The Trump administration is scrapping plans for an executive order that would have given the White House greater influence over grant decision-making at the National Institutes of Health. The decision follows pushback from lawmakers, including Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order creating a board that would approve National Institutes of Health grant funding, giving the administration direct control over health research funding. The move is part of Trump's effort to eliminate what he characterizes as 'woke' programs and institutions in biomedical research.
President Donald Trump signed executive orders at a White House Rose Garden dinner expanding hunting and fishing access on public lands while rescinding Biden-era restrictions. The moves include repealing endangered species habitat protections, drawing bipartisan congressional pushback from lawmakers concerned about impacts on protected wildlife.
A U.S. District Judge issued a stay barring the Trump administration from asking federal job applicants to respond to an essay question about which presidential executive orders are most significant to them. Labor unions had described the requirement as a partisan loyalty test.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are targeting businesses they say encourage noncitizens to come to Texas to give birth for citizenship purposes, while Rep. James Comer raised similar concerns during a House hearing on birthright citizenship. The efforts come as Trump's executive order on the issue faces legal challenges.
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on September 4 aimed at helping American ranchers, including measures on meat processing and gray wolf management. The actions come after industry backlash over his plan to increase beef imports from select countries to lower consumer prices ahead of midterm elections.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' in the United States, escalating tensions with Canada during an ongoing trade dispute. Canadian officials rejected the move, with tensions already high over tariffs on billions of dollars in cross-border trade.
President Trump signed an executive order calling for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to be split into three separate shots, despite medical experts warning this is unlikely to happen and could harm children. The order has drawn widespread pushback from the healthcare industry and public health officials.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for a major reduction in the number of universally recommended childhood vaccines, from 18 diseases to 11. The order also recommends splitting the combined MMR vaccine into three separate shots for measles, mumps, and rubella.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recommending that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine be split into three separate shots and that childhood vaccines be spaced out over multiple visits. The order, which goes against medical establishment guidance, also directs states to narrow their childhood vaccine requirements and challenges CDC authority over vaccination schedules.
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on August 6, 2026, attempting to limit birthright citizenship through a narrower approach targeting children of foreign lobbyists and tourists, weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his initial, broader attempt to curtail the constitutional guarantee.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday rejected the Trump administration's attempt to implement an executive order tightening mail-in voting rules in 23 states, upholding a lower court's ruling that declared the policies unlawful ahead of November's midterm elections.
President Donald Trump signed executive orders sharply reducing the size of two Utah national monuments, removing protections from nearly 3 million acres of land with unique archaeological and historical features. The reductions affect Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments, unraveling protections established by former presidents.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily, affirming the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, D.C. declined to immediately block President Trump's executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting and creating a federal voter list, though he left the door open for Democratic challengers to pursue the case after implementation steps are taken.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that could impose tariffs of up to 100% on certain patented pharmaceutical products and ingredients from companies that don't reach pricing deals with his administration. The move, announced on the anniversary of 'Liberation Day,' is framed as an effort to boost U.S. drug manufacturing and lower domestic drug prices using national security justifications under Section 232.
