Trump's week in review: From expanding IVF to calling Zelensky a 'dictator'

3. Eliminating, vastly reducing several federal government entities
Trump has made countering what he considers waste, fraud and abuse in a bloated federal government a top priority for his second term. While he has previously sought to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development, Trump put several additional federal government entities in his crosshairs in an executive order on Wednesday.
The president called for the "non-statutory components and functions" of the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace to "be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law" and the reduction of "the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law."
Trump delivered specific instructions to the heads of several federal government agencies to completely eliminate committees under their jurisdiction. He ordered the abolition of the Academic Research Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Community Bank Advisory Council within the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission and the Advisory Committee on Long COVID within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Additional committees targeted for elimination are the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid within USAID and the Health Equity Advisory Committee within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Trump also ordered several of his closest advisors to "identify and submit to the President additional unnecessary governmental entities and Federal Advisory Committees that should be terminated on grounds that they are unnecessary."
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com