Tracking every rollback, reversal, and overreach — and the path back to the America we know.
President Trump signed Proclamation 2025-02344 on January 31, 2025, designating a week in 2025 as National School Choice Week. The proclamation is a ceremonial declaration recognizing school choice initiatives. It has no direct regulatory or budgetary impact on Americans' access to schools or education programs.
President Trump signed Proclamation 10071 on August 14, 2020, designating the week of August 23-29, 2020 as National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week. The proclamation honors employers who support employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve. This is a ceremonial designation with no direct regulatory or budgetary impact on Americans.
On May 8, 2020, President Trump signed a memorandum directing continued federal funding for governors' use of the National Guard to respond to COVID-19 and support economic recovery efforts. The memorandum authorized the Department of Defense to provide financial support for National Guard deployments related to pandemic response. This enabled states to utilize National Guard personnel for COVID-19-related tasks without depleting state budgets for those specific deployments.
On February 10, 2020, the Trump administration issued a sequestration order pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, reducing federal spending across discretionary and mandatory programs for fiscal year 2021. The order mandated automatic spending cuts to federal agencies and programs to comply with budget deficit limits. The sequestration resulted in reduced funding allocations across federal departments and agencies including defense, education, and health programs for the 2021 fiscal year.
President Trump signed Executive Order 13891 on October 9, 2019, establishing new requirements for federal agencies issuing guidance documents. The order requires agencies to treat guidance documents as non-binding, distinguish them clearly from rules, and submit them to Office of Management and Budget review. The order affects how federal agencies communicate regulatory expectations to the public and regulated entities, changing the process by which guidance is issued but not eliminating existing guidance documents.
President Trump signed Proclamation 2019-20053 on September 9, 2019, designating a week in 2019 as National Minority Enterprise Development Week. The proclamation recognizes minority-owned businesses and calls for awareness of minority entrepreneurship. The action has no direct regulatory or budgetary impact on Americans.
President Trump signed Executive Order 13875 on June 14, 2019, directing the Office of Management and Budget to evaluate federal advisory committees and recommend actions to improve their utility and eliminate unnecessary committees. The order required agencies to review their advisory committees and report findings within 120 days. Confirmed effects included the initiation of government-wide reviews of advisory committee structures and subsequent elimination or consolidation of certain committees across federal agencies.
On March 18, 2019, the Trump administration issued a sequestration order pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, triggering automatic spending cuts across federal agencies. The order required reduction of discretionary spending in fiscal year 2020 to meet deficit reduction targets mandated by the law. The sequestration resulted in across-the-board cuts to federal programs including defense, Medicare, and other discretionary spending categories.
On March 6, 2019, President Trump signed Executive Order 13862, which revoked a requirement for federal agencies to report data on the total cost of regulations. The order eliminated mandatory reporting on cumulative regulatory costs that had been required under previous executive orders. The direct effect was that federal agencies no longer had to compile and submit annual reports quantifying the aggregate costs of regulations to the Office of Management and Budget.
President Trump signed Proclamation 9844 on February 15, 2019, declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. The declaration invoked emergency powers under the National Emergencies Act to redirect federal funding and military resources to border barrier construction without Congressional appropriation. The action redirected approximately $3.6 billion in military construction funds to wall construction, bypassing normal budget allocation processes.