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Executive orders directing the Secretary of HHS · 6 in Search.
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Securing Access to Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services
This executive order directs HHS to take further steps to protect access to reproductive healthcare after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It orders HHS to consider actions including Medicaid coverage for out-of-state travel for medical care, strengthen anti-discrimination enforcement against healthcare providers, and improve federal data collection on maternal health outcomes. The order responds to reports of patients being denied emergency care and medications due to state abortion restrictions.
Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border
This executive order establishes a comprehensive regional approach to migration from Central America by directing the creation of two major strategies—one addressing root causes of migration in the Northern Triangle and another for collaborative regional migration management. It also restores and expands asylum processing at the U.S. border, revokes multiple Trump-era immigration policies including the Migrant Protection Protocols and border wall construction orders, and sets specific deadlines for regulatory reviews on asylum eligibility and expedited removal procedures.
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.
Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
This executive order establishes a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to coordinate federal testing efforts and reduce disparities in access, while also creating plans for a U.S. Public Health Job Corps and a sustainable public health workforce to address the pandemic and future biological threats. It directs multiple agencies to facilitate free testing for uninsured individuals, clarify insurance coverage obligations, and provide technical support to state and local health agencies.
Creating a National Strategic Computing Initiative
This executive order establishes the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), a coordinated federal strategy to advance U.S. leadership in high-performance computing (HPC) through 2030. It designates lead agencies (DOE, DOD, NSF), foundational R&D agencies (IARPA, NIST), and deployment agencies to pursue exascale computing, post-semiconductor technologies, and public-private collaboration in HPC research and deployment.
Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
This executive order reinforces existing Hyde Amendment restrictions on federal funding for abortion services within the Affordable Care Act, directing HHS and OMB to develop model accounting guidelines for segregating funds in health insurance exchanges and requiring HHS to ensure community health center grantees comply with abortion funding limitations. It was issued to secure support for the ACA's passage by addressing concerns from anti-abortion legislators about federal subsidies potentially covering abortion services.