDC, NIH, and the FDA. | These cuts will erode our ability to protect public health and will curtail needed medical research. Cuts to date have slashed work on food safety, low-income home energy assistance, support for TANF recipients, and new medication development. |
Safe and welcoming neighborhoods
| Executive Order or Action | |
|---|---|
| Removing protections for transgender and nonbinary people: Requires that federal programs only recognize people as the gender they were assigned at birth. Bans transgender people from serving in the military. | Removes protections for transgender and nonbinary individuals who already endure severe discrimination from all programs covered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other laws. |
| Pardons for offenses related to January 6: Blanket pardon for all individuals convicted of offenses, including violent offenses, during the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. | Signals that the Trump administration will accept political violence when violence promotes their interests. |
| Restoring the federal death penalty: Requires the death penalty for capital crimes committed by undocumented immigrants and crimes resulting in the death of a law enforcement officer. Requires harsh prison conditions for persons whose death sentences were commuted by President Biden and “encourages” additional state criminal charges against those individuals. | Expands the use of the death penalty in the federal criminal justice systems and targets undocumented immigrants with the death penalty for any capital crime. |
| Contracting with private prison corporations: Rescinds Biden Executive Order barring the Justice Department from renewing contracts with private prison firms. | Private prisons are historically less safe for the people incarcerated in them, and lead to increased incarceration rates and longer sentences. |
| Withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO): Removes U.S. from participation in WHO; ends U.S. participation in negotiations for a global Pandemic Agreement. | Harms U.S. ability to respond to pandemics and other global health crises, increasing risk of severe medical threats and economic dislocation. |
| Revoking federal policing and safety reforms: Eliminates requirements to advance accountable federal policing and criminal justice practices, including: limiting home entries without knocking and the use of chokeholds; mandating body cameras; limiting transfer of military equipment to state and local law enforcement; requiring a national federal police misconduct database; and establishing grants for state and local policing reforms. | Revokes critical federal policing reforms put in place after the murder of George Floyd. |
| DOJ memo on the criminal legal system: Revokes Biden-era DOJ policies to mitigate harsh sentencing practices and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. | Foreshadows a return to increased incarceration, excessive sentences, and government waste without advancing public safety. |
| DOJ memo on gun ownership: Requires a review of all regulations and policies that “infringe” on gun rights. | Will likely result in the elimination of some regulations and policies that protect against gun violence. |
| Designating English as the official language. | A victory for the English-only movement, which has long been tied to efforts to eliminate bilingual education and restrict immigration. |
| Weakening national and local governments’ ability to respond to cyberattacks. The Trump administration fired the heads of the NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command, and slashed funding for agencies that detect, deter, and alert state and local governments. | Leaves state and local governments much more open to cyberattacks on electric grids, election infrastructure, public safety infrastructure, and more. |
Clean air and water
| Executive Order or Action | |
|---|---|
| Oil drilling in Alaska: Opens federal and state lands in Alaska to potentially unlimited mining, drilling, and oil and gas leasing. | Risks increased air pollution nationally and poses risk of water pollution and toxic exposures for Alaskan Indigenous communities. |
| Stalling wind power development: Temporarily withdraws U.S. coastal areas from wind power leasing pending review of federal wind policies. | Pauses new coastal wind projects and jeopardizes their future, setting us back in renewable energy development. |
| Threatening protected lands: Authorizes new, expansive authority to mandate energy production on federal and other lands, using eminent domain to do so. | Threatens to remove environmental protections for federal and some private lands in order to make way for drilling and mining. |
| Expanding mining of fossil fuels: Expands oil energy production and mining on federal lands and water. | Promotes massive fossil fuel production, accelerating the pollution of air, water, and soil and the destruction of land that comes with mining. |
| Freezing disbursement of funds for clean energy projects. | Billions of dollars in funding authorized by the Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act have been halted across the country. This funding freeze imperils clean energy goals and efforts to limit carbon emissions, including by discouraging the purchase and use of energy efficient vehicles and appliances. |
| Abolishing the American Climate Corps. | Limits opportunities for young Americans to gain valuable work experience in clean energy jobs. |
| Withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. | Removes any international accountability for U.S. environmental policies and practices, and harms global cooperation in addressing climate change. Gives China and the EU a competitive advantage in the booming clean energy market and limits opportunities for U.S. workers. |
| DOJ request on clear air cases: The Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court put on hold three upcoming Clean Air Act cases, including the EPA’s “Good Neighbor” regulations; a waiver granted to California to require stricter standards than the federal standard; and a challenge by oil companies who were denied certain waivers. | This action signals that the Trump administration is likely to rescind the regulations or revisit the EPA decisions at issue in these cases. |
| Removing climate-related data from the Department of Agriculture website. | Deprives farmers of critical information on drought, floods, and shifting growing conditions, imperiling their ability to protect the nation’s food supply by responding to emerging climate threats. |
| Repealing 31 regulations and changing the purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency to “lowering energy costs.” | This action threatens to reverse decades of progress on clean air, clean water, combating greenhouse gas emissions, and protecting lands. This action also eliminates enforcement efforts that prioritize protecting neighborhoods that corporations have historically polluted, particularly low-income neighborhoods and Black and Brown communities. |
A tax code that ensures the wealthy pay their fair share
| Executive Order or Action | |
|---|---|
| Tariffs: With a series of executive orders, President Trump has imposed broad, virtually across-the-board tariffs worldwide, with even higher tariffs on countries that produce most consumer goods, as well as automobiles, auto parts, steel, and aluminum. | While targeted tariffs may be effective in fostering U.S. economic growth, blanket tariff programs will increase costs to consumers, especially for food and gas. Already, these tariff measures have created instability in the nation’s food, energy, and manufacturing markets and triggered a trade war with our largest trading partners. |
| Memo on OECD tax deal: Rescinds U.S. participation in the 140-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal. | Allows for widespread corporate tax avoidance. |
| Ending Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act: Ends a bipartisan anti-money laundering law passed during the first Trump administration. | Threatens to make the U.S. a magnet for drug cartels, illegal arms dealers, and corrupt foreign officials by setting up shell companies to avoid paying taxes while they move assets in and out of the U.S. with no oversight. Small business owners will struggle as they are forced to compete with fraudulent and criminal enterprises. |
A just and humane immigration system
| Executive Order or Action | |
|---|---|
| Increasing random, illegitimate arrests and detentions of naturalized U.S. citizens, green card holders, and foreign tourists by ICE, including at least one illegal deportation and detention at the notorious El Salvador prison where hundreds of migrants were sent without due process. | These arrests and detentions have created widespread fear among immigrants living in the U.S. and visitors attempting to enter or leave the U.S. |
| Discontinuing the CBP One app: The Biden administration created the app to allow asylum seekers to schedule appointments to request asylum. | |
| Prohibits people seeking asylum from staying in the U.S. while they pursue their claim. | This prohibition puts people who are fleeing war and persecution in harm’s way. |
| Mobilizing troops to the border: Declares a national emergency at the southern border. 10,000 troops are currently stationed at the border and a naval warship is deployed to the region. | Militarizes the southern U.S. border to prevent people seeking safety from entering the U.S. |
| Limiting access to legal representation for immigrants: Cuts off funding that was appropriated by Congress in 2024 to allow certain detained immigrants to have access to legal representation. | Hinders the right of people in immigration detention to access legal representation. |
| Closing the southern border: Suspends the entry of migrants and allows President Trump to impose any “appropriate” restrictions on new entries. | Effectively closes the southern border to people and families seeking safety, and temporarily and gives President Trump sweeping discretion to impose further restrictions on immigration. |
| Designating cartels as terrorist organizations: Names foreign drug cartels as terrorist organizations and expands law enforcement measures and penalties for those organizations and those who participate in their activity. | Raises the risk that NGOs, including Catholic organizations, that aid undocumented immigrants with services like food or housing may be labeled as supporting “terrorists.” |
| Targeting immigrants and communities who help them: Greatly expands immigrant detention facilities. Orders the hiring of more border patrol agents; cuts off federal funds to sanctuary states and cities; and denies public benefits to undocumented immigrants. | Potential massive increases to migrant detention capacity and ICE workforce. Threatens to dismantle sanctuary protections by cutting off federal funding to sanctuary states and cities. |
| “Vetting” immigrants: Requires all agencies to conduct “enhanced alien vetting” to ensure that a person has no “hostile” attitudes toward the U.S. or “terrorist” history. This applies to immigrants seeking entry and those already in the U.S. Requires information from the individual’s country of origin and allows for full exclusion of all migrants from non-cooperating countries. | Threatens serious obstacles to the ability to both enter and remain in the U.S., even for those with otherwise legal status. Allows the government to entirely block immigration from selected countries. |
| Criminalizing migration: Seeks to complete the border wall and detain migrants suspected of violating immigration law. Seeks to criminally charge people who already live in the U.S. without documentation, as well as people who “facilitate their unlawful presence in the U.S.” | Threatens criminal prosecution of migrants here without citizenship, as well as NGOs that provide aid to immigrants. |
| Ending birthright citizenship: Seeks to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. | This is a blatant violation of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution. |
| Targeting immigrants in protests: Requires all agencies to develop plans to address anti-Semitism, singling out campus demonstrations against military actions by Israel and participation by non-U.S. citizen students in those demonstrations. ICE has arrested and detained numerous green card, TPS, and more than 300 legitimate visa holders for potential deportation, including Mahmoud Khalil and others, chiefly for participation in pro-Palestine protests or for being Venezuelan nationals. | Bars refugees even if they had plane tickets, including 1,600 Afghan refugees. Deprives recently arrived refugees from statutorily mandated support and defunds refugee assistance organizations. |
| Targeting immigrants in protests: Requires all agencies to develop plans to address anti-Semitism, singling out campus demonstrations against military actions by Israel and participation by non-U.S. citizen students in those demonstrations. ICE arrested green card holder Mahmoud Khalil and is detaining him in Louisiana for his participation in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, where Khalil is a student. The U.S. government is trying to revoke his green card and deport him. | Effectively threatens participants in such demonstrations with criminal and civil penalties, notably deportation for non-citizen students who participate. Khalil’s arrest is a dangerous precedent intended to chill free speech and political activism. |
| Fast-track deportations memo: A DHS directive that authorizes fast-track deportations for people who cannot prove they have been in the U.S. for two years. Authorizes ICE raids on “sensitive locations” including schools, churches, and hospitals. Establishes quotas for daily ICE arrests. In a directive that was not published, the Trump administration encouraged the re-detention and removal of individuals who had previously won protection from immigration court. The directive allows the Administration to deport people who do not have legal status to “third countries” rather than their home country. | |
| Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798: Allows for summary deportation of people from countries at war with the U.S. Hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members have been sent to prisons in El Salvador. | Prisons in El Salvador are notorious for their inhumane treatment of inmates. This EO may be used more broadly and will deprive immigrants of due process rights and subject them to abuse and torture. |
| Rescinding TPS: Rescinds the recent renewal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants. | Strips 600,000 Venezuelan migrants and 500,000 Haitian migrants in the U.S. of their legal immigration status and subjects them to deportation to a country in crisis. |
| Opening camps at Guantanamo: Directs the opening of immigrant detention camps at Guantanamo. | |
| Sharing confidential tax records: The IRS is disclosing information to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration enforcement purposes. | This action exposes millions of taxpayers to aggressive immigration enforcement. Undocumented workers pay almost $100 billion in taxes, including to Social Security and Medicare, although they are not eligible for this benefit. |
| Eliminating the DHS offices that safeguard immigration processes: Eliminates the three DHS offices responsible for handling complaints regarding the immigration process and providing oversight and reporting to Congress. | This action wipes out any internal scrutiny over errors and abuses by DHS offices and personnel, along with annual accountability regarding DHS conduct to Congress. |
| Revocation of humanitarian parole for tens of thousands of immigrants: DHS is revoking humanitarian parole for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, NIcaragua, and Venezuela, leaving them without legal status in the U.S. within 30 days of the revocation announcement. | This action will leave tens of thousands of immigrants, now legally in the U.S., who will effectively become undocumented migrants in 30 days and face ICE arrest, deportation, and a return to violence and persecution in their countries of birth. |
A politics responsive to the people, not the money
| Executive Order or Action | |
|---|---|
| Ordering harsh restrictions on citizens’ right to vote: This executive order requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, forbids counting of ballots received after Election Day, requires paper ballots, and establishes other limits on states’ election administration. | This order will bar many U.S. citizens who do not have ready access to proof of citizenship from voting and will require massive, restrictive changes in many states’ election operations. |
| Removing civil service protections in federal hiring: “Reforms” federal hiring, including removing civil service protections for senior federal agency managers and designating their employment as “at the pleasure of the President.” | Threatens to transform the civil service system for higher management into a political patronage scheme. |
| Firing federal employees: Federal workers have been fired, seen their jobs eliminated, or been placed on administrative leave at agencies across the government. These employees include federal employees who are not “faithful” to Trump administration policies; probationary employees; employees whose work includes diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts; employees at the Department of Education (which the Administration wants to eliminate); and teachers at federally funded tribal schools. | These firings threaten the health, safety, education, and welfare of all people in the U.S. by weakening the government’s ability to meet current needs and respond to future crises through established federal programs. These firings also increase unemployment (as of Mar. 14, 2025, 250,000 federal workers have been fired). |
| OPM memo on hiring: Allows agencies to temporarily hire unlimited numbers of political appointees as they use various measures to reduce civil service staff. | Facilitates the transformation of the civil service system into a patronage scheme, filling government positions with Trump loyalists. |
| Regulatory freeze: Freezes progress on any new regulations and permits postponement of already-published regulations. | Jeopardizes implementation of regulations needed to protect our health and safety, the environment, and workers’ rights. |
| Promoting disinformation: Bars government employees from questioning mis- and dis-information on the internet. | Leaves no guardrails for internet disinformation. |
| Revoking security clearances for law firms that have represented Democrats and the January 6th prosecutor Jack Smith. | Attempts to intimidate and silence perceived political enemies. |
| Removing AI protections: Authorizes suspension or rescission of any provision of the Biden Executive Orders on AI and crypto currency that “pose obstacles” to U.S. AI and digital currency development. | Removes important protections on the development and use of AI and cryptocurrency established by the Biden administration. |
| DOGE workforce overhaul: Requires DOGE approval of any new federal hire. Directs federal agencies to immediately plan for “large-scale reductions in force” (exempting military, immigration enforcement, and some law enforcement). | Threatens to weaken federal government’s ability to provide needed benefits and services and to enforce laws protecting the health, safety, and economic security of our communities. |
| Bringing regulatory agencies under Trump’s control: Establishes a series of White House and OMB measures to control the policies and operations of the nation’s independent regulatory agencies to ensure consistency with President Trump’s priorities. | Strips independent regulatory agencies of much of their independence from White House political control. |
| Removing 19 Inspectors General, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, and the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Firing the Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission. | The people in these positions ensure that the president cannot punish his political enemies or hide his own mismanagement and corruption. Firing them removes a vital guardrail and removes any independent oversight of President Trump’s actions. |
| Ending the promotion of democracy abroad: Withheld $200 million in funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a bipartisan organization that promotes democracy in countries across the world, and ordered the elimination of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and agencies that support democracy and peace worldwide. | |
| Revoking security clearances for law firms that have represented Democrats and the January 6th prosecutor Jack Smith. | Attempts to intimidate and silence perceived political enemies. |
| Threatening severe penalties to law firms and attorneys who challenge the Trump administration’s actions or have supported Trump’s political opponents. A series of executive orders threaten to impose severe financial and other penalties on both named law firms and members of the legal community generally who initiate litigation to challenge Trump personally or his presidential actions, as well as those who represent immigrants. | These actions are blatant efforts to intimidate legal professionals from challenging Trump administration abuses, representing Trump’s political opponents, or representing immigrants seeking asylum. |
| Stripping government websites and other data sources of vast amounts of information. The Trump administration has selectively removed massive amounts of data that does not conform with Trump’s vision of American society and history from websites, online repositories, and paper files, including the Justice Department, the National Archives, and agency units targeted for closure. | With no checks on the erasure of troves of government information, the Administration is effectively rewriting U.S. history, and destroying information negative to the President and his performance. |
NETWORK’s support for other litigation
On Meta’s discriminatory practices: NETWORK has reached out to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law expressing support for their lawsuit against tech company Meta for discrimination in advertising higher education opportunities. The lawsuit alleges that Meta disproportionately steers advertisements regarding predatory for-profit schools to Black people while steering ads for public nonprofit schools to white people on social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit alleges this is a violation of the D.C. Human Rights Act and Consumer Protection Procedures Act.
On the Affordable Care Act’s no-cost preventative services mandate: On Feb. 18, 2025, NETWORK signed onto an Amicus Brief in Braidwood v. Becerra, a case before the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the no-cost preventive services mandate under the Affordable Care Act. NETWORK joined United States of Care in recognizing the importance of maintaining no-cost preventive care for diseases including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, depression, and tobacco use.
For more detail about the legal challenges to Trump executive orders and actions, please visit Just Security’s Litigation Tracker.