USAID control handed to the Department of State
According to CNN, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch will serve as a repository of key Trump administration policies related to reproductive health, including those impacting abortion access, maternal health, and assisted reproduction. This resource will track executive actions such as Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, Proclamations, and Statements of Administration Policy as well as significant agency actions, guidance, and memoranda. It will also monitor ongoing rulemaking, highlighting relevant regulations and opportunities for public input.
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According to CNN, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Department of Defense issued a memorandum rescinding reproductive health care protections for servicemembers and their dependents.
The Trump administration issued an Executive Order directing agencies to restrict access to gender-affirming care for individuals under 19 years of age.
The Trump administration has ordered approximately 60 senior executive and Foreign Service employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to go on administrative leave effective immediately.
The Trump administration has taken various actions attempting to freeze all federal assistance funding, putting access to vital health and nutrition programs at risk for millions of people across the country.
The State Department announced its immediate intention to rejoin the so-called “Geneva Consensus Declaration,” an anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBTQ political statement.
President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum reinstating a harmful and regressive policy that restricts U.S. foreign assistance to organizations providing, counseling, or advocating for legal abortion services.
President Trump fired as many as 17 agency inspectors general (IGs), including at the Departments of State, Health and Human Services, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
The decision to cease FACE Act enforcement, along with the President’s decision to pardon 23 people convicted under the FACE Act, is an explicit green light to block clinics and deny care to people who need it.
President Trump issued an Executive Order revoking two Biden-era executive orders designed to protect and expand access to reproductive healthcare.
Presidential pardon of 23 people who were convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act).
The Trump administration issued a Statement of Administration Policy in support of H.R. 21.
NPR reported that the Trump administration had scrubbed the Department of Health and Human Services’ website of any mentions of abortion that discussed protections for abortion and reproductive health care services.
Executive order mandating that the federal government recognizes only two genders, “male and female.”
President Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO).
President Trump issued an executive order pausing U.S. foreign development assistance for 90 days amidst a review of “programmatic efficiencies and alignment with U.S. foreign policy.”
The Trump administration took down ReproductiveRights.gov, a web page launched by the Biden administration that included information about reproductive health care, abortion, and patient rights.
President Trump issued an Executive Order attempting to restrict birthright citizenship based on parental immigration status, creating legal uncertainty for affected children and families.