Executive Order Tracker: Federal Government Actions

• Create, or facilitate the creation of, de facto or de jure monopolies;
• Create unnecessary barriers to entry for new market participants;
• Limit competition between competing entities or have the effect of limiting competition between competing entities;
• Create or facilitate licensure or accreditation requirements that unduly limit competition;
• Unnecessarily burden the agency's procurement processes, thereby limiting companies' ability to compete for procurements; or
• Otherwise impose anti-competitive restraints or distortions on the operation of the free market.

• Maximize the value of existing investment to ensure the quick deployment of AI and to prevent duplicative spending, to invest in AI that was developed and produced in the U.S., and to retain talent who have the technical experience to scale and govern AI; 
• Identify a Chief AI Officer to ensure that AI governance/leadership is an enabler of effective and safe innovation; and 
• Implement minimum risk management practices for AI that could have significant impacts when deployed. 
  
  

• "Accelerating Federal Use of AI Through Innovation, Governance and Public Trust"
• "Driving Efficient Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government"

• “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).”  

• 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.

Further directs that if any current Foreign Service members have knowingly and willfully engaged in “unconstitutional or otherwise illegal discrimination based upon race or other protected characteristics, including actions motivated by discriminatory equity ideology,” then the Secretary of State or other agency head authorized by law to utilize the Foreign Service personnel system must:

• With respect to Foreign Service Members appointed by a Secretary whom that Secretary finds to have engaged in such discrimination, “take appropriate action; and
• With respect to Foreign Service Members appointed by the President, determine whether to refer any findings of discrimination for the President’s consideration or take appropriate action under the Secretary’s own authority.  

• 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

Within 7 days of the date of this order, the head of each governmental entity listed must submit a report to the OMB Director confirming compliance and explaining which components or functions of the governmental entity are statutorily required and to what extent.

Requires the OMB Director or the head of any executive department or agency charged with reviewing grant requests by such entities “to the extent consistent with applicable law and except insofar as necessary to effectuate an expected termination, reject funding requests for such governmental entities to the extent they are inconsistent with this order.” 

• 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 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

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.   

• 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.  

• 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.

• 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.