2025 Federal Administration Transition Information & Resources
Resources
OMB Memos/Updates and Court Orders
Listed in reverse chronological order
- April 16, 2025, US District Court for the District of Massachusetts grants temporary restraining order regarding the application of the Department of Energy's indirect cost limitation restricting IHEs to 15%.
- March 14, 2025 US Court of Appeals lifted nationwide injunction - this allows the administration to temporairly implement a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs while the legal challenges continue through the courts.
- February 21, 2025 Judge temporarily blocks Trump adminisation from carrying our certain anit-DEI directives, National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, et al. v. Donlad J. Trump, et al.
- February 10, 2025 suit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts for an injunctive relief related to the NIH guidance document announcing that all indirect cost rates for NIH grants would be reduced to 15% NOT-OD-25-068.
- January 31, 2025 US District Court of Rhode Island issued a temporary restraining order in the case of New York et al. v. Trump, No. 25-cv-39-JJM-PAS (D.R.I.), ECF No. 50.
- January 29, 2025 OMB Memo M-25-14 Rescission of M-25-13.
- On the afternoon of January 28, 2025 the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered an administrative stayof the January 27 OMB memorandum until February 3, 2025, when the parties are ordered to convene for a hearing.
- January 28, 2025 OMB released “Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
- 1/27/2025 – Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies to Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs (OMB M-25-13).
- Q&A to Memo (OMB M-25-13)