President Donald Trump wasted no time enacting the agenda that won him the White House in the 2024 election, signing a series of executive orders and regulatory actions nearly every day of his second administration. Yet executive orders last only as long as a friendly president holds office. There is now a movement afoot to codify President Trump’s executive orders into statutory law. Here are 10 bills members of Congress have introduced to make the 47th president’s executive actions permanent.

1. Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) re-introduced his Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act. The legislation would cut off federal funding to any medical institution or university affiliated with an institution that carries out transgender procedures on minors. It would also create a private right of action, allowing those who underwent such procedures to sue medical practitioners who administered them, as well as pediatric gender clinics and the hospitals/universities associated with them.

“Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” said Hawley. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action to reverse this child abuse and look forward to working with his administration to advance legislation that protects our kids.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”

2. No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025

Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025 (H.R. 7). The bill would bar the U.S. government from funding abortion directly, underwriting abortion through federally funded health care insurance plans (including Obamacare) and carrying out abortions at VA hospitals.

“Abortion violence must be replaced with compassion and empathy for women and for defenseless unborn baby girls and boys,” Smith, co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, told The Washington Stand.

“No matter which party holds power in Washington, Americans should never be forced to fund the violence of abortion with their tax dollars,” Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of Government Affairs at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told TWS. “Despite Americans’ strong support of this policy, pro-abortion members of Congress attack the Hyde Amendment in every spending bill. The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act would finally apply Hyde principles permanently across the whole federal government, including stopping abortion subsidies in Obamacare.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Enforcing the Hyde Amendment”

3. FACE Act Repeal Act

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) reintroduced the FACE Act Repeal Act (H.R.5577) last month. The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that activist justices wrongly invented a “constitutional right” to abortion in Roe v. Wade, yet the Biden-Harris administration continued Democratic presidents’ decades-long practices of weaponizing the 1994 Federal Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-life advocates until the day he left office. Roy’s bill would purge this now-irrelevant bill from the federal register for good.

“We should make this a permanent change so that no future president has to pardon, as President Trump did … individuals who were unfairly politically targeted and charged under the Department of Justice,” Roy told his former colleague, Jody Hice, the regular Friday host of “Washington Watch,” on the day of the 2025 March for Life.

“Americans just spent the last four years being targeted by a weaponized justice system. The FACE Act was one of the primary weapons of abuse — being used to politically target, arrest, and jail pro-life Americans for speaking out and standing up for life” he said in a statement emailed to TWS upon reintroducing the bill.

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government,” “Enforcing the Hyde Amendment,” and “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias"

4. No Taxpayer Funding for the United Nations Population Fund Act

Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) reintroduced the No Taxpayer Funding for the United Nations Population Fund Act (H.R.436) last month.

“The United Nations Population Fund is a globalist, Orwellian, propaganda machine that shills for the Chinese Communist Party its brutal mandatory abortion practices. President Trump was absolutely right to end taxpayer funding to this corrupt and anti-life organization during his first term and I look forward to him doing so again,” Roy told TWS. “At the same time, Congress has a duty under our constitutionally vested powers to ensure that U.S. tax dollars — regardless of which administration is in the White House — can never flow to this dystopian propaganda machine under any future administration. That’s why we need to put this bill on the president’s desk right away.”

For years, UNFPA worked closely with the Chinese Communist Party’s population police, which brutally enforced the nation’s One Child policy.

“The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has worked hand-in-glove with the abortion industry to promote unlimited abortion in other countries,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Taxpayer dollars should never be going toward the Left’s anti-life, anti-family agenda,” agreed Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project. “We encourage all Republicans to support this effort and do whatever it takes to make it law.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: When President Trump signed three pro-life executive orders on January 25, the White House noted Trump “[c]ut all funding to the United Nations Population Fund, which supports coercive abortion and forced sterilization” in his first administration. This bill would help return global abortion policy to the pre-Biden status quo.

5. WHO is Accountable Act

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) has introduced the WHO is Accountable Act (H.R. 600). The bill would prohibit the use of funds to seek membership in the World Health Organization or to provide assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization unless the administration certifies:

• WHO no longer covers up the Chinese Communist Party’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic and does not persist under the CCP’s control.
• WHO increases transparency and accountability to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.
• WHO adopts meaningful reforms to end the politicization of humanitarian assistance.
• WHO grants observer status to Taiwan.
• No funds are diverted to such human rights abusers as North Korea and Iran.

“President Trump was right to pull the United States out of the CCP-controlled World Health Organization,” said Arrington. “Now, Congress must take action to ensure future presidents can’t foolishly rejoin this corrupt organization without major reforms. I have long said that I will fight against any attempt to surrender our sovereignty and cede regulatory power over the United States through a treaty, agreement, or arrangement. The World Health Organization aided and abetted China in covering up their incompetence with COVID-19, all while spending American tax dollars promulgating woke and radical ideology. This is why I’m proud to lead my colleagues in ensuring President Trump’s America First agenda endures.”

“The WHO is a globalist, CCP run entity that disproportionally charges the U.S. compared to other countries and pushes their CCP and progressive ideology on the American people and the world,” said Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), who co-sponsored the legislation. “This ends now.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization”

6. No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act (H.R.401). The bill states that “The United States may not provide any assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization.”

“The World Health Organization (WHO) doesn’t serve our interests and doesn’t deserve our money. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic this body ran interference for the Chinese Communist Party — arguably helping that regime make the entire outbreak worse,” Roy told TWS.

President Trump withdrew from WHO in 2018, only to see Joe Biden rejoin the global governance body on his first day in office. Last month, President Trump withdrew again.

WHO, which regularly repeated CCP propaganda about COVID-19 at face value, attempted to foist a WHO Pandemic Agreement on the world which would limit national sovereignty, claim ownership of 20% of all U.S. vaccines and medications, implement a “One Health” philosophy equating human well-being with animal and plant life, and embolden social media companies to suppress alleged “misinformation.” Family Research Council warned the controversial accord creates “a web of freedom-strangling entities, legal regulatory mandates, and relationships” that could be “switched on to function as a ‘turnkey totalitarian state.’”

“Taking money from hardworking families struggling with the aftermath of Biden’s inflation crisis to send it to a bunch of leftist ‘health experts’ and bureaucrats in Geneva is unacceptable. I have full confidence that President Trump will cut the WHO’s funding off — as he did last time — but this legislation will ensure that no future administration can restart it,” Roy told TWS. “Let’s get this done.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization”

7. R.1123: “To abolish the United States Agency for International Development, and for other purposes”

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced a bill “To abolish the United States Agency for International Development, and for other purposes” (H.R.1123). Investigators at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered billions of dollars in wasteful and often-offensive grants made by USAID, a body intended to supply foreign aid to the world’s most vulnerable populations, including funding of transgender propaganda around the world.

“As chairwoman of the DOGE Subcommittee,” which held its first hearing on Wednesday, “I’ve launched the War on Waste, and USAID is a major culprit lighting over $40 billion on fire each year. It’s time to do what DOGE does best: cut the waste,” said Greene.

“I am pleased that the rot and corruption is finally getting the attention and action it deserves from the Trump administration, but Congress needs to back this effort up and end this problem permanently,” said Roy. “With $36 trillion in debt, we have to get our fiscal House in order; but we can start right now with getting rid of USAID.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” as well as numerous executive actions, such as a mass firing reducing USAID from more than 10,000 employees to just 294.

8. Dismantle DEI Act

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) introduced the Dismantle DEI Act. The bill terminates all DEI-based programs, offices, trainings, and grants — including identity-based quotas and anything rooted in critical race theory (CRT) — and does not allow the government to rename or repurpose them. Significantly, the legislation extends beyond government entities themselves to include federal contractors and accreditation bodies. It also creates a private right of action for individuals to sue offenders.

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have plagued our federal government, academic institutions, and other aspects of our society, cheapening standards while disregarding merit,” said Schmitt in a written statement emailed to TWS. “Moreover, taxpayer dollars should not be wasted on this poisonous, divisive ideology.”

“The DEI agenda has no place in our federal government,” agreed Peter Holland of the Foundation for Government Accountability.

“DEI was never about fairness or opportunity — it was a Trojan horse for left-wing political social engineering that fosters division, not unity,” noted Cloud. “Hiring and promotion should be because of someone’s merit, excellence, and hard work, regardless of race, religion, or creed.”

“I’m grateful to President Trump for reversing these harmful policies on day one of his administration,” Cloud told TWS. “His leadership put an end to these divisive, un-American programs, and it’s now Congress’s job to follow through and codify the permanent elimination of DEI from our government.”

Should it reach the president’s desk, it should face little opposition. The Dismantle DEI Act’s Senate sponsor in the last Congress was then-Senator J.D. Vance.

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferences,” “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” as well as a memo from the Office of Personnel Management firing DEI officials and closing DEI programs.

9. R.899: “To terminate the Department of Education”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) reintroduced a bill “To terminate the Department of Education” (H.R.899).

Conservatives have proposed eliminating the U.S. Department of Education since its founding under President Jimmy Carter, which was widely seen as a kickback to teachers unions for dependably supporting Democratic candidates. President Ronald Reagan campaigned on eliminating the agency and repeated his desire to shutter the Education and Energy departments during a televised address on September 24, 1981. “Education is the principal responsibility of local school systems, teachers, parents, citizen boards, and State governments. By eliminating the Department of Education less than two years after it was created, we can not only reduce the budget but ensure that local needs and preferences, rather than the wishes of Washington, determine the education of our children,” said President Reagan.

“Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development,” agreed Massie, who supports a strict constructionist reading of the U.S. Constitution. “Parents have the right to choose the most appropriate educational opportunity for their children, including home school, public school, or private school.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: As of this writing, President Trump has not yet signed a much-anticipated executive order closing the Department of Education. (Experts question whether a Cabinet-level position established by legislation can be abolished by executive order.) However, he has repeatedly stated his hopes of closing the department.

10. H. Res. 9: “Resolution reaffirming that the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute and does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court”

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) reintroduced his “resolution reaffirming that the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute and does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court” (H. Res. 9). President Bill Clinton signed the Rome Statute, creating the ICC, shortly before leaving office on New Year’s Eve 2000 but never submitted the treaty to the Senate for ratification, as required by the Constitution. Article 125 of the Rome Statute states that it is “subject to ratification, acceptance, or approval by signatory” nations. In 2002, President George W. Bush said the U.S. had no intention to join the body.

The ICC created international controversy last November when it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for committing war crimes against Palestinians, including starvation and the intentional targeting of civilians. On February 6, President Trump sanctioned the ICC via executive order.

The latest resolution, which does not have legally binding authority, expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. “does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.” It also formally condemns the ICC’s arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, and it proclaims America’s “unwavering support for the State of Israel and its right to defend itself and its leaders from unwarranted international legal actions.”

Executive order(s) it builds on: “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court”