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Department/Agency Directives & Memoranda
Department of Government Effeciency (DOGE) News
Institutional Communications on Federal Funding Updates
COGR Communications & Resources
COGR's Summary Tracker of Executive Orders (V.2, January 28, 2025)
COGR LinkedIn Communication (1/27/25)
Executive Orders & Related Resources
- Presidential Actions (White House)
- Executive Order Overview & Tracker (Akin Gump)
- Trump is signing a flurry of executive orders. Here's how those work (NPR)
- Executive Orders: An Introduction (Congressional Research Service)
- Payment Management System (PMS) Payment Delays Due to Executive Orders:
(As of 1/27): "Effective immediately, PMS is only available during the hours of 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST Monday through Friday. The limited hours are in effect until a further notice. PAYMENT DELAYS: Due to Executive Orders regarding potentially unallowable grant payments, PMS is taking additional measures to process payments. Reviews of applicable programs and payments will result in delays and/or rejections of payments." Cancellation & End of Fiscal Year 2025 Payment Processing Deadlines: Awards funded from 2020 fixed appropriation will cancel on September 30, 2025. Undrawn award funding issued from 2020 fixed appropriation account funds will no longer be available for program expenditures, obligations or payment requests in the Payment Management System.Awards funded from FY 2020 fixed year appropriation will need to be requested no later than the following dates:
- International Treasury Services (ITS) Wire Payment must be submitted by 12:00pm ET on Thursday, September 25, 2025.
- Automated Clearing House (ACH) Payment must be submitted by 12:00pm ET, on Monday, September 29, 2025.
- Same Day/Domestic Wire Payment must be submitted by 2:00pm ET on Tuesday, September 30, 2025.
* Please note, if the payment requires awarding agency approval, that you should you not wait until the deadline to enter the payment request. Waiting until the deadline may result in funds not being received. More information about Cancelled Awards
Department/Agency Directives/Memoranda
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- NASA Initial Guidance Regarding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) Executive Orders
- NASA Amendment 109: Removing DEIA Requirements from ROSES-2024
- 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
- General Services Administration: Acquisition Pause
- 1/28/25: Democratic state AGs to sue over Trump's freeze on grants, loans (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/non-profits-health-groups-sue-over-trumps-freeze-grants-loans-2025-01-28/
- 1/28/25: States Will Sue Trump to Stop Federal Grant Freeze (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/states-lawsuit-trump-federal-grants-pause.html
- 1/28/25: Officials Scramble to Interpret White House Pause on Federal Financial-Assistance Programs (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-orders-pause-of-federal-financial-assistance-programs-8362a8e0
- 1/27/25: Trump’s Executive Orders Shift Higher Education Landscape (American Council on Education) https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Trump-EOs-Shift-Higher-Education-Landscape.aspx
- 1/27/25: White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/ & White House Orders Pause of Federal Financial Assistance Programs (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-orders-pause-of-federal-financial-assistance-programs-8362a8e0
- 1/27/25: NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump’s broad freeze sparked chaos Article Link
- 1/25/25: Trump’s restrictions spark chaos across health and science agencies (STAT) https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/trump-restrictions-dei-communications-health-and-science-agencies-nih-cdc-fda/
- 1/25/25: US freezes almost all foreign aid (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/politics/us-freezes-foreign-aid/index.html
- 1/24/24: State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide (AP) https://apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-foreign-aid-bf047e17ef64cb42a1a1b7fdf05caffa
- 1/24/25: The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started (Atlantic) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/01/trump-nih-pause-higher-ed/681468/
- 1/24/25: Scientists Worried After Trump Halts NIH Grant Reviews (Inside Higher Ed) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/01/24/scientists-worried-after-trump-halts-nih-grant
- 1/23/25: Unleashing Uncertainty: President Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze (Akin Gump) https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/unleashing-uncertainty-president-trumps-federal-funding-freeze
- 1/23/25: Trump Alarms Scientists by Muzzling US Health Agencies (Bloomberg Law) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-life-sciences/trump-alarms-scientists-with-order-muzzling-us-health-agencies?context=search&index=10
- 1/23/25: ‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel (Nature) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00231-y
- 1/23/25: Trump's shutdown of federal diversity office at NSF breaks the law that created it (Science): https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-shutdown-federal-diversity-office-nsf-breaks-law-created-it
- 1/23/25: Here’s How Science Funding Could Change Under Trump (The Chronicle) https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-how-science-funding-could-change-under-trump
- 1/23/25: What Employers and Nonprofits Should Know About Trump’s Executive Order Banning Diversity Preferences: https://natlawreview.com/article/what-employers-and-nonprofits-should-know-about-trumps-executive-order-banning
- 1/23/25: Trump signs executive order targeting DEI policies at colleges (Higher Ed Dive): https://www.highereddive.com/news/trump-executive-order-diversity-equity-inclusion-colleges/738052/ & Trump Takes Aim at DEI in Higher Ed (Inside Higher Ed) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/01/23/how-trumps-order-targeting-dei-could-affect-higher-ed
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) News
- DOGE Official Government Website: https://doge.gov/
- Executive Order: ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S
- “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY”: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/
- Musk visits OPM following workforce assignments for DOGE (NextGov): https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/musk-visits-opm-following-workforce-assignments-doge/402533/?oref=ngfcw_alert_nl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nextgov/FCW%20Alert2%20-%20January%2027%2C%202025&utm_term=newsletter_ng_alert
- DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside (Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk/
- ‘DOGE’ formally established under White House (Roll Call) https://rollcall.com/2025/01/21/doge-formally-established-under-white-house/
- What DOGE actually is now (Politico): https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/01/23/what-doge-actually-is-now-00200306
- Trump made DOGE part of the government. Here’s what that might mean (Axios): https://apnews.com/article/doge-government-trump-executive-order-1a2fb7235b9d6f178c764cf6c78d3317
- The most chaotic new committee in Congress (Axios): https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/doge-mtg-crockett-casar-congress-stansbury
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)
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)
