From the White House website – titles provided by the Trump Administration:
EXECUTIVE ACTIONS
A PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING A UNITED STATES SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND
The order establishes a U.S. sovereign wealth fund. The key objectives of the proposed sovereign wealth fund are to:
- Promote fiscal sustainability
- Reduce tax burden on American families and small businesses
- Ensure economic security for future generations
- Strengthen U.S. economic and strategic leadership globally
It directs the Treasury and Commerce Secretaries to:
- Develop a detailed implementation plan within 90 days
- Include recommendations on funding, investment strategies, structure, and governance
- Evaluate legal requirements and potential need for legislation
- Coordinate with the President’s Economic Policy Assistant
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-2
U.S. policy directive outlining a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. The overall policy aims to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, counter its regional influence, and restrict the activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxies.
Treasury Secretary is directed to:
- Impose immediate sanctions on Iran-related violations
- Enforce sanctions to deny revenue to Iran and its proxies
- Review and potentially modify any existing economic relief
- Issue updated guidance about sanctions risks
- Maintain international financial countermeasures
Secretary of State is tasked to:
- Modify or remove sanctions waivers
- Work to reduce Iran’s oil exports to zero, particularly to China
- Lead diplomatic efforts to isolate Iran internationally
- Prevent sanctions evasion through Iraq and Gulf countries
U.S. Ambassador to the UN should:
- Work on reinstating international sanctions
- Hold Iran accountable for nuclear treaty violations
- Regularly raise Iran’s threats at the Security Council
Additional measures include:
- Commerce Secretary to enforce export controls
- Attorney General to pursue legal action against Iranian networks, seize illicit oil, help terrorism victims collect judgments, prosecute Iranian-backed terrorists, and investigate Iranian espionage and influence operations
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM AND ENDING FUNDING TO CERTAIN UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATIONS AND REVIEWING UNITED STATES SUPPORT TO ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The order initiates a reassessment of US participation in international organizations while immediately withdrawing from specific UN bodies and their funding mechanisms.
- United States Actions Regarding UN Bodies:
- Withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
- Terminating the US Representative position to UNHRC
- Conducting a 90-day review of UNESCO membership, focusing on potential anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment
- Withdrawing funding from UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency)
- Financial Measures:
- Prohibiting any federal departments from funding UNRWA
- Withholding the US proportionate share of UN Regular Budget funding for UNHRC
- Refusing to pay any 2025 assessments or prior arrears to UNRWA or UNHRC
- Broader Review Requirements:
- Secretary of State, with UN Ambassador, must review all:
- International organizations where US has membership
- Treaties and conventions US is party to
- US funding and support to these organizations
- Review must be completed within 180 days
- Must evaluate which organizations/treaties are contrary to US interests
- Must assess reform possibilities
- Secretary must provide recommendations to the President about potential withdrawals
- Required Notifications:
- Secretary must inform UN Secretary-General, UNRWA leadership, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about:
- US funding withdrawal from UNRWA and UNHRC
- US refusal to pay 2025 assessments and prior arrears
The order essentially initiates a broad reassessment of US participation in international organizations while immediately withdrawing from specific UN bodies and their funding mechanisms.
KEEPING MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
The order has four main sections:
- Policy Statement: Establishes a policy to withdraw funding from educational programs that the administration believes compromise women’s athletic opportunities, privacy, and safety.
- Definitions: References definitions from a previous Executive Order 14168 regarding gender and biological sex in federal policy.
- Educational Policy:
- Directs the Department of Education to enforce Title IX with a focus on preserving sex-segregated athletic opportunities
- Requires review and potential rescinding of federal funding for programs that don’t comply
- Instructs the Department of Justice to support enforcement
- Broader Sports Policy:
- Directs review of existing sports governing body policies
- Requires convening of athletic organizations and state attorneys general to develop new guidelines
- Instructs the State Department to promote sex-based categories in international sports, including at the Olympic level
- Directs review of immigration policies related to sports participation
- Aims to influence international sporting bodies’ policies on competition categories
NEWS REPORTS
WALL STREET JOURNAL: More than 40,000 federal workers have raised their hands for a buyout, still short of the Trump administration’s target before today’s deadline. At the EPA, at least 100 environmental justice workers are expected to be placed on leave as soon as today. Over two dozen senior career officials and dozens more prosecutors have already been pushed out at the Justice Department and FBI, with thousands of other positions under review.
NEW YORK TIMES: On Tuesday, Trump announced a plan for the U.S. to take over Gaza that even American allies like Saudi Arabia dismissed as unworkable. The reaction was so bad that White House aides walked back parts of the plan yesterday.
AXIOS: The CIA on Tuesday became the first major security agency to offer “buyouts” to its entire workforce.
- Fresh off her Senate confirmation, Attorney General Pam Bondi is establishing a “Weaponization Working Group” to analyze the actions of federal prosecutors and FBI agents in the criminal cases the Justice Department brought against Trump. It also will examine the New York civil and criminal cases brought against him.
WASHINGTON POST: A federal judge Wednesday indefinitely blocked Trump’s effort to curb birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and foreigners with temporary visas. Read more.
AP: Frustration boiled over Wednesday among supporters of the United States’ lead aid agency at a Washington rally, and anxious aid workers abroad scrambled to pack up households after the Trump administration abruptly pulled almost all agency staffers off the job and out of the field. Read more.
404 MEDIA: NASA personnel were told to “drop everything” to scrub public sites of mentions of DEI, indigenous people, environmental justice and women in leadership. Read more.
Also: In support of the Presidential Memorandum entitled Hiring Freeze, the Department of State has canceled the administration of the February FSOT, suspended testing for Foreign Service Specialist candidates, and suspended testing of Consular Fellows Program candidates while hiring requirements are reassessed.
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