Consolidate or eliminate economic development grants
What the document says“The Economic Development Administration’s grant programs, which are among a broad set of duplicative and overlapping federal economic development grant programs, should be consolidated with other programs and/or eliminated;”
This appears in the chapter's list of structural changes for the next President to consider. The chapter argues that many programs at the department overlap with other government programs and that consolidating them could increase accountability and return on taxpayer investment.
What the document actually says“The Economic Development Administration’s grant programs, which are among a broad set of duplicative and overlapping federal economic development grant programs, should be consolidated with other programs and/or eliminated;”
These grants overlap with others. Join them together or end them.
One office gives grants to help local economies. Other agencies do the same thing. The book says that is a duplication.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations act does act on the Economic Development Administration, but it funds the programs rather than consolidating or ending them: $400,000,000 for economic development assistance under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, available until expended, plus $66,000,000 for administering those programs. No indexed action merges the agency's grant programs with any other program or eliminates them. EO 14255, also a candidate, creates a new Commerce office for large investments and takes over the CHIPS Program Office, which is a different set of programs. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.