Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid

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January 30, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8619-8620]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02091]

Presidential Documents

Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 /
Presidential Documents

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Executive Order 14169 of January 20, 2025

Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign
Aid

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The United States foreign aid
industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American
interests and in many cases antithetical to American
values. They serve to destabilize world peace by
promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly
inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to
and among countries.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of United States that
no further United States foreign assistance shall be
disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with
the foreign policy of the President of the United
States.

Sec. 3. (a) 90-day pause in United States foreign
development assistance for assessment of programmatic
efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign
policy. All department and agency heads with
responsibility for United States foreign development
assistance programs shall immediately pause new
obligations and disbursements of development assistance
funds to foreign countries and implementing non-
governmental organizations, international
organizations, and contractors pending reviews of such
programs for programmatic efficiency and consistency
with United States foreign policy, to be conducted
within 90 days of this order. The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) shall enforce this pause through its
apportionment authority.

(b) Reviews of United States foreign assistance
programs. Reviews of each foreign assistance program
shall be ordered by the responsible department and
agency heads under guidelines provided by the Secretary
of State, in consultation with the Director of OMB.
(c) Determinations. The responsible department and
agency heads, in consultation with the Director of OMB,
will make determinations within 90 days of this order
on whether to continue, modify, or cease each foreign
assistance program based upon the review
recommendations, with the concurrence of the Secretary
of State.
(d) Resumption of paused development assistance
funding. New obligations and disbursements of foreign
development assistance funds may resume for a program
prior to the end of the 90-day period if a review is
conducted, and the Secretary of State or his designee,
in consultation with the Director of OMB, decide to
continue the program in the same or modified form.
Additionally, any other new foreign assistance programs
and obligations must be approved by the Secretary of
State or his designee, in consultation with the
Director of OMB.
(e) Waiver. The Secretary of State may waive the
pause in Section 3(a) for specific programs.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.

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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
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(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 20, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02091
Filed 1-29-25; 11:15 am]
Billing code 3395-F4-P

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