Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos (Trump EO Tracker)

The Director of the OMB Director shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government, requiring that agencies may hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart. Agency heads must adhere to the Federal Hiring Plan outlined in the Executive Order on Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service. Agency heads must also consult the agency's DOGE team lead for new hires and begin reductions-in-force (RIFs) prioritizing non-essential functions and DEI programs. Within 30 days, OPM must issue new rulemaking to revise federal hiring suitability criteria and agency heads must submit reorganization plans to OMB. Within 240 days, the United States DOGE Service (USDS) Administrator must submit a report to the President on this order. Monthly, DOGE team leads must submit hiring reports. 

This order makes it the policy of the United States that Federal health care programs, intellectual property protections, and safety regulations are optimized to provide access to prescription drugs at a lower cost to American patients and taxpayers. 
 
The order directs: (a) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”) to propose and seek comment on guidance for the Medicare Durg Price Negotiation Program within 60 days of the order; (b) the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in coordination with the Secretary, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB Director), and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy to provide recommendations to the President on how best to stabilize and reduce Medicare Part D premiums within 180 days of the order; and (c) the Secretary to work with Congress to modify the Medicare Durg Price Negotiation Program.
 
The order also contains the following directions and deadlines:

This Order directs the construction of temporary and permanent physical barriers at the southern border of the United States and all appropriate action to deploy permanent sufficient personnel along the southern border to ensure operational control. The Order also directs that action be taken to supplement available personnel to secure the southern border and enforce immigration laws. This Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue new policy guidance on detention of undocumented immigrants and to reinstitute the Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico). 

Directs agencies to streamline environmental review and permitting processes for infrastructure projects by leveraging modern technologies. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) must establish an interagency Permitting Innovation Center by April 30, 2025, to design and test permitting software tools. By May 30, 2025, CEQ, in coordination with permitting agencies and the National Energy Dominance Council, must issue a Permitting Technology Action Plan outlining data standards, software requirements, and a governance roadmap. Agencies must adopt and begin implementing the Plan’s standards and tools by July 15, 2025.

Orders the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for the use and jurisdiction by the Department of Defense over such Federal lands, including the Roosevelt Reservation and excluding Federal Indian Reservations, that are reasonably necessary to enable military activities to seal the southern border from unlawful entry. The activities will occur on a military installation under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense and for the designation of such Federal lands as National Defense Areas by the Secretary of Defense.

This order suspends country-specific ad valorem rates of duty enumerated in the executive order titled “Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits” until July 9, 2025. Additionally, this order raises the additional rate of duty on Chinese imports from 84% to 125% effective April 10, 2025 and makes further adjustments to limit circumvention of tariffs.  

Employees of the law firm Susman Godfrey LLP (Susman) will have any active security clearances suspended. Also, all government contractors are required, to the extent permitted by law, to disclose any business they do with Susman and whether that business is related to the subject of the government contract. Within 30 days of the date of the order, all agencies shall submit to the Director of OMB an assessment of contracts with Susman or with entities that do business with Susman (effective as of the date of the order) and any actions taken with respect to those contracts in accordance with the order. 

Reforms the Department of Defense’s acquisition processes by: