This is part two of a series of executive orders related to health care.
Abortion and Reproductive Healthcare
Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
Jan. 24, 2025
Provisions:
- Revocation of Biden’s EOs 14076 and 14079.
- Halts federal funding for abortion, family planning, birth control and sexual health care that discusses abortion as an option or provides referrals.
- Restricts federal funding to foreign organizations that provide or discuss abortion —often referred to as the Mexico City Policy.
Legal Actions: None
Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization
Feb. 19, 2025
Provisions:
- Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall submit to the president a list of policy recommendations concerning protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment.
Legal Actions: None
Health Care Funding
Executive Action Related to the Temporary Pause of Grants, Loans and Assistance Programs (Office of Management and Budget Memo)
Jan. 28, 2025
Provisions:
- Memo was vague, stating all federal grants, loans and funding would be temporarily paused pending review and realignment with Trump’s policies and ideology. Impacted agencies and organizations include state health departments, hospitals, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), public health clinics, health care nonprofits, health care research grant recipients and more.
- It was later clarified that Medicare was not to be included in the freeze. However, there was a lack of clarity concerning Medicaid, funding to community health centers and other entities. In addition, the day the memo was released, state Medicaid program portals could not access federal funds.
Legal Actions:
- States of New York, California, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawai’i, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin along with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts filed a joint lawsuit on Jan. 25, 2025, against the freeze.
- Recent Actions: Federal judge granted a block on the funding freeze. The Trump administration appealed to the 1st Court of Appeals in Boston, which was denied on Feb. 11, 2025.
- National Council of Nonprofits, American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance and SAGE filed a joint lawsuit on Jan. 28, 2025, against the freeze.
- Recent Actions: Federal judge enacted emergency restraining order on the freeze Jan. 28, 2025, pending hearings. Federal judge granted continued block of funding freeze after the hearings on Feb. 3, 2025.
- Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on Feb. 12, 2025, against the freeze.
