The State Department will finalize an expansion of the Mexico City Policy on Friday that will bar U.S. foreign assistance from subsidizing abortion and, in a major broadening, from supporting what the administration calls gender and DEI equity programs. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
Under previous iterations of the Mexico City Policy, U.S. funding was barred from supporting organizations that provide or promote abortion as a method of family planning. During President Donald Trump's first term, the policy was expanded to cover roughly $8 billion in global health assistance.
The newly finalized rules go further, and cover all nonmilitary foreign assistance to the tune of more than $30 billion.
Foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations receiving U.S. assistance will be required to certify that they do not provide or promote abortion as a method of family planning, promote gender ideology, promote discriminatory equity ideology, or engage in unlawful diversity, equity and inclusion–related discrimination, according to the policy framework.
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U.S.-based NGOs operating overseas will face similar certification requirements, Fox Digital learned.
Former President Ronald Reagan first rolled the policy out in 1984 at a UN population conference to prevent U.S. foreign aid from being used to promote abortion in other nations. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Trump repeatedly has touted the policy, saying in 2017 that his first administration was working "to protect the unborn" by reinstating the Mexico City Policy. The addition of gender and DEI ideology to the framework follows the Trump administration's year of work to roll back what it describes as the use of federal policy and funding to advance progressive social ideology.
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"We’ve ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government," Trump celebrated back in March 2025. "Our country will be woke no longer."
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