# Executive Order 14217 **"Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy"** — a February 2025 executive order directing the elimination of federal entities and functions the administration deemed non-statutory or unnecessary, and the reduction of others to their statutory minimum. Its most traceable effect on the federal statistical system runs through the advisory layer. Acting under the order, the Department of Commerce terminated fourteen discretionary federal advisory committees in a single *Federal Register* notice — 90 FR 24383, 10 June 2025 — including all three census advisory bodies: the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, the Census National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations, and the 2030 Census Advisory Committee. Because those were *discretionary* committees under the [[Federal Advisory Committee Act]], termination required only a Secretary's determination that their purposes had been fulfilled, and a notice. The notice requested no public comment. The broader pattern — an entire category of outside oversight removed by notice rather than by legislation — is the reason the order matters structurally rather than just administratively. ## See also - [[Census Bureau Org Chart]] · [[Federal Advisory Committee Act]] · [[Census Bureau]]