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Adjusting Imports of Polysilicon and Its Derivatives Into the United States
This proclamation imposes minimum import prices (MIPs) and a 15% ad valorem tariff on polysilicon and downstream derivatives (ingots, wafers, solar cells, modules) effective December 4, 2026, to protect U.S. production capacity for semiconductor and solar supply chains. It also establishes an onshoring incentive program with construction deadlines by January 20, 2029, and includes differentiated tariff treatment for certain trading partners including the UK (10% rate) and EU/Japan/Korea/Taiwan/Switzerland/Liechtenstein (capped at 15% combined with Column 1 duties).
Continuing To Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
This executive order narrows birthright citizenship by directing federal agencies to deny citizenship recognition to certain categories of children born in the U.S. when neither parent is a citizen, including children of designated terrorists, foreign government employees, those born via birth tourism or surrogacy arrangements, and those born in territories without statutory citizenship provisions. It cites a June 2026 Supreme Court decision (Trump v. Barbara) as legal foundation and requires agency heads to issue public implementation guidance within 30 days.
Establishing the President's Military Spouse Commission
This executive order establishes a 2-year advisory commission of senior military leaders' spouses to advise the President on policies affecting military spouses and families, focused on housing, employment, healthcare, education, and deployment support. The Department of War provides administrative support and funding, with annual reports required.
To Facilitate Positive Adjustment to Competition From Imports of Quartz Surface Products
This proclamation imposes a four-year safeguard tariff-rate quota on imports of quartz surface products (QSP) under Section 202 of the Trade Act of 1974, effective August 15, 2026. The measure excludes imports from numerous free trade agreement partners including Canada, Mexico, Australia, Korea, and others, while applying to imports from China and other non-exempt countries, with provisions for monitoring import surges and circumvention.
Imposing Additional Duties To Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States With Respect to Motor Vehicles
This proclamation imposes an additional 50 percent ad valorem duty on certain Canadian products, effective August 19, 2026, to offset Canada's discriminatory tariff scheme against U.S. motor vehicles. The action uses Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to retaliate against Canadian tariffs and tariff-rate quotas that apply only to U.S. auto exports, which have allegedly caused a 22 percent drop in U.S. vehicle exports to Canada.
Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks
This executive order mandates a government-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against future quantum computing threats. It sets specific deadlines for federal agencies to migrate high-value assets and high-impact systems to PQC standards, requires new procurement rules for contractors, and establishes coordination roles across OMB, NIST, CISA, and NSA.
Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service
This executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service by transferring specified senior policy-influencing positions from the competitive service, exempting them from standard adverse-action procedures while retaining merit-based hiring. It amends Civil Service Rules and prior executive orders to effectuate these transfers, directs agencies to notify affected employees within 7 days, and establishes performance award mechanisms for Schedule Policy/Career employees.
Further Adjusting the Tariff Regimes for Imports of Aluminum, Steel, and Copper Into the United States
This proclamation modifies existing Section 232 tariffs on aluminum, steel, and copper by expanding the 15% reduced tariff rate to agricultural equipment and certain residential HVAC systems, temporarily modifying tariffs on mobile industrial equipment and machinery, adding aluminum lithographic plates and steel racks to tariff coverage, and lowering the domestic content threshold for preferential treatment from 95% to 85%. The changes take effect June 8, 2026, with a temporary rate structure lasting through December 31, 2027, before reverting to Proclamation 11021 rates on January 1, 2028.
To Implement Certain Provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and for Other Purposes
This proclamation implements trade-preference extensions and modifications passed in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026. It extends AGOA duty-free treatment and related apparel programs through December 31, 2026; reinstates Gabon as an AGOA beneficiary country effective January 1, 2026; extends Haiti preferential tariff treatment under CBERA through December 31, 2026; and makes technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy
This executive order expands sanctions against Cuba by blocking property of foreign persons operating in key Cuban sectors (energy, defense, metals/mining, financial services, security), Cuban government officials, and their adult family members. It also suspends U.S. entry for designated persons and authorizes secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that facilitate transactions for blocked parties, building upon the national emergency declared in EO 14380.
Promoting Efficiency, Accountability, and Performance in Federal Contracting
This executive order makes fixed-price contracts the default for federal procurement, requiring written justification and agency-head approval for cost-reimbursement and other non-fixed-price contracts above specified dollar thresholds. It mandates review and renegotiation of agencies' 10 largest non-fixed-price contracts within 90 days, with semi-annual reporting to OMB and proposed amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation within 120 days.
Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors
This Executive Order mandates that all federal contracts include a clause prohibiting contractors and subcontractors from engaging in racially discriminatory DEI activities, defined as disparate treatment based on race or ethnicity in employment, contracting, or resource allocation. It requires agencies to insert this clause within 30 days, empowers contract termination and debarment for noncompliance, invokes False Claims Act liability, and directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend regulations within 60 days.
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.
Imposing a Temporary Import Surcharge To Address Fundamental International Payments Problems
President Trump imposes a temporary 10 percent ad valorem import surcharge on nearly all goods entering the United States for 150 days, effective February 24, 2026, citing fundamental international payments problems including large balance-of-payments deficits. The proclamation includes extensive exceptions for critical minerals, energy products, pharmaceuticals, vehicles, electronics, agricultural products, and goods from Canada, Mexico, and CAFTA-DR countries, while empowering USTR to monitor conditions and recommend modifications.
Ending Certain Tariff Actions
This executive order terminates the additional ad valorem duties imposed under IEEPA across nine prior executive orders targeting Canada, Mexico, China, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Cuba, and Iran. The national emergencies underlying those orders remain in effect, and other duties (Section 232, Section 301) are unaffected. Agency heads must stop collecting these duties as soon as practicable.
Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Iran
This executive order imposes a new secondary tariff mechanism allowing the U.S. to levy additional ad valorem duties (potentially 25%) on imports from any foreign country that directly or indirectly purchases goods or services from Iran. The order creates a multi-step process where the Secretary of Commerce identifies countries trading with Iran, then the Secretary of State recommends tariff rates, with final presidential determination.
Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba
This executive order declares a national emergency regarding Cuba's alignment with U.S. adversaries and establishes a tariff mechanism allowing additional ad valorem duties on imports from any foreign country that directly or indirectly sells or provides oil to Cuba. The order tasks the Secretaries of Commerce and State with determining which countries trigger the tariff and recommending duty rates to the President.
Addressing State and Local Failures To Rebuild Los Angeles After Wildfire Disasters
This executive order directs federal agencies to consider preempting California and Los Angeles permitting requirements that delay wildfire reconstruction, expedite environmental and historic preservation reviews for rebuilding projects, audit nearly $3 billion in unspent hazard mitigation funds, and propose legislation enabling federal override of state/local recovery obstruction. It blames state and local governments for enabling and mismanaging the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon wildfires and for subsequent bureaucratic delays preventing rebuilding.
Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People
This executive order declares a national emergency under IEEPA to block judicial attachment or other legal process against Venezuelan government oil revenue held in U.S. Treasury accounts. It designates these funds as sovereign property held in U.S. custody for diplomatic and governmental purposes, shielding them from creditor claims while giving the Secretary of State control over their ultimate disposition.
Withdrawing the United States From International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties That Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
This memorandum directs the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organizations—35 non-UN entities and 31 UN organizations—deemed contrary to U.S. interests, based on a review conducted under Executive Order 14199. All executive agencies must take immediate steps to cease participation, membership, and funding to these organizations as soon as possible, with the Secretary of State providing implementation guidance.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025
This executive order closes all federal executive departments and agencies on December 24 and December 26, 2025, excusing employees from duty on those days, while allowing agency heads to keep certain offices open for national security, defense, or other public need. It treats those dates as holidays for pay and leave purposes under existing statutes and delegates implementation to the OPM Director.
Presidential Determination With Respect to the Efforts of Foreign Governments Regarding Trafficking in Persons
This determination, issued under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, imposes foreign assistance restrictions on 17 governments for FY 2026 due to inadequate anti-trafficking efforts. It withholds nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related assistance from countries including Afghanistan, Chad, Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela, with partial national-interest waivers for some countries and adds Sint Maarten to the restricted list.
Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring
This executive order extends federal workforce reduction policies by requiring agency-level approval for nearly all new hires and vacancies, establishing Strategic Hiring Committees, and mandating Annual Staffing Plans aligned with administration priorities. It exempts national security, immigration enforcement, public safety, and political appointees from restrictions, while prohibiting contracting to circumvent hiring limits.
Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
This presidential order designates "Antifa" as a domestic terrorist organization, directing all relevant executive departments and agencies to use their authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle alleged illegal operations by Antifa or persons acting on its behalf, including prosecuting funders. The order characterizes Antifa as a militarist, anarchist enterprise using violence and terrorism to overthrow the U.S. government and suppress lawful political activity.
Use of Appropriated Funds for Illegal Lobbying and Partisan Political Activity by Federal Grantees
This memorandum directs the Attorney General to investigate whether federal grant funds are being illegally used for lobbying and partisan political activities by grantees, citing potential violations of 31 U.S.C. 1352. The Attorney General must report progress to the President within 180 days and coordinate with agency heads on enforcement actions.
Measures To End Cashless Bail and Enforce the Law in the District of Columbia
This executive order directs federal law enforcement to hold D.C. arrestees in federal custody and pursue federal charges to circumvent the District's cashless bail policies, and tasks the Attorney General with reviewing MPD policies and determining whether D.C. maintains cashless bail. If the determination is affirmative, all agency heads must identify actions—including federal funding leverage—to pressure D.C. to change its pretrial release policies.
Taking Steps To End Cashless Bail To Protect Americans
This executive order directs the Attorney General to identify state and local jurisdictions with cashless bail policies for certain crimes, and requires federal agencies to find federal funds flowing to those jurisdictions that may be suspended or terminated. It does not itself cut any funds but sets up a conditional funding review process targeting jurisdictions that have eliminated cash bail for public-safety-threatening offenses.
Improving Our Nation Through Better Design
Executive Order 14338 establishes "America by Design," a national initiative to improve federal digital and physical service design through a new National Design Studio and Chief Design Officer position. Agency heads must consult with the Chief Design Officer to redesign high-impact government websites and physical sites, with initial results due by July 4, 2026, and the temporary supporting organization automatically terminates three years from signing.
Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans
This executive order directs federal banking regulators to remove "reputation risk" concepts from supervisory guidance that could enable politically motivated debanking, requires SBA-guaranteed lenders to identify and reinstate wrongly debanked customers within 120 days, and mandates reviews and potential enforcement against financial institutions found to have engaged in politicized or unlawful debanking based on political or religious beliefs.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
This executive order overhauls federal grantmaking by requiring senior political appointees to review all discretionary grants and funding announcements, bans funding for DEI initiatives, transgender education, illegal immigration support, and 'anti-American values,' mandates termination-for-convenience clauses in all grants, limits indirect costs at universities, and directs OMB to revise the Uniform Guidance to streamline applications and reduce administrative overhead.
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
This executive order directs federal agencies to procure large language models (LLMs) only from vendors that adhere to two "Unbiased AI Principles": truth-seeking and ideological neutrality, specifically prohibiting DEI-related content manipulation. The order requires OMB to issue implementation guidance within 120 days, after which agencies must revise procurement contracts and adopt compliance procedures within 90 days.
Regarding the Proposed Acquisition of United States Steel Corporation by Nippon Steel Corporation
President Trump amends the January 3, 2025 Biden order that prohibited Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel, replacing an outright ban with a conditional prohibition: the deal may proceed only if the parties execute a national security agreement (NSA) materially consistent with a U.S. government draft presented on June 13, 2025. The order also strikes certain provisions of the prior order and authorizes CFIUS to continue monitoring and enforcement.
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.
Establishing Project Homecoming
This proclamation establishes "Project Homecoming," a program offering free government-funded flights and financial "exit bonuses" to undocumented immigrants who voluntarily depart the U.S., while threatening escalated enforcement including wage garnishment and property confiscation for those who remain. It also mandates hiring or deputizing at least 20,000 additional enforcement officers within 60 days to conduct removal operations.
Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations
This executive order directs federal agencies to catalog all criminal regulatory offenses, establish default mental-state (mens rea) requirements for future criminal enforcement, and discourage prosecution of strict liability regulatory crimes where defendants lacked knowledge of the rule. It exempts immigration and national security enforcement from its scope.
Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research
This executive order halts federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern (particularly China) and suspends federally funded domestic gain-of-function research pending new oversight policies. It mandates revised frameworks for dual-use research oversight and nucleic acid synthesis screening, requires reporting mechanisms for transparency, and imposes strict enforcement terms including potential 5-year funding bans for violations.
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media
This executive order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and all federal agencies to cease direct and indirect funding to NPR and PBS, citing concerns about biased and partisan news coverage. The CPB Board must revise grant criteria by June 30, 2025 to prohibit funding flows to NPR and PBS, while agency heads must identify and terminate existing funding streams and review compliance with grant terms and anti-discrimination statutes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Addressing Risks From WilmerHale
This executive order targets the law firm WilmerHale, directing federal agencies to suspend security clearances held by its personnel, cease provision of government facilities and services, require contractor disclosure of business with the firm, review and terminate contracts where legally permissible, limit official access to federal buildings, and restrict hiring of WilmerHale employees without waivers. The order cites the firm's pro bono work, its hiring of former Mueller investigation prosecutors, and alleged racial discrimination as justifications.
Addressing Risks From Jenner & Block
This executive order targets Jenner & Block LLP, a major law firm, by suspending security clearances for its personnel, restricting federal contracts with the firm and its business partners, limiting its employees' access to federal buildings and officials, and barring agency hiring of Jenner employees without waivers. The order cites the firm's alleged partisan "lawfare," pro bono activities, racial discrimination in hiring, and its employment of former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann as justifications.
Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
This executive order centralizes federal payment controls under the Department of the Treasury to combat fraud and improper payments estimated at $233–521 billion annually. It mandates pre-certification verification for all Treasury-disbursed payments, consolidates core financial systems across agencies, and phases out Non-Treasury Disbursing Offices (NTDOs) that currently handle about 22% of federal disbursements. Agencies must comply with new data-sharing requirements, system integrations, and delegated disbursing authority to Treasury within specified timeframes.
Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
This executive order mandates federal agencies eliminate barriers to inter- and intra-agency sharing of unclassified data, with specific emphasis on detecting waste, fraud, and abuse. It requires agency heads to rescind restrictive guidance within 30 days, grants the Secretary of Labor unfettered access to unemployment data, and demands unfettered federal access to state program data receiving federal funding.
Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
This executive order directs a comprehensive review and restructuring of federal preparedness and resilience policies, shifting from an all-hazards to a risk-informed approach while empowering state and local governments. It mandates new strategy documents, policy revisions, and a National Risk Register to quantify threats, explicitly excluding "misinformation" and "cognitive infrastructure" from critical infrastructure policy. Multiple existing executive orders, national security memoranda, and presidential policy directives are slated for review and potential rescission or replacement.
Addressing Risks From Paul Weiss
This executive order targets the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP by suspending security clearances for its personnel, restricting government contracts with the firm and entities doing business with it, limiting federal building access for its employees, and restricting federal hiring of its personnel. The order cites the firm's pro bono litigation related to January 6, 2021, its hiring of Mark Pomerantz, and alleged racial discrimination through DEI practices as justifications.
Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP
Executive Order 14230 targets the law firm Perkins Coie LLP with multiple punitive measures: suspending security clearances, ceasing government provision of goods and services, requiring contractor disclosure of business with the firm, reviewing and terminating contracts, investigating the firm and other large law firms for racial discrimination, and restricting federal employees from hiring or engaging with Perkins Coie personnel. The order frames these actions as responses to the firm's alleged role in producing the 2016 Steele dossier, election-related litigation, and DEI hiring practices.
Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile
This executive order establishes a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a United States Digital Asset Stockpile, capitalized with existing government-held cryptocurrency from forfeiture proceedings. The order directs agencies to inventory and transfer their Bitcoin and other digital assets to Treasury-controlled custodial accounts, prohibits sale of Bitcoin holdings, and tasks Treasury and Commerce with developing budget-neutral strategies to acquire additional Bitcoin.
Designating English as the Official Language of the United States
This executive order designates English as the official language of the United States and revokes Executive Order 13166 (2000), which required federal agencies to provide services to limited-English-proficiency individuals. However, the order explicitly does not require agencies to change their current multilingual services, leaving operational decisions to agency heads.
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative
This executive order directs federal agencies to implement cost-cutting measures through a "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) framework, requiring new technological systems for payment justifications, reviews of contracts and grants with priority on educational institutions and foreign entities, freezes on agency credit cards, and real property disposition planning. Agency heads must complete most reviews within 30 days and face new constraints on contracting, travel, and spending authority.
Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Copper
This executive order launches a Section 232 national security investigation into copper imports, directing the Secretary of Commerce to assess whether imports of copper in all forms—including raw, refined, scrap, and derivative products—threaten U.S. national security. The investigation must examine supply chain vulnerabilities, foreign dominance (particularly by a single producer controlling over 50% of global smelting), and potential remedies including tariffs, quotas, export controls, and domestic production incentives.
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders
This executive order directs federal agencies to identify and eliminate taxpayer-funded benefits going to illegal aliens, consistent with the 1996 PRWORA law. It requires agencies to review programs, enhance eligibility verification, and ensure federal payments to states do not subsidize illegal immigration or sanctuary policies.
Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative
This executive order directs all federal agencies to review existing regulations within 60 days and identify rules that are unconstitutional, exceed statutory authority, impose undue costs, or impede economic and technological progress. It also instructs agencies to de-prioritize enforcement of regulations that go beyond the "best reading" of their underlying statutes and to develop a Unified Regulatory Agenda to rescind or modify targeted rules. The order integrates DOGE Team Leads into the regulatory review process and exempts military, national security, immigration, and federal workforce management actions.
Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
This executive order subjects all independent regulatory agencies to presidential supervision and OIRA review of significant regulations, establishes White House liaisons in those agencies, gives OMB authority to adjust their budget apportionments, and declares that the President and Attorney General's legal interpretations are binding on all executive branch employees.
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
This executive order implements a major federal workforce reduction initiative through the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE). It establishes a 4-to-1 hiring ratio (one hire for every four departures), mandates large-scale reductions in force prioritizing non-statutorily required offices including DEI initiatives, requires DOGE Team Lead approval for career hires, and directs rulemaking to tighten federal employee suitability criteria.
Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws
This executive order ends federal procurement and use of paper straws, eliminates policies disfavoring plastic straws within the executive branch, and requires a national strategy within 45 days to end paper straw use nationwide. It explicitly references the prior revocation of EO 14057, which had promoted federal sustainability measures including discouragement of plastic straws.
Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa
This executive order halts U.S. foreign aid to South Africa and prioritizes refugee resettlement for Afrikaners, citing South Africa's Expropriation Act of 2024 and its foreign policy positions on Israel and Iran. The order directs all agencies to stop aid flows and requires State and DHS to develop a resettlement plan for Afrikaner refugees.
Limiting Lame-Duck Collective Bargaining Agreements That Improperly Attempt To Constrain the New President
This memorandum blocks federal agencies from approving collective bargaining agreements executed in the 30 days before a presidential transition that create new obligations, make substantive changes, or extend existing agreements. It specifically targets a Department of Education CBA from January 17, 2025, and directs agency heads to disapprove any such pending agreements, with an exemption for law enforcement officer CBAs.
Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation
This executive order establishes a 'ten-for-one' regulatory cap for fiscal year 2025, requiring agencies to identify at least 10 existing regulations for elimination for every new regulation proposed. It mandates that total incremental regulatory costs be 'significantly less than zero' through FY2025, with OMB setting annual cost allowances thereafter. The order revokes the 2023 OMB Circular A-4 and reinstates the 2003 version, and reinstates a 2018 Treasury-OMB agreement on tax regulation review.
Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism
This executive order reaffirms EO 13899 on combating anti-Semitism and directs federal agencies to report within 60 days on additional legal authorities to address post-October 7, 2023 campus anti-Semitism. It specifically requires agencies to inventory civil rights complaints and cases against higher education institutions, encourages use of civil-rights enforcement tools including 18 U.S.C. 241, and directs State, Education, and Homeland Security to recommend ways to monitor and report foreign students and staff for potential immigration inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3).
Council To Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency
This executive order establishes a 20-member council co-chaired by the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense to review FEMA's disaster response performance, staffing, political impartiality, and structural role in federal-state disaster relief. The council must hold its first public meeting within 90 days and submit recommendations to the President within 180 days after that meeting, with the council terminating after one year unless extended.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
This executive order establishes a new President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) with up to 24 members, co-chaired by the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and the Special Advisor for AI & Crypto. It revokes the Biden administration's prior PCAST order (EO 14007) and tasks the council with advising the President on science, technology, and innovation policy, including AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology, while explicitly framing the mission around achieving "unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance" and countering perceived ideological influences in science.
Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
This executive order revokes Biden-era AI safety policies, particularly EO 14110, and directs development of a new AI action plan within 180 days. It mandates review and suspension of agency actions deemed inconsistent with promoting American AI dominance, and requires OMB to revise two memoranda within 60 days.
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
This executive order revokes multiple prior executive actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in federal employment and contracting, terminates affirmative action requirements for federal contractors, mandates removal of DEI principles from federal procurement and grant processes, and directs agencies to develop enforcement plans targeting private-sector DEI programs that the administration deems illegal discrimination.
Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis
This January 20, 2025 memorandum directs all executive department and agency heads to deliver emergency price relief to American families by lowering housing costs, reducing healthcare administrative expenses, eliminating appliance regulations, creating jobs, and rolling back climate policies affecting food and fuel prices. The Assistant to the President for Economic Policy must report on implementation status every 30 days starting 30 days from signing.
Hiring Freeze
This memorandum imposes an immediate freeze on hiring federal civilian employees across the executive branch, with exemptions for military personnel, immigration enforcement, national security, public safety, and certain political appointees. Within 90 days, OMB must submit a plan to reduce the federal workforce through efficiency and attrition; the freeze expires for most agencies upon that plan's issuance but remains for the IRS until the Treasury Secretary determines it should lift.
Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
This memorandum freezes new federal rulemaking and withdraws pending rules until political appointees appointed after January 20, 2025 review and approve them. It also postpones effective dates of recently published rules for 60 days to allow review, with OMB oversight and emergency exceptions.
Return to In-Person Work
This memorandum directs all executive branch department and agency heads to terminate remote work arrangements and require full-time in-person work at employees' duty stations, while allowing agency heads discretion to make exemptions they deem necessary. Implementation must be consistent with applicable law.
Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf From Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects
This memorandum withdraws all Outer Continental Shelf areas from offshore wind energy leasing indefinitely starting January 21, 2025, while explicitly preserving oil, gas, and mineral leasing rights. It also halts all new or renewed federal approvals, permits, and leases for both onshore and offshore wind projects pending a comprehensive interagency review of environmental and economic impacts, places a specific moratorium on the Lava Ridge Wind Project, and mandates assessment of decommissioning costs for idle wind turbines.
Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives
This memorandum directs federal agencies to strengthen presidential accountability over career Senior Executive Service (SES) officials by requiring new performance plans, reinvigorating performance evaluation systems, reassigning SES members to align with the President's agenda, and empowering agency heads to remove underperforming SES officials. It restructures Executive Resources Boards and Performance Review Boards to give noncareer political appointees majority control.
Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government
This executive order directs the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence to review federal law enforcement and intelligence activities over the past four years for alleged political weaponization, with reports to the President on remedial actions. It frames the review as correcting misconduct by the prior administration against perceived political opponents.
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
This executive order revokes 78 executive orders and memoranda from the prior administration spanning DEI initiatives, climate policy, immigration, healthcare, COVID-19 response, and other areas. It mandates immediate termination of federal DEI implementation, requires two 45-day reviews for additional rescissions, and directs a National Security Advisor review of all National Security Memoranda from 2021-2025.
Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
This executive order prohibits federal agencies from using resources to censor constitutionally protected speech or pressure third parties to suppress speech. It directs the Attorney General to investigate federal government censorship activities over the prior four years and submit a report with remedial recommendations.
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
This executive order terminates all federal DEI and DEIA programs, offices, and mandates across government agencies, revoking Biden-era equity initiatives. Agency heads must dismantle these programs within 60 days and report on their prior scope, while federal employment practices are barred from considering DEI factors in performance reviews.
Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential
This executive order directs federal agencies to aggressively reverse Biden-era restrictions on Alaska resource development, including oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve, and Tongass National Forest protections. It mandates expedited permitting for LNG infrastructure, reinstates Trump-era environmental reviews and land management plans, and prioritizes Alaska's energy exports to domestic and Pacific allied markets.
Unleashing American Energy
This executive order revokes numerous Biden-era climate and environmental executive orders, pauses Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure spending, directs agencies to rescind regulations burdening domestic energy and mineral development, eliminates the social cost of carbon, expedites LNG export approvals and federal permitting, terminates the American Climate Corps, and mandates review of state EV emissions waivers and appliance efficiency standards.
Establishing and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency"
This Executive Order renames the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS), places it in the Executive Office of the President, and creates a temporary organization to advance an 18-month efficiency agenda. It mandates that every federal agency establish a four-person "DOGE Team" within 30 days and grants USDS broad access to agency records and IT systems, displacing prior orders that might block such access.
Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
This executive order directs federal agencies to deny recognition of birthright U.S. citizenship to certain children born on U.S. soil: those whose mothers were unlawfully present or temporarily visiting (e.g., on visas) and whose fathers were not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents at birth. The policy takes effect for births occurring more than 30 days after January 20, 2025.
Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service
This executive order directs a comprehensive reform of federal hiring practices to prioritize merit, efficiency, and ideological alignment with administration goals. It mandates development of a Federal Hiring Plan within 120 days that emphasizes skills-based assessments, reduces time-to-hire, and explicitly prohibits consideration of DEI-related factors while requiring loyalty to the Constitution and Executive Branch.
Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness
This executive order reinstates the name "Mount McKinley" for North America's highest peak (reversing its 2015 renaming to "Denali") and renames the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America." It also directs agency heads to review and potentially replace their appointees to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names within seven days, and instructs the Board to advance a policy of honoring "visionary and patriotic Americans" in federal naming decisions.