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Urgent National Action To Save College Sports
This executive order imposes federal contract and grant consequences on major college athletic programs that violate interstate athletic governing body rules on eligibility, transfers, revenue-sharing, and NIL payments, effective August 1, 2026. It also directs federal agencies to challenge state laws that conflict with these rules and encourages the NCAA to establish national standards including age limits, transfer restrictions, and revenue-sharing guardrails for women's and Olympic sports.
Establishing the Task Force To Eliminate Fraud
This executive order establishes a White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by the Vice President with the FTC Chair as Vice Chairman, to coordinate a national strategy against fraud in federal benefit programs. The order mandates federal agencies to identify fraud-vulnerable processes within 30 days, develop minimum anti-fraud requirements within 60 days, and submit implementation plans within 90 days, with specific focus on eligibility verification, pre-payment controls, and potential withholding of federal funds from non-compliant jurisdictions.
Ensuring Truthful Advertising of Products Claiming To Be Made in America
This executive order directs the FTC to prioritize enforcement against false "Made in America" claims, especially by foreign sellers on digital marketplaces. It also requires agencies overseeing federal procurement contracts to verify American-origin claims and refer misrepresenting contractors to the Department of Justice for potential False Claims Act liability.
Stopping Wall Street From Competing With Main Street Homebuyers
This executive order directs federal agencies to restrict large institutional investors from acquiring single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by individual owner-occupants. It mandates rulemaking and guidance within 30-60 days to block federal financing, insurance, and asset sales to institutional buyers while prioritizing family homebuyers, and tasks Treasury, DOJ, FTC, and HUD with additional reviews and enforcement actions.
Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
This executive order establishes a federal framework to preempt state AI regulations deemed burdensome to innovation. It creates an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state laws, directs Commerce to identify conflicting state AI laws, conditions federal broadband and discretionary grants on state regulatory compliance, and tasks FCC and FTC with federal standard-setting proceedings. The order also mandates preparation of legislative recommendations for a uniform national AI policy while carving out exceptions for child safety, infrastructure, and state procurement.
Protecting American Investors From Foreign-Owned and Politically-Motivated Proxy Advisors
This executive order directs the SEC, FTC, and Department of Labor to increase oversight of foreign-owned proxy advisors ISS and Glass Lewis, which control over 90% of the market. It mandates reviews and potential revisions of rules on proxy advisors and shareholder proposals, with particular focus on eliminating "diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "environmental, social, and governance" factors from investment advice, and requires antitrust and fiduciary investigations.
Addressing Security Risks From Price Fixing and Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Food Supply Chain
This executive order directs the Attorney General and FTC Chairman to establish separate Food Supply Chain Security Task Forces to investigate anti-competitive behavior and foreign control in food-related industries including meat processing, seed, fertilizer, and equipment. The task forces must brief Congress at 180 and 365 days on their progress and are empowered to bring enforcement actions, propose new regulations, and commence criminal proceedings for collusion.
Saving College Sports
This executive order seeks to preserve college sports by directing federal agencies to curb third-party pay-for-play payments to athletes, protect non-revenue and women's sports through scholarship and roster requirements, and shield collegiate athletics from antitrust litigation. It mandates plans from the Education Secretary, Attorney General, and FTC within 30-60 days to advance these goals using regulatory, enforcement, and litigation mechanisms.
Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base
This executive order directs a comprehensive federal effort to rebuild the U.S. nuclear industrial base, including expanding domestic uranium conversion and enrichment capabilities, restarting closed nuclear plants, accelerating advanced reactor licensing, developing nuclear workforce training, and establishing spent fuel recycling and reprocessing programs. It sets specific capacity targets of 5 gigawatts in reactor uprates and 10 new large reactors under construction by 2030, while invoking Defense Production Act authorities to secure nuclear fuel supply chains.
Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients
This executive order directs the Administration to pursue most-favored-nation prescription drug pricing, requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to offer U.S. patients prices comparable to other developed nations or face potential rulemaking, importation waivers, antitrust enforcement, export reviews, and FDA approval modifications. It establishes a 30-day deadline for HHS to communicate price targets to drug makers, with escalating measures if progress is not achieved.
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
This executive order eliminates disparate-impact liability across federal civil rights enforcement, revoking presidential approvals of Title VI regulations dating to 1966 and 1973. It directs agencies to deprioritize enforcement of statutes and regulations incorporating disparate-impact theories, requires review of pending investigations and litigation, and mandates repeal or amendment of related regulations.
Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers
This executive order directs all federal agencies to review their regulations and identify those that are anti-competitive—such as rules creating monopolies, barriers to entry, or burdensome licensing requirements—with recommendations for rescission or modification. The FTC Chairman and Attorney General will consolidate these findings for OMB review, with the goal of incorporating changes into the Unified Regulatory Agenda.
Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market
This executive order directs the FTC, Attorney General, and Treasury Secretary to combat unfair practices in live entertainment ticketing, including bot-driven scalping, hidden fees, and secondary market price-gouging. It mandates enforcement of existing competition and consumer protection laws, potential new regulations on price transparency, and a joint report within 180 days on actions taken and any needed legislative recommendations.
Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
This executive order directs federal agencies to identify and lease government land for private-sector construction of frontier AI data centers and associated clean energy facilities by 2027. It establishes competitive solicitation processes, mandates clean power procurement, imposes security and labor standards, and requires frameworks to ensure national security access to AI capabilities while fostering competitive markets.
Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer
This executive order directs federal agencies to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and take additional steps to reduce gun violence, including clarifying firearms dealer licensing requirements, promoting safe storage and red flag laws, improving ballistics data reporting, and developing support programs for gun violence survivors.
Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services
This executive order directs federal agencies to protect and expand access to reproductive healthcare services following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It mandates reports on abortion and contraception access, convenes legal support for patients and providers, addresses safety and privacy concerns, and establishes an interagency task force on reproductive healthcare access.
Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals
This executive order directs federal agencies to advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals through a comprehensive set of initiatives addressing healthcare access, education, housing, child welfare, and data collection. It establishes specific deadlines for agencies to develop policies, guidance, and reports aimed at combating discrimination, ending conversion therapy, improving federal benefits access, and strengthening supports for LGBTQI+ youth, older adults, and families.
Promoting Competition in the American Economy
This executive order establishes a whole-of-government competition policy to combat excessive market concentration across the economy. It creates a White House Competition Council and directs dozens of specific actions by agencies including the FTC, DOJ, USDA, HHS, DOT, FCC, and others to address anti-competitive practices in labor markets, agriculture, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, and technology.
Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity
This executive order mandates comprehensive cybersecurity reforms across the federal government, requiring adoption of zero-trust architecture, cloud modernization, multi-factor authentication, and encryption. It establishes new software supply chain security standards including Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) requirements, creates a Cyber Safety Review Board for incident review, and removes contractual barriers to threat information sharing between IT/OT service providers and federal agencies.
Delegating Additional Authority Under the Defense Production Act With Respect to Health and Medical Resources To Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
This executive order delegates broad authorities under the Defense Production Act to the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security to expand domestic production of health and medical resources for COVID-19 response. It includes loan guarantees, voluntary agreements with private companies, and prioritization and allocation powers, while waiving certain statutory requirements during the national emergency.
Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First
This executive order directs federal agencies to increase healthcare price and quality transparency through new regulations requiring hospitals to post prices, expand patient access to cost estimates before care, develop common quality measures across government health programs, and increase access to de-identified health data. It also seeks to expand health savings account flexibility and address surprise medical billing.
Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States
This executive order directs federal agencies to consider regulatory changes expanding access to association health plans, short-term limited-duration insurance, and health reimbursement arrangements as alternatives to ACA-compliant coverage. It also requires biennial reports on barriers to healthcare competition and choice.
Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure
This executive order mandates federal agencies to adopt the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and modernize IT infrastructure, while directing multiple cabinet departments to assess and report on cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure, deterrence strategies, international cooperation, and workforce development. It establishes accountability for agency heads in managing cybersecurity risk and requires extensive reports on federal IT modernization, botnet resilience, electricity grid vulnerabilities, and defense industrial base risks.
Steps to Increase Competition and Better Inform Consumers and Workers to Support Continued Growth of the American Economy
This executive order directs federal agencies to use their authorities to promote market competition, inform consumers and workers, and eliminate regulations that restrict competition without public benefit. It requires agencies to identify anti-competitive practices, submit action plans to the National Economic Council, and report semi-annually on pro-competition efforts.
Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council
This executive order establishes the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council within HHS, chaired by the Surgeon General, to coordinate federal prevention and wellness efforts. It mandates development of a national health strategy and requires annual reports to Congress through 2015 on progress toward disease prevention goals.
Strengthening Federal Efforts To Protect Against Identity Theft
This executive order establishes the Identity Theft Task Force, co-chaired by the Attorney General and FTC Chairman, to coordinate federal efforts against identity theft through law enforcement, public education, and data security. The Task Force must submit a strategic plan within 180 days and may be terminated by the President or Attorney General via Federal Register notice.
Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet
This executive order establishes an interagency working group chaired by the Attorney General to study and report on unlawful conduct involving the Internet, including illegal sales of guns, drugs, and child pornography. The group must deliver recommendations within 120 days on whether existing federal laws are sufficient, what new tools or authorities may be needed, and how to empower parents and educators to mitigate risks.