The Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) was created as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.

[1] In 2025, with the election of Donald Trump as President, the newly proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has targeted the Northern Border Commission and the other six regional commissions for elimination from the federal budget.

[2] Modeled off the Appalachian Regional Commission, the NBRC is led by a federal co-chair and the respective state governors.

Chris Saunders was confirmed by the Senate on March 24, 2022,[3] and began service on April 11, 2022.

[4] List of federal co-chairs: The service area consists of upstate New York, most of Maine and New Hampshire, and all of Vermont.