On January 27, 2025 the acting head of contracting activity at DOE issued a memorandum to all recipients of DOE funding directing them to immediately cease work deemed inconsistent with President Trump’s Executive Orders. The memorandum indicated that “DOE is moving aggressively to implement” the Executive Orders, and that “[r]ecipients and subrecipients must cease any activities, including contracted activities, and stop incurring costs associated with DEI and [community benefit plan] activities effective as of the date of this letter for all DOE grants, cooperative agreements, loans, loan guarantees, cost sharing agreements, or other DOE funding of any kind.”