Executive Order, Action & Proclamation Task Force

• Overview: Provides that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, and that “[t]hese sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” Requires the Executive Branch to enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this “reality” and establishes definitions to govern Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy.
  
  On February 19, 2025, the Administration released guidance entitled, "Defining Sex: Guidance for Federal Agencies, External Partners, and the Public Implementing Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government".
• Notes: The provision of this EO that would require transgender individuals to be housed in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities based on their biological sex and that would prevent the BOP from generally providing gender-affirming care is subject to a temporary restraining order by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number 1:25-cv-286). 
  
  The provision of this EO that would condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of 19 is subject to a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland  (case number: 8:25-cv-00337).

This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number: 3:25-cv-01824).

This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471).

• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS); Secretary of State; Secretary of Homeland Security; Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); Attorney General; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs; Secretary of Labor; General Counsel and Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Topics: Gender; sex
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Provides that the U.S. intends to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of State; Director of OMB; and Director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
• Topics: Global health
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver “emergency price relief” which includes appropriate actions to “eliminate unnecessary administrative expenses and rent-seeking practices that increase healthcare costs.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of all executive departments and agencies and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
• Topics: Household costs; health care costs
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Establishes the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to advise the President on matters involving science, technology, education, and innovation policy. The PCAST will be composed of not more than 24 members. Members will include the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST) and the Special Advisor for AI & Crypto. If also serving as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the APST may designate the U.S. Chief Technology Officer as a member. The remaining members will include individuals and representatives from sectors outside of the Federal Government appointed by the President. 
  
  Revokes Executive Order 14007 of January 27, 2021 (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology), as amended by Executive Order 14109 of September 29, 2023 (Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders). 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: APST; Special Advisor for AI & Crypto; U.S. Chief Technology Officer; heads of executive departments and agencies; and Department of Energy 
• Topics: Science and technology; AI; crypto 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Announces it is the policy of the administration to adhere to the Hyde Amendment. Rescinds two EOs promulgated by President Biden related to access to reproductive health care. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• Topics: Abortion; women’s health 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Reinstates the “Mexico City Policy” which requires foreign nongovernmental organizations receiving certain types of U.S. assistance to certify that they will not perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning, even if such activities are conducted with non-U.S. funds. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of State; Secretary of Defense; and Secretary of HHS 
• Topics: Foreign aid; abortion; women’s health
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Makes reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Enables those service members to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, bonuses, or compensation. Allows service members who voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse (rather than be vaccinated) return to service with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Military vaccine requirements 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires agencies to rescind or amend all policies that rely on World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidance. Within 90 days, the HHS Secretary is required to publish a review of existing literature on “best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.” The HHS Secretary shall also take steps to increase the quality of data “to guide practices for improving the health of minors with gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion, or who otherwise seek chemical or surgical mutilation.” 
  
  Heads of each executive department or agency that provides research or education grants to medical institutions—including medical schools and hospitals—must take steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
  
  The Secretary of HHS must also take action to end “the chemical and surgical mutilation of children”. Also provides that the Secretary of Defense shall take action to “exclude chemical and surgical mutilation of children”. Also requires the HHS Secretary to withdraw HHS’s March 2, 2022, entitled “HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights and Patient Privacy”.
  
  States that the Director of OPM shall include provisions in the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) and Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) programs call letter for the 2026 Plan Year providing that eligible carriers will exclude coverage for pediatric transgender surgeries or hormone treatments and negotiate to obtain corresponding reductions in FEHB and PSHB premiums.
  
  Further requires the Attorney General, in part, to take enforcement actions to protect against “female genital mutilation” and work with Congress to enact a “private right of action” for children and their parents “whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation, which should include a lengthy statute of limitations.”
  
  Within 60 days of the EO, agency heads with responsibilities under the order must submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy detailing their progress. 
  
  On February 20, 2024, HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)  rescinded prior Administration guidance entitled “HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights, and Patient Privacy,” issued March 2, 2022. 
• Notes: The provision of this EO that would condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of 19 is subject to a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland  (case number: 8:25-cv-00337-BAH).
  
  The provisions of this EO that would (1) condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of 19; and (2) direct the Attorney General to prioritize “enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation” are subject to a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court, Western District Court of Washington at Seattle (case number 2:25-cv-00244-LK).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All agencies; Secretary of HHS; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Secretary of Defense; Director of OPM; and Attorney General 
• Topics: Sex; gender; children’s health 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was capping facilities and administration (indirect) costs at 15% (average is 28%) immediately for existing as well as new grants. 
• Notes: This guidance, along with its associated policies, is subject to temporary restraining orders in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (case numbers 1:25-cv-10338, 1:25-cv-10340, 1:25-cv-10346).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Office of the Director, NIH 
• Topics: Federal grants
• Learn More: Visit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website.

• Overview: Asserts that it is the policy of the Federal Government to aggressively combat critical health challenges, including the rising rates of mental health disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.  Requires executive departments and agencies that address health or healthcare to focus on reversing chronic disease.  
  
  Provides that all federally funded health research should empower Americans through transparency and open-source data, and should avoid or eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate distrust.
  
  Provides that NIH and other health-related research funded by the Federal Government should prioritize gold-standard research on the root causes of why Americans are getting sick.
  
  Directs agencies to work with farmers to ensure that U.S. food is the “healthiest, most abundant, and most affordable in the world.”
  
  Directs agencies to ensure the availability of expanded treatment options and the flexibility for health insurance coverage to provide benefits that support beneficial lifestyle changes and disease prevention.
  
  Establishes the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. Requires the Commission submit a “Make our Children Healthy Again Strategy” to the Presidents within 180 days of the release of the EO.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of HHS; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;  Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Secretary of Education; Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Director of the OMB; Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the National Economic Council; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; Commissioner of Food and Drugs; Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Director of NIH; and other members of the Administration invited to participate
• Topics: Health care
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: The Secretary of Education must issue guidelines to elementary schools, local educational agencies, State educational agencies, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education regarding those entities’ legal obligations with respect to “parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under law,” as relevant to “coercive COVID-19 school mandates.”
  
  Within 90 days, the Secretary of Education must provide a plan to the President to end “coercive COVID-19 school mandates.” This plan must include: any proposed legislation; a list of discretionary Federal grants and contracts provided to elementary schools, local educational agencies, State educational agencies, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education that are non-compliant with the guidelines issued pursuant to this EO; and each executive department or agency’s process for preventing Federal funds from being provided to, and rescinding Federal funds from, elementary schools, local educational agencies, State educational agencies, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education that are non-compliant with the guidelines issued pursuant to this EO.  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Education; Secretary of HHS; and Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
• Topics: Health care; COVID-19; vaccines; schools; higher education
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Provides that within 90 days of the EO, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy is required to submit a list of policy recommendations to the President on “protecting [in vitro fertilization (IVF)] access” and “aggressively reducing” out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment. 
  
  States that it is the Trump Administration’s policy “to ensure reliable access to IVF treatment, including by easing unnecessary statutory or regulatory burdens to make IVF treatment drastically more affordable.” 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
• Topics: Reproductive care; IVF; infertility; health plans 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.
  
  Provides additional authority to the Department of Defense to support the Federal Government’s response to the emergency at the southern border, including the use of the Armed Forces and the construction of the border wall, in accordance with section 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1631) and section 2808 of title 10, United States Code.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Armed Forces; Department of Defense; Department of Transportation; Federal Communications Commission; and Department of Justice
• Topics: Border security; border construction; utilization of military
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Within 10 days, the Secretary of Defense must deliver to the President a revision to the Unified Command Plan that assigns United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) the mission to “seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the U.S. by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities ..."
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Defense; and U.S. Armed Forces
• Topics: Utilization of military
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the order determined that entry into the U.S. of refugees under the USRAP “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.” As such, the president directs that entry into the U.S. of refugees under the USRAP be suspended until a finding is made in accordance with the order.  This suspension shall take effect at 12:01 am eastern standard time on January 27, 2025. 
  
  Within 90 days of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit a report to the President regarding whether resumption of entry of refugees into the U.S. under the USRAP would be in the interests of the U.S.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Homeland Security, Department of State; Department of Justice; and Department of HHS
• Topics: Refugees; resettlement programs
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Establishes the policy that no department or agency of the U.S. government shall issue documents recognizing U.S. citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize U.S. citizenship, to persons: 
  1. When that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the U.S. and the person’s father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or 
  2. When that person’s mother’s presence in the U.S. was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth
  
  This policy will apply only to persons who are born within the U.S. after 30 days from the date of this order.
  
  Additionally, this order will not affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children or lawful permanent residents, to obtain their citizenship documentation.
• Notes: This EO is subject to ongoing litigation and is currently subject to multiple injunctions by judges in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (case number 2:25-cv-127) and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case number 8:25-cv-201). On February 19, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency motion for a partial stay of the district court's preliminary injunction (case number 25-807).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of State; Department of Justice; Department of Homeland Security; Social Security Administration; and agency-wide
• Topics: U.S. citizenship; birthright; visa applications; constitutionality 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: The EO takes numerous steps, through empowering federal agencies, to secure U.S. borders. These include:
  • 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
     
  The order empowers federal immigration authorities to vigorously enforce the existing immigration laws, including those related to illegal entry and unlawful presence of aliens in the U.S. 
  
  Additionally, the order establishes a Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) in all states nationwide to remove criminal cartels, foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations, dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks, and ensure the use of all available law enforcement tools to faithfully execute the immigration laws.  
  
  The order also requires DHS to establish detention facilities. Further, the order authorizes state and local law enforcement to perform the functions of immigration officers to carry out these efforts. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Homeland Security; Treasury Department; Department of Justice; and Department of State
• Topics: Enforcement of immigration laws; border security; transnational crime
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: The order empowers federal immigration authorities to vigorously enforce the existing immigration laws, including those related to illegal entry and unlawful presence of aliens in the U.S. 
  
  Additionally, the order establishes a Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) in all states nationwide to remove criminal cartels, foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations, dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks, and ensure the use of all available law enforcement tools to faithfully execute the immigration laws.  
  
  The order also requires DHS to establish detention facilities. Further, the order authorizes state and local law enforcement to perform the functions of immigration officers to carry out these efforts. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Homeland Security; Treasury Department; Department of Justice; and Department of State
• Topics: Enforcement of immigration laws; border security; transnational crime
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: The order strengthens the visa-issuance process to ensure that those approved for admission into the U.S. “do not intend to harm Americans”, including through enhanced vetting and screening. It re-establishes a uniform baseline for screening and vetting standards and procedures, consistent with the uniform baseline that existed on January 19, 2021, that will be used for any “alien” seeking a visa or immigration benefit of any kind. 
  
  The order also empowers federal agencies to assess countries who pose the highest risk for entry to the U.S. including recommendations for a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Homeland Security; Department of Justice; and Department of Homeland Security
• Topics: Visa process; migration
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: This order creates a process by which certain international cartels and other organizations will be designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, or Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
  
  The designation and determination of any cartels to be listed as foreign terrorist organizations must be completed within 14 days.
  
  Additionally, federal agencies have 14 days to make operational preparations, including the establishment of facilities as necessary to expedite the removal of those who may be designated under this order. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of State; Department of the Treasury; Department of Justice; and Department of Homeland Security
• Topics: International organized crime; terrorism; border security 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: This proclamation closes the southern border, suspending the physical entry of aliens. It also prohibits future entry of aliens who do not provide U.S. officials with medical information, reliable criminal history and background information.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of State; Department of Justice; and Department of Homeland Security
• Topics: Border security
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: The first directive rescinds the Biden Administration’s guidelines for ICE and CBP enforcement actions that prohibit law enforcement from acting in or near so-called “sensitive” areas. Sensitive areas are taken to include places such as schools, medical or mental healthcare facilities, places of worship, playgrounds, social service centers, etc.  
  
  The second directive ends the utilization of humanitarian parole and returns the program to a case-by-case basis, as stipulated under the "Securing Our Borders" Executive Order. ICE and CBP will phase out any parole programs that are not in accordance with the law.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Homeland Security
• Topics: Immigration enforcement
• Learn More: Visit the Department of Homeland Security website.

• Overview: Requires the head of each executive department or agency to: 
  • 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.
  
  Within 30 days of the date of this EO, the Director of OMB, the Administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service, and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy must identify all other sources of Federal funding for “illegal aliens” and recommend additional agency actions to align Federal spending with the purposes of this EO and enhance eligibility verification systems.
  
  Requires agencies to refer any improper receipt or use of Federal benefits to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security for appropriate action.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of each executive department or agency; Director of OMB; Administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; DOJ; and Department of Homeland Security
• Topics: Immigration; federal funding
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Rescinds various Biden Administration policies on DEI and advancing equity:
  • 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")

• Overview: Requires the Director of OMB, assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the OPM to terminate all DEI and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government. Also provides that Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, “shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.”
• Notes: This EO is the subject of three pending federal lawsuits, one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case number: 1:25-cv-00333), one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471), and one filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number: 3:25-cv-01824).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB; Attorney General; and Director of OPM 
• Topics: DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Provides that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, and that “[t]hese sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” Requires the Executive Branch to enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this “reality” and establishes definitions to govern Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy.
  
  On February 19, 2025, the Administration released guidance entitled, "Defining Sex: Guidance for Federal Agencies, External Partners, and the Public Implementing Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government".
• Notes: The provision of this EO that would require transgender individuals to be housed in BOP facilities based on their biological sex and that would prevent the BOP from generally providing gender-affirming care is subject to a temporary restraining order by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number 1:25-cv-286). |
  
  The provision of this EO that would condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of 19 is subject to a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland  (case number: 8:25-cv-00337-BAH).
  
  This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471).

This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number: 3:25-cv-01824).

• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of HHS; Secretary of State; Secretary of Homeland Security; Director of OPM; Attorney General; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs; Secretary of Labor; General Counsel and Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and Director of OMB
• Topics: Gender; sex
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in conjunction with others, to create a federal hiring plan that, in part, prevents the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
• Topics: DEI; federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Explains that DEI and DEIA policies violate civil rights laws and that it is the policy of the administration to “combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.” Provides for the termination of all discriminatory and illegal preferences (i.e., DEI preferences), mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, and consent orders. Requires agencies to enforce civil-rights laws and combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities. Terminates a number of previously issued EOs related to DEI.
• Notes: This EO is the subject of three pending federal lawsuits, one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case number: 1:25-cv-333), one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471), and one filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number: 3:25-cv-01824).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All executive departments and agencies; Director of OMB; Attorney General; and Secretary of Education
• Topics: DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Orders the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately return to “non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law.” Directs all DEI initiatives, including “dangerous preferencing policies or practices” be immediately rescinded in favor of hiring, promoting, and otherwise treating employees on the basis of individual capability, competence, achievement, and dedication. Directs the same individuals to “review the past performance and performance standards of all individuals in critical safety positions and take all appropriate action to ensure that any individual who fails or has failed to demonstrate requisite capability is replaced by a high-capability individual."
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
• Topics: DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Sets forth the policy of the administration that the Armed Forces should operate free from any preference based on race or sex. 
  
  Requires the removal of DEI offices, sub-offices, programs, elements, or initiatives within the Department of Defense and the U.S. Coast Guard. Prohibits the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense from promoting, advancing, or inculcating an enumerated set of “un-American, divisive, discriminatory, radical, extremist, and irrational theories ...” 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Defense; DEI; gender; race 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to review all hiring decisions and changes to safety protocols made during the prior four years to “achieve uncompromised aviation safety ...” The review must be consistent with the Presidential Memorandum entitled “Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation.”  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
• Topics: Aviation; DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Sets forth that it is the policy of the administration to combat anti-Semitism. Directs various federal agencies to act to promote this policy, including by filing reports on how each agency, identifying all civil and criminal authorities within their jurisdiction, could be used to curb and combat anti-Semitism. The reports must contain an inventory and analysis of all pending administrative complaints against or involving institutions of higher education alleging civil rights violation relating to post-October 7, 2023 campus anti-Semitism. 
  
  The Secretary of Education’s report must additionally “include an inventory and an analysis of all Title VI complaints and administrative actions, including in K-12 education, related to anti-Semitism — pending or resolved after October 7, 2023 — within the Department’s Office for Civil Rights.” Additionally, “the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with each other, shall include in their reports recommendations for familiarizing institutions of higher education with the grounds for inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) so that such institutions may monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff relevant to those grounds and for ensuring that such reports about aliens lead, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove such aliens.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All heads of executive departments or agencies, with more specific direction given to the Attorney General, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
• Topics: Education; anti-Semitism
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Generally directs the Secretary of Education to prevent transgender women from participating in women’s sports and to “protect . . . all-female locker rooms” thereby “provid[ing] the equal opportunity guaranteed by the Title IX . . . ” Directs the prioritization of Title IX enforcement action against educational institutions that “deny female students an equal opportunity to participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them, in the women’s category, to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.” 
  
  Directs all executive department and agencies to review grants to educational programs, and if appropriate, rescind funding that do not comply with this EO. Directs the Department of Justice “to ensure expeditious enforcement of the policy established in this order.” 
  
  Further provides direction to certain agencies to encourage athletic organizations/governing bodies to promulgate policies consistent with this EO. Directs the Secretary of State to rescind support/participation for certain sports exchanges/programs where the female category is “based on identity and not sex”. Directs the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security to review and adjust policies regarding the admission of “males seeking to participate in women’s sports” to the US (to the extent permitted by law).  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All executive departments and agencies; Secretary of Education, the Department of Justice; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Secretary of State; and Secretary of Homeland Security 
• Topics: Gender; sex; sports
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Withdraws from disposition for wind energy leasing all areas within the Offshore Continental Shelf (OCS). Provides that specified agencies shall not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind projects pending the completion of a comprehensive assessment and review of Federal wind leasing and permitting practices.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Energy; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Attorney General; Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Commerce; and Secretary of the Treasury
• Topics: Wind leasing; wind projects 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Declares a national emergency based off of the “United States’ insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation’s economy, national security, and foreign policy.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies; Administrator of EPA; Secretary of the Army, acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Defense; and Secretary of Energy 
• Topics: Energy and critical minerals
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Sets forth energy policies of the Administration, including “to encourage energy exploration and production on federal lands,” “to establish the U.S. as the leading producer and processor of non-fuel minerals,” and to ensure that the global impact of a rule is separately impacted from the domestic impact. Requires agency heads to ensure past agency actions are consistent with the aforementioned energy policies. Revokes numerous energy/climate change related executive orders issued during the Biden Administration and terminates the American Climate Corps. Hastens the environmental permitting process and forbids the use of “arbitrary or ideologically motivated” studies/methodologies for environmental permitting. Requires agencies to stop the disbursement funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Directs the Secretary of the Energy to restart reviews of applications for approvals of liquified natural gas export projects as quickly as possible. Directs certain agency and department heads to identify agency actions that impose undue burdens on domestic mining and processing of non-fuel minerals and includes assessing public lands withdrawals, among other things. 
•  Agencies Receiving Instructions: All agency heads; the Attorney General; the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality;  the Secretaries of Defense, State, Labor, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Homeland Security; the Administrator of the EPA; Director of the National Economic Council (NEC); Director of OMB; Administrator of the Maritime Administration; and the U.S. Trade Representative
• Topics: Energy production; non-fuel minerals; environmental permitting; IRA; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Agreement and any other agreement made under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Revokes the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; the Secretary of State; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of HHS; Secretary of Energy; Secretary of Agriculture; Administrator of the EPA; Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Chief Executive Officer of the International Development Finance Corporation; Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; and President of the Export-Import Bank
• Topics: Treaties; climate change
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Generally, directs department and agency heads to promote natural energy resource development in Alaska. Promulgates policies regarding Alaska Native Corporations. 
•  Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of all executive departments and agencies with specific direction given to the Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of the Army, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and the Secretary of Commerce
• Topics: Land management; natural resources 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver “emergency price relief” which includes appropriate actions to “eliminate counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances and eliminate harmful, coercive ‘climate’ policies that increase the costs of food and fuel.”
•  Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of all executive departments and agencies and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
• Topics: Household costs; climate policies
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Establishes the National Energy Dominance Council within the Executive Office of the President.
  
  Establishes membership of the National Energy Dominance Council. The Secretary of the Interior, as Chair of the Council, shall serve as a standing member of the National Security Council.
  
  Creates a number of requirements for the National Energy Dominance Council, including advising the President on how best to exercise his authority to produce more energy to make America energy dominant, providing a recommended National Energy Dominance Strategy to produce more energy that includes long-range goals for achieving energy dominance, recommending  a plan to raise awareness on a national level of matters related to energy dominance, and advising the President on identifying and ending practices that raise the cost of energy.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Energy;  Secretary of State; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Defense; Attorney General; Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Transportation; Administrator of EPA; Director of OMB; U.S. Trade Representative; Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Assistant to the President for Economic Policy;Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and the heads of other executive departments and agencies that may be designated by the President. 
• Topics: Energy; energy production
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Directs officials to revoke commitments related to the Global Tax Deal. Further directs officials to investigate “whether any foreign countries are not in compliance with any tax treaty with the United States or have any tax rules in place, or are likely to put tax rules in place, that are extraterritorial or disproportionately affect American companies” and to provide a recommendation on the same.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of the Treasury; the Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD; U.S. Trade Representative
• Topics: Trade
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires certain agency/department heads to review trade policies.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Treasury; U.S. Trade Representative; Secretary of Homeland Security; Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing; Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; and Director of OMB
• Topics: Trade imbalances; unfair trade practices
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Generally, imposes an additional 25 percent ad valorem tariff on goods (except energy products) from Canada. Imposes an additional 10 percent ad valorem tariff on energy products from Canada. Sets forth a retaliatory tariff policy. Imports from Canada will not be subject to duty free de minimis treatment under 19 USC 1321.
  
  Generally, these tariffs will begin at 12:01am ET, February 4, 2025 unless the goods were already in transit to the U.S. before 12:01am ET, February 1, 2025 (subject to a certification requirement). The basis of tariffs is the flow of illicit drugs and migrants from Canada.
  
  On February 3, 2025, President Trump promulgated a new EO entitled “Progress on the Situation at Our Northern Border.” The EO delays the tariffs announced above so the additional tariffs will not take effect until March 4, 2025 at 12:01am ET.
  
  The EO states that the basis of the pause is because the Government of Canada “has taken immediate steps designed to alleviate the illegal migration and illicit drug crisis through cooperative actions.” However, the EO states additional time is needed to “assess whether these steps constitute sufficient action to alleviate the crisis and resolve the unusual and extraordinary threat beyond our northern border.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Trade; tariffs
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Generally, imposes an additional 10 percent ad valorem tariff on goods from China. Sets forth a retaliatory tariff policy. Imports from China will not be subject to duty free de minimis treatment under 19 USC 1321.
  
  Generally, these tariffs will begin at 12:01am ET, February 4, 2025 unless the goods were already in transit to the U.S. before 12:01am ET, February 1, 2025 (subject to a certification requirement). The basis of tariffs is the flow of illicit drugs.
  
  
  On February 7, 2025, the President amended the EO to provide for a duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 USC 1231 but will be unavailable when the Secretary of Commerce notifies the President “that adequate systems are in place to fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue applicable pursuant to [the EO] for covered articles otherwise eligible de minimis treatment.” 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Trade; tariffs
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Generally, imposes a 25 percent ad valorem tariff on goods from Mexico. Sets forth a retaliatory tariff policy. Imports from Mexico will not be subject to duty free de minimis treatment under 19 USC 1321.
  
  
Generally, these tariffs were set to begin at 12:01am ET, February 4, 2025 unless the goods were already in transit to the U.S. before 12:01am ET, February 1, 2025 (subject to a certification requirement). The basis of tariffs is the flow of illicit drugs and migrants from Mexico.

On February 3, 2025, President Trump promulgated a new EO entitled “Progress on the Situation At Our Southern Border.” The EO delays the tariffs announced above so the additional tariffs will not take effect until March 4, 2025 at 12:01am ET.

The EO states that the basis of the pause is because the Government of Mexico “has taken immediate steps designed to alleviate the illegal migration and illicit drug crisis through cooperative actions.” However, the EO states additional time is needed to “assess whether these steps constitute sufficient action to alleviate the crisis and resolve the unusual and extraordinary threat beyond our southern border”.

• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Trade; tariffs
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Imposes a 25 percent tariff (increase from 10 percent) on aluminum and derivative aluminum beginning March 12, 2025.
  
  
Within 90 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Commerce must establish a process for including additional derivative aluminum articles. Provides that the Secretary of Commerce must not consider any product exclusion requests or renew any product exclusion requests. The EO also states granted product exclusions shall remain effective until their expiration date or until excluded product volume is imported, whichever occurs first. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to terminate all existing general approved exclusions by March 12, 2025. 

• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Commerce 
• Topics: Trade; tariffs
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Reinstates the Schedule F designation among the federal workforce. Employees assigned to Schedule F would not have civil service protections.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB and all heads of an executive agency (excluding the Government Accountability Office (GAO))
• Topics: Federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Prohibits agencies from proposing or issuing any rule until a department or agency head appointed or designated by the President after noon on January 20, 2025 reviews and approves the rule. Immediately withdraws any rules that have been sent to the OFR but not published in the Federal Register so they can be reviewed and approved. Provides consideration of a 60-day postponement (from January 20, 2025) of any rules that have been published in the Federal Register, or any rules that have been issued in any manner but have not taken effect, for the purpose of reviewing any questions of fact, law, and policy that the rules may raise.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB and all executive departments and agencies
• Topics: Regulations
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires the termination of remote work arrangements and employees to return to work in-person on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of all departments and agencies in the Executive Branch
• Topics: Federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Orders a freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees, to be applied throughout the Executive Branch. This order does not apply to military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety. It also states it will not “adversely impact” the provision of Social Security, Medicare, or Veterans’ benefits and permits the Director of OPM to grant exemptions where necessary.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB; Director of OPM; and Administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS)
• Topics: Federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Establishes the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to implement the President’s DOGE Agenda by “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: USDS Administrator
• Topics: Government efficiency and productivity
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires the Director of OMB, assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the OPM to terminate all DEI and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government. Also provides that Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, “shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.”
• Notes: This EO is the subject of three pending federal lawsuits, one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case number: 1:25-cv-333), one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471), and one filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number 3:25-cv-01824).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB; Attorney General; and Director of OPM
• Topics: DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in conjunction with others, to create a federal hiring plan that, in part, prevents the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
• Topics: DEI; Federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Announces that Career Senior Executive Service (SES) officials serve at the pleasure of the President. Directs the Director of OMB to issue SES Performance Plans that agencies must adopt, requires agency heads to “use all available authorities to reinvigorate the SES system and prioritize accountability,” and reassign (consistent with the law) SES members to ensure their knowledge, skills, abilities, and mission assignments are “optimally aligned to implement [President Trump’s] agenda.”
  
  Promulgates directions to agencies regarding the Executive Resources Boards and Performance Review Boards. Directs agency heads “who becomes aware of an SES official whose performance or continued occupancy of the position is inconsistent with either the principles [set forth in this EO] or their duties to the Nation” to take immediate appropriate actions, up to and including removal of that official.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB; and agency heads.
• Topics: Federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Provides that it is U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, and that “[t]hese sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” Requires the Executive Branch to enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this “reality” and establishes definitions to govern Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy.
• Notes: The provision of this EO that would require transgender individuals to be housed in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities based on their biological sex and that would prevent the BOP from generally providing gender-affirming care is subject to a temporary restraining order by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number 1:25-cv-286). 
  
  The provision of this EO that would condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of 19 is subject to a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland  (case number: 8:25-cv-00337).
  
  This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471).

This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number: 3:25-cv-01824).

• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS); Secretary of State; Secretary of Homeland Security; Director of OPM; Attorney General; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs; Secretary of Labor; General Counsel and Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Topics: Gender; sex
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: As ordered by the Secretary of HHS, orders that the Department refrain from sending any document for publication to the Federal Register, publicly issuing any document or communication, and participating in any public speaking engagement unless reviewed and approved by a presidential appointee. Additionally, requires Department employees to coordinate with presidential appointees when issuing official correspondence to public officials and to notify the Office of the Executive Secretary if an employee believes that a document or communication should be excepted from this policy because it is required by policy, litigation, statute, implicates safety, etc.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of HHS operating divisions and staff divisions
• Topics: External communications
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Explains that DEI and DEIA policies violate civil rights laws and that it is the policy of the administration to “combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.” Provides for the termination of all discriminatory and illegal preferences (i.e., DEI preferences), mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, and consent orders. Requires agencies to enforce civil-rights laws and combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities. Terminates a number of previously issued EOs related to DEI.
• Notes: This EO is the subject of two pending federal lawsuits, one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case number: 1:25-cv-333), one filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number: 1:25-cv-00471), and one filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case number: 3:25-cv-01824).
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All executive departments and agencies; Director of OMB; Attorney General; and Secretary of Education
• Topics: DEI
• Notes: This EO is the subject of a pending federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (case number: 1:25-cv-333).
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Orders the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately return to “on-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law.” Directs all DEI initiatives, including “dangerous preferencing policies or practices” be immediately rescinded in favor of hiring, promoting, and otherwise treating employees on the basis of individual capability, competence, achievement, and dedication. Directs the same individuals to “review the past performance and performance standards of all individuals in critical safety positions and take all appropriate action to ensure that any individual who fails or has failed to demonstrate requisite capability is replaced by a high-capability individual.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
• Topics: DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Sets forth the policy of the administration that the U.S. should “sustain and enhance America’s global [artificial intelligence (AI)] dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.” Orders specified assistants to the president to review all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken pursuant to the revoked EO 14110 of October 30, 2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). If the actions (i.e., policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions) that flowed from EO 14110 is inconsistent with, or presents obstacles to the administration’s AI policy (as noted above), agency heads must suspend, revise, or rescind the actions. If it cannot be suspended, revised, or rescinded immediately, then APST and agency heads must promptly take all steps to provide all available exemptions authorized by the actions. The OMB director must execute this policy by revising certain OMB Memoranda within 60 days of the EO.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST); the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto; and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA)
• Topics: Artificial intelligence
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Federal agencies are directed to temporarily pause the distribution of “federal financial assistance.” Federal financial assistance is defined as all forms of assistance in 2 CFR 200.1 (1)-(2) and assistance received or administered by recipients or subrecipients of any type except for assistance received directly by individuals. Additionally, the pause “should not be construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits.” Further, 2 CFR 200.1 excludes Medicaid payments from the definition of “federal financial assistance.”
  
  On January 28, 2025, OMB released a clarifying memorandum that states that the freeze does not apply across the board, but only on programs implicated by the President’s EOs. The next day, on January 29, 2025, OMB rescinded the directive.
• Notes: This directive, along with its associated policies, is subject to temporary restraining orders in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number 1-25-cv-239) and the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (case number: 1:25-cv-39).
  
  The Trump Administration appealed the judge’s decision to grant and enforce the temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (case number 1:25-cv-39) and filed a motion for an administrative stay. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the motion for an administrative stay.

On February 20, 2025, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia indicated that the temporary restraining order will remain in place and a preliminary injunction will be issued (case number: 1:25-cv-239).

• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All federal agencies
• Topics: Federal grants and awards
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Makes reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Enables those service members to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, bonuses, or compensation. Allows service members who voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse (rather than be vaccinated) return to service with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Military vaccine requirements
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Sets forth the policy of the administration that the Armed Forces should operate free from any preference based on race or sex.
  
  Requires the removal of DEI offices, sub-offices, programs, elements, or initiatives within the Department of Defense and the U.S. Coast Guard. Prohibits the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense from promoting, advancing, or inculcating an enumerated set of “un-American, divisive, discriminatory, radical, extremist, and irrational theories. . . .”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security
• Topics: Defense; DEI; gender; race
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Requires the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to review all hiring decisions and changes to safety protocols made during the prior four years to “achieve uncompromised aviation safety . . . .” The review must be consistent with the Presidential Memorandum entitled “Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation.”
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
• Topics: Aviation; DEI
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Forbids any executive department, agency, or agency employee from making a collective bargaining agreement governing conditions of employment in the 30 days prior to a change in Presidential administrations that (1) creates new contractual obligations; (2) makes substantive changes to existing agreements; or (3) extends the duration of an existing agreement.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All executive departments or agencies or their employees
• Topics: Federal workforce
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Creates, within the Department of Justice, a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. Generally, the task force is mandated to provide recommendations and ideas on how to remediate anti-Christian bias within both the federal government and the private sector. 
  
  The Task Force’s mandate includes:
  • 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.” 
  
  Of note, the EO references actions against pro-life Christians as anti-Christian bias.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Department of Justice; heads of agencies
• Topics: Task force; religious liberty; pro-life  
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Direct the heads of executive departments and agencies to review all funding that agencies provide to Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and to align funding to NGOs so that it is consistent “with the interests of the United States and with the goals and priorities of [the Trump] Administration.”  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of executive departments and agencies 
• Topics: NGOs; funding 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Generally amends a number of executive orders to substitute “White House Faith Office” for “White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives” or “White House OFBCI” and substitute “Center for Faith” for “Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives,” and “Centers for Faith” for “Centers for Faith-based and Community Initiatives.” Also establishes the White House Faith Office within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) the White House Faith Office (Office). 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All executive departments and agencies
• Topics: Faith; religion  
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Eliminates the Federal Executive Institute “to refocus Government on serving taxpayers, competence, and dedication to our Constitution, rather than serving the Federal bureaucracy.”  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OPM
• Topics: Government programs  
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: For a period of 180 days, requires the Attorney General to review guidelines and policies governing investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). During the review period, the Attorney General must:
  
  • 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     
  
  Permits the Attorney General to extend such review period for an additional 180 days.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Attorney General 
• Topics: Foreign affairs; national security 
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Provides that the Director of OMB must require that each agency hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart (excludes functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement).
  
  Requires that agency heads “promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs)” and “to separate from Federal service temporary employees and reemployed annuitants working in areas that will likely be subject to the RIFs.” Provides that “all offices that perform functions not mandated by statute or other law must be prioritized in the RIFs, including all agency diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; all agency initiatives, components, or operations that my Administration suspends or closes; and all components and employees performing functions not mandated by statute or other law who are not typically designated as essential during a lapse in appropriations as provided in the Agency Contingency Plans on the Office of Management and Budget website.” Excludes functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement.
  
  Requires the USDS Administrator to submit a report to the President regarding implementation of the EO within 240 days.
  
  The EO does not apply to military personnel and provides agency heads and Direct of OPM the authority to make exceptions if necessary.
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Director of OMB; agency heads; DOGE Team Lead; USDS Administrator
• Topics: Federal workforce  
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Provides that all officers or employees charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy must do so under the direction and authority of the President. Also provides that when the Secretary of State concludes that a Foreign Service member, a Civil Service employee, or other staff has “demonstrated performance or conduct that warrants a personnel action,” the Secretary of State must determine whether to refer such a matter to the President for consideration. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: All officers or employees charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy; Secretary of State
• Topics: Foreign policy; foreign relations   
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Directs the heads of executive departments and agencies to take all appropriate actions to make public the complete details of every terminated program, cancelled contract, terminated grant, or any other discontinued obligation of Federal funds. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of executive departments and agencies
• Topics: Spending; federal funds
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Asserts that to “improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people,” the executive branch is required to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch.  
  
  Specifies that executive departments and agencies (including independent agencies) are required to submit all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President for review before publication in the Federal Register. 
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Executive departments and agencies; OMB Director; Attorney General; OIRA
• Topics: Agency accountability; rulemaking requirements  
• Learn More: Visit The White House website.

• Overview: Eliminates the non-statutory components and functions of the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the U.S. African Development Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Reduces the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required. Within 14 days of this EO, the heads of these entities must report to the Director of OMB confirming compliance with this EO and stating whether the governmental entity is statutorily required and to what extent.  Funding requests for these entities will be rejected if they are inconsistent with this EO.
   
  Revokes the Presidential Memorandum of November 13, 1961 (Need for Greater Coordination of Regional and Field Activities of the Government) thereby eliminating the Federal Executive Boards.
   
  Directs the OPM Director to terminate the Presidential Management Fellows Program and withdraw related regulations. 
  
  Within 14 days of this EO, the following heads of executive departments and agencies must take the following actions:
  • 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 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must terminate the Health Equity Advisory Committee
  
  Within 30 days of this EO, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy must identify and submit to the President additional unnecessary governmental entities and Federal Advisory Committees that should be terminated.  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: The Presidio Trust; the Inter-American Foundation; the U.S. African Development Foundation; the U.S. Institute of Peace; Director of OMB; the Federal Executive Boards; OPM Director; Presidential Management Fellows Program; Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development; Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection; Academic Research Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council; Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Community Bank Advisory Council; HHS Secretary; the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID; CMS Administrator; Health Equity Advisory Committee; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; and Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
• Topics: Deregulation; government programs; advisory councils 
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• Overview: Directs agency heads to review all regulations subject to their sole or joint jurisdiction for consistency with law and Administration policy.  Within 60 days of this EO, agency heads must identify certain classes of related regulations. Agencies must prioritize review of those rules that satisfy the definition of “significant regulatory action.” Within 60 days of this EO, agency heads must provide OIRA a list of all regulations identified by class as listed in this EO. The Administrator of OIRA must develop a Unified Regulatory Agenda to rescind or modify these regulations.
   
  Requires agencies to de-prioritize actions “to enforce regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of a statute” and de-prioritize actions to “enforce regulations that go beyond the powers vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution.”
   
  Requires agency heads to consult with their DOGE Team Leads and the Administrator of OIRA on potential new regulations as soon as practicable.
  
  Directs the Director of OMB to issue implementation guidance as appropriate.  
• Agencies Receiving Instructions: Agency heads; DOGE Team Leads; Director of OMB; Attorney General; and Administrator of OIRA
• Topics: Deregulation; government programs
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• Provided that the Secretary of HHS shall consider whether to select for testing by the Innovation Center new health care payment and delivery models that would lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including models that may lead to lower cost-sharing for commonly used drugs and support value-based payment that promotes high-quality care.
• Required the Secretary of HHS to submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy enumerating and describing any models that the Secretary has selected within 90 days after this EO. The report in response to this EO is available here. 
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• Directed specified agencies to “protect and strengthen” Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for every American.
• Directed the Secretary of HHS shall consider establishing a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for uninsured and under-insured Americans to seek coverage through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn.
• Revoked Executive Order 13765 of January 20, 2017 (Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal), and Executive Order 13813 of October 12, 2017 (Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States).
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• Provided that it remains the policy of the Biden Administration to “protect and strengthen” Medicaid and the ACA and to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for every American. Agencies with authorities and responsibilities related to Medicaid and the ACA are continuing their review of existing agency actions under Executive Order 14009.
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•  Set forth the Biden Administration’s policies on AI; defined key AI terms; introduced policies that reduce the risk of AI in national security, data privacy, the economy, etc., such as directing the Secretary of Commerce to require companies with certain AI tools to provide to the federal government information on their safety tests; introduced policies that would promote the migration of AI experts; creates the HHS AI Task Force and requires that body to produce a HHS Strategic Plan; and creates the White House AI Council; among other policies. 
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• The Biden Administration revoked the following:
  • 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).
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• The Biden Administration revoked the following:
  • 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)
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• Established to effectively implement the energy and infrastructure provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to accelerate U.S. global leadership in clean energy innovation, manufacturing, and deployment in a way that cuts consumer energy costs, creates well-paying union jobs and sustainable and equitable economic opportunity, advances environmental justice, and addresses the climate crisis.
• Established the White House Office on Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation within the Executive Office of the President.
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• Executive Order 14099 of May 9, 2023 ("Moving Beyond COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Workers")
• Executive Order 13987 of January 20, 2021 ("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")
• Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 ("Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis")
• Executive Order 13995 of January 21, 2021 ("Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery")
• Executive Order 13996 of January 21, 2021 ("Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats")
• Executive Order 13997 of January 21, 2021 ("Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19")
• Executive Order 13999 of January 21, 2021 ("Protecting Worker Health and Safety")
• Executive Order 14002 of January 22, 2021 ("Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic")
• Executive Order 14003 of January 22, 2021 ("Protecting the Federal Workforce")

• 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")

• Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 ("Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad")
• Executive Order 14037 of August 5, 2021 ("Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks")
• Executive Order 14052 of November 15, 2021 ("Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act")
• Executive Order 14057 of December 8, 2021 ("Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability")

• Topics: Names of geographic features
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• Topics: Foreign affairs
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• Topics: Foreign aid
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• Topics: Architecture; Federal property
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• Topics: Criminal justice
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• Topics: Water management
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• Topics: Security clearances
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• Topics: National security; Social media
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• Topics: Prosecutorial power; Politically targeted prosecutions
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• Topics: Free speech; Censorship; Misinformation
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• Topics: National security; Roles and structure of government bodies
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• Topics: Foreign affairs
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• Topics: Native American affairs
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• Topics: Water management; Hydropower; Disaster relief
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• Topics: Armed Forces; Gender
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• Topics: Armed Forces; Defense
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• Topics: Immigration
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• Topics: Semi-quincentennial; Monuments
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• Topics: K-12 education
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• Topics: Sovereign wealth fund; Investment; Fiscal policy
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• Topics: International organizations; anti-Semitism
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• Topics: Gun rights
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• Topics: Paper/plastic straws
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