# 2025-03137: Ending Taxpayer Funding for Open Borders Policies

2025-03137, Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-25, effective 2025-02-19; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03137
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-03137
- Title: Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 10581
- Published: 2025-02-25
- Effective: 2025-02-19
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

Ending Taxpayer Funding for Open Borders Policies

## Summary

This new order stops taxpayer money from helping people who are in the U.S. illegally get government benefits. It affects all federal agencies, which must now check their programs and tighten rules to keep benefits for Americans only. Starting right away, this will save taxpayer dollars and support citizens like veterans and people with disabilities.

## Effects PRIA read

- Agencies must block benefits to illegal aliens: benefit, medium. By Executive Order signed February 19, 2025, the head of each executive department or agency must identify any federally funded programs that currently permit illegal aliens to receive cash or non-cash public benefits and, consistent with law, take actions to align those programs with the order and…
- Federal payments barred from subsidizing sanctuary policies: benefit, medium. The order directs agencies, consistent with law, to ensure Federal payments to States and localities do not, by design or effect, facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration or abet so-called 'sanctuary' policies. This requirement applies to federal payments and grants administ…
- Stricter eligibility verification for benefits: benefit, medium. The order directs agencies to enhance eligibility verification systems, to the maximum extent possible, so that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the United States illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present. Agencies must tighten checks consistent with applicable l…
- Improper benefit use referred for enforcement: benefit, low. The order requires agencies to refer any improper receipt or use of Federal benefits to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for appropriate action. Agencies are instructed to report suspected improper benefit use for enforcement and legal follow-up.

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## Sources
- [2025-03137 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03137/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-open-borders)
- [2025-03137 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-02-25/pdf/2025-03137.pdf)

## Related
- [Previous: 2025-03133, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03133)
- [Next: 2025-03138, Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Gove…](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03138)
- [All Federal Register documents](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03137 (as of 2026-11-04).