Russell Vought
Director of OMB | Office of Management and Budget
The White House, also known as the Executive Office of the President, provides the President with the support that they need to govern effectively. It consists of several sub-offices and agencies, such as the Gender Policy Council, Domestic Policy Council, and Office of Management and Budget. The Executive Office of the President is overseen by the White House chief of staff, who ultimately reports to the President. In friendly administrations, these agencies meet with members of the public to solicit feedback and determine priorities, including on reproductive rights policies and programs.
OMB produces the President’s Budget, an important, although non-binding, document that provides Congress with an appropriations roadmap based on the President’s priorities. The President’s Budget provides funding estimates for how Congress should appropriate money for programs like Title X and health law enforcement; the Budget has historically contained anti-abortion riders that the Center advocates for removing. OMB also examines agency programs, regulations, and guidance to ensure that they comply with the President’s policies. For example, OMB conducts “12866 meetings,” in which public stakeholders can provide OMB with information about why it should or should not approve a regulation consistent with the President’s agenda.
Director of OMB | Office of Management and Budget
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.
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.
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.
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).