Secretary of Labor
Executive orders directing the Secretary of Labor · 22 in Trump 47 · 255 all terms.
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Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation
This executive order establishes a comprehensive national quantum strategy, directing multiple agencies to accelerate U.S. leadership in quantum information science and technology (QIST) through research investment, domestic supply chain development, workforce expansion, and international alliance-building. It creates the QC-ADDS program for quantum computing development, mandates security protections against adversarial threats, and requires numerous agency plans and reports with specific deadlines spanning 30 days to 5 years.
Promoting Retirement-Savings Access for American Workers by Establishing TrumpIRA.gov
This executive order directs the Treasury Secretary to establish TrumpIRA.gov by January 1, 2027—a federal website promoting low-cost private-sector IRAs for workers without employer-sponsored retirement plans, particularly independent contractors, self-employed workers, and small-business employees. The platform will highlight qualifying IRAs with expense ratios capped at 0.15%, no minimum balances, and diversified investment options, while facilitating access to the up-to-$1,000 Federal Saver's Match created by the SECURE 2.0 Act.
Establishing the Task Force To Eliminate Fraud
This executive order establishes a White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by the Vice President with the FTC Chair as Vice Chairman, to coordinate a national strategy against fraud in federal benefit programs. The order mandates federal agencies to identify fraud-vulnerable processes within 30 days, develop minimum anti-fraud requirements within 60 days, and submit implementation plans within 90 days, with specific focus on eligibility verification, pre-payment controls, and potential withholding of federal funds from non-compliant jurisdictions.
Addressing Addiction Through the Great American Recovery Initiative
This executive order establishes the White House Great American Recovery Initiative, co-chaired by the Secretary of HHS and a Senior Advisor for Addiction Recovery, to coordinate federal response to substance use disorder. The Initiative brings together 15+ officials across cabinet departments and agencies to recommend steps for aligning federal programs, increasing treatment access, and integrating addiction services across health, criminal justice, workforce, education, and housing systems.
Protecting American Investors From Foreign-Owned and Politically-Motivated Proxy Advisors
This executive order directs the SEC, FTC, and Department of Labor to increase oversight of foreign-owned proxy advisors ISS and Glass Lewis, which control over 90% of the market. It mandates reviews and potential revisions of rules on proxy advisors and shareholder proposals, with particular focus on eliminating "diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "environmental, social, and governance" factors from investment advice, and requires antitrust and fiduciary investigations.
Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers
This Proclamation imposes a $100,000 payment requirement on employers seeking H-1B visas for foreign specialty occupation workers, effectively restricting entry of most H-1B workers unless employers pay this substantial fee. The restriction takes effect September 21, 2025, expires after 12 months unless extended, and directs multiple agencies to implement compliance measures and consider rulemakings to revise prevailing wage levels and prioritize high-skilled, high-paid workers.
Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(k) Investors
This executive order directs the Department of Labor to reexamine and likely rescind Biden-era guidance restricting alternative asset investments in 401(k) plans, and to develop new fiduciary safe harbors for including private equity, real estate, digital assets, commodities, and infrastructure in retirement plan options. The SEC is also directed to consider revising accredited investor and qualified purchaser rules to expand access.
Saving College Sports
This executive order seeks to preserve college sports by directing federal agencies to curb third-party pay-for-play payments to athletes, protect non-revenue and women's sports through scholarship and roster requirements, and shield collegiate athletics from antitrust litigation. It mandates plans from the Education Secretary, Attorney General, and FTC within 30-60 days to advance these goals using regulatory, enforcement, and litigation mechanisms.
Revoking PPD-6 on U.S. Global Development Policy
This memorandum revokes Presidential Policy Directive-6 (PPD-6), the 2010 Obama-era policy on U.S. Global Development Policy, on grounds that it conflicts with the current administration's executive orders on America First foreign policy, WHO withdrawal, international environmental agreements, and foreign aid realignment. The revocation directs a broad set of cabinet officials and agency heads but imposes no new affirmative mandates or deadlines.
Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base
This executive order directs a comprehensive federal effort to rebuild the U.S. nuclear industrial base, including expanding domestic uranium conversion and enrichment capabilities, restarting closed nuclear plants, accelerating advanced reactor licensing, developing nuclear workforce training, and establishing spent fuel recycling and reprocessing programs. It sets specific capacity targets of 5 gigawatts in reactor uprates and 10 new large reactors under construction by 2030, while invoking Defense Production Act authorities to secure nuclear fuel supply chains.
Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
This executive order establishes a White House Task Force on AI Education and directs multiple federal agencies to expand AI literacy and training across K-12 education, teacher professional development, and workforce apprenticeship programs. It creates a Presidential AI Challenge competition, mandates public-private partnerships for educational resources, and requires agency heads to prioritize AI in existing grant programs within 90-180 days.
Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future
This executive order directs a review and streamlining of federal workforce development programs to align with U.S. reindustrialization goals, with a focus on expanding Registered Apprenticeships to over 1 million active apprentices. It mandates reports within 90 and 120 days identifying program consolidations, alternative credentials to four-year degrees, and strategies to upskill workers including in AI-related roles.
Preventing Illegal Aliens From Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits
This presidential memorandum directs multiple Cabinet secretaries and agency heads to tighten eligibility verification and fraud enforcement for Social Security Act programs, aiming to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving benefits. It mandates expanding fraud prosecutor programs to 50 U.S. Attorney Offices by October 2025, implementing a 2023 SSA Inspector General audit recommendation on death records, and reviewing resumption of civil monetary penalties within 60 days.
Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First
This executive order directs multiple federal agencies to take steps to lower prescription drug prices, primarily by modifying the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act, promoting generic and biosimilar competition, expanding drug importation, increasing transparency in pharmacy benefit manager compensation, and conditioning health center grants on providing discounted insulin and epinephrine to low-income patients.
Restoring America's Maritime Dominance
This executive order directs a comprehensive, interagency effort to rebuild U.S. commercial and defense shipbuilding capacity, expand the maritime workforce, and counter China's dominance in global shipbuilding. It mandates numerous reports and legislative proposals within 30-210 days, including a Maritime Action Plan, tariffs on Chinese-origin ship-to-shore cranes and cargo handling equipment, enforcement of harbor maintenance fees, financial incentives for domestic shipbuilding, maritime prosperity zones, and modernization of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
This executive order designates coal as a 'mineral' under EO 14241, directs federal agencies to identify and eliminate regulations that discourage coal production and use, prioritizes coal leasing on federal lands, promotes coal exports, accelerates coal technology development including for AI data centers and steel production, and requires multiple agency reports on coal resources and infrastructure within 30-90 days.
Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
This executive order mandates federal agencies eliminate barriers to inter- and intra-agency sharing of unclassified data, with specific emphasis on detecting waste, fraud, and abuse. It requires agency heads to rescind restrictive guidance within 30 days, grants the Secretary of Labor unfettered access to unemployment data, and demands unfettered federal access to state program data receiving federal funding.
Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients With Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information
This executive order directs the Secretaries of Treasury, Labor, and HHS to strengthen enforcement of healthcare price transparency rules originally issued under EO 13877 (2019). Within 90 days, they must require actual (not estimated) price disclosure, standardize pricing information for comparability, and update enforcement policies to ensure hospitals and health plans comply with transparency requirements.
Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
This executive order establishes a Department of Justice-led interagency task force to identify and eliminate what it characterizes as anti-Christian bias in federal agencies, reviewing policies and practices from the previous administration and recommending corrective actions across government. The task force must submit an initial report within 120 days, a summary report within one year, and a final report before its automatic termination after two years.
Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families
This executive order directs multiple Cabinet secretaries to issue guidance and plans expanding K-12 educational choice, including private and faith-based school options, through federal formula funds, discretionary grants, and existing block grant programs. It targets military families, low-income working families receiving child care subsidies, and Bureau of Indian Education-eligible students, with most actions due within 60-90 days.
Unleashing American Energy
This executive order revokes numerous Biden-era climate and environmental executive orders, pauses Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure spending, directs agencies to rescind regulations burdening domestic energy and mineral development, eliminates the social cost of carbon, expedites LNG export approvals and federal permitting, terminates the American Climate Corps, and mandates review of state EV emissions waivers and appliance efficiency standards.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
This executive order establishes a federal policy recognizing only two immutable sexes (male and female), explicitly rejecting gender identity as a basis for federal policy. It mandates that all federal agencies use sex-based definitions in all documents and communications, rescinds multiple Biden-era executive orders and guidance documents on transgender rights, prohibits federal funding for gender-affirming medical care for inmates, directs changes to government IDs to reflect biological sex, and requires agencies to remove all materials promoting gender ideology.