Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

19. Department of Transportation · Major · Needs Congress

Transfer MARAD and the Merchant Marine Academy out of DOT to DHS or DOD

Not started

638 19. Department of Transportation

“MARAD, including its subordinate Service Academy (the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy) should be transferred to the Department of Defense (if the Coast Guard is located there because DHS has been eliminated) or to the Department of Homeland Security.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Nothing proposes moving MARAD or the Academy; Executive Order 14269 (2025-04-09) keeps both inside DOT and directs the Secretary of Transportation to modernize the Academy (section 14).

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Executive Order 14269, Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance, read at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-americas-maritime-dominance/ (Federal Register: 2025-06465): sections 12 and 14 treat MARAD programs and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as DOT responsibilities; no transfer to DHS or DOD. It is context for the negative finding, not an event.
  • H.R. 2429 (2025-03-27), a USMMA campus-modernization bill, was referred to House Armed Services — a committee referral, not a transfer.
Action
transfer
Object
Maritime Administration and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
ID
1756