Executive Order, Action & Proclamation Task Force

• require the disclosure of the actual prices of items and services (not estimates);
• issue updated guidance or proposed regulatory action ensuring pricing information is "standardized and easily comparable" across hospitals and health plans; and
• issue guidance or proposed regulatory action updating enforcement policies designed to ensure compliance with the transparent reporting of complete, accurate, and meaningful data.

• Construction of physical barriers along the southern border.
• Deployment of military and DHS personnel along the southern border.
• Empowers DHS to take all appropriate actions to detain aliens apprehended for violations of immigration law.
• DHS will also issue new policy guidance or propose regulations regarding the appropriate and consistent use of lawful detention authority under the INA, including the termination of the practice commonly known as “catch-and-release".
• DHS will also resume Migrant Protection Protocols along the southern border.
• DHS will cease using "CPB One".
• Terminate categorical parole programs including for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.
   

• Identify all federally funded programs administered by the agency that currently permit “illegal aliens” to obtain any cash or non-cash public benefit and take all appropriate actions to align such programs with the purposes of this EO 
• Ensure that Federal payments to States and localities do not facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration or abet “sanctuary” policies that seek to shield “illegal aliens” from deportation 
• Enhance eligibility verification systems to the maximum extent possible to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the U.S. illegally or is unlawfully present in the U.S.

• Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 ("Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government")
• Executive Order 13988 of January 20, 2021 ("Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation")
• Executive Order 14020 of March 8, 2021 ("Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council")
• Executive Order 14021 of March 8, 2021 ("Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free From Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity")
• Executive Order 14031 of May 28, 2021 ("Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders")
• Executive Order 14035 of June 25, 2021 ("Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce")
• Executive Order 14045 of September 13, 2021 ("White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics")
• Executive Order 14049 of October 11, 2021 ("White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities")
• Executive Order 14050 of October 19, 2021 ("White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans")
• Executive Order 14075 of June 15, 2022 ("Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals")
• Executive Order 14091 of February 16, 2023 ("Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government")

• "Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss"
• "Addressing Remedial Action by Paul Weiss"

• Foreign Service recruitment, hiring, promotion, or retention decisions upon an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; and 
• Employees who, while acting in an official capacity, promote, advocate for, or otherwise inculcate support for discriminatory equity ideology. 

• “What To Do If You Experience Discrimination Related to DEI at Work”
• “What You Should Know About DEI-Related Discrimination at Work”

• The U.S. will create an expedited "fast track" process based on objective standards to facilitate greater investment from specified allied and partner sources in U.S. businesses involved with domestic advanced technologies "and other important areas."
• The Administration will expedite environmental reviews for any investment over $1 billion in the U.S.
• The Administration will reduce the "exploitation of public and private sector capital, technology, and technical knowledge by foreign adversaries such as the PRC" and seek to stop PRC-affiliated individuals from "buying up critical American businesses and assets."
• The Administration will forbid U.S. companies and investors from investing in industries that advance the PRC's national Military-Civil Fusion strategy.
• The U.S. will use all necessary legal instruments, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), to restrict PRC-affiliated individuals from investing in U.S. technology, critical infrastructure, healthcare, agriculture, energy, raw materials, or other strategic sectors.
• The Administration will seek to strengthen CFIUS authority over "greenfield" investments, to restrict foreign adversary access to U.S. talent and operations in sensitive technologies (especially artificial intelligence), and to expand the remit of "'emerging and foundational' technologies addressed by CFIUS."
• The Administration will stop the use of "mitigation" agreements for U.S. investments from foreign adversary countries.
• The U.S. will continue to welcome and encourage passive investments from all foreign individuals.
• The U.S. will use "all necessary legal instruments to further deter" U.S. individuals from investing in the PRC's military industrial sector.
• The President directs the review and consideration of new and expanded restrictions on U.S. outbound investment in selected sectors in the PRC.
• The President directs the review of whether to suspend or terminate the 1984 United States - The People's Republic of China Income Tax Convention.
• The Administration will determine if adequate financial auditing standards are upheld for companies covered by the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act.
• Directs the review of variable interest entity and subsidiary structures used by foreign-adversary companies to trade on U.S. exchanges.
• Directs that the "highest fiduciary standards" be restored as required by Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 as to ensure that foreign adversary companies are ineligible for pension plan contributions.

Further directs various agency and department heads to implement the aforementioned directives.

• Taxes imposed on U.S. companies by foreign governments.
• Regulations imposed on U.S. companies by foreign governments that could inhibit the growth or intended operation of U.S. companies.
• Any act, policy, or practice of a foreign government that could require a U.S. company to jeopardize its intellectual property.

• Any other act, policy, or practice of a foreign government that serves to undermine the global competitiveness of U.S. companies.

Further directs:

• The U.S. Trade Representative, consistent with Section 302(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 (Section 302(b)), to investigate the digital service tax (DST) of any other country that may discriminate against U.S. companies or burden or restrict U.S. commerce. This review shall include whether to renew investigations of the DSTs of France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom under Section 302(b). The U.S. Trade Representative must also determine whether to pursue a panel under the United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement on the DST imposed by Canada and to investigate Canada's DST under Section 302(b).
• The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the U.S. Trade Representative to jointly identify trade and other regulatory practices by other countries (including the aforementioned four practices that the Administration will use to consider responsive action) that discriminate against, disproportionately affect, or otherwise undermine the global competitiveness or intended operation of U.S. companies, in the digital economy and more generally, and recommend to the President appropriate actions to counter such practices under applicable authorities.
• The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the U.S. Trade Representative to investigate whether any act, policy, or practice of any country in the European Union of the United Kingdom has the effect of requiring or incentivizing the use or development of U.S. companies' products or services that undermine freedom of speech and political engagement or otherwise moderate content, and recommend appropriate actions to counter such practices under applicable authorities.
• The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the U.S. Trade Representative to determine whether any foreign country subjects U.S. citizens or companies to discriminatory or extraterritorial taxes or has any tax measure in place that otherwise undermines the global competitiveness of U.S. companies, is consistent with any tax treaty of the U.S. or is actionable under 26 USC 891 or other tax-related legal authority.
• The U.S. Trade Representative must identify the tools the U.S. can use to secure among trading partners a permanent moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions.
• The U.S. Trade Representative must establish a process that allows American business to report to him or her the foreign tax or regulatory practices that disproportionately harm U.S. companies.

• Reviewing the activities of all executive departments and agencies during the Biden Administration, identifying “unlawful anti-Christian policies, practices, or conduct”, and to provide recommendations to revoke or terminate these policies; 
• Recommending to the President what additional Presidential or legislative action is needed “to rectify past improper anti-Christian conduct, protect religious liberty, or otherwise fulfill the purpose and policy of this [EO]”; and
• Identifying deficiencies in existing laws, enforcement, and regulatory practices that have contributed to unlawful anti-Christian governmental or private conduct and recommending to the relevant agency head (or the President if applicable), “appropriate actions that agencies may take to remedy failures to fully enforce the law against acts of anti-Christian hostility, vandalism, and violence.” 

• Cease initiation of any new FCPA investigations or enforcement actions, unless the Attorney General determines that an individual exception should be made
• Review in detail all existing FCPA investigations or enforcement actions
• Issue updated guidelines or policies     

• Positions that are "necessary" to meet law enforcement, border security, national security, immigration enforcement, or public safety responsibilities;
• Military personnel in the armed forces and all Federal uniformed personnel;
• Officials nominated and appointed to positions requiring Presidential appointment or Senate confirmation, non-career positions in the Senior Executive Service or Schedule C positions in the excepted service, officials appointed through temporary organization hiring authority or the appointment of any other non-career employees or officials, if approved by agency leadership appointed by the President;
• The Executive Office of the President; and
• The U.S. Postal Service.

• The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development must terminate the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
• The Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection must terminate the Academic Research Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council
• The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must terminate the Community Bank Advisory Council
• The HHS Secretary must terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID
• The Administrator of CMS must terminate the Health Equity Advisory Committee

• Developing a centralized technology system within the agency to record every payment issued by the agency that includes written justification for the payment by the agency employee who approved the payment;
• Reviewing, within 30 days, certain existing contracts and grants and to terminate or modify them to reduce overall Federal spending or reallocate spending to promote efficiency and to advance the policies of the administration:
  • The review must prioritize funds disbursed under certain existing contracts and grants to educational institutions and foreign entities for "waste, fraud, and abuse."
• Reviewing each agency's contracting policies, procedures, and personnel within 30 days, and to not issue or approve new contracting officer warrants during this time, unless approved by the highest-ranking official of an agency (or their designee);
• Following the aforementioned contracting review, issuing guidance on signing new contracts or modifying existing contracts to promote government efficiency and the policies of the administration;
• Restricting federally funded travel for conferences or other non-essential purposes;
• Temporarily freezing credit cards held by agency employees for 30 days with exceptions; and
• Reviewing the agency's real property leases, reviewing termination rights under those leases, deciding whether to invoke those rights, and providing a plan for the disposition of government-owned real property that is no longer needed.

• The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
• The United States Agency for Global Media
• The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services
• The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
• The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
• The Minority Business Development Agency

• Foreign Service recruitment, hiring, promotion, or retention decisions upon an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; and 
• Employees who, while acting in an official capacity, promote, advocate for, or otherwise inculcate support for discriminatory equity ideology. 

• “The maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education;”
• “Return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely;” and
• “Ensure that the allocation of federal funds to the Department of Education complies with federal law and administration policy (e.g., not being used to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or gender ideology).” 

• Executive Order 13772 of February 3, 2017 (Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System)
• Executive Order 13828 of April 10, 2018 (Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility)
• Memorandum of January 29, 2020 (Delegation of Certain Authority Under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute)
• Executive Order 13924 of May 19, 2020 (Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery)
• Memorandum of September 2, 2020 (Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients of Federal Funds That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities)
• Executive Order 13967 of December 18, 2020 (Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture)
• Executive Order 13979 of January 18, 2021 (Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking).

• Executive Order 13771 of January 30, 2017 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs)
• Executive Order 13777 of February 24, 2017 (Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda)
• Executive Order 13875 of June 14, 2019 (Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees)
• Executive Order 13891 of October 9, 2019 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents)
• Executive Order 13892 of October 9, 2019 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication)
• Executive Order 13893 of October 10, 2019 (Increasing Government Accountability for Administrative Actions by Reinvigorating Administrative PAYGO)