Trump Orders Elimination Of United States Interagency Council On Homelessness

On March 14, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order (EO) to dismantle the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), among other organizations. The USICH was formed as a cross-agency entity in 1987 to coordinate the federal response for preventing and ending homelessness in the United States by partnering with state and local government and the private sector.

The order to dissolve USICH was part of a larger executive order aimed at reducing what the administration has identified as "unnecessary federal bureaucracy." The head of the agency was to submit a report to the Office of . . .