Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

The order directs four federal entities to shut down all non-statutory components and reduce statutory functions to the minimum required by law. It directly orders five named Federal Advisory Committees — including the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid and the Health Equity Advisory Committee — to be terminated within 14 days. It instructs the OPM Director to begin the rulemaking process to withdraw the regulations that govern both Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program, effectively ending both. OMB is directed to reject budget requests from the four named entities that are inconsistent with this order.

The four named entities must submit compliance reports to OMB within 14 days. Senior White House advisors for national security, economic policy, and domestic policy must identify and submit to the President additional entities and advisory committees warranting termination within 30 days. Actual termination of the PMF Program and Federal Executive Boards takes effect when OPM's final withdrawal regulations are published; the order itself revokes or amends two prior executive orders on those topics on that effective date.

Staff and grantees of the Presidio Trust, Inter-American Foundation, U.S. African Development Foundation, and U.S. Institute of Peace; members of the five terminated advisory committees; federal employees working for Federal Executive Boards; and current and prospective Presidential Management Fellows, one of the federal government's primary mid-career hiring pipelines.

Programs in international development, conservation, and conflict resolution run by the four named entities face immediate reduction or shutdown. Thousands of people who relied on the Presidential Management Fellows program as an entry point into federal careers lose that pathway once the rulemaking takes effect.

The order runs on three parallel tracks. For the four named entities, heads must confirm compliance with OMB within 14 days, and OMB is then directed to block inconsistent future funding requests. For Federal Advisory Committees, agency heads must terminate the five named bodies within 14 days. For the PMF Program and Federal Executive Boards, OPM must initiate formal rulemaking to withdraw governing regulations; actual termination occurs when final rules are published. A separate track requires senior White House advisors to surface additional termination candidates within 30 days, signaling further rounds of reduction.