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Improving Our Nation Through Better Design
Executive Order 14338 establishes "America by Design," a national initiative to improve federal digital and physical service design through a new National Design Studio and Chief Design Officer position. Agency heads must consult with the Chief Design Officer to redesign high-impact government websites and physical sites, with initial results due by July 4, 2026, and the temporary supporting organization automatically terminates three years from signing.
Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients
This executive order directs the Administration to pursue most-favored-nation prescription drug pricing, requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to offer U.S. patients prices comparable to other developed nations or face potential rulemaking, importation waivers, antitrust enforcement, export reviews, and FDA approval modifications. It establishes a 30-day deadline for HHS to communicate price targets to drug makers, with escalating measures if progress is not achieved.
Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
This executive order directs a comprehensive reform of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which governs how the federal government buys goods and services. It mandates stripping the FAR down to provisions required by statute or essential to procurement, with a 180-day deadline for initial amendments and introduces a 4-year regulatory sunset for non-statutory provisions. The order also requires agencies to designate officials for alignment within 15 days and OMB to issue implementation guidance within 20 days.
Addressing Risks From Susman Godfrey
This executive order targets the law firm Susman Godfrey LLP by suspending security clearances for its personnel, restricting federal contracts with the firm and its business partners, limiting federal building access and official engagement with its employees, and barring their federal hiring without waivers. The order frames these measures as responses to alleged election-related litigation, DEI practices, and activities deemed contrary to national interests.
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.
Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers
This executive order directs federal agencies to use existing authorities to expand access to affordable, high-quality child care and long-term care, and to improve wages and working conditions for caregivers. It includes specific actions across HHS, Labor, Education, Veterans Affairs, and other agencies to boost compensation, increase training pathways, support family caregivers, and leverage federal infrastructure and workforce funding for care services. Most provisions are framed as considerations, guidance, or encouragement rather than mandates.
Promoting Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
This memorandum directs federal agencies to use existing sanctions, visa restrictions, security assistance, and diplomatic tools to promote accountability for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) worldwide. It establishes that CRSV may constitute 'serious human rights abuse' under Executive Order 13818 (Global Magnitsky) and other sanctions programs, and directs the Secretaries of State and Treasury, Attorney General, and DNI to strengthen information collection and target perpetrators.
Addressing the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to coordinate a government-wide response to long COVID, requiring a public report and a National Research Action Plan within 120 days. It mandates interagency collaboration to address health services, research, and disparities for those affected by long-term COVID-19 effects, including mental health and substance use impacts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
This executive order directs federal agencies to review and potentially reverse Trump-era regulations that weakened the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid, establishes a special enrollment period for ACA marketplace coverage during COVID-19, and revokes two previous executive orders aimed at undermining the ACA. It mandates examination of policies affecting pre-existing condition protections, Medicaid waivers, marketplace barriers, and affordability of coverage.
Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel
This executive order mandates mask-wearing on domestic public transportation and at airports, and establishes policies for COVID-19 testing and quarantine requirements for international travelers entering the United States. It directs multiple federal agencies to implement these public health measures consistent with CDC guidelines and to submit implementation plans within specified timeframes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strengthening Surface Transportation Security
This executive order designates the Secretary of Homeland Security as the lead federal official for surface transportation security, mandating development of a comprehensive sector-specific security plan, mode-specific annexes, risk assessments, and technology coordination to protect mass transit, rail, commercial vehicles, pipelines, and related infrastructure from terrorist attacks.
Public Alert and Warning System
This executive order establishes a comprehensive national policy for alerting and warning the American people during emergencies including war, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other public safety hazards. It assigns the Secretary of Homeland Security primary responsibility for creating an integrated, interoperable public alert and warning system that can reach all Americans through multiple communication pathways, including those with disabilities and non-English speakers, while ensuring the President can always communicate with the public.
Strengthening Processes Relating to Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information
This executive order directs the OMB Director to centralize and standardize security clearance processes across federal agencies, with authority to assign, supervise, and issue guidelines for determining eligibility to access classified national security information, including SCI and special access programs. The order includes a built-in expiration mechanism and requires a progress report to the President.
Providing Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran Businesses To Increase Their Federal Contracting and Subcontracting
This executive order directs federal agencies to increase contracting opportunities for businesses owned by service-disabled veterans by meeting a 3% participation goal, designating senior officials, developing public strategies, and creating reserved contracts. It also assigns specific duties to the Small Business Administration, General Services Administration, Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Labor departments to support these businesses through training, assistance, and outreach programs.
Interagency Group on Insular Areas
This executive order establishes the Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA) within the Department of Interior to coordinate federal policy affecting American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The IGIA consists of executive department heads and designated agency heads, meets with territorial governors annually, and provides yearly written policy advice to the President. The order explicitly disclaims creating any legally enforceable rights.
Administrative Allegations Against Inspectors General
This executive order establishes an Integrity Committee within the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) and Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (ECIE) to independently investigate administrative allegations of wrongdoing against Inspectors General and certain senior staff members of Offices of Inspectors General when internal investigations are not feasible or appropriate jurisdiction is lacking. The FBI member serves as Chair, with authority to conduct investigations using detailed agency personnel, and the committee operates under established policies with reporting requirements to agency heads and the PCIE/ECIE Chairperson.