It also instructs the heads of agencies to “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,” and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought confirming full compliance within seven days.
A second executive order revoked 19 executive actions signed by President Joe Biden that promoted clean energy and environmental goals. The order terminates proclamations of national monuments created by Biden and ends the use of the Defense Production Act to expand the U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technology (including mandates for electric heat pumps and solar panels), among other Biden-era policies. In a White House statement, Trump claimed the rules stem from “radical ideology” and were wasteful.
Since his return to the office, Trump has signed a dizzying array of executive actions to enact his agenda and reduce the size of government, many of which have been challenged by opponents in court or reversed. Others, like this particular one, test the boundaries of presidential power.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) — the parent of VOA, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia — is a congressionally chartered and independent agency, and Congress passed a law in 2020 intended to limit the power of the agency’s presidentially appointed chief executive.
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