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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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 20, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02091 

Filed 1–29–25; 11:15 am] 

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