Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
Headline: Orders Cuts to Federal Bureaucracy and Specific Programs
What it does: Agencies must eliminate listed non-statutory functions, reduce staff to the legal minimum, and terminate specified advisory committees and programs.
- Eliminates non-statutory parts of four named federal entities.
- Terminates multiple federal advisory committees named in the order.
- Requires agency reports to the budget office within 14 days and limits funding.
Summary
This order begins a government-wide effort to sharply reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy. It requires elimination of non-statutory parts of four named entities and cuts their staff and functions to the minimum required by law.
Heads of those entities must report to the office that manages the federal budget (OMB) within 14 days, and the order directs budget reviewers to reject funding inconsistent with these cuts. It also terminates several named federal advisory committees, begins ending the Presidential Management Fellows Program, and revokes a 1961 presidential memorandum on regional coordination.
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