The order targets the funding for Voice of America, which has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs in recent weeks.

The order will affect:

  • the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • the United States Agency for Global Media
  • the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution
  • the Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
  • the Minority Business Development Agency.

It instructs the head of each agency to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget “explaining which components or functions of the governmental entity, if any, are statutorily required and to what extent.” In practice, as has happened with other federal agencies in recent weeks, it’s expected to leave these agencies a shell of themselves and fundamentally nonexistent; in the case of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, it destroys the only federal agency solely focused on addressing the homelessness crisis.