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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.