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Ending Birth Tourism
This executive order directs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to take actions to prevent "birth tourism" — the practice of foreign nationals entering the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas to give birth and secure citizenship for their children. The order delegates presidential authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar entry, revoke visas, remove aliens, and penalize facilitators, with humanitarian and national-interest exemptions.
Imposing Additional Duties To Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States With Respect to Dairy
This proclamation imposes an additional 50 percent ad valorem duty on certain Canadian products, effective August 19, 2026, to offset Canada's discriminatory dairy tariff-rate quota allocation measures under USMCA that favor EU cheese exporters over U.S. exporters. The action uses Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 after finding that Canada unreasonably restricts U.S. retailers from accessing USMCA dairy TRQs while allowing EU retailers access under CETA.
Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks
This executive order mandates a government-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against future quantum computing threats. It sets specific deadlines for federal agencies to migrate high-value assets and high-impact systems to PQC standards, requires new procurement rules for contractors, and establishes coordination roles across OMB, NIST, CISA, and NSA.
Promoting Efficiency, Accountability, and Performance in Federal Contracting
This executive order makes fixed-price contracts the default for federal procurement, requiring written justification and agency-head approval for cost-reimbursement and other non-fixed-price contracts above specified dollar thresholds. It mandates review and renegotiation of agencies' 10 largest non-fixed-price contracts within 90 days, with semi-annual reporting to OMB and proposed amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation within 120 days.
Urgent National Action To Save College Sports
This executive order imposes federal contract and grant consequences on major college athletic programs that violate interstate athletic governing body rules on eligibility, transfers, revenue-sharing, and NIL payments, effective August 1, 2026. It also directs federal agencies to challenge state laws that conflict with these rules and encourages the NCAA to establish national standards including age limits, transfer restrictions, and revenue-sharing guardrails for women's and Olympic sports.
Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
This Executive Order mandates that all federal contracts include a clause prohibiting contractors and subcontractors from engaging in racially discriminatory DEI activities, defined as disparate treatment based on race or ethnicity in employment, contracting, or resource allocation. It requires agencies to insert this clause within 30 days, empowers contract termination and debarment for noncompliance, invokes False Claims Act liability, and directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend regulations within 60 days.
Ensuring Truthful Advertising of Products Claiming To Be Made in America
This executive order directs the FTC to prioritize enforcement against false "Made in America" claims, especially by foreign sellers on digital marketplaces. It also requires agencies overseeing federal procurement contracts to verify American-origin claims and refer misrepresenting contractors to the Department of Justice for potential False Claims Act liability.
Ending Certain Tariff Actions
This executive order terminates the additional ad valorem duties imposed under IEEPA across nine prior executive orders targeting Canada, Mexico, China, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Cuba, and Iran. The national emergencies underlying those orders remain in effect, and other duties (Section 232, Section 301) are unaffected. Agency heads must stop collecting these duties as soon as practicable.
Ensuring Affordable Beef for the American Consumer
This proclamation temporarily increases the U.S. beef tariff-rate quota by 80,000 metric tons for calendar year 2026, specifically for lean beef trimmings used in ground beef. The entire additional quota is allocated to Argentina and administered in four 20,000 mt quarterly tranches beginning February 13, 2026, to address high domestic beef prices caused by drought, wildfires, and restricted cattle imports from Mexico.
Presidential Determination With Respect to the Efforts of Foreign Governments Regarding Trafficking in Persons
This determination, issued under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, imposes foreign assistance restrictions on 17 governments for FY 2026 due to inadequate anti-trafficking efforts. It withholds nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related assistance from countries including Afghanistan, Chad, Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela, with partial national-interest waivers for some countries and adds Sint Maarten to the restricted list.
Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring
This executive order extends federal workforce reduction policies by requiring agency-level approval for nearly all new hires and vacancies, establishing Strategic Hiring Committees, and mandating Annual Staffing Plans aligned with administration priorities. It exempts national security, immigration enforcement, public safety, and political appointees from restrictions, while prohibiting contracting to circumvent hiring limits.
Decision of the President and Statement of Reasons
On October 6, 2025, the President approved Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority's appeal and its 2016 revised consolidated application for the Ambler Road Project, a transportation system in Alaska. The President directed all concerned federal agencies to promptly issue necessary authorizations for the project's establishment under section 1106(a) of ANILCA.
Use of Appropriated Funds for Illegal Lobbying and Partisan Political Activity by Federal Grantees
This memorandum directs the Attorney General to investigate whether federal grant funds are being illegally used for lobbying and partisan political activities by grantees, citing potential violations of 31 U.S.C. 1352. The Attorney General must report progress to the President within 180 days and coordinate with agency heads on enforcement actions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
This executive order overhauls federal grantmaking by requiring senior political appointees to review all discretionary grants and funding announcements, bans funding for DEI initiatives, transgender education, illegal immigration support, and 'anti-American values,' mandates termination-for-convenience clauses in all grants, limits indirect costs at universities, and directs OMB to revise the Uniform Guidance to streamline applications and reduce administrative overhead.
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
This executive order directs federal agencies to procure large language models (LLMs) only from vendors that adhere to two "Unbiased AI Principles": truth-seeking and ideological neutrality, specifically prohibiting DEI-related content manipulation. The order requires OMB to issue implementation guidance within 120 days, after which agencies must revise procurement contracts and adopt compliance procedures within 90 days.
Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement To Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
This executive order directs the Attorney General and other officials to expand legal protections and resources for state and local law enforcement, including creating an indemnification mechanism for officers, reviewing federal consent decrees within 60 days, increasing military asset transfers to local police within 90 days, and prioritizing prosecution of state/local officials who obstruct criminal law enforcement or implement DEI initiatives that restrict policing. It also mandates using Homeland Security Task Forces established under EO 14159 to advance these objectives.
Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers
This executive order directs all federal agencies to review their regulations and identify those that are anti-competitive—such as rules creating monopolies, barriers to entry, or burdensome licensing requirements—with recommendations for rescission or modification. The FTC Chairman and Attorney General will consolidate these findings for OMB review, with the goal of incorporating changes into the Unified Regulatory Agenda.
Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy
This executive order directs EPA, DOE, FERC, NRC, and several Interior Department subcomponents to implement a sunset system where existing energy-related regulations automatically expire unless agencies actively extend them after cost-benefit review. All covered regulations must receive a Conditional Sunset Date by September 30, 2025, with existing regulations expiring one year after the sunset rule's effective date unless extended. New regulations must include sunset dates no more than 5 years out.
Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
This executive order directs federal agencies to consolidate domestic procurement of common goods and services under the General Services Administration (GSA), which currently handles $490 billion in annual federal contracts. It requires agency heads to submit consolidation proposals within 60 days, mandates GSA to develop a comprehensive procurement plan within 90 days, and immediately designates the GSA Administrator as executive agent for all government-wide IT acquisition contracts.
Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
This executive order directs a comprehensive review and restructuring of federal preparedness and resilience policies, shifting from an all-hazards to a risk-informed approach while empowering state and local governments. It mandates new strategy documents, policy revisions, and a National Risk Register to quantify threats, explicitly excluding "misinformation" and "cognitive infrastructure" from critical infrastructure policy. Multiple existing executive orders, national security memoranda, and presidential policy directives are slated for review and potential rescission or replacement.
Designating English as the Official Language of the United States
This executive order designates English as the official language of the United States and revokes Executive Order 13166 (2000), which required federal agencies to provide services to limited-English-proficiency individuals. However, the order explicitly does not require agencies to change their current multilingual services, leaving operational decisions to agency heads.
Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative
This executive order directs all federal agencies to review existing regulations within 60 days and identify rules that are unconstitutional, exceed statutory authority, impose undue costs, or impede economic and technological progress. It also instructs agencies to de-prioritize enforcement of regulations that go beyond the "best reading" of their underlying statutes and to develop a Unified Regulatory Agenda to rescind or modify targeted rules. The order integrates DOGE Team Leads into the regulatory review process and exempts military, national security, immigration, and federal workforce management actions.
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
This executive order implements a major federal workforce reduction initiative through the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE). It establishes a 4-to-1 hiring ratio (one hire for every four departures), mandates large-scale reductions in force prioritizing non-statutorily required offices including DEI initiatives, requires DOGE Team Lead approval for career hires, and directs rulemaking to tighten federal employee suitability criteria.
Establishment of the White House Faith Office
This executive order establishes the White House Faith Office within the Executive Office of the President, replacing prior faith-based initiative offices. It amends several Bush-era executive orders to rename existing centers and creates a new coordinating structure to advance faith-based partnerships in federal programs, religious liberty enforcement, and grant access for religious organizations.
Council To Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency
This executive order establishes a 20-member council co-chaired by the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense to review FEMA's disaster response performance, staffing, political impartiality, and structural role in federal-state disaster relief. The council must hold its first public meeting within 90 days and submit recommendations to the President within 180 days after that meeting, with the council terminating after one year unless extended.
Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
This executive order revokes Biden-era AI safety policies, particularly EO 14110, and directs development of a new AI action plan within 180 days. It mandates review and suspension of agency actions deemed inconsistent with promoting American AI dominance, and requires OMB to revise two memoranda within 60 days.
Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government
This executive order directs the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence to review federal law enforcement and intelligence activities over the past four years for alleged political weaponization, with reports to the President on remedial actions. It frames the review as correcting misconduct by the prior administration against perceived political opponents.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
This executive order revokes 78 executive orders and memoranda from the prior administration spanning DEI initiatives, climate policy, immigration, healthcare, COVID-19 response, and other areas. It mandates immediate termination of federal DEI implementation, requires two 45-day reviews for additional rescissions, and directs a National Security Advisor review of all National Security Memoranda from 2021-2025.
Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential
This executive order directs federal agencies to aggressively reverse Biden-era restrictions on Alaska resource development, including oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve, and Tongass National Forest protections. It mandates expedited permitting for LNG infrastructure, reinstates Trump-era environmental reviews and land management plans, and prioritizes Alaska's energy exports to domestic and Pacific allied markets.
Establishing and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency"
This Executive Order renames the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS), places it in the Executive Office of the President, and creates a temporary organization to advance an 18-month efficiency agenda. It mandates that every federal agency establish a four-person "DOGE Team" within 30 days and grants USDS broad access to agency records and IT systems, displacing prior orders that might block such access.
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
This executive order imposes an immediate 90-day pause on all new U.S. foreign development assistance obligations and disbursements pending program-by-program reviews for alignment with presidential foreign policy. The Secretary of State, in consultation with OMB, must conduct reviews and make continue/modify/cease determinations within 90 days, with authority to waive the pause for specific programs.
Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service
This executive order directs a comprehensive reform of federal hiring practices to prioritize merit, efficiency, and ideological alignment with administration goals. It mandates development of a Federal Hiring Plan within 120 days that emphasizes skills-based assessments, reduces time-to-hire, and explicitly prohibits consideration of DEI-related factors while requiring loyalty to the Constitution and Executive Branch.
Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness
This executive order reinstates the name "Mount McKinley" for North America's highest peak (reversing its 2015 renaming to "Denali") and renames the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America." It also directs agency heads to review and potentially replace their appointees to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names within seven days, and instructs the Board to advance a policy of honoring "visionary and patriotic Americans" in federal naming decisions.
Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service
This executive order grants Non-Competitive Eligibility to AmeriCorps alumni who complete at least 1,700 hours of service, allowing federal agencies to hire them directly into competitive service positions without going through standard competitive hiring processes. The AmeriCorps CEO will certify eligible individuals, who must be appointed within one year of completing service (extendable to three years under certain circumstances).
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on January 9, 2025
This executive order closes all federal executive departments and agencies on January 9, 2025, as a mark of respect for former President Jimmy Carter following his death. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public needs, and the closure will be treated as a paid holiday for federal employees under existing statutes.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2024
This executive order closes all executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2024, excusing federal employees from duty, while allowing agency heads to keep essential operations open for national security, defense, or other public need. It ensures affected employees receive appropriate pay and leave treatment under existing statutes.
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Hispanic-Serving Institutions
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative within the Department of Education and a President's Board of Advisors to strengthen Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) by improving their access to federal resources, promoting best practices, and expanding educational and economic opportunities for Hispanic and Latino students. The Initiative focuses on addressing funding disparities, improving infrastructure, aligning programs with workforce needs, and building partnerships with public and private organizations.
Reforming Federal Funding and Support for Tribal Nations To Better Embrace Our Trust Responsibilities and Promote the Next Era of Tribal Self-Determination
This executive order directs federal agencies to reform how they administer funding and programs for Tribal Nations, with the goal of reducing bureaucratic burdens, increasing flexibility, and better fulfilling trust responsibilities. It mandates a multi-year assessment of unmet federal obligations led by OMB and the Domestic Policy Advisor, and requires agencies to streamline application processes, respect Tribal data sovereignty, and promote self-governance through compacts and co-management agreements.
Modernizing United States Spectrum Policy and Establishing a National Spectrum Strategy
This memorandum directs the Department of Commerce and NTIA to modernize U.S. spectrum policy by establishing an Interagency Spectrum Advisory Council, developing a National Spectrum Strategy by December 31, 2023, and creating an Implementation Plan within 120 days of Strategy submission. It revokes a 2018 Trump-era spectrum memorandum and establishes new coordination requirements between NTIA, FCC, and federal agencies on spectrum allocation and management decisions.
Moving Beyond COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Workers
This executive order revokes the federal COVID-19 vaccination requirements for federal employees (EO 14043) and federal contractors (EO 14042), effective May 12, 2023. Agencies must stop enforcing and rescind policies premised on those earlier orders.
Modernizing Regulatory Review
This executive order updates the framework for federal regulatory review by raising the economic threshold for "significant regulatory actions" from $100 million to $200 million, requiring regulatory analysis to consider distributive impacts and equity, expanding public participation requirements to include underserved communities, and mandating OMB revise its key cost-benefit analysis guidance (Circular A-4) within one year.
Prohibition on Use by the United States Government of Commercial Spyware That Poses Risks to National Security
This executive order prohibits U.S. government agencies from operationally using commercial spyware that poses significant counterintelligence, security, or human rights risks. It establishes a framework for interagency coordination through intelligence assessments, certification requirements, due diligence procedures, and reporting to ensure government use of spyware aligns with national security interests and democratic values.
Enhancing the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
This executive order establishes the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee to advise the President and federal subcommittees on quantum information science policy, replacing a 2019 committee with a new structure capped at 26 members plus the OSTP Director. It mandates biannual meetings and broad stakeholder engagement but creates no new funding or regulatory authority.
Prohibiting New Investment in and Certain Services to the Russian Federation in Response to Continued Russian Federation Aggression
This executive order prohibits new U.S. investment in Russia and authorizes the Treasury Secretary to ban categories of services exports to Russia, building on prior sanctions. It also bars U.S. persons from facilitating foreign transactions that would be prohibited if done directly.
Continuing To Strengthen Americans' Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage
This executive order directs federal agencies to continue reviewing policies and practices to expand affordable health coverage, strengthen benefits, and reduce medical debt under the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. It builds on prior actions taken under Executive Order 14009 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Advancing Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Federal Contracting by Promoting Pay Equity and Transparency
This executive order directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to consider issuing proposed rules that would limit or prohibit federal contractors from using job applicants' salary history in employment decisions, aiming to promote pay equity and transparency in federal procurement. It parallels anticipated OPM rules for federal employees and requires consideration of accountability measures for contractors and subcontractors.
Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects
This executive order requires project labor agreements (PLAs)—pre-hire collective bargaining agreements with labor unions—for federal construction projects costing $35 million or more. It revokes a prior Obama-era EO on the same topic and mandates implementing regulations, contracting officer training, and public reporting on exceptions.
Adjusting Imports of Steel Into the United States
This proclamation replaces the 25 percent tariff on EU steel imports with a tariff-rate quota system allowing 3.3 million metric tons of EU steel to enter duty-free through December 31, 2023, provided the steel is melted and poured in the EU. It also renews FY2021 exclusions for two years, mandates a review of the steel and aluminum exclusion process, and requires U.S.-EU negotiations on global steel and aluminum arrangements by October 31, 2023.
Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons With Respect to the Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia
This executive order declares a national emergency over the conflict in northern Ethiopia, authorizing the Treasury and State Departments to impose sanctions on foreign individuals and entities responsible for violence, human rights abuses, obstruction of humanitarian aid, or undermining peace processes. It blocks property, restricts financial transactions, and suspends U.S. entry for designated persons while attempting to preserve humanitarian assistance flows to at-risk populations.
Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors
This executive order requires federal contractors and subcontractors to follow COVID-19 workplace safety guidance issued by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force in contracts entered into, extended, or renewed on or after October 15, 2021. The order mandates that agencies include a compliance clause in covered contracts and that the OMB Director approve any such guidance before it takes effect.
Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees
This executive order mandates COVID-19 vaccination for all federal employees across executive agencies, with exceptions only as required by law. The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force must issue implementation guidance within 7 days, and each agency must then create its own vaccination program.
Declassification Reviews of Certain Documents Concerning the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
This executive order mandates a phased declassification review of FBI and other agency documents related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, prioritizing transparency for survivors and victims' families while protecting national security. The Attorney General and relevant agency heads must complete reviews of specific records on rolling deadlines between September 11, 2021 and approximately March 2022.
White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a new White House Initiative within the Department of Education to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It creates a new President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs, mandates annual agency plans from federal agencies on HBCU participation in federal programs, and establishes an interagency working group to coordinate government-wide efforts.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce
This executive order establishes a government-wide initiative to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the federal workforce. It mandates strategic planning, data collection, paid internships, partnerships with minority-serving institutions, and specific equity measures for employees with disabilities, LGBTQ+ employees, and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data From Foreign Adversaries
This executive order revokes Trump-era bans on TikTok, WeChat, and other Chinese apps (EOs 13942, 13943, 13971) and replaces them with a broader, evidence-based framework for evaluating risks from foreign adversary-connected software applications. It directs the Commerce Secretary to produce two reports with recommendations for protecting Americans' sensitive data and addressing risks from connected software applications.
Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
This executive order establishes a new President's Advisory Commission and White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) within the Department of Health and Human Services. It creates a whole-of-government framework to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for these communities through interagency coordination, data disaggregation, language access, hate crimes tracking, and annual reporting on measurable progress across federal agencies.
Climate-Related Financial Risk
This executive order directs federal agencies to assess and disclose climate-related financial risks across government programs, financial markets, and pensions. It mandates development of a government-wide climate risk strategy, requires financial regulators to evaluate systemic climate risks, and reinstates flood risk standards for federally funded projects.
Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical Amendment
This executive order revokes six Trump-era executive orders concerning online censorship, monument protection, foreign aid branding, and regulatory reform. It also formally codifies the elimination of Schedule F in the federal civil service through a technical amendment to Civil Service Rule VI, updating 5 CFR 6.2 and 6.4 to remove Schedule F from the excepted service schedules.
Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity
This executive order mandates comprehensive cybersecurity reforms across the federal government, requiring adoption of zero-trust architecture, cloud modernization, multi-factor authentication, and encryption. It establishes new software supply chain security standards including Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) requirements, creates a Cyber Safety Review Board for incident review, and removes contractual barriers to threat information sharing between IT/OT service providers and federal agencies.
Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors
This executive order raises the minimum wage for workers on federal contracts to $15.00 per hour, effective January 30, 2022, with annual inflation adjustments beginning January 1, 2023. It also establishes a phased increase for tipped workers and revokes a 2018 exemption for recreational services on federal lands.
Promoting Access to Voting
This executive order directs federal agencies to expand voter registration access and election information, particularly for historically underserved groups including people of color, people with disabilities, military personnel overseas, Native Americans, and individuals in federal custody. It mandates strategic plans, website modernization, and interagency coordination to reduce barriers to voting.
America's Supply Chains
This executive order directs a comprehensive, two-phase review of U.S. supply chain vulnerabilities across critical sectors including semiconductors, batteries, critical minerals, and pharmaceuticals (100-day review), followed by deeper one-year assessments of defense, public health, ICT, energy, transportation, and agricultural supply chains. It establishes a coordinated interagency process to identify risks and recommend policies to strengthen domestic manufacturing, reduce foreign dependencies, and build resilient, diverse supply chains.
Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions
This executive order revokes seven Trump-era executive orders and memoranda covering financial regulation, poverty programs, labor-management relations, regulatory relief, federal funding to cities, federal architecture, and agency rulemaking accountability. It directs OMB and agency heads to rescind implementing rules and abolish related entities as appropriate under law.
Revocation of Executive Order 13801
This executive order revokes Executive Order 13801 (2017), which had established a task force and framework to expand industry-recognized apprenticeship programs. It directs agencies to rescind implementing rules and abolish related entities, while preserving compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act and other applicable law.
Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration
This executive order revokes Trump-era restrictions on refugee resettlement and directs a comprehensive rebuilding and expansion of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). It mandates multiple reviews and reports to streamline vetting, reduce backlogs, improve protections for vulnerable groups, and address Special Immigrant Visa delays for Iraqi and Afghan allies. It also orders the first-ever U.S. government report on climate change's impact on migration.
Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans
This executive order directs a comprehensive review of Trump-era immigration policies to remove barriers to legal immigration, naturalization, and public benefits access. It establishes interagency task forces to coordinate integration efforts and mandates specific plans and reports to streamline citizenship processes and reverse restrictive public charge and sponsor liability policies.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
This executive order re-establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an external advisory body of up to 26 members to counsel the President on science, technology, and innovation policy. It replaces a Trump-era version and assigns administrative support to the Department of Energy with a two-year sunset unless extended.
Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
This executive order directs all federal agencies to promptly identify actions within their existing authorities to provide economic relief from the COVID-19 pandemic, with emphasis on improving access to relief programs and prioritizing aid to individuals, families, small businesses, and state/local/tribal/territorial governments. The order is hortatory rather than creating new programs, relying on existing statutory authorities and appropriations.
Protecting the Federal Workforce
This executive order revokes Trump-era policies that weakened federal employee protections, including Schedule F (which would have made career civil servants easier to fire) and three 2018 executive orders restricting union activities. It also requires agencies to bargain over certain labor matters and directs OPM to recommend a $15/hour minimum wage for federal workers.
Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
This executive order establishes a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force within HHS to address disproportionate pandemic impacts on communities of color and underserved populations. It directs federal agencies to assess and modify pandemic response plans for equitable resource allocation, strengthen data collection, and conduct targeted outreach for vaccine trust.
Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate COVID-19 treatment development, expand healthcare system capacity through targeted surge assistance to long-term care facilities, and improve access to affordable care by evaluating insurance coverage programs and establishing production targets for therapeutics. It emphasizes supporting rural hospitals, historically underrepresented clinical trial populations, and patients with long-term COVID effects.
Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
This executive order establishes a whole-of-government equity agenda requiring federal agencies to assess whether their policies and programs perpetuate systemic barriers for underserved communities. It mandates equity assessments, creates an interagency data working group, revokes Trump-era orders on race and sex stereotyping and the 1776 Commission, and directs OMB to study methods for embedding equity in federal budgeting and decision-making.
Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
This executive order establishes a White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator to unify federal pandemic response efforts, including vaccine distribution, testing expansion, PPE production, and school reopening support. It also creates an NSC Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense, assigns the APNSA responsibility for national biodefense preparedness, and mandates a 180-day review of biological threats and biopreparedness policies.
Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
This executive order establishes binding ethics pledges for all presidential appointees in executive agencies appointed on or after January 20, 2021. It imposes strict revolving door restrictions, bans on lobbyist gifts and golden parachutes, and creates enforcement mechanisms including debarment and civil penalties for violations.
Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing
This executive order mandates that on-duty or on-site federal employees, contractors, and visitors wear masks and follow CDC public health guidelines in federal buildings and on federal lands. It also establishes the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force to provide ongoing guidance on COVID-19 workplace safety and requires federal agencies to report on their implementation progress.
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation
This executive order revokes six Trump-era executive orders that imposed restrictions on federal regulation, including rules requiring two regulations be eliminated for every new one, regulatory cost caps, and limits on agency guidance documents. It directs agencies to promptly rescind implementing rules and abolish related positions and task forces, giving agencies more flexibility to use regulation to address COVID-19, economic recovery, racial justice, and climate change.
Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities
This executive order revokes the Trump-era EO 13768 (which expanded interior immigration enforcement and threatened sanctuary jurisdictions) and directs agency heads to review and revise related policies to align with the Biden Administration's stated priorities of border security, humanitarian concerns, public health, and due process.
Protecting Law Enforcement Officers, Judges, Prosecutors, and Their Families
This executive order directs federal agencies to remove obstacles for federal law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms under existing law, authorizes special deputation with firearm privileges for federal prosecutors facing threats, prioritizes protection of judges and prosecutors by the Marshals Service, and requires development of legislation to extend firearm carry rights to federal judges and enhance penalties for violence against these officials and their families.
Protecting the United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems
This executive order restricts federal procurement and use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) manufactured by or containing components from foreign adversaries, particularly China. It mandates security reviews of the federal drone fleet, requires agencies to assess their authority to stop buying covered drones, and directs the FAA to propose regulations restricting drone use near critical infrastructure.
Addressing the Threat Posed by Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled by Chinese Companies
This executive order prohibits U.S. persons from transacting with eight specific Chinese-connected software applications (including Alipay, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office) beginning 45 days after January 5, 2021. It also directs the Commerce Secretary to evaluate additional apps for national security risks and report on preventing foreign adversaries from accessing U.S. user data.
Increasing Economic and Geographic Mobility
This executive order directs federal agencies to review their occupational licensing regulations and policies to reduce barriers to worker mobility, particularly for military spouses and individuals with criminal records. It establishes six principles for state-level occupational licensing reform and creates a reporting system to identify and reward states that adopt less restrictive licensing requirements.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2020
This executive order closes all federal executive departments and agencies on December 24, 2020, excusing employees from duty, while allowing agency heads to keep essential operations open for national security or public need. It treats the day as a holiday for pay and leave purposes under existing statutes.
Rebranding United States Foreign Assistance To Advance American Influence
This executive order requires all U.S. foreign assistance to be branded as "American aid" using a single presidentially-selected logo. It mandates rulemaking and agency compliance within 120 days, with annual reporting on implementation.
Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government
This executive order establishes principles for trustworthy AI use across federal civilian agencies, requiring inventories of AI use cases, public roadmaps for policy guidance, and mechanisms to ensure AI systems respect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. It excludes national security and defense systems while mandating transparency, accountability, and human oversight in government AI applications.
Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
EO 13957 created a new 'Schedule F' classification for federal career employees in policy-making or confidential roles, moving them from competitive service to excepted service. This allowed agencies to hire and fire these employees more easily without competitive civil service procedures or chapter 75 adverse action protections. The order required agencies to review and petition to reclassify eligible positions within 90 days (preliminary) and 210 days (complete).
Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
This executive order prohibits federal agencies, uniformed services, contractors, and grant recipients from conducting or funding workplace training that promotes certain "divisive concepts" related to race and sex stereotyping, including the ideas that the U.S. is fundamentally racist or sexist, that individuals are inherently oppressive based on race or sex, or that meritocracy is racist. It mandates contract clauses, establishes a hotline for complaints, requires agency reviews and reporting, and imposes potential debarment and adverse personnel actions for noncompliance.
Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States
This executive order directs federal agencies to prioritize domestic procurement of essential medicines, medical countermeasures, and their critical ingredients to reduce dependence on foreign manufacturing. It mandates supply chain vulnerability assessments, streamlines regulatory approvals for domestic producers, and authorizes use of the Defense Production Act to prioritize these materials. The order includes exceptions for public health emergencies and when domestic procurement would increase costs by more than 25 percent.
Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices With the Interests of American Workers
This executive order directs federal agencies to review their 2018-2019 contracts for use of temporary foreign labor and offshoring, and requires the Labor and Homeland Security Departments to take action within 45 days to protect U.S. workers from adverse effects caused by H-1B visa holders at job sites. The order aims to prioritize American workers in federal contracting and hiring, particularly during COVID-19 economic disruption.
Modernizing and Reforming the Assessment and Hiring of Federal Job Candidates
This executive order directs the federal government to shift from degree-based to skills- and competency-based hiring for competitive service positions. It requires OPM to revise job classification and qualification standards, limits when educational requirements can be used, and mandates new candidate assessment methods that do not rely solely on educational attainment.
Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence
This executive order directs federal prosecution of individuals who damage monuments, memorials, statues, or religious property, and authorizes withholding federal grants from state/local governments and law enforcement agencies that fail to protect such structures. It also allows deployment of federal personnel to protect federal monuments upon request, with this authority terminating after 6 months unless extended.
Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery
This executive order directs federal agencies to use emergency authorities to rescind, modify, waive, or exempt businesses from regulations that may hinder economic recovery from COVID-19. It also requires agencies to provide compliance assistance, issue pre-enforcement rulings, adopt fairness principles in enforcement, and review temporary regulatory flexibilities for possible permanent adoption.
Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act to the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation To Respond to the COVID-19 Outbreak
This executive order delegates Defense Production Act (DPA) authority to the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO to make loans and purchase commitments that expand domestic production of strategic resources and strengthen supply chains needed for the COVID-19 response. The delegation is limited to loans supporting pandemic response/recovery and supply chain resiliency, and expires when CARES Act DPA waiver provisions terminate.
Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources
This executive order establishes U.S. policy that Americans have the right to engage in commercial exploration and use of space resources, explicitly rejects the 1979 Moon Agreement as binding customary international law, and directs the State Department to negotiate international agreements supporting public and private space resource recovery.
Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
This executive order delegates presidential authority under the Defense Production Act to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prioritize and allocate health and medical resources—including personal protective equipment and ventilators—for responding to COVID-19. It overrides the usual delegation structure in Executive Order 13603 for these specific resources.
Strengthening National Resilience Through Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services
This executive order directs federal agencies to develop profiles and plans to protect critical infrastructure from disruptions to Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services like GPS. It mandates development of voluntary standards for responsible PNT use, vulnerability testing, pilot programs, and research into backup PNT technologies independent of satellite systems.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2019
This executive order grants federal employees a day off on December 24, 2019, by closing all executive departments and agencies the day before Christmas. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public needs.
Combating Anti-Semitism
This executive order directs federal agencies enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism and its contemporary examples when investigating discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. It requires agencies to report within 120 days on additional nondiscrimination authorities where the IHRA definition could apply, while explicitly preserving First Amendment protections and existing evidentiary standards.
Improving Federal Contractor Operations by Revoking Executive Order 13495
This executive order revokes Executive Order 13495 (2009), which had required successor federal contractors to offer existing service contract employees a right of first refusal for jobs. It directs immediate termination of related enforcement actions and rescission of implementing regulations.
Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice
This executive order establishes a presidential commission to study law enforcement and criminal justice issues, with a mandate to produce recommendations on crime reduction, officer safety and training, police-community relations, and the role of social services in addressing factors like mental illness and homelessness. The commission is directed to deliver its report within one year, after which it will terminate within 90 days unless extended.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
This executive order re-establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), revoking the 2010 Obama-era version. The council will advise the President on science, technology, education, and innovation policy, with up to 16 outside members plus the OSTP Director as chair, and will automatically terminate after 2 years unless extended.
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria
This executive order declares a national emergency over Turkey's military offensive into northeast Syria, authorizing sanctions including asset freezes, visa denials, and financial restrictions against Turkish government officials, entities, and persons contributing to instability in Syria. It also suspends entry into the United States of designated aliens and authorizes secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that facilitate transactions for blocked persons.
Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication
This executive order requires federal agencies to rely only on publicly available statutes and regulations—not unpublished guidance documents—when taking civil administrative enforcement actions or adjudications against regulated parties. It mandates advance notice of legal standards, opportunity to contest agency determinations, and sets deadlines for agencies to publish inspection rules, propose cooperative enforcement procedures, and demonstrate compliance with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order continues 29 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2021, extending their existence beyond statutory expiration dates. It also delegates presidential FACA functions to the heads of designated departments or agencies and supersedes a prior continuation order from 2017.
Establishing the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
This executive order establishes the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, a 22-member body co-chaired by the OSTP Director and an Energy Secretary designee, to advise on quantum information science policy. It operationalizes Section 104 of the National Quantum Initiative Act by creating the advisory structure Congress mandated, with members from industry, academia, and government meeting at least twice yearly.
Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials
This executive order tightens domestic content requirements for federal procurement under the Buy American Act. It directs the FAR Council to propose rules lowering the foreign-origin threshold from 50% to 5% for iron/steel and 45% for other products, while increasing price preference margins for domestic bids. It also requires a Commerce/OMB report on further potential reductions to 25%.
Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
This executive order creates a White House Council chaired by HUD to identify and reduce federal, state, local, and tribal regulatory barriers to affordable housing development. The Council must report within 12 months on its findings and recommendations, and is scheduled to terminate on January 21, 2021 unless extended.
Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Iran
This executive order blocks all property and interests in property of Iran's Supreme Leader, his office, and associated officials and entities within U.S. jurisdiction. It also authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions for these blocked persons, and suspends U.S. entry for covered individuals.
Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order requires federal agencies to evaluate and reduce their advisory committees by terminating at least one-third of discretionary committees by September 30, 2019. It caps the total number of eligible advisory committees government-wide at 350 and mandates reporting to OMB on committee continuations and terminations.
Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
This executive order establishes the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders within the Department of Commerce and creates the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as a federal interagency working group. Both entities are tasked with broadening AAPI access to economic resources and opportunities, including business development, federal procurement, workforce advancement, and trade with the Asia-Pacific region, while also advancing data collection and research on AAPI populations.
America's Cybersecurity Workforce
This executive order establishes programs to grow and strengthen the federal and national cybersecurity workforce through rotational assignments, skills assessments, competitions, and education awards. It mandates adoption of the NICE Framework for cybersecurity skills standards across government contracts and encourages its voluntary use in private-sector and academic training. The order also creates reporting mechanisms and deadlines for multiple agencies to assess workforce gaps and implement workforce development initiatives.
Issuance of Permits With Respect to Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings at the International Boundaries of the United States
This executive order streamlines the Presidential permitting process for cross-border infrastructure projects like pipelines, bridges, and land transportation crossings. It designates the Secretary of State to receive applications and sets 60-day and 30-day deadlines for agency reviews, while reserving final permit decisions exclusively for the President. The order revokes two previous executive orders (13337 and 11423) governing similar permits.
Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth
This executive order directs federal agencies to streamline permitting and reduce regulatory barriers for energy infrastructure projects, particularly oil, gas, and LNG facilities. It mandates specific rulemakings and guidance updates regarding Clean Water Act Section 401 certifications, LNG safety regulations and rail transport, rights-of-way renewals on federal lands, and requires multiple reports on regional energy market barriers and investment trends.
Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses
This executive order establishes a whole-of-government framework to improve U.S. resilience against electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), whether from nuclear detonations, solar events, or other sources. It assigns specific roles to Cabinet departments for risk assessment, research and development, vulnerability testing, international coordination, and critical infrastructure protection, with multiple phased deadlines spanning from 90 days to 4 years.
Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
This executive order establishes the American AI Initiative, a coordinated federal strategy to maintain U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence through increased R&D investment, expanded access to federal data and computing resources, workforce development, and protection of AI technologies from foreign acquisition. It directs agencies to prioritize AI in budgeting, issues multiple deadlines for reports and guidance on data access, regulation, standards, and security, and creates governance structures through the National Science and Technology Council Select Committee on AI.
Strengthening Buy-American Preferences for Infrastructure Projects
This executive order expands Buy-American requirements from federal procurement to federal financial assistance programs for infrastructure projects. It directs agencies to encourage domestic sourcing of iron, steel, aluminum, cement, and other manufactured products in infrastructure grants and awards, and requires reports on strategies to maximize domestic preferences.
Promoting Active Management of America's Forests, Rangelands, and Other Federal Lands To Improve Conditions and Reduce Wildfire Risk
This executive order directs the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to increase active management of federal forests and rangelands to reduce wildfire risk through expanded timber harvesting, streamlined environmental reviews, and new partnerships with states and tribes. It sets specific acreage treatment targets for 2019 and mandates development of a comprehensive wildfire strategy by December 2020.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2018
This executive order designates Monday, December 24, 2018 as a federal holiday, closing all executive departments and agencies and excusing employees from duty. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public needs.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 5, 2018
This executive order closes all federal executive departments and agencies on December 5, 2018, as a mark of respect for former President George H.W. Bush following his death. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public need, and the closure is treated as a federal holiday for pay and leave purposes.
Affording Congress an Opportunity To Address Family Separation
This executive order ended the practice of separating migrant families at the border by directing that families be detained together during immigration and criminal proceedings, while requesting court modification of the Flores settlement to allow longer family detention. It shifted responsibility to DHS for family custody and directed DOD and other agencies to provide housing facilities.
Exemption From Executive Order 13658 for Recreational Services on Federal Lands
This executive order exempts seasonal recreational services and equipment rentals on federal lands from the federal contractor minimum wage requirements established by Executive Order 13658, while maintaining those wage requirements for lodging and food services associated with such recreational activities. The order aims to reduce costs for guided outdoor activities on federal lands by allowing outfitters and guides to pay wages below the federal contractor minimum.
Enhancing Noncompetitive Civil Service Appointments of Military Spouses
This executive order directs federal agencies to actively recruit and hire military spouses using existing noncompetitive appointment authority. It requires OPM to promote this hiring authority, provide training, and collect annual data on military spouse hiring, while also exploring telework options and license portability to address employment barriers caused by frequent relocations.
Establishment of a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative
This executive order restructures and rebrands the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives as the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, placing it within the Executive Office of the President under an Advisor housed in the Office of Public Liaison. It amends six prior executive orders with name substitutions, revokes two others, and directs the new Initiative to consult faith and community leaders, integrate faith-based priorities into administration policy, and identify barriers to religious organizations' participation in government-funded activities.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends the existence of 32 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2019, transfers FACA compliance responsibilities from the President to agency heads, revokes the Infrastructure advisory council created two months earlier, and takes effect September 30, 2017.
Revocation of Executive Order Creating Labor- Management Forums
This executive order revokes a 2009 Obama-era order that created the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations and agency-level labor-management forums, which were intended to promote collaboration between federal management and unions. The Trump administration cited inefficient use of taxpayer dollars and managerial time as justification, and directed agencies to promptly rescind all implementing rules and policies.
Restoring State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement's Access to Life-Saving Equipment and Resources
This executive order revokes Obama-era Executive Order 13688, which had restricted the transfer of military-style equipment to state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies. It directs all federal agencies to immediately stop implementing recommendations from the prior order and rescind any related rules or policies.
Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental Review and Permitting Process for Infrastructure Projects
This executive order overhauls federal environmental review and permitting for infrastructure projects by establishing a "One Federal Decision" framework, setting a two-year goal for completing reviews of major projects, creating performance accountability scorecards tracked by OMB, and revoking the previous administration's Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. It mandates interagency coordination through lead agencies, quarterly permitting timetables, and automatic escalation of missed milestones to senior officials, with potential budgetary penalties for poor performance.
Establishing a Presidential Advisory Council on Infrastructure
This executive order creates a 15-member Presidential Advisory Council on Infrastructure within the Department of Commerce to study and recommend improvements to federal infrastructure funding, delivery, and public-private partnerships. The Council must submit a report to the President and will terminate by December 31, 2018 or within 60 days after submitting its report, whichever comes first.
Reviving the National Space Council
This executive order revives the National Space Council, which had been dormant since 1993, and places the Vice President as its chair. The Council is tasked with coordinating national space policy across civilian, military, and commercial sectors, with membership drawn from key cabinet departments and agencies.
Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure
This executive order mandates federal agencies to adopt the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and modernize IT infrastructure, while directing multiple cabinet departments to assess and report on cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure, deterrence strategies, international cooperation, and workforce development. It establishes accountability for agency heads in managing cybersecurity risk and requires extensive reports on federal IT modernization, botnet resilience, electricity grid vulnerabilities, and defense industrial base risks.
Buy American and Hire American
This executive order establishes a dual policy to maximize domestic procurement preferences under existing Buy American laws and to rigorously enforce immigration laws governing foreign workers, particularly the H-1B visa program. It mandates multiple agency assessments and reports on procurement practices and trade agreement impacts, while directing immigration agencies to propose new rules protecting U.S. workers and reforming H-1B visa allocation toward higher-skilled or higher-paid beneficiaries.
Revocation of Federal Contracting Executive Orders
This executive order revokes three Obama-era orders that imposed labor and employment requirements on federal contractors, including rules on disclosure of labor law violations, paid sick leave, and anti-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It directs agencies to consider rescinding implementing regulations.
Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the "Waters of the United States" Rule
This executive order directs the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to review and propose rescinding or revising the 2015 Clean Water Rule ("Waters of the United States"), which had expanded federal jurisdiction over waterways. It instructs agencies to consider Justice Scalia's narrower interpretation of "navigable waters" from Rapanos v. United States in future rulemaking, and to review all related implementing policies for consistency with the order's policy goals.
White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes a White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) housed in the Executive Office of the President, along with a President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs in the Department of Education. It requires federal agencies interacting with HBCUs to prepare annual plans for strengthening HBCU participation in federal programs and revokes the previous Obama-era executive order on the same topic.
Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
This executive order establishes a "two-for-one" rule requiring agencies to identify two existing regulations for elimination for every new regulation proposed. It also imposes a zero incremental cost cap on all new regulations for fiscal year 2017 and creates an annual regulatory budgeting process overseen by OMB.
Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements
This executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security to plan and construct a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, expand detention facilities and immigration enforcement capacity, end the "catch and release" practice for apprehended immigrants, authorize state and local law enforcement to perform immigration officer functions, and tighten asylum and parole standards. It mandates hiring 5,000 additional Border Patrol agents and requires multiple reports on border security progress and foreign aid to Mexico.
Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal
This executive order directs federal agencies to use all available legal authority to waive, delay, or exempt parties from provisions of the Affordable Care Act that impose fiscal or regulatory burdens, while also encouraging state flexibility and interstate healthcare markets. It was issued on President Trump's first day in office with the stated goal of minimizing economic burdens pending congressional repeal of the ACA.
Amending the Civil Service Rules, Executive Order 13488, and Executive Order 13467 To Modernize the Executive Branch-Wide Governance Structure and Processes for Security Clearances, Suitability and Fitness for Employment, and Credentialing, and Related Matters
This executive order restructures the federal government's security clearance, suitability, and credentialing systems by amending prior executive orders and Civil Service Rules. It establishes the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) as the primary investigative service provider, creates a Performance Accountability Council to drive enterprise-wide reform, and designates specific executive agents (OPM for suitability/credentialing, DNI for security) to standardize vetting processes across agencies with emphasis on reciprocity, continuous vetting, and information technology modernization.
Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, and the Critical Language Scholarship Program to the Competitive Service
This executive order grants Non-Competitive Eligibility (NCE) for federal competitive service appointments to alumni of three State Department international exchange programs—Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, and Critical Language Scholarship Program—who are certified by the Secretary of State and pass OPM examinations. Appointments must generally occur within one year of program completion, with possible extensions up to three years for military service, higher education, or other approved activities.
Wildland-Urban Interface Federal Risk Mitigation
This executive order directs federal agencies to strengthen wildfire resilience for federal buildings located in the wildland-urban interface at moderate or greater wildfire risk. It mandates compliance with the 2015 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code for new and altered buildings above 5,000 square feet, with implementing guidelines due within 240 days.
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Persons Contributing to the Situation in Libya
This executive order expands a 2011 national emergency to block property and suspend U.S. entry for persons contributing to instability in Libya, including those who threaten the Government of National Accord, misappropriate state assets, attack civilians or infrastructure, or illicitly exploit Libya's oil resources. It authorizes the Treasury and State Departments to designate targeted individuals and entities under existing sanctions authorities.
Steps to Increase Competition and Better Inform Consumers and Workers to Support Continued Growth of the American Economy
This executive order directs federal agencies to use their authorities to promote market competition, inform consumers and workers, and eliminate regulations that restrict competition without public benefit. It requires agencies to identify anti-competitive practices, submit action plans to the National Economic Council, and report semi-annually on pro-competition efforts.
Establishment of the Federal Privacy Council
This executive order establishes the Federal Privacy Council as the principal interagency forum to coordinate federal privacy practices, and requires OMB to issue revised policy on Senior Agency Officials for Privacy within 120 days. It mandates designation of privacy officials across 24 major agencies and promotes sharing of best practices, workforce training, and coordination with existing interagency councils.
Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard
This executive order establishes earthquake-resistant design and construction standards for federal buildings, replacing two prior orders from 1990 and 1994. It mandates that federal agencies comply with the 2015 International Building Code or equivalent standards for new construction, adopt seismic safety standards for existing buildings, and designate coordinators to oversee implementation.
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday, December 24, 2015
This executive order grants federal executive branch employees a half-day off on Thursday, December 24, 2015, the day before Christmas. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public need reasons. The order ensures affected employees receive appropriate pay and leave treatment under existing statutes.
Using Behavioral Science Insights To Better Serve the American People
This executive order directs federal agencies to incorporate behavioral science insights—such as automatic enrollment, simplified forms, and improved information presentation—into policy design to improve program outcomes and cost-effectiveness. It establishes the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) under the National Science and Technology Council to provide guidance and requires annual implementation reports through 2019.
Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors
This executive order requires federal contractors and subcontractors to provide employees with paid sick leave, accruing at 1 hour per 30 hours worked with a minimum annual cap of 56 hours (7 days). The leave covers personal illness, medical care, family care, and domestic violence-related absences, applying to new contracts solicited or awarded on or after January 1, 2017.
Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities
This executive order declares a national emergency over malicious cyber-enabled activities from abroad and authorizes the Treasury Secretary to block the property of and bar entry to foreign individuals and entities involved in significant cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, data theft, or commercial espionage. It establishes a sanctions framework targeting perpetrators, beneficiaries, and facilitators of such activities without requiring prior notice.
Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Friday, December 26, 2014
This executive order declares Friday, December 26, 2014 a federal holiday, closing all executive branch departments and agencies with exceptions for national security, defense, and other public needs. It ensures affected employees receive appropriate pay and leave treatment under existing statutes.
Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This executive order expands U.S. sanctions authority against individuals and entities fueling conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It amends Executive Order 13413 to block property of additional categories of actors, including armed group leaders, human rights abusers, child soldier recruiters, obstructors of humanitarian aid, attackers of peacekeepers, and those involved in illicit natural resource trading.
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine
This executive order declares a national emergency and authorizes the Treasury Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to block property and assets of individuals and entities deemed responsible for undermining Ukraine's democratic processes, threatening its territorial integrity, or asserting unauthorized governmental authority in Crimea. It also suspends U.S. entry for designated persons and prohibits transactions with or for the benefit of blocked parties.
Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors
This executive order establishes a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour for workers on new federal contracts and subcontracts, effective January 1, 2015, with annual inflation adjustments beginning January 1, 2016. It also sets a phased minimum cash wage for tipped workers reaching 70% of the standard minimum wage. The order requires implementing regulations by October 1, 2014, and applies to contracts solicited on or after January 1, 2015.
Establishing the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans
This executive order creates a presidential advisory council within the Treasury Department focused on improving financial literacy and money management skills among young Americans. The council will bring together government officials and private-sector experts to develop strategies for financial education in schools, communities, and workplaces, with a two-year mandate.
Advancing Pay Equality in the Federal Government and Learning From Successful Practices
This memorandum directs the Office of Personnel Management to develop a government-wide strategy within 180 days to address gender pay gaps in the federal workforce, and requires all agencies to submit within 90 days detailed analyses of their pay-setting, promotion, and caregiver-related compensation policies. It focuses on transparency, merit system principles, and identifying best practices rather than mandating immediate pay changes.
Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information
This executive order establishes open and machine-readable formats as the default for new and modernized government information. It directs OMB to issue an Open Data Policy and sets specific deadlines for creating implementation tools, integrating open data into federal procurement and grants, and establishing performance tracking mechanisms across agencies.
Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2012
This executive order closes all executive branch departments and agencies on Monday, December 24, 2012, excusing federal employees from duty for the day before Christmas. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public needs.
Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Somalia
This executive order expands U.S. sanctions against Somalia by amending Executive Order 13536 to block assets of individuals and entities involved in threatening Somalia's stability, misappropriating public assets, obstructing humanitarian aid, trafficking arms, committing violence against civilians, using child soldiers, or trading charcoal. It also prohibits the importation of charcoal from Somalia into the United States, targeting a key revenue source for the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Burma
This executive order modifies existing sanctions on Burma (Myanmar) by expanding the criteria for blocking property of individuals and entities that threaten peace and stability, including those undermining political reform, committing human rights abuses, or engaging in military trade with North Korea. It also amends two prior executive orders to replace 'logistical, or technical' with 'or technological' in their text.
Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons
This executive order blocks Russian government assets in the U.S. related to the 1993 Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Agreements, preventing them from being seized through judicial processes so that payments for converting weapons-grade uranium to reactor fuel can flow properly to Russia. It extends and reinforces prior sanctions architecture (EO 13159) to protect a major nuclear nonproliferation program.
Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen
This executive order declares a national emergency and blocks U.S.-based assets of individuals and entities determined to threaten Yemen's peace, security, or stability, particularly those obstructing the November 23, 2011 political transition agreement. It authorizes the Treasury and State Departments to designate targets and implement sanctions without prior notice.
Authorizing the Imposition of Certain Sanctions With Respect to the Provision of Goods, Services, Technology, or Support for Iran's Energy and Petrochemical Sectors
This executive order authorizes sanctions against individuals and entities that provide goods, services, technology, or support above specified dollar thresholds to Iran's petroleum development or petrochemical production sectors. The sanctions include blocking property, financial restrictions, export denial, and government procurement bans, and took effect immediately on November 21, 2011.
Promoting Efficient Spending
This executive order directs federal agencies to reduce administrative costs by 20 percent below 2010 levels by fiscal year 2013, targeting travel, IT devices, printing, executive fleet use, and promotional items. Agencies must submit cost-reduction plans to OMB within 45 days and implement controls to curb spending on these operational areas.
Structural Reforms To Improve the Security of Classified Networks and the Responsible Sharing and Safeguarding of Classified Information
This executive order establishes a comprehensive framework for securing classified computer networks across the federal government following WikiLeaks disclosures. It creates new interagency bodies to coordinate policies, designates the NSA and Defense Secretary as technical standards authorities, mandates insider threat programs at all agencies, and requires binding minimum standards for detecting and preventing unauthorized disclosures.
Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce
This executive order establishes a coordinated, government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce. It directs OPM and OMB to develop a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan within 90 days, requires agencies to create their own agency-specific plans within 120 days of that plan's issuance, and mandates regular reporting on progress.
Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations
This executive order declares a national emergency and blocks all U.S.-based assets of significant transnational criminal organizations, authorizing the Treasury Secretary to designate additional targets without prior notice. It prohibits any transactions with or support for designated entities and takes effect immediately upon signing.
Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of Syria
This executive order freezes all U.S.-based assets of senior Syrian government officials and entities, prohibiting any transactions with them. It expands existing sanctions against Syria in response to escalating violence against protesters and repression of democratic change.
Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to North Korea
This executive order prohibits the importation of all goods, services, and technology from North Korea into the United States, effective immediately. It also bars U.S. persons from evading these sanctions and authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations. The order builds on prior sanctions to enforce UN Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874.
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya
This executive order freezes all assets of the Libyan government, its central bank, and senior officials under Muammar Qadhafi held by U.S. persons or within the United States. It also authorizes the Treasury Secretary to designate additional individuals for sanctions based on their role in human rights abuses or ties to the regime, effective immediately upon signing.
Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review
This executive order directs federal agencies to improve the regulatory process by requiring cost-benefit analysis, public participation through online comment periods, coordination to reduce redundant rules, flexible regulatory approaches, scientific integrity, and retrospective review of existing regulations. It supplements Executive Order 12866 (1993) and mandates each agency submit a plan within 120 days for periodically reviewing existing significant regulations.
Controlled Unclassified Information
This executive order establishes a uniform, government-wide system for managing unclassified information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls, replacing the previous patchwork of agency-specific policies. It designates the National Archives and Records Administration as the Executive Agent to implement the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program across the executive branch.
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
This executive order establishes the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics within the Department of Education, along with a Federal Interagency Working Group and a 30-member Presidential Advisory Commission. It creates a coordinated federal structure to expand educational opportunities and improve outcomes for Hispanic students from early childhood through higher education and adult learning, with specific objectives including increasing kindergarten readiness, reducing dropout rates, improving college completion, and strengthening Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to North Korea
This executive order expands existing sanctions against North Korea by blocking U.S.-based assets and prohibiting transactions with individuals and entities involved in arms trade, luxury goods imports, money laundering, counterfeiting, narcotics trafficking, and other activities supporting the North Korean government. It builds upon prior sanctions in Executive Order 13466 and implements obligations from UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874.
Classified National Security Information Program for State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Entities
This executive order establishes a formal program for sharing classified national security information with state, local, tribal, and private sector entities involved in critical infrastructure protection. It sets security standards for access and safeguarding, designates Homeland Security as the executive agent, and creates an advisory committee to resolve policy disputes and facilitate information sharing.
Increasing Federal Employment of Individuals With Disabilities
This executive order directs federal agencies to increase recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities, with specific numerical goals and mandatory training programs. It revives implementation of a 2000 Clinton-era hiring target of 100,000 additional workers with disabilities over 5 years, requires agency-specific plans with performance targets, and mandates improvements to return-to-work programs for injured federal employees.
The Presidential POWER Initiative: Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment
This memorandum establishes the 4-year POWER Initiative (fiscal years 2011-2014) to improve federal workplace safety and health by setting aggressive performance targets for reducing injuries and illnesses, speeding workers' compensation claims, and accelerating return-to-work for injured federal civilian employees. The Secretary of Labor is directed to lead the initiative, measure government-wide and agency-level performance, and report annually to the President.
Optimizing the Security of Biological Select Agents and Toxins in the United States
This executive order directs a risk-based overhaul of how the U.S. regulates dangerous biological agents and toxins (BSAT). It mandates creating a highest-risk "Tier 1" subset of pathogens, revising security regulations, coordinating federal oversight across multiple agencies, and establishing an advisory panel to guide implementation.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
This executive order establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a 21-member advisory body composed of the President's Science Advisor and 20 nonfederal experts, to advise the President on science, technology, and innovation policy. PCAST also assumes advisory roles under the High Performance Computing Act and the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, and will terminate automatically after two years unless extended.
Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This executive order establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities within the Department of Education, along with a President's Board of Advisors, to strengthen HBCU capacity, increase their participation in federal programs, and advance the national goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020. It requires designated federal agencies to prepare annual plans with measurable objectives for HBCU engagement and appoint senior officials to coordinate these efforts.
President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability
Executive Order 13530 establishes a 22-member advisory council within the Department of the Treasury to promote financial literacy and access to financial services among Americans, with particular attention to underserved populations. The council is tasked with collecting information, advising the President and Treasury Secretary, and reporting periodically on financial capability in the United States. Unless extended by the President, the council automatically terminates two years after establishment.
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
This executive order closes all executive branch departments and agencies for the last half of the workday on Thursday, December 24, 2009, the day before Christmas, with exceptions for national security, defense, or other public needs. It aligns the half-day closure with existing pay and leave statutes for federal employees.
Reducing Improper Payments
This executive order establishes a comprehensive framework to reduce improper payments across federal programs by increasing transparency, designating accountable officials, setting reduction targets, and improving coordination between federal, state, and local governments. It creates public reporting requirements, working groups to recommend improvements, and mechanisms for public reporting of suspected waste, fraud, and abuse.
Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
This executive order establishes a President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) housed in the Department of Education and a White House Initiative on AAPIs co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Education. The order directs federal agencies to develop plans to improve AAPI access to federal programs, increase AAPI federal workforce participation, and advance data collection and research on AAPI subpopulations.
Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance
This executive order mandates federal agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy and water efficiency, eliminate waste, and adopt sustainable practices in buildings, fleets, and procurement. It establishes a comprehensive framework with specific reduction targets, reporting requirements, and oversight mechanisms through the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Management and Budget.
Federal Leadership On Reducing Text Messaging While Driving
This executive order prohibits federal employees from text messaging while driving government vehicles, privately-owned vehicles on official business, or when using government-supplied electronic equipment. It also directs federal agencies to encourage contractors and grant recipients to adopt similar bans, and requires agencies to implement compliance measures within 90 days.
Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination
This memorandum directs federal agencies to extend available employment benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees where legally authorized, requires a 90-day review of additional benefits that could be extended, and mandates OPM guidance within 90 days on compliance with non-discrimination laws for federal workplaces.
Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws
This executive order requires federal contractors and subcontractors to post notices informing employees of their rights under federal labor laws, including the National Labor Relations Act. It revokes the prior Bush administration's Executive Order 13201 and delegates rulemaking authority to the Secretary of Labor to prescribe the specific notice requirements.
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Regulatory Planning and Review
This executive order revokes two Bush-era executive orders (13258 and 13422) that had amended the regulatory review process established under Executive Order 12866. It directs OMB and agency heads to promptly rescind implementing rules and policies tied to the revoked orders. The action restores the pre-2002 framework for regulatory planning and review.
Granting Reciprocity on Excepted Service and Federal Contractor Employee Fitness and Reinvestigating Individuals in Positions of Public Trust
This executive order streamlines federal personnel vetting by requiring agencies to recognize prior fitness and suitability determinations for excepted service and contractor employees when criteria are equivalent. It also mandates periodic reinvestigation of individuals in positions of public trust under standards set by the Office of Personnel Management.
Strengthening Laboratory Biosecurity in the United States
This executive order establishes an interagency Working Group co-chaired by the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services to review and evaluate security practices at facilities handling biological select agents and toxins. The group must submit recommendations within 180 days on improving physical, facility, and personnel security across federal and nonfederal laboratories, then terminates 60 days after that report.
Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Friday, December 26, 2008
This executive order closes all executive branch departments and agencies on Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas, with exceptions for national security, defense, or other public needs. It ensures affected employees receive appropriate pay and leave treatment under existing statutes.
Transformation of the National Air Transportation System
This executive order directs the Secretary of Transportation to lead implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), a modernized air traffic control system. It establishes interagency coordination requirements across Defense, Commerce, Homeland Security, and NASA, with specific deadlines for creating support staff and an advisory committee.
Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information
This executive order reforms and aligns the federal government's processes for determining whether individuals are suitable for government employment, fit for contractor work, or eligible for access to classified information. It establishes a Performance Accountability Council, designates executive agents for suitability (OPM) and security (DNI), mandates reciprocity between agencies, and introduces continuous evaluation for security clearances.
Amending Executive Order 12989, as Amended
This executive order amends a 1996 order to require federal contractors to use an electronic employment eligibility verification system (E-Verify) to confirm workers are legally authorized to work in the U.S. It mandates that contracting agencies include this requirement as a condition of federal contracts, with the Secretary of Homeland Security designated to administer the verification system.
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Burma
This executive order expands U.S. sanctions against Burma (Myanmar) by blocking property and prohibiting transactions with additional individuals and entities connected to the Burmese government, its military junta, and their supporters. It builds upon three prior executive orders (13047, 13310, 13448) targeting Burma's repression of democratic opposition, with immediate effect on May 1, 2008.
Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2007
This executive order grants all federal executive branch employees a day off on Monday, December 24, 2007, the day before Christmas, with agency heads retaining authority to keep essential operations open for national security, defense, or other public needs. It ensures affected employees receive appropriate pay and leave treatment under existing statutes.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to and Revocation of Other Executive Orders
This executive order continues 16 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2009, revokes the tax reform advisory panel (EO 13369), supersedes parts of EO 13385, and substantially amends EO 12994 to expand and rename the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities with new membership requirements and advisory functions.
Strengthening Adult Education
This executive order creates an Interagency Adult Education Working Group led by the Secretary of Education to coordinate federal adult education programs, identify gaps and duplications, and recommend improvements to help adults transition to postsecondary education and employment. The Working Group includes multiple cabinet secretaries and must submit its first report within 9 months.
Assignment of Functions Under Section 1035 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
This memorandum assigns the President's functions under Section 1035 of the John Warner NDAA for FY2007 to the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of State and heads of other agencies identified in the required report must concur with it.
Protecting American Taxpayers From Payment of Contingency Fees
This executive order prohibits federal agencies from entering into contingency fee agreements for legal or expert witness services, where payment depends on case outcomes. Agencies must report existing contingency fee agreements within 90 days and implement the policy under Attorney General guidance.
Trial of Alien Unlawful Enemy Combatants by Military Commission
This executive order establishes military commissions to try non-citizen unlawful enemy combatants under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, replacing the 2001 military order's trial procedures while eliminating requirements for presidential determinations of 'reason to believe' and 'interest of the United States' before commission trials can proceed.
Further Amendment to Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review
This executive order amends the Clinton-era regulatory review framework (EO 12866) to expand White House oversight to agency "guidance documents"—not just formal regulations. It requires agencies to identify specific market failures before regulating, creates a new category of "significant guidance documents" subject to OIRA review, mandates each agency designate a Presidential Appointee as Regulatory Policy Officer, and requires aggregate cost-benefit estimates for annual regulatory plans.