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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 [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02091]



                        Presidential Documents 



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

[[Page 8619]]

                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.
                
                
                    (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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