# 2025-03133: President Launches Bureaucracy Purge: Agencies on Chopping Block Now 2025-03133, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-25, effective 2025-02-19 (as of 2026-11-04). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03133 - As of: 2026-11-04 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-03133 - Title: Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy - Type: Presidential Document - Agencies: Executive Office of the President - Citation: 90 FR 10577 - Published: 2025-02-25 - Effective: 2025-02-19 - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: no - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-11-04 ## In one line President Launches Bureaucracy Purge: Agencies on Chopping Block Now ## Summary The President is kicking off a big cutback on some parts of the federal government that aren’t needed anymore. Four specific agencies will shrink or shut down parts of their work, saving money and making the government leaner and more efficient. Leaders have just two weeks to report on their progress, and funding for these groups will be slashed unless legally required. ## Effects PRIA read - Four Agencies Ordered to Shrink or Close: mixed, medium. The order directs that the non-statutory components and functions of the Presidio Trust, the Inter‑American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with law, and that their statutory functi… - OMB May Deny Funding Requests for Listed Entities: cost, medium. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directed to reject budget or grant funding requests for the governmental entities named in the order to the extent those requests are inconsistent with the order, except where funding is necessary to effectuate an expected termination. This directs revie… - Federal Executive Boards Regulations Revoked: cost, low. The Presidential Memorandum of November 13, 1961 is revoked and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management is directed to start withdrawing the regulations at 5 CFR part 960, which eliminates the Federal Executive Boards. This begins the regulatory process to remove those boards. - Presidential Management Fellows Program Termination: cost, medium. The Office of Personnel Management is directed to initiate withdrawal of the regulations at 5 CFR part 362, subpart D, and to take steps to promptly terminate the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program. On the effective date of the final regulations, related Executive Order language is revok… - Health Advisory Committees to Be Terminated: cost, low. Within 14 days of the order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must terminate the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Long COVID and the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must terminate the Health Equity Advisory Committee. Those two CMS/HHS advisory panels are… - Several Financial and Foreign‑Aid Councils Ended: cost, low. Within 14 days of the order, the Administrator of USAID must terminate the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, the CFPB Director must terminate the Academic Research Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council, and the FDIC Board must terminate the Community Bank Advisory Council. 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