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Spending and Appropriations

What this site holds on spending and appropriations, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

In plain English

This page is about spending and appropriations.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

Most things are here because a word from a short list is in the title. That list is at the foot of the page.

22
proposals
8
actions recorded
7
executive orders
2
other documents
1
agency rules
7
public laws
24
measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 2 (Executive Office of the President of the United States). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Closely matches

Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8237

  • Abolish the Gender Policy Council: closely matches. The chapter asked for Executive Order 14020 to be revoked. The Federal Register records this order as revoking it by name. The chapter also asked for the appointment of an official at Special Assistant rank or higher to lead life and family policy with the Domestic Policy Council; that is a separate step and is not established by this order.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Unleashing American Energy

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8353

  • End the use of the social cost of carbon: closely matches. The chapter asked that the working group be eliminated and the use of the analysis ended by executive order. The Federal Register text disbands that working group by name and withdraws its documents. The chapter's request covered ending use of the analysis generally, which extends beyond disbanding the group that produced it.
  • Create an energy and environment coordinator and abolish the climate policy office: partly matches. Executive Order 14154 does the second half of what the passage asks. Section 4(a) revokes Executive Order 14008 and abolishes any offices established in the orders it revokes, and the Office of Domestic Climate Policy was established by Executive Order 14008, so the office the passage names is abolished by executive order as asked. The fit breaks down on the first half: the order does not create a Senior Advisor to coordinate energy and environment policy across the Executive Office of the President, and it creates no position reporting directly to the Chief of Staff. Coordination was instead given to the National Energy Dominance Council, established by Executive Order 14213 and chaired by the Secretary of the Interior rather than by an advisor inside the White House.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation

January 31, 2025 · 90 FR 9065

  • Reinstate eight Trump-era regulatory orders: partly matches. The chapter asked for eight named Trump-era regulatory orders to be reinstated, of which Executive Order 13771 established the repeal-for-issuance approach. This order re-establishes that approach rather than reinstating the named orders as a set.
  • Undo changes to the order governing regulatory review: partly matches. Executive Order 14192 does both of the specific things the passage names. Section 6(b) revokes OMB Circular A-4 of November 9, 2023, the document that underpins the weighing of costs against benefits and that the passage says should be restored if it was changed, and reinstates the prior version issued on September 17, 2003. Section 6(c) reinstates the 2018 memorandum of agreement between the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget on review of tax regulations under Executive Order 12866, which is the extension to Treasury the passage says should be maintained. The fit breaks down because the order does not touch the amendments made to Executive Order 12866 itself by Executive Order 14094 in 2023, including the raised threshold for a significant regulatory action, and because it adds a ten-for-one repeal requirement and an agency-by-agency cost allowance that the passage does not ask for.
Partly matches

Imposing Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border

February 1, 2025 · 90 FR 9113

  • Make fentanyl the top drug policy priority: partly matches. Executive Order 14193 declares the influx of illicit opioids a national emergency and imposes tariffs on Canadian goods on the ground that fentanyl is reaching the United States across the northern border, which acts on the third of the three commitments the passage names, reducing the availability of illicit drugs, and treats the flow across the border as the priority the passage says it should be. The fit breaks down because the order is a trade measure taken under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and aimed at another country's conduct: it sets no drug policy priority as such, gives no direction to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and does nothing on the other two commitments the passage names, preventing drug use before it starts and providing treatment leading to long-term recovery.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

February 18, 2025 · 90 FR 10447

  • Extend White House regulatory review to independent agencies: closely matches. Section 1 states that all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs before publication in the Federal Register, and section 3 amends the definition of agency in Executive Order 12866 to reach any agency under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1) plus the Federal Election Commission. That is the extension of White House regulatory review the passage asks for, applied to the same class of agencies. The fit is not complete: the order exempts the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee in the conduct of monetary policy, reaching the Board only on its supervision and regulation of financial institutions; it covers significant regulatory actions rather than the regulatory analysis the passage also names; and it cites no Office of Legal Counsel finding, which is the authority the passage rests the proposal on.
  • Return control of spending apportionments to political appointees: partly matches. Section 5 directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to review independent regulatory agencies' obligations for consistency with the President's policies and priorities on an ongoing basis and to adjust those agencies' apportionments by activity, function, project or object, including by prohibiting spending on particular activities where consistent with law. Apportionment decisions are placed with a politically appointed officer and used as a policy instrument, which is the direction the passage argues for. It does not do what the quoted sentence asks: it does not restore apportionment decision-making to the personal review of the Program Associate Directors, says nothing about who signs an apportionment document, and reaches only independent regulatory agencies rather than the executive branch generally.
Partly matches

Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative

February 19, 2025 · 90 FR 10583

  • Send significant guidance documents through regulatory review: partly matches. Executive Order 14219 puts guidance documents inside the definition of regulation for the purposes of the order, and then directs in section 4 that agencies continue to follow the processes set out in Executive Order 12866 for submitting regulations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and consult that office on potential new regulations, which is the substance of what the passage asks for. The fit breaks down because the order does not revive Executive Order 13891, which was revoked in 2021 and stays revoked, and so does not restore that order's separate machinery for significant guidance, including the agency guidance portals and the notice and comment step. It also takes its definition of guidance document from Executive Order 13422 rather than from 13891, and it exempts military, national security, homeland security, foreign affairs and immigration functions along with anything the Director of the Office of Management and Budget chooses to exempt.
Partly matches

Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations

February 25, 2025 · 90 FR 10610

  • Rewrite the environmental review rules and ban cumulative impact analysis: partly matches. The Council on Environmental Quality acted on its National Environmental Policy Act regulations, as the proposal asks, and did so at the President's instruction: Executive Order 14154 directed the Chairman to issue guidance and propose rescinding the regulations, and this interim final rule removes 40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508 from the Code of Federal Regulations. The fit breaks down on how. The passage asks for a rewrite along the lines of the 2020 revision, restoring provisions such as the ban on weighing cumulative impacts; the rule writes no new provisions at all, so that requirement disappears with the rest of the regulations rather than being replaced by a rule banning it, and the substantive text moves to agency-level procedures issued separately by the Interior, Energy and Agriculture Departments and others. The rule also does not address the two further things the passage asks the new regulations to do, limiting the scope of judicial review of an agency's environmental review and limiting the remedies available.
Partly matches

Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance Rules

January 27, 2026 · 91 FR 3345

  • Use federal contracts against corporate diversity policies: partly matches. The State Department rule adds an award term, Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance, to grants, cooperative agreements and voluntary contributions, which is the route the passage describes: attaching conditions to federal awards in order to press recipients on diversity policy. The fit breaks down on nearly every particular. The rule reaches foreign assistance recipients, which it lists as foreign and United States nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, foreign governments and parastatals, rather than corporate America. It applies to grants and cooperative agreements rather than to procurement contracts. And it is issued by the State Department under the Foreign Assistance Act rather than through the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and the governmentwide contracting rules the passage names.

Executive orders

Orders whose title carries one of this subject's words. The word is printed beside each one.

Proclamations, memoranda and the rest

Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.

Agency rules

Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.

Public laws

Public laws of this Congress whose short title carries one of these words.

Roll call votes

Measures the House or Senate took a final vote on, kept in the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only.

How This Subject Is Put Together

The grouping is this site's reading, not anybody else's. Two rules decide what is on this page, and both of them can be checked against the thing they were read from.

The chapters. The proposals above are every proposal indexed from chapter 2 (Executive Office of the President of the United States). Each chapter is assigned to the subjects the agencies and the matter it covers belong to. The whole table, all thirty chapters, is on the subjects page.

The words. An order, a presidential document, a rule or a law is here because one of these words appears in its own title, and the word that matched is printed beside it: appropriation budget continuing resolution debt limit shutdown procurement taxpayer dollars deficit spending funding grantmaking

A word in a title is a fact about the title. It is not a finding that the document is about this subject: a title can carry a word in another sense, and where it does the document is still listed, with the word shown, so the reader can see what put it there. The reverse also happens. A document about this subject whose title happens to use none of these words is not on this page, and the way to find it is the document index or the search.

Nothing here says whether an action carries a proposal out. Where this site has recorded a match between a proposal and an action, the match and its note are the ones already on the proposal's own page. Where it has not, no match is made here.

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