Associated Agencies

Associated Agencies

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

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.

The Office of Policy Development

The Office of Policy Development comprises the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) and the National Economic Council. The DPC coordinates the domestic policymaking process in the White House, ensures that domestic policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President’s goals, and monitors implementation of the President’s domestic policy agenda. This includes policies impacting abortion, maternal health, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and other areas of reproductive health care.

Department of Government Efficiency

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), housed within the Executive Office of the President. The order requires each government agency to establish a “DOGE team” of at least four employees “to implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” In practice, DOGE teams have made sweeping changes at a furious pace to cut the federal workforce and slash government spending and contracts in agency after agency, including at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of State, and U.S. Agency for International Development.

Office of the Chief of Staff

The Office of the Chief of Staff is responsible for directing, managing and overseeing all policy development, including policies impacting abortion, maternal health, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and other areas of reproductive health care. This office also oversees daily operations and coordinates and communicates with all departments and agencies of the Administration.

The White House Faith Office

The White House Faith Office: The newly established White House Faith Office, which replaces the former White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI), is part of the President’s Domestic Policy Council (DPC). The White House Faith Office works with faith-based entities and houses of worship with expertise in “protecting women and children [and] strengthening marriage and family” to formulate and implement policy. Policy recommendations could include funding for fund fake clinics, weaponization of religious liberty to protect violent anti-abortion activists, and expansion of religious refusals provisions that allow health care providers to deny people access to care. 

Associated Personnel