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Federal Agency Updates – Links and Memos
WA Attorney General News & Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs)
WA Office of the Attorney General news releases
- Motion for a TRO blocking EO targeting diversity, equity and inclusion
- Hearing date for motion: 2/19
- TRO partially blocking cutting funding for foreign assistance programs administered by USAID and the U.S. Department of State
- TRO prohibiting freeze of federal assistance funding (Rhode Island)
- TRO prohibiting freeze of federal assistance funding (DC)
- TRO blocking proposed NIH indirect cost cap
- Hearing date: 2/21 (for this and two other suits on same basis)
- TRO halting EO that ends federal funding to medical institutions providing gender affirming care
CDC
- 2/11/2025: Update – Complying with TRO – rescind communications on 1/29 & 1/31
- 1/31/2025: Cease All Activities Promoting Gender Ideology
- 1/29/2025: Cease DEI Activities on all CDC funded awards- Domestic
DoD
DOE
- 1/31/2025 – DOE’s Suspension of DEI, CBP or PIER Plan, and Justice 40 Requirements in Financial Assistance Agreements
HHS
HRSA
- 1/31/2025 – HRSA Grant funds may not be used for activities that do not align with Executive Orders E.O.s
NASA
- Global Contractor & Grantee Community Memos webpage
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- 2/06/2025: NASA Global Contractor and Grantee Community Memo regarding Gender Ideology Extremism
- 1/29/2025: Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women
- 1/29/2025: NASA Global Contractor and Grantee Community Memo regarding Gender Ideology Extremism
- 1/23/2025: Initial Guidance Regarding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) Executive Orders
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NIH
- 2/07/2025 NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
- 2/02/2025 – HHS – Notice of Temporary Restraining Order on Funding Pause
NSF