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Executive Order 14018

Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions

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In simple terms

This executive order revokes seven Trump-era executive orders and memoranda covering financial regulation, poverty programs, labor-management relations, regulatory relief, federal funding to cities, federal architecture, and agency rulemaking accountability. It directs OMB and agency heads to rescind implementing rules and abolish related entities as appropriate under law.

Federal Register Open PDF 86 FR 11855

Record & deadlines

  1. Signed

    Signed by the President

  2. FR published

    Published in the Federal Register · 86 FR 11855

    Federal Register PDF

  3. Prompt consideration of rescinding implementing orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies

Key directives

  • Revoke seven specific presidential actions
  • OMB and agency heads shall promptly consider taking steps to rescind implementing orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies
  • Abolish personnel positions, committees, task forces, or other entities established pursuant to revoked actions
  • All actions must be consistent with applicable law including the Administrative Procedure Act

Who is ordered

Prior policyRollback

  • revokeExecutive Order 13772 of February 3, 2017 (Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System)
  • revokeExecutive Order 13828 of April 10, 2018 (Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility)
  • revokeMemorandum of January 29, 2020 (Delegation of Certain Authority Under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute)
  • revokeExecutive Order 13924 of May 19, 2020 (Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery)
  • revokeMemorandum 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)
  • revokeExecutive Order 13967 of December 18, 2020 (Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture)
  • revokeExecutive Order 13979 of January 18, 2021 (Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking)
  • rescindorders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies implementing or enforcing the revoked Presidential actions
  • otherpersonnel positions, committees, task forces, or other entities established pursuant to the revoked Presidential actions

Related orders

What to expect

Immediate

  • Revocation of seven presidential actions takes effect upon signing
  • Personnel positions and entities established under revoked orders to be abolished

Near term (90d)

  • OMB and agencies to consider rescinding implementing orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, and policies

Long term

  • Potential restructuring of financial regulatory framework
  • Shift in federal architecture policy
  • Changes to agency rulemaking processes

Risks & tensions

  • Vague 'promptly consider' language creates uncertainty about enforcement timeline; no hard deadline specified
  • Multiple 'as appropriate and consistent with applicable law' qualifiers limit binding force
  • APA compliance requirements may slow or complicate rescission of certain rules
  • Revocation of EO 13924 (regulatory relief) may reimpose regulatory burdens during economic recovery period
  • Revocation of architecture and rulemaking accountability orders may draw limited public attention despite institutional effects
Executive Order 14018: Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions · Executive Orders