Healthcare
316 orders · avg impact 6.1 · 68 quiet
Aggregated from stored Kimi analyses for this impact area. Themes deepen as more documents are analyzed. Browse by president, proclamations, or who is ordered.
Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans
This executive order establishes a new federal "Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations" framework that reduces the recommended childhood vaccine schedule to align with peer developed nations, prioritizes single-dose vaccines over combination products (starting with separating MMR), mandates HHS to develop aluminum-alternative adjuvants and enhance safety monitoring, and directs federal agencies to legally challenge state vaccine mandates while maximizing parental choice and religious/medical exemptions.
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security
This proclamation grants a 2-year exemption from certain EPA emissions-control requirements (the HON Rule) for specific chemical manufacturing facilities, extending compliance deadlines by 2 years from their original dates. The action is justified under Clean Air Act section 112(i)(4) based on determinations that required technology is not commercially available and that national security interests support maintaining domestic chemical production capacity.
Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience
This executive order directs EPA, USDA, and HHS to accelerate alternative pesticide registrations, review pre-harvest desiccation uses, develop cumulative chemical exposure research frameworks, and expand regenerative agriculture pilot programs through public-private partnerships. It frames these actions as supporting the broader "Make America Healthy Again" agenda by reducing chemical reliance and modernizing farming practices.
Realigning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations With Best Practices From Peer, Developed Countries
This executive order directs the CDC and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to review a prior HHS scientific assessment comparing U.S. childhood vaccine schedules with peer developed nations, and to update recommendations to provide more flexibility in timing and sequencing while preserving insurance coverage. It also mandates that all federal agencies align their immunization-related actions, regulations, and funding with the ACIP/CDC schedule and protect parental authority, religious freedom, and disability accommodations.
Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate research, regulatory review, and patient access to psychedelic drugs (including ibogaine compounds) for treating serious mental illness and reducing suicide rates. It creates FDA priority vouchers for breakthrough-designated psychedelics, establishes Right to Try access pathways, funds state-federal collaboration through ARPA-H, mandates interagency data sharing with VA, and requires timely DEA rescheduling of approved psychedelic products.
Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2027 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended
This presidential order triggers automatic spending cuts (sequestration) for fiscal year 2027, requiring OMB-calculated reductions to direct spending in non-exempt budget accounts effective October 1, 2026, as mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.
Adjusting Imports of Pharmaceuticals and Pharmaceutical Ingredients Into the United States
This proclamation imposes a 100 percent ad valorem tariff on patented pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, with reduced rates for companies that commit to onshoring production (20 percent, rising to 100 percent in 2030) and for certain trade partners. It directs the Secretaries of Commerce and Health and Human Services to negotiate agreements addressing national security concerns, establishes criteria for onshoring plans, and exempts generic pharmaceuticals, biosimilars, and certain specialty products from the tariffs.
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.
Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research
This executive order directs the Attorney General to expedite rescheduling marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act to facilitate medical research. It also directs multiple health agencies to develop research methods using real-world evidence for medical marijuana and hemp-derived CBD products, and tasks White House legislative staff with working Congress to update statutory definitions for hemp-derived cannabinoids.
Fostering the Future for American Children and Families
This executive order directs HHS to modernize the U.S. foster care system through data transparency, AI-powered tools for caregiver matching, a new "Fostering the Future" initiative for youth transitioning out of care, and increased partnerships with faith-based organizations. It establishes a 180-day deadline for regulatory updates, platform development, and strategic planning across multiple agencies.
Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer With Artificial Intelligence
This executive order directs the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission and health agencies to leverage artificial intelligence to accelerate pediatric cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment. It builds on the existing Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) by mandating AI-driven improvements to data infrastructure, clinical trial design, and interoperability standards while prioritizing federal investment and private-sector engagement.
Ensuring American Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience by Filling the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve
This Executive Order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to fill the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve (SAPIR) with a 6-month supply of APIs for approximately 26 critical drugs, prioritizing domestic manufacturing. It also requires updating the essential medicines list and planning a second repository, while criticizing the prior administration for failing to advance domestic pharmaceutical production.
President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test
This executive order revokes EO 13824 (2018) and amends EO 13265 (2002) to reestablish the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Test. It creates a 30-member advisory council to recommend strategies for youth fitness testing, school-based programs, and addressing health trends linked to military readiness, with HHS providing administrative support and the Secretary of HHS administering the fitness test alongside the Secretary of Education.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
This executive order redirects federal homelessness policy toward civil commitment, institutional treatment, and enforcement-based approaches. It directs multiple agencies to prioritize grants to jurisdictions that ban urban camping and drug use, reverses "housing first" and harm reduction policies, and seeks to roll back judicial precedents and consent decrees that limit civil commitment of mentally ill homeless individuals.
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security
This proclamation grants a 2-year exemption from certain EPA emissions-control requirements (the HON Rule) for specific chemical manufacturing facilities, citing national security interests and lack of commercially viable compliance technology. The exemption extends all HON Rule compliance deadlines by 2 years for stationary sources listed in Annex I, returning them to pre-HON Rule obligations during that period.
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Security With Respect to Sterile Medical Equipment
This proclamation grants a 2-year exemption from EPA ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions-control requirements for certain commercial sterilization facilities, extending all compliance deadlines under the April 2024 EtO Rule. The President determines that required emissions-control technology is not commercially viable and that the existing compliance timeline threatens national security by risking closure of facilities that sterilize roughly half of all U.S. medical devices.
Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2026 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended
This presidential order triggers automatic across-the-board spending cuts (sequestration) for fiscal year 2026, effective October 1, 2025, applying to all non-exempt budget accounts based on calculations in an OMB report transmitted to Congress on the same day. The cuts are mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act and implemented according to OMB's specifications.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
This executive order mandates federal agencies adopt 'Gold Standard Science' principles—reproducibility, transparency, uncertainty acknowledgment, and unbiased peer review—in all scientific activities. It requires public data disclosure for influential scientific information, revokes Biden-era scientific integrity policies and organizational changes from January 2021, and installs senior appointees to enforce compliance, with broad exemptions for national security matters at agency discretion.
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.
Keeping Promises to Veterans and Establishing a National Center for Warrior Independence
This executive order establishes a National Center for Warrior Independence on the West Los Angeles VA Campus to house and serve homeless veterans, with a goal of restoring capacity for 6,000 veterans by January 1, 2028. It directs the VA Secretary to redirect funds from immigrant services, create a voucher program with HUD, restore accountability for VA misconduct, and expand healthcare choices including a full-service medical center in New Hampshire and reduced wait times nationwide.
Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research
This executive order halts federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern (particularly China) and suspends federally funded domestic gain-of-function research pending new oversight policies. It mandates revised frameworks for dual-use research oversight and nucleic acid synthesis screening, requires reporting mechanisms for transparency, and imposes strict enforcement terms including potential 5-year funding bans for violations.
Regulatory Relief To Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines
This executive order directs federal agencies to streamline regulatory and permitting processes for domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing, with specific actions by FDA, EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and OMB. It also mandates increased inspections and fees on foreign manufacturing facilities and requires public disclosure of foreign inspection data, aiming to reduce domestic facility construction timelines from 5-10 years and shift production back to the United States.
Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission
This executive order establishes a 14-member Religious Liberty Commission, supported by three advisory boards, to study and report on threats to religious liberty in the United States and recommend policy responses. The Commission is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on religious liberty foundations, current threats, and preservation strategies, with a termination date of July 4, 2026.
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.
Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits
This executive order declares a national emergency based on large and persistent U.S. goods trade deficits and imposes a baseline 10 percent additional ad valorem tariff on all imports from all trading partners, effective April 5, 2025. Higher country-specific reciprocal tariff rates take effect April 9, 2025 for trading partners listed in Annex I, with exemptions for certain goods including steel, aluminum, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, critical minerals, and energy products.
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.
Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization
This executive order directs the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to develop policy recommendations within 90 days to protect IVF access and reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment. The order frames IVF affordability as a family-formation priority but does not itself mandate any immediate regulatory or statutory changes.
Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
This executive order prohibits federal discretionary funds from supporting schools or universities that require COVID-19 vaccination for in-person attendance. It directs the Secretary of Education to issue guidelines on parental authority and religious freedom related to such mandates, and to submit a 90-day plan for ending coercive COVID-19 school mandates, including identifying non-compliant institutions and processes to rescind their federal funding.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
This executive order establishes the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission, chaired by the HHS Secretary, to combat rising chronic disease rates in America with an initial focus on childhood chronic disease. The Commission must produce an assessment within 100 days and a strategy within 180 days on causes including diet, environmental factors, medical treatments, and corporate influence, while directing multiple agencies to prioritize disease prevention, research integrity, and healthy food production.
Imposing Duties To Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China
This executive order imposes an additional 10 percent ad valorem tariff on all goods imported from China, effective February 4, 2025, citing China's failure to stop the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals and related transnational criminal activity. The order expands a previously declared national emergency and terminates inconsistent prior trade directives with China.
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
This executive order prohibits federal funding, sponsorship, or support for pediatric gender-affirming medical care, defining such treatments as "chemical and surgical mutilation" for individuals under 19. It directs multiple agencies to rescind supportive policies, exclude coverage from federal health programs (Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, FEHB/PSHB), prioritize enforcement of existing laws, and promote new legislation creating private rights of action for affected children and parents.
The Mexico City Policy
This memorandum revokes the Biden administration's 2021 policy rescinding the Mexico City Policy and reinstates the Trump-era 2017 version, which prohibits U.S. foreign aid funding for organizations that provide, counsel on, or refer for abortions. It directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with HHS, to expand these restrictions across all departments and agencies providing global health assistance, and to ensure no U.S. funds support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization programs.
Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
This executive order revokes two Biden-era executive orders (14076 and 14079) that had expanded federal funding and support for abortion access. It reinstates Hyde Amendment principles by directing OMB to issue guidance preventing federal taxpayer dollars from funding or promoting elective abortion across federal programs.
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders
This executive order revokes two Biden-era COVID-19 mandates: EO 14042 requiring federal contractors to implement COVID safety protocols, and EO 14043 requiring federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The revocations take effect immediately upon signing with no replacement framework imposed.
Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis
This January 20, 2025 memorandum directs all executive department and agency heads to deliver emergency price relief to American families by lowering housing costs, reducing healthcare administrative expenses, eliminating appliance regulations, creating jobs, and rolling back climate policies affecting food and fuel prices. The Assistant to the President for Economic Policy must report on implementation status every 30 days starting 30 days from signing.
Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
This memorandum freezes new federal rulemaking and withdraws pending rules until political appointees appointed after January 20, 2025 review and approve them. It also postpones effective dates of recently published rules for 60 days to allow review, with OMB oversight and emergency exceptions.
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.
Withdrawing the United States From the World Health Organization
This executive order withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization, revoking the 2021 retraction of the prior withdrawal notice and ending U.S. participation in WHO funding, personnel assignments, and pandemic treaty negotiations. It also revokes Biden-era COVID-19 response coordination structures and mandates development of alternative global health partnerships.
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.
Orderly Implementation of the Air Toxics Standards for Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilizers
This memorandum establishes a formal process for commercial sterilizers to request Presidential exemptions from EPA's April 2024 ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions standards when compliance technology is unavailable and facility shutdown would disrupt medical device/pharmaceutical supplies. It directs EPA and HHS to coordinate on reviewing exemption requests with strict timelines, and requires HHS to report within 2 years on progress toward reducing EtO exposure and developing alternative sterilization methods.
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Global Illicit Drug Trade
This notice continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14059 regarding global illicit drug trafficking, which was set to expire on December 15, 2024. The continuation maintains emergency authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to address fentanyl, synthetic opioids, and transnational criminal organizations.
COVID-19 and Public Health Preparedness and Response
This executive order revokes three COVID-19-era executive orders related to hoarding prevention, federal workforce masking, and travel safety. It terminates the COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator positions, transferring their responsibilities to the Director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR), a congressionally established office within the Executive Office of the President.
Advancing Women's Health Research and Innovation
This executive order directs federal agencies to strengthen women's health research by integrating it across federal research programs, prioritizing funding, launching a menopause research assessment, and identifying budget gaps. It establishes reporting timelines and interagency coordination through the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research.
Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern
This executive order restricts countries of concern from accessing Americans' bulk sensitive personal data and U.S. government-related data through new regulations on data transactions, submarine cable licensing, and federal research funding. It directs the Attorney General and Homeland Security to issue regulations within 180 days to prohibit or restrict high-risk data transfers while avoiding broad data localization requirements or commercial decoupling. The order also mandates reports on genomic data risks and prior data transfers, with security requirements based on NIST cybersecurity frameworks.
Presidential Determination and Waiver Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs
This determination invokes the Defense Production Act to expand domestic production of essential medicines, medical countermeasures, and critical inputs for national defense. It waives certain statutory requirements (sections 303(a)(5)-(a)(6)) to expedite building domestic manufacturing capacity, relying on product lists established under Executive Order 13944 from the prior administration.
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Global Illicit Drug Trade
President Biden continued for one year the national emergency declared by Executive Order 14059 regarding global illicit drug trafficking, specifically citing fentanyl and synthetic opioids as threats to national security. The continuation extends the emergency authority beyond its December 15, 2023 expiration date under the National Emergencies Act.
White House Initiative on Women's Health Research
This memorandum establishes a White House Initiative on Women's Health Research within the Office of the First Lady to coordinate and advance federal research on women's health. The Initiative brings together 20+ agencies in an advisory capacity to assess research gaps, set priorities, and develop recommendations, with initial recommendations due to the President within 45 days.
Ensuring the People of East Palestine Are Protected Now and in the Future
This executive order directs multiple federal agencies to continue response and recovery efforts following the February 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It establishes a Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator, mandates regular reporting on cleanup and public health, holds a major disaster declaration request in abeyance, and requires agencies to consider whether circumstances warrant a public health emergency declaration.
Strengthening Access to Affordable, High-Quality Contraception and Family Planning Services
This executive order directs federal agencies to strengthen access to affordable contraception and family planning services following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. It instructs multiple departments to consider actions to improve contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, and federal programs for service members, veterans, and federal employees, while also supporting Title X clinics and health centers.
Revoking the Air Travel COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
This proclamation revokes the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for international air travelers to the United States, effective May 12, 2023. It directs four Cabinet secretaries to review and potentially revise or revoke related agency regulations and guidance.
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.
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.
Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer
This executive order directs federal agencies to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and take additional steps to reduce gun violence, including clarifying firearms dealer licensing requirements, promoting safe storage and red flag laws, improving ballistics data reporting, and developing support programs for gun violence survivors.
Continuation of the National Emergency Concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
President Biden continued the COVID-19 national emergency declared by Proclamation 9994 beyond its March 1, 2023 expiration date, citing the need for an orderly transition. The notice states an anticipated termination date of May 11, 2023, for the emergency declaration.
Further Efforts To Protect Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services
This memorandum directs HHS, DOJ, and DHS to take steps within 60 days to protect access to mifepristone following FDA rule changes that expanded telehealth and pharmacy access. It requires agencies to consider guidance for patients and providers, report barriers to the Interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access, and assess resource needs.
Delegation of Authority Under Section 6501(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
This memorandum delegates presidential authority to the USAID Administrator to designate a U.S. representative with fiduciary responsibility for CEPI contributions to serve on the CEPI Investors Council and Board of Directors. The delegation also automatically applies to any future law substantially similar to the referenced NDAA provision.
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Global Illicit Drug Trade
President Biden continued for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14059 regarding global illicit drug trafficking, citing the ongoing threat of fentanyl and synthetic opioids to national security. The continuation extends the emergency authority beyond its December 15, 2022 expiration date under the National Emergencies Act.
Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans
This executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider and select new health care payment and delivery models through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation that would lower prescription drug costs and promote access to innovative therapies for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The Secretary must report within 90 days on selected models and plans to test them, complementing the Inflation Reduction Act's drug pricing provisions.
Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy
This executive order launches a whole-of-government initiative to advance U.S. biotechnology and biomanufacturing capabilities across health, climate, energy, agriculture, and national security sectors. It mandates numerous agency reports and plans with specific deadlines, establishes a Data for the Bioeconomy Initiative, creates workforce development programs with equity commitments, streamlines biotechnology regulation, strengthens biosafety and biosecurity protections, and tasks intelligence agencies with assessing foreign threats to the U.S. bioeconomy.
Delegation of Authority Under Section 614(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
This memorandum delegates presidential authority to the Secretary of State to determine whether up to $215 million from the Economic Support Fund should be provided for global COVID-19 pandemic assistance, waiving certain statutory restrictions under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
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.
Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services
This executive order directs federal agencies to protect and expand access to reproductive healthcare services following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It mandates reports on abortion and contraception access, convenes legal support for patients and providers, addresses safety and privacy concerns, and establishes an interagency task force on reproductive healthcare access.
Establishment of the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse
This memorandum establishes a White House Task Force co-chaired by the Gender Policy Council and National Security Council to coordinate federal efforts against technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online harassment, deepfakes, and doxing targeting women and LGBTQI+ individuals. The Task Force must deliver an Initial Blueprint within 180 days, a 1-Year Report within one year of that blueprint, and annual follow-up reports thereafter.
Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals
This executive order directs federal agencies to advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals through a comprehensive set of initiatives addressing healthcare access, education, housing, child welfare, and data collection. It establishes specific deadlines for agencies to develop policies, guidance, and reports aimed at combating discrimination, ending conversion therapy, improving federal benefits access, and strengthening supports for LGBTQI+ youth, older adults, and families.
Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices To Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety
This executive order mandates comprehensive federal policing reforms including a national accountability database for officer misconduct, bans on chokeholds and restricted no-knock entries for federal law enforcement, improved use-of-force data collection, limits on military equipment transfers to local police, body-worn camera requirements, and studies on law enforcement technology impacts. It also addresses officer wellness, recruitment practices, anti-bias training, and reentry support while acknowledging that full systemic change requires congressional action.
Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act To Ensure an Adequate Supply of Infant Formula
This presidential determination delegates Defense Production Act (DPA) authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prioritize and allocate ingredients needed for infant formula manufacturing, responding to an acute nationwide shortage triggered by the February 2022 Abbott Nutrition recall and pandemic-related supply chain stress. It overrides the usual DPA delegation structure in Executive Order 13603 for health resources specifically.
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.
Maximizing Assistance To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to provide 100 percent federal cost sharing for COVID-19 emergency protective measures (Public Assistance Category B) under the Stafford Act, covering work performed from January 20, 2020 through July 1, 2022. It extends and expands federal reimbursement for state, local, Tribal, and territorial government COVID-19 response efforts, including National Guard deployments.
Continuation of the National Emergency Concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
This notice extends the national emergency declaration for COVID-19 that was originally proclaimed on March 13, 2020, beyond its scheduled expiration date of March 1, 2022. The continuation maintains emergency authorities under the National Emergencies Act based on the ongoing public health threat.
Revoking Proclamation 10315
This proclamation revokes Proclamation 10315, which had suspended entry of noncitizens from eight southern African countries due to the Omicron variant. The revocation takes effect December 31, 2021, based on CDC guidance that vaccinated individuals are protected against severe disease and that the variant is already prevalent in the United States.
Maximizing Assistance to Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to fully fund (100%) COVID-19 testing sites requested by states, tribes, and territories through mission assignments to HHS, with HHS operating the sites in coordination with local public health departments. It establishes a streamlined process for federal testing assistance under the Stafford Act's emergency authorities.
Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery To Rebuild Trust in Government
This executive order directs federal agencies to modernize service delivery and reduce administrative burdens on the public, framing inefficient government processes as a "time tax" on citizens. It mandates specific digital upgrades across agencies—from online passport renewal to streamlined disaster assistance applications—and establishes a framework for designating High Impact Service Providers (HISPs) with ongoing accountability for customer experience improvements.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus Disease 2019
This proclamation suspends entry into the United States for noncitizens who were physically present in eight Southern African countries (Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe) during the 14 days before entry, due to concerns about the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The restrictions took effect November 29, 2021, with exemptions for lawful permanent residents, certain family members of U.S. citizens/residents, and other specified categories.
Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People
This executive order directs federal agencies to develop coordinated strategies to address violence against Native Americans, particularly missing and murdered Indigenous people. It mandates new law enforcement protocols, improved data collection, expanded victim services, and stronger Tribal consultation, with multiple agency reports due within 180-240 days.
Maximizing Assistance To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to provide 100 percent federal cost sharing for COVID-19 emergency protective measures (Public Assistance Category B) under the Stafford Act, covering work performed from January 20, 2020 through April 1, 2022. It extends and expands federal reimbursement for pandemic response activities including National Guard support to states.
Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This proclamation revokes country-specific COVID-19 travel bans and replaces them with a vaccination-based system for international air travelers. Beginning November 8, 2021, most noncitizen nonimmigrants traveling to the United States by air must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with limited exceptions subject to CDC-determined testing, masking, quarantine, and vaccination requirements.
Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders
This executive order extends 33 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2023, transfers FACA oversight responsibilities to agency heads, and amends several prior executive orders—including expanding the National Medal of Science committee from 12 to 14 members, restructuring the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee around cybersecurity and ICT, adding mental health and COVID-19 provisions to the sports and fitness council, and setting term limits for committee chairs.
Adding Measles to the List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
This executive order adds measles to the federal list of quarantinable communicable diseases, granting CDC authority to detain and examine individuals suspected of carrying measles to prevent interstate spread. It amends a 2003 Bush-era executive order that originally established quarantine powers for diseases like SARS, Ebola, and pandemic flu.
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.
Ensuring a Safe Return to In-Person School for the Nation's Children
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Education to assess available tools—including possible enforcement actions—to ensure state governors and officials do not block local schools from implementing CDC-recommended COVID-19 safety protocols for safe in-person learning. It responds to state policies that the administration views as interfering with school districts' ability to protect students, educators, and staff during the Delta variant surge.
Maximizing Assistance To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to provide 100% federal cost sharing for all COVID-19 emergency protective measures (Category B) under the Stafford Act, covering work performed from January 20, 2020 through December 31, 2021. It extends and expands prior federal support for state, local, tribal, and territorial pandemic response efforts including National Guard deployments.
Promoting Competition in the American Economy
This executive order establishes a whole-of-government competition policy to combat excessive market concentration across the economy. It creates a White House Competition Council and directs dozens of specific actions by agencies including the FTC, DOJ, USDA, HHS, DOT, FCC, and others to address anti-competitive practices in labor markets, agriculture, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, and technology.
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.
Revoking Proclamation 9945
This proclamation revokes Proclamation 9945, which had suspended entry of immigrants who could not demonstrate ability to cover healthcare costs or purchase qualifying health insurance. It directs the Secretaries of State, HHS, and Homeland Security to review and revise any agency actions developed under the revoked proclamation.
Suspension of Entry as Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus Disease 2019
This proclamation suspends entry into the United States as nonimmigrants for noncitizens who were physically present in India during the 14 days before entry, effective May 4, 2021, due to widespread COVID-19 transmission and concerning variants. It includes exemptions for lawful permanent residents, certain family members of U.S. citizens/residents, crew members, diplomats, and others, with monthly review by HHS to recommend continuation, modification, or termination.
Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council
This executive order establishes the White House Gender Policy Council within the Executive Office of the President to coordinate federal efforts advancing gender equity and equality across domestic and foreign policy. The Council, led by two presidentially designated Co-Chairs and comprising cabinet members and senior officials from 36 agencies, must develop a government-wide strategy within 200 days and requires agencies to designate senior gender equity coordinators within 30 days. The order also mandates creation of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence and terminates a prior administration's working group on women's global development.
Continuation of the National Emergency Concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
President Biden continued the national emergency declaration for COVID-19 originally proclaimed by President Trump on March 13, 2020, extending it beyond March 1, 2021. This routine procedural notice maintains existing emergency authorities under the National Emergencies Act.
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.
Maximizing Assistance From the Federal Emergency Management Agency To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to provide 100% federal cost sharing for COVID-19 emergency protective measures (Public Assistance Category B) under the Stafford Act. It covers two periods: January 21-September 30, 2021 for all eligible work including National Guard assistance, and January 20, 2020-January 20, 2021 for other eligible work excluding National Guard assistance authorized under the January 21, 2021 memorandum.
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.
Protecting Women's Health at Home and Abroad
This memorandum revokes the Trump-era Mexico City Policy (January 23, 2017) and directs agencies to resume funding to the United Nations Population Fund, waive restrictions on foreign assistance grants related to abortion counseling and referrals, withdraw U.S. co-sponsorship of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, and review the 2019 Title X domestic family planning rule for potential suspension or rescission.
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.
Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking
This memorandum directs federal agencies to strengthen scientific integrity policies, prevent political interference in research, and ensure evidence-based policymaking. It creates a Task Force to review existing policies, mandates new agency scientific integrity officials, requires updates to inconsistent materials from the prior administration, and directs OMB to improve evidence-building plans.
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.
Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States
This memorandum condemns racism and xenophobia against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) during the COVID-19 pandemic, directing federal agencies to avoid discriminatory language in official communications. It tasks HHS with issuing cultural competency guidance, requires agencies to ensure their actions and statements don't contribute to anti-AAPI bias, and directs the Attorney General to support state/local efforts and expand hate incident data collection.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus Disease 2019
This proclamation suspends entry into the United States of noncitizens who were physically present in the Schengen Area, UK, Ireland, Brazil, or South Africa during the 14 days before entry, with exceptions for lawful permanent residents, family members of citizens/residents, and other categories. It amends prior COVID-19 travel proclamations to establish a monthly review process and takes effect January 26, 2021 (for most countries) and January 30, 2021 (for South Africa).
Memorandum To Extend Federal Support to Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Increase Reimbursement and Other Assistance Provided to States
This memorandum extends federal support for National Guard COVID-19 response operations through September 30, 2021, with 100% federal reimbursement. It also expands FEMA Public Assistance Category B funding to 100% federal cost share for eligible entities including schools, childcare, healthcare, and transit through the same date, and directs FEMA to expedite reimbursements with advanced payments.
Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
This executive order directs federal agencies to improve data collection, sharing, and publication of COVID-19-related information to support evidence-based pandemic response and build stronger public health infrastructure for future threats. It mandates senior data leads across multiple departments, requires reviews of public health data systems and federal hiring capabilities for data roles, and tasks OMB with issuing guidance on open data and de-identification.
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.
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.
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.
Protecting Worker Health and Safety
This executive order directs the Department of Labor to strengthen COVID-19 workplace protections through revised OSHA guidance, potential emergency temporary standards, enhanced enforcement, and multilingual outreach. It also extends coordination to state-level worker protection programs and explores protections for workers not covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers
This executive order directs federal agencies to support safe reopening and continued operation of K-12 schools, early childhood education providers, and higher education institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It mandates evidence-based guidance, data collection on disparate impacts, equitable distribution of COVID-19 supplies, and development of strategies to address learning loss and educational inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
This executive order directs federal agencies to immediately assess and address COVID-19 supply shortages, including PPE and vaccine production materials, while invoking the Defense Production Act to fill gaps. It also mandates a 180-day strategy for building long-term domestic pandemic supply chain resilience and addresses pricing concerns and Tribal access to the Strategic National Stockpile.
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.
Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
This executive order directs federal agencies to review and revise policies to prevent discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, interpreting existing sex discrimination laws through the Supreme Court's Bostock reasoning. It requires agencies to develop implementation plans within 100 days and apply these protections across Title VII, Title IX, the Fair Housing Act, and other statutes.
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.
Care of Veterans With Service in Uzbekistan
This executive order directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to consider designating veterans who served in Uzbekistan between 2001-2005 as having served in a theater of combat operations, and requires the Secretary of Defense to conduct a rigorous study of toxic exposure at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base within 365 days.
Terminating Suspensions of Entry Into the United States of Aliens Who Have Been Physically Present in the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Federative Republic of Brazil
On January 18, 2021, President Trump terminated COVID-19 travel entry suspensions for aliens who had been physically present in the Schengen Area, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Brazil, effective January 26, 2021, while keeping restrictions in place for China and Iran. The termination was based on the Secretary of Health and Human Services' recommendation that a new CDC testing requirement for air passengers would sufficiently mitigate risk, coupled with expected cooperation from those jurisdictions.
Ensuring Access to United States Government COVID-19 Vaccines
This executive order establishes that Americans have priority access to COVID-19 vaccines developed or procured by the U.S. government, with the most vulnerable populations first in line. Only after determining sufficient supply for all Americans who choose vaccination may the government facilitate international access for allies and partners. An interagency strategy for international distribution must be developed within 30 days.
Extension of Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends federal cost-sharing support for state National Guard deployments responding to COVID-19. It ends 100% federal coverage for Florida and Texas on December 31, 2020, and establishes 75% federal cost sharing for all 50 states, D.C., and three territories through March 31, 2021, with FEMA funding the assistance under the Stafford Act.
Extension of Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends and modifies federal cost-sharing for Iowa's National Guard COVID-19 response. It provides a 100% federal cost share (retroactive to August 3, 2020 through December 31, 2020) by adding a 25% FEMA supplement to the existing 75% share, then transitions to a 75% federal cost share from January 1, 2021 through March 31, 2021.
Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental- and Behavioral-Health Needs
This executive order establishes a Coronavirus Mental Health Working Group to coordinate federal response to pandemic-exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues, including suicide prevention and substance abuse. It directs agencies to encourage grantees to adopt policies supporting safe in-person and telehealth mental health services, and requires a coordinated plan within 45 days.
Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children
This executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that federally funded hospitals provide emergency medical screening and stabilizing treatment to all infants born alive, including extremely premature infants and those with disabilities, under existing laws (EMTALA, Rehabilitation Act, and Born-Alive Infants Protection Act). It also prioritizes research funding for treatments to improve survival of these infants and training for medical personnel, with enforcement including potential termination of federal funding for non-compliant programs.
An America-First Healthcare Plan
This executive order declares a continuation of healthcare policies emphasizing patient choice, lower costs, and quality care, with specific directives to maintain existing actions and new deadlines for price transparency and surprise billing measures. It requires HHS to work with Congress on surprise billing legislation by year-end 2020, take administrative action if legislation fails, and update Medicare.gov Hospital Compare within 180 days with hospital billing quality information.
Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First
This executive order directs Medicare to pay no more than the lowest price drug manufacturers charge other wealthy developed nations for the same prescription drugs and biological products. It orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement rulemaking plans to test payment models applying these 'most-favored-nation' prices in Medicare Part B (certain high-cost drugs) and Part D (drugs with insufficient competition).
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost-sharing for Louisiana's National Guard COVID-19 response through September 30, 2020, by adding a supplemental 25% FEMA reimbursement on top of the existing 75% federal share. The additional funding specifically supports Louisiana's dual response to COVID-19 and Hurricane Laura recovery.
Fighting the Spread of COVID-19 by Providing Assistance to Renters and Homeowners
This executive order directs federal agencies to take steps to prevent residential evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 pandemic, including having CDC consider an eviction moratorium, Treasury and HUD identify rental assistance funds, and FHFA review authorities to prevent housing loss. It does not itself impose a moratorium but rather orders agency consideration and action.
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends federal funding support for Arizona's National Guard COVID-19 response by directing FEMA to cover an additional 25% of costs, bringing total federal cost share to 100% for emergency assistance activities. The additional funding applies to National Guard orders through September 30, 2020, including duty for health protection protocols.
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends federal funding support for California's National Guard COVID-19 response by directing FEMA to cover an additional 25% of costs (bringing total federal share to 100%) for emergency assistance activities through September 30, 2020. The policy aims to support state pandemic response and economic recovery efforts, particularly for vulnerable populations in congregate care settings.
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends federal support for National Guard COVID-19 response by directing FEMA to fund an additional 25% cost share for Connecticut's National Guard activities, bringing total federal coverage to 100% through September 30, 2020. The extension covers emergency assistance for pandemic response and economic recovery efforts.
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.
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends National Guard COVID-19 support to states and territories but reduces the federal cost share from 100% to 75% starting August 21, 2020. The 75% federal funding is authorized for National Guard duty through December 31, 2020, for pandemic response and economic recovery activities.
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost-sharing for Texas National Guard COVID-19 response operations through December 31, 2020, supporting state efforts to combat the pandemic and facilitate economic recovery. The extension covers orders of any length for duties including compliance with CDC health protocols and other measures agreed upon by DOD and FEMA.
Extension of the Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100 percent federal cost-sharing for Florida's use of National Guard forces through December 31, 2020, to support COVID-19 response and economic recovery efforts. The extension covers orders of any length for duties including health protection protocols recommended by CDC or other measures agreed to by DOD and FEMA.
Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access
This executive order directs HHS to create a new rural healthcare payment model, develop infrastructure strategies, and report on rural health initiatives within 30 days. It also requires HHS to review and propose regulations within 60 days to extend COVID-19 telehealth and provider flexibilities for rural Medicare beneficiaries beyond the public health emergency.
Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications
This executive order requires Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to pass through discounted insulin and epinephrine prices to low-income uninsured or underinsured patients as a condition of receiving future federal grants. The policy aims to make these life-saving medications available at the steep discounts FQHCs already receive through the 340B drug pricing program, plus a minimal administrative fee.
Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients
This executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand safe importation of lower-cost prescription drugs, including facilitating waivers for individual drug importation, authorizing insulin re-importation for emergencies, and completing a rulemaking process to allow importation of certain drugs from Canada.
Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen
This executive order directs HHS to complete a rulemaking that would eliminate safe harbor protections under the anti-kickback statute for prescription drug rebates paid to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurers in Medicare Part D, instead requiring discounts to be applied at the point-of-sale to reduce patient out-of-pocket costs. The Secretary must first confirm that any action would not increase federal spending, Medicare premiums, or total patient out-of-pocket costs.
Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First
This executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a Medicare Part B payment model that would cap U.S. prices for certain high-cost prescription drugs and biological products at the "most-favored-nation price"—the lowest price adjusted for volume and GDP differences that manufacturers charge in comparable developed OECD countries. The order frames this as ending foreign free-riding on American-funded pharmaceutical innovation and addressing affordability for seniors, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providing Continued Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost-sharing for states' and territories' use of National Guard forces responding to COVID-19 through August 21, 2020. It continues prior support for governors' pandemic response and economic recovery efforts, including protection of vulnerable populations in congregate care settings.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus
This proclamation suspends entry into the United States of immigrants and nonimmigrants who were physically present in Brazil during the 14 days before seeking entry, due to widespread COVID-19 transmission. It takes effect May 28, 2020, with exemptions for lawful permanent residents, close family members of U.S. citizens/residents, and other specified categories.
Providing Continued Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost-sharing for Utah's National Guard COVID-19 response operations through June 24, 2020, directing FEMA to fully fund these activities and the Secretary of Defense to support mission assignments on a reimbursable basis. It continues pandemic assistance while also framing support for economic recovery as conditions permit.
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.
Providing Continued Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost-sharing for National Guard COVID-19 response through June 24, 2020, specifically directing FEMA to fully fund South Dakota's National Guard activities and directing the Secretary of Defense to request South Dakota National Guard duty for FEMA mission assignments. It continues and extends prior memoranda from March-April 2020.
Providing Continued Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost sharing for North Dakota's use of National Guard forces through May 31, 2020, to support COVID-19 response and economic recovery. It directs FEMA to fully fund these activities and directs the Secretary of Defense to request National Guard duty assignments from North Dakota's governor as needed.
Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act With Respect to Food Supply Chain Resources During the National Emergency Caused by the Outbreak of COVID- 19
This executive order delegates presidential authority under the Defense Production Act to the Secretary of Agriculture to keep meat and poultry processing facilities operating during the COVID-19 national emergency. It prioritizes food supply chain resources over other contracts and orders, directing operations to continue consistent with CDC/OSHA safety guidance.
Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Present a Risk to the United States Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
This proclamation suspends entry of most immigrants into the United States for 60 days, effective April 23, 2020, citing COVID-19's economic impact and high unemployment. It exempts lawful permanent residents, healthcare workers, EB-5 investors, spouses and children of U.S. citizens, military members, and others deemed in the national interest.
Providing Continued Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Facilitate Economic Recovery
This memorandum extends 100% federal cost-sharing for Alabama, Alaska, and Delaware's National Guard COVID-19 response operations through May 31, 2020. It directs FEMA to fully fund these states' National Guard emergency assistance activities and directs the Secretary of Defense to request governors order National Guard forces to fulfill FEMA mission assignments. The memorandum also extends similar cost-sharing from six prior memoranda issued between March 22 and April 13, 2020.
Providing Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to fund 100% of emergency assistance activities performed by National Guard units under state control in Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Vermont for COVID-19 response. It also directs the Secretary of Defense to request that these governors order National Guard forces to perform duty assignments issued by FEMA, on a fully reimbursable basis.
Authorizing the Exercise of Authority Under Public Law 85-804
This memorandum authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to exercise emergency contracting authority under Public Law 85-804 for VA contracts directly supporting COVID-19 response efforts, treating the VA's pandemic activities as connected to national defense. The authorization expires on September 30, 2020.
Providing Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to fund 100% of National Guard emergency assistance activities for 13 specified states responding to COVID-19 under state control, and directs the Secretary of Defense to request governors order National Guard forces to perform duty assignments on a reimbursable basis. It limits the 100% federal cost share to orders of 31 days or fewer that must be effective within 2 weeks of the memorandum date.
Providing Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to cover 100% of National Guard costs for 10 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands responding to COVID-19 under state control, and directs the Secretary of Defense to request governors order National Guard forces to perform FEMA-issued missions on a reimbursable basis. The 100% federal cost share expires 30 days from signing.
Providing Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to cover 100% of National Guard costs for Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan to respond to COVID-19, and directs the Secretary of Defense to request governors order National Guard forces to perform duty for FEMA-issued missions supporting state and local emergency assistance. The 100% federal cost share terminates 30 days from the signing date.
Providing Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs 100% federal reimbursement for National Guard COVID-19 response activities in Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Guam, and Puerto Rico. It also directs the Secretary of Defense to request governors order National Guard forces to perform specific FEMA-issued missions on a fully reimbursable basis.
Delegating Additional Authority Under the Defense Production Act With Respect to Health and Medical Resources To Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
This executive order delegates broad authorities under the Defense Production Act to the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security to expand domestic production of health and medical resources for COVID-19 response. It includes loan guarantees, voluntary agreements with private companies, and prioritization and allocation powers, while waiving certain statutory requirements during the national emergency.
National Emergency Authority To Order the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
This executive order invokes emergency authorities to allow the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to call up to 1 million members of the Selected Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve to active duty for up to 24 consecutive months in response to the COVID-19 national emergency. It activates reserve forces to support the nation's healthcare systems and pandemic response without creating enforceable legal rights for any party.
Preventing Hoarding of 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 prevent hoarding of health and medical resources needed for the COVID-19 response, including the power to designate materials as scarce and prescribe accumulation limits. The Secretary must consult FEMA when exercising this authority and periodically review whether designations remain necessary.
Providing Federal Support for Governors' Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19
This memorandum directs FEMA to cover 100% of emergency assistance costs for National Guard activities in California, New York, and Washington responding to COVID-19 under the Stafford Act. It also directs the Secretary of Defense to request that governors of those three states order National Guard forces to perform duty for FEMA-issued mission assignments on a fully reimbursable basis.
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.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus
This proclamation suspends entry into the United States of immigrants and nonimmigrants who were physically present in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland during the 14 days before entry, effective March 16, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. It expands prior COVID-19 travel restrictions (Proclamations 9984, 9992, and 9993) to these two countries due to sustained person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2, with exceptions for lawful permanent residents, close family members of U.S. citizens/residents, and other categories.
Expanding State-Approved Diagnostic Tests
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to facilitate state requests for flexibility to authorize in-state laboratories to develop and perform COVID-19 diagnostic tests, building on an earlier FDA-State of New York coordination model. It establishes a policy of offering states regulatory flexibility in public health emergency response.
Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak
This proclamation declares a national emergency concerning the COVID-19 outbreak, effective March 1, 2020, authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive or modify certain Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements under section 1135 of the Social Security Act for the duration of the public health emergency. The declaration also requires congressional certification and advance notice when exercising this authority.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus
This proclamation suspends entry into the United States of all aliens physically present in the 26-country Schengen Area during the 14 days before attempted entry, effective March 13, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. EDT, due to COVID-19 transmission risks. It expands prior travel restrictions from China and Iran, with exceptions for lawful permanent residents, close family members of U.S. citizens/residents, certain visa holders, and others.
Making General Use Respirators Available
This March 11, 2020 memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take all appropriate steps to facilitate emergency use of general use respirators by healthcare personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, using authorities under the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It also directs the Secretary of Labor to consider steps to increase respirator availability.
Delegation of Authority to Re-establish the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic- Resistant Bacteria
This memorandum delegates authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to re-establish the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The Secretary may direct the Council's duties per Public Law 116-22 and determine its membership at their discretion.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus
This proclamation suspends entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants who were physically present in Iran during the 14 days before seeking entry to the United States, expanding similar restrictions previously applied to China. It takes effect March 2, 2020, with exceptions for lawful permanent residents, close family members of U.S. citizens/residents, certain visa categories, and others, and amends the earlier China-focused Proclamation 9984.
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus and Other Appropriate Measures To Address This Risk
This proclamation suspends entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants who were physically present in mainland China during the 14 days before attempted U.S. entry, effective February 2, 2020, with exceptions for lawful permanent residents, close family members of U.S. citizens/residents, and certain other categories. It directs agencies to implement visa restrictions, prevent boarding of covered travelers, and facilitate medical screening and quarantine.
Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System, in Order To Protect the Availability of Healthcare Benefits for Americans
This proclamation suspends entry of immigrants who cannot demonstrate they will be covered by approved health insurance within 30 days of entry or possess financial resources to pay for foreseeable medical costs. It applies to immigrant visa applicants with exceptions for certain visa categories, minors, and national-interest cases, and requires reports on healthcare financial burdens from immigrant admissions.
Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors
This executive order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to expand Medicare Advantage (MA) plan choices, reduce regulatory burdens on providers, accelerate coverage of innovative medical technologies, and inject market-based pricing into Medicare. It explicitly opposes the Medicare for All Act of 2019 and frames its policies as protecting seniors' existing choices while improving program sustainability through competition and value-based payment.
Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health
This executive order establishes a National Influenza Vaccine Task Force co-chaired by Defense and HHS to modernize U.S. influenza vaccine production away from egg-based methods toward faster, scalable cell-based and recombinant technologies. It mandates a 5-year national plan and directs multiple agencies to estimate costs, expand manufacturing capacity, and accelerate development of broadly protective vaccines.
Advancing American Kidney Health
This executive order directs HHS to launch multiple initiatives to transform kidney care in the U.S., including new Medicare payment models to incentivize early treatment and home dialysis, regulatory changes to increase organ donation and transplantation, support for living donors through expanded reimbursement, and accelerated development of artificial kidneys through FDA engagement and the KidneyX public-private partnership.
Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First
This executive order directs federal agencies to increase healthcare price and quality transparency through new regulations requiring hospitals to post prices, expand patient access to cost estimates before care, develop common quality measures across government health programs, and increase access to de-identified health data. It also seeks to expand health savings account flexibility and address surprise medical billing.
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 2019
This proclamation declares May 2019 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, encouraging Americans to prioritize physical activity. It also directs the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition to develop a national strategy with HHS to increase youth sports participation, with focus on inclusive access for underserved groups.
National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Suicide
This executive order establishes a presidential task force to create a comprehensive national roadmap (PREVENTS) aimed at ending veteran suicide through improved coordination between federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector partners. It mandates development of a community integration proposal, a national research strategy, and an implementation plan within one year, with the task force continuing for two years afterward to monitor progress.
Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry
This executive order establishes a Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry, co-chaired by the Attorney General, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and a White House innovation advisor. The Council is tasked with developing evidence-based recommendations to reduce crime, lower recidivism, and improve reentry outcomes through coordination across 11 federal agencies, with initial and full reports due within 90 days and one year respectively. The order revokes a 2016 Obama memorandum on reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals and automatically terminates after three years.
President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition
This executive order revokes a 2010 Obama-era council and reestablishes the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategy to expand youth sports participation, encourage physical activity, and promote nutrition—particularly in underserved communities.
Supporting Our Veterans During Their Transition From Uniformed Service to Civilian Life
This executive order directs the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security to develop a joint action plan within 60 days to improve mental healthcare and suicide prevention resources for veterans during their first year after leaving military service, when suicide rates are approximately double the overall veteran rate. A status report on implementation progress is due within 180 days.
Streamlining and Expediting Requests To Locate Broadband Facilities in Rural America
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate rural broadband deployment by streamlining the process for installing wireless broadband facilities on federal property. It mandates use of a standardized GSA Common Form Application for siting requests, requires agencies to report quarterly on application processing, and sets deadlines for evaluating and improving the application system.
Combatting the National Drug Demand and Opioid Crisis
This memorandum declares combating the opioid crisis as U.S. policy and directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider declaring a public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act. It also instructs agency heads to use emergency and other authorities to reduce opioid-related deaths and community devastation.
Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States
This executive order directs federal agencies to consider regulatory changes expanding access to association health plans, short-term limited-duration insurance, and health reimbursement arrangements as alternatives to ACA-compliant coverage. It also requires biennial reports on barriers to healthcare competition and choice.
Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 4533(a)(5) of the Defense Production Act of 1950
This determination invokes the Defense Production Act to address four critical defense industrial shortfalls: adenovirus vaccine production, high-strength aramid fibers, secure hybrid composite shipping containers, and 3D ultra-high density microelectronics for information protection. It authorizes federal purchases or purchase commitments to ensure timely domestic availability of these capabilities.
Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty
This executive order establishes religious freedom as a priority across the executive branch, directs Treasury to avoid penalizing religious organizations for political speech, and orders three Cabinet secretaries to consider amending regulations for conscience objections to the ACA preventive-care mandate. It also tasks the Attorney General with issuing guidance on religious liberty protections in federal law.
Establishing the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
This executive order creates a presidential commission to study and recommend improvements to the federal response to drug addiction and the opioid crisis. The commission is tasked with reviewing existing funding, treatment availability, prevention practices, and program effectiveness before submitting interim and final reports to the President.
The Mexico City Policy
This memorandum revokes the 2009 Obama-era memorandum that had rescinded the Mexico City Policy, and reinstates the 2001 Bush-era version. It directs the Secretary of State to expand the policy's restrictions to all global health assistance across departments and agencies, and to ensure no U.S. funds support organizations involved in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization programs.
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.
Relating to the Implementation of the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
This executive order designates the Department of Health and Human Services as the U.S. Central Authority for implementing a Hague Convention on international child support recovery, effective when the treaty enters force on January 1, 2017. It authorizes HHS to delegate certain functions to state IV-D child support agencies.
Safeguarding the Nation From the Impacts of Invasive Species
This executive order updates and strengthens federal coordination on invasive species by amending Executive Order 13112. It maintains the National Invasive Species Council with expanded membership, adds new priorities including climate change and public health impacts, and mandates a new management plan with specific reporting requirements.
Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda To Achieve a World Safe and Secure From Infectious Disease Threats
This executive order institutionalizes U.S. participation in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a multinational initiative to strengthen countries' abilities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. It creates a new interagency council chaired by National Security Council staff, assigns specific roles to 13 agencies, and mandates reporting and external evaluation requirements through 2019.
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force
This memorandum establishes an interagency Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force to coordinate implementation of federal parity protections ensuring mental health and substance use disorder coverage is comparable to medical/surgical care. The Task Force, chaired by the Domestic Policy Council Director and comprising nine agency heads, is charged with identifying best practices, addressing guidance gaps, and submitting a public report by October 31, 2016.
White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force
This memorandum establishes the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, chaired by the Vice President, to coordinate federal efforts to accelerate cancer research, treatment, and prevention. The Task Force includes heads of 14 executive departments and agencies and is directed to produce findings and recommendations on accelerating research, improving patient care, reducing regulatory barriers, and developing public-private partnerships, with a report due to the President by December 31, 2016.
Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order continues or reestablishes 40 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2017, transferring FACA compliance responsibilities to designated agency heads and updating administrative oversight for the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee.
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.
Implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States for 2015-2020
This executive order implements the updated 2015-2020 National HIV/AIDS Strategy, directing federal agencies to develop action plans, coordinate efforts, and report progress on reducing HIV infections, improving care access, and addressing disparities. It establishes a Federal Interagency Working Group and assigns specific responsibilities to lead agencies including HHS, Defense, Justice, and others.
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
This executive order authorizes the mobilization of Selected Reserve and certain Individual Ready Reserve members to active duty to support Operation United Assistance, the U.S. military's humanitarian response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The order delegates authority to the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security (for Coast Guard) to activate reserve units and essential individual members, and to later terminate their active service.
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
This executive order establishes a government-wide framework to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria by creating an interagency task force, a presidential advisory council, and mandating specific actions including antibiotic stewardship programs in healthcare facilities, strengthened surveillance systems, promotion of new drug development, and international cooperation. It sets concrete deadlines for a national action plan and regulatory reviews to address what the CDC identified as at least 23,000 annual U.S. deaths from resistant infections.
Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
This executive order amends the list of quarantinable communicable diseases to include severe acute respiratory syndromes (SARS-like diseases) that pose pandemic potential or high mortality/morbidity risk, explicitly excluding influenza. The update expands federal quarantine authority under Section 264(b) of Title 42 to cover emerging respiratory threats beyond the original 2003 list.
Expanding National Service Through Partnerships to Advance Government Priorities
This memorandum establishes an interagency Task Force on Expanding National Service, co-chaired by the CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council. It directs federal agencies to develop partnerships with CNCS to expand national service and volunteer opportunities aligned with the six focus areas of the Serve America Act, and requires specific reports and guidance within set timeframes.
Accelerating Improvements in HIV Prevention and Care in the United States Through the HIV Care Continuum Initiative
This executive order establishes the HIV Care Continuum Initiative and a supporting interagency Working Group to coordinate federal efforts to improve HIV testing, linkage to care, treatment, and viral suppression. It directs agencies to prioritize addressing gaps along the HIV care continuum and requires recommendations within 180 days, with annual progress reports thereafter.
Establishing the White House Council on Native American Affairs
This executive order creates the White House Council on Native American Affairs, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, to coordinate federal policy across 30+ agencies to support tribal self-governance and improve quality of life for Native Americans. It establishes a formal structure for interagency coordination on economic development, healthcare, education, justice, and environmental protection while mandating three annual meetings.
Delegation of Authority To Appoint Commissioned Officers of the Ready Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service
This memorandum delegates presidential authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appoint commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, with term limits of 6 months (or 2 years for specific training programs), and revokes a 2011 memorandum on the same subject.
Engaging in Public Health Research on the Causes and Prevention of Gun Violence
This presidential memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC and other HHS scientific agencies, to conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and ways to prevent it. The Secretary must first identify pressing research questions with greatest public health impact and assess existing interventions. The directive is explicitly subject to appropriations availability and does not create enforceable rights.
Reestablishment of Advisory Group
This executive order reestablishes the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health for a limited period, reappointing existing members and setting a termination date of September 30, 2013. It is a routine administrative extension of a body originally created under the Affordable Care Act.
Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members, and Military Families
This executive order directs multiple federal agencies to expand mental health services for veterans, service members, and military families through suicide prevention programs, community provider partnerships, increased staffing, and a national research action plan on PTSD and traumatic brain injury. It establishes an interagency task force to coordinate implementation and requires specific deliverables including expanded crisis line capacity, pilot projects with community providers, and hiring of 800 peer counselors and 1,600 mental health professionals.
Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls Globally
This executive order establishes a multi-year U.S. government strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally, creating an Interagency Working Group co-chaired by the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator. It mandates coordination across multiple federal agencies, integration of anti-violence programming into existing foreign policy and assistance efforts, improved data collection and research, and periodic reporting with benchmarks, progress reports, and eventual strategy revision.
Establishing a Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence Against Women and Girls, and Gender-related Health Disparities
This memorandum establishes a White House Working Group co-chaired by the Advisor on Violence Against Women and the Director of National AIDS Policy to coordinate federal efforts addressing the intersection of HIV/AIDS, violence against women and girls, and gender-related health disparities. The group must convene within 60 days and includes representatives from eight agencies plus advisory roles for State, USAID, and PEPFAR.