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Proc 109252025-04-29Trump

Amendments to Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States

This proclamation modifies the Section 232 tariff system on automobiles and automobile parts established in Proclamation 10908. It creates a two-year import adjustment offset program that reduces duties on automobile parts for manufacturers that assemble vehicles in the United States, with offsets equal to 3.75% of aggregate MSRP value for year one (April 3, 2025–April 30, 2026) and 2.5% for year two (May 1, 2026–April 30, 2027). The Secretary of Commerce must establish an application process within 30 days, and CBP will administer the offsets.

EO 142892025-04-29Trump

Addressing Certain Tariffs on Imported Articles

This executive order prevents tariffs on automobiles, border-related goods, steel, and aluminum from stacking cumulatively on the same imported articles. When multiple listed tariffs apply to the same product, only the highest single applicable tariff rate applies rather than adding them together, with retroactive effect to March 4, 2025.

EO 142862025-04-28Trump

Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America's Truck Drivers

This executive order directs the Department of Transportation to enforce existing English-language proficiency requirements for commercial truck drivers, rescind Obama-era guidance that limited enforcement, revise out-of-service criteria to make English violations immediately disqualifying, review non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses for fraud patterns, and identify additional actions to improve truck driver working conditions.

EO 142872025-04-28Trump

Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens

This executive order directs federal agencies to identify and penalize state and local "sanctuary jurisdictions" that obstruct federal immigration enforcement by suspending or terminating federal funding, pursuing legal remedies, restricting federal benefits access, and challenging state/local laws that favor aliens over American citizens.

EO 142882025-04-28Trump

Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement To Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens

This executive order directs the Attorney General and other officials to expand legal protections and resources for state and local law enforcement, including creating an indemnification mechanism for officers, reviewing federal consent decrees within 60 days, increasing military asset transfers to local police within 90 days, and prioritizing prosecution of state/local officials who obstruct criminal law enforcement or implement DEI initiatives that restrict policing. It also mandates using Homeland Security Task Forces established under EO 14159 to advance these objectives.

EO 142842025-04-24Trump

Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service

This executive order overhauls federal employee probationary and trial periods by requiring agencies to affirmatively certify that new hires advance the public interest before their appointments become permanent. It replaces existing civil service regulations with a new Civil Service Rule XI that makes employment automatic termination the default if agencies fail to act, and mandates specific review timelines for current probationary employees.

EO 142852025-04-24Trump

Unleashing America's Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources

This executive order directs multiple federal agencies to accelerate U.S. development of seabed critical minerals through streamlined permitting, mapping, international partnerships, and supply chain investment. It aims to reduce dependence on foreign adversaries—specifically China—for minerals essential to defense, energy, and manufacturing.

EO 142772025-04-23Trump

Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth

This executive order establishes a White House Task Force on AI Education and directs multiple federal agencies to expand AI literacy and training across K-12 education, teacher professional development, and workforce apprenticeship programs. It creates a Presidential AI Challenge competition, mandates public-private partnerships for educational resources, and requires agency heads to prioritize AI in existing grant programs within 90-180 days.

EO 142782025-04-23Trump

Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future

This executive order directs a review and streamlining of federal workforce development programs to align with U.S. reindustrialization goals, with a focus on expanding Registered Apprenticeships to over 1 million active apprentices. It mandates reports within 90 and 120 days identifying program consolidations, alternative credentials to four-year degrees, and strategies to upskill workers including in AI-related roles.

EO 142792025-04-23Trump

Reforming Accreditation To Strengthen Higher Education

This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to reform the higher education accreditation system by holding accreditors accountable for imposing DEI requirements that the administration deems unlawfully discriminatory, particularly targeting law and medical school accreditors. It mandates new accreditation principles focused on student outcomes, intellectual diversity, and reduced barriers to educational innovation, while threatening denial or termination of federal recognition for noncompliant accreditors.

EO 142802025-04-23Trump

Reinstating Commonsense School Discipline Policies

This executive order directs the Department of Education and other agencies to replace what it terms "discriminatory equity ideology" in school discipline with behavior-based policies. It requires new guidance to schools, coordination with states, revised discipline codes for military families' schools, and a report on Title VI discipline investigations and federal grant funding.

EO 142812025-04-23Trump

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.

EO 142822025-04-23Trump

Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities

This executive order directs the Secretary of Education to robustly enforce Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires universities to report foreign funding. It mandates reversing prior administration policies that weakened enforcement, requiring more specific disclosure of funding sources and purposes, increasing public access to information, and making compliance a condition for receiving federal grants. The order also directs coordination with the Attorney General to hold non-compliant institutions accountable.

EO 142832025-04-23Trump

White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

This executive order re-establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Executive Office of the President, creates a new President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs in the Department of Education, and revokes the Biden administration's EO 14041 on HBCUs. It directs federal agencies to assist the Initiative and tasks it with increasing private-sector engagement, improving HBCU infrastructure and research competitiveness, and implementing the HBCU PARTNERS Act.

Proc 109182025-04-17Trump

Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific

This proclamation lifts the commercial fishing ban in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) for U.S.-flagged vessels between 50-200 nautical miles from landward boundaries where the monument overlaps with the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. It modifies Proclamation 9173's management provisions, directs the Secretary of Commerce to expeditiously publish new rules amending or repealing restrictive regulations, and maintains existing environmental and wildlife protections under laws like the Magnuson-Stevens Act and Endangered Species Act.

EO 142762025-04-17Trump

Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness

This executive order directs federal agencies to reduce regulatory burdens on U.S. commercial fishing, aquaculture, and fish processing industries; combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; and develop trade strategies to address unfair foreign competition. It mandates reviews of marine national monuments for potential commercial fishing access, updates to seafood import monitoring, and development of an "America First Seafood Strategy" to boost domestic production and exports.

Notice2025-04-15Trump

Continuation of the National Emergency and of the Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Russian-Affiliated Vessels to United States Ports

This notice extends for one year a national emergency declared in April 2022 that authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to regulate Russian-affiliated vessels' access to and movement within U.S. ports, citing ongoing threats to international relations from Russian government actions. The continuation is required under the National Emergencies Act and maintains existing maritime restrictions without expanding them.

Memo2025-04-15Trump

Preventing Illegal Aliens From Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits

This presidential memorandum directs multiple Cabinet secretaries and agency heads to tighten eligibility verification and fraud enforcement for Social Security Act programs, aiming to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving benefits. It mandates expanding fraud prosecutor programs to 50 U.S. Attorney Offices by October 2025, implementing a 2023 SSA Inspector General audit recommendation on death records, and reviewing resumption of civil monetary penalties within 60 days.

EO 142712025-04-15Trump

Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts

This executive order directs federal agencies to prioritize commercially available products and services in procurement rather than custom-developed or government-unique solutions. It establishes a review process for pending non-commercial solicitations and requires ongoing approval authority oversight for future non-commercial procurements, with reporting to OMB.

EO 142722025-04-15Trump

Ensuring National Security and Economic Resilience Through Section 232 Actions on Processed Critical Minerals and Derivative Products

This executive order directs the Secretary of Commerce to launch a Section 232 national security investigation into imports of processed critical minerals (including rare earth elements) and their derivative products, such as semiconductors, batteries, electric vehicles, and defense components. The investigation must produce a draft interim report within 90 days and a final report with recommendations within 180 days, potentially leading to tariffs, import restrictions, or other measures to reduce U.S. supply chain dependence on foreign sources—particularly those engaging in market manipulation.

EO 142732025-04-15Trump

Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First

This executive order directs multiple federal agencies to take steps to lower prescription drug prices, primarily by modifying the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act, promoting generic and biosimilar competition, expanding drug importation, increasing transparency in pharmacy benefit manager compensation, and conditioning health center grants on providing discounted insulin and epinephrine to low-income patients.

EO 142742025-04-15Trump

Restoring Common Sense to Federal Office Space Management

This order revokes two prior executive orders (Carter's EO 12072 and Clinton's EO 13006) that required federal agencies to prioritize central business districts and historic properties when locating offices. It directs GSA to amend related regulations, aiming to allow agencies to choose more cost-effective facilities and better serve dispersed populations.

EO 142752025-04-15Trump

Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement

This executive order directs a comprehensive reform of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which governs how the federal government buys goods and services. It mandates stripping the FAR down to provisions required by statute or essential to procurement, with a 180-day deadline for initial amendments and introduces a 4-year regulatory sunset for non-statutory provisions. The order also requires agencies to designate officials for alignment within 15 days and OMB to issue implementation guidance within 20 days.

Notice2025-04-10Trump

Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation

This notice continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 regarding harmful Russian government activities, including election interference, cyberattacks, transnational corruption, and violations of international law. The continuation extends sanctions and related authorities beyond their April 15, 2025 expiration date under the National Emergencies Act.

EO 142632025-04-09Trump

Addressing Risks From Susman Godfrey

This executive order targets the law firm Susman Godfrey LLP by suspending security clearances for its personnel, restricting federal contracts with the firm and its business partners, limiting federal building access and official engagement with its employees, and barring their federal hiring without waivers. The order frames these measures as responses to alleged election-related litigation, DEI practices, and activities deemed contrary to national interests.

EO 142642025-04-09Trump

Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads

This executive order directs the Secretary of Energy to rescind a 2021 regulation defining "showerhead" under the Energy Conservation Program, eliminating a 13,000-word rule the order characterizes as overregulation. The rescission takes effect 30 days after Federal Register publication and explicitly waives notice-and-comment requirements.

EO 142652025-04-09Trump

Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base

This executive order mandates sweeping reforms to Pentagon procurement and the defense acquisition workforce to speed weapons development and cut bureaucratic redundancy. It requires plans within 60-180 days to streamline contracting, review major programs for potential cancellation if over cost or behind schedule, and retrain acquisition personnel. The order also imposes a ten-for-one deregulation rule on new defense acquisition regulations and targets the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System for overhaul.

EO 142662025-04-09Trump

Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates To Reflect Trading Partner Retaliation and Alignment

This executive order raises tariffs on Chinese imports to 125% in response to China's announced 84% retaliatory tariff, while simultaneously suspending country-specific reciprocal tariffs for over 75 other trading partners and replacing them with a flat 10% additional duty for 90 days. It also increases de minimis duties on low-value postal shipments from China to prevent tariff circumvention.

EO 142672025-04-09Trump

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.

EO 142682025-04-09Trump

Reforming Foreign Defense Sales To Improve Speed and Accountability

This executive order reforms the U.S. foreign defense sales system to accelerate arms transfers to allies and partners while improving accountability. It directs the Secretaries of State and Defense to develop priority partner and end-item lists, streamline congressional notifications, review export control restrictions, and create a unified tracking system for defense sales.

EO 142692025-04-09Trump

Restoring America's Maritime Dominance

This executive order directs a comprehensive, interagency effort to rebuild U.S. commercial and defense shipbuilding capacity, expand the maritime workforce, and counter China's dominance in global shipbuilding. It mandates numerous reports and legislative proposals within 30-210 days, including a Maritime Action Plan, tariffs on Chinese-origin ship-to-shore cranes and cargo handling equipment, enforcement of harbor maintenance fees, financial incentives for domestic shipbuilding, maritime prosperity zones, and modernization of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

EO 142702025-04-09Trump

Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy

This executive order directs EPA, DOE, FERC, NRC, and several Interior Department subcomponents to implement a sunset system where existing energy-related regulations automatically expire unless agencies actively extend them after cost-benefit review. All covered regulations must receive a Conditional Sunset Date by September 30, 2025, with existing regulations expiring one year after the sunset rule's effective date unless extended. New regulations must include sunset dates no more than 5 years out.

Notice2025-04-08Trump

Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Somalia

This notice continues for one year the national emergency regarding Somalia that was first declared in 2010 under Executive Order 13536 and expanded in 2012 under Executive Order 13620. The continuation maintains sanctions and related measures targeting threats including piracy off Somalia's coast, al-Shabaab financing through charcoal exports, misappropriation of Somali public assets, and violence against civilians.

Proc 109142025-04-08Trump

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Energy

This proclamation grants a two-year exemption (July 8, 2027 to July 8, 2029) from tightened EPA mercury and air toxics standards for certain coal-fired power plants, determining that required emissions-control technology is not commercially viable and that compliance would threaten national security through grid reliability risks and coal sector job losses.

EO 142592025-04-08Trump

Amendment to Reciprocal Tariffs and Updated Duties as Applied to Low-Value Imports From the People's Republic of China

This executive order escalates U.S. tariffs on China in response to Beijing's April 4, 2025 announcement of 34% retaliatory tariffs on all U.S. goods. It raises the reciprocal tariff rate on Chinese imports from 34% to 84% effective April 9, 2025, and dramatically increases de minimis duties on low-value postal shipments from China—from 30% to 90% ad valorem, with per-item fees rising from $25 to $75 (May 2-June 1) and $50 to $150 (from June 1 onward).

EO 142602025-04-08Trump

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach

This executive order directs the Attorney General to identify and challenge state and local laws, regulations, and civil actions that burden domestic energy development—particularly those addressing climate change, ESG initiatives, carbon emissions, or environmental justice. It specifically targets laws in New York, Vermont, and California as examples of unconstitutional state overreach, and requires a report within 60 days on actions taken to stop enforcement of such laws.

EO 142612025-04-08Trump

Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241

This executive order designates coal as a 'mineral' under EO 14241, directs federal agencies to identify and eliminate regulations that discourage coal production and use, prioritizes coal leasing on federal lands, promotes coal exports, accelerates coal technology development including for AI data centers and steel production, and requires multiple agency reports on coal resources and infrastructure within 30-90 days.

EO 142622025-04-08Trump

Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid

This executive order directs the Secretary of Energy to strengthen electric grid reliability by streamlining emergency authority under section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, developing a uniform reserve margin methodology within 30 days, and establishing protocols to prevent critical generation resources from leaving the grid or converting to less reliable fuel sources. It responds to surging electricity demand from AI data centers and manufacturing growth, building on the national energy emergency declared in EO 14156.

EO 142582025-04-04Trump

Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay

This executive order extends the Department of Justice enforcement delay of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (targeting TikTok) until June 19, 2025. It directs the Attorney General to issue guidance and letters to providers shielding them from liability for conduct during the delay period, and asserts federal exclusivity over enforcement against state or private action.

EO 142562025-04-02Trump

Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China as Applied to Low-Value Imports

This executive order ends duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value imports from China and Hong Kong starting May 2, 2025, imposing either a 30% ad valorem duty or per-item fees ($25 rising to $50) on postal shipments. It requires carriers to collect and remit duties, maintain bonds, and report shipment data to CBP.

EO 142572025-04-02Trump

Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits

This executive order declares a national emergency based on large and persistent U.S. goods trade deficits and imposes a baseline 10 percent additional ad valorem tariff on all imports from all trading partners, effective April 5, 2025. Higher country-specific reciprocal tariff rates take effect April 9, 2025 for trading partners listed in Annex I, with exemptions for certain goods including steel, aluminum, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, critical minerals, and energy products.

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