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Executive orders directing the Attorney General · 121 in Trump 47 · 500 all terms.
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Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans
This executive order establishes a new federal "Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations" framework that reduces the recommended childhood vaccine schedule to align with peer developed nations, prioritizes single-dose vaccines over combination products (starting with separating MMR), mandates HHS to develop aluminum-alternative adjuvants and enhance safety monitoring, and directs federal agencies to legally challenge state vaccine mandates while maximizing parental choice and religious/medical exemptions.
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.
Securing America's Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials
This executive order tightens restrictions on defense supply chain waivers under 10 U.S.C. 4872, requiring domestic or allied sourcing of critical materials for military equipment. It mandates comprehensive supply chain mapping, accelerates domestic source qualification, and establishes mitigation plan requirements for any remaining waivers, with most provisions taking effect January 1, 2027 or within 90-180 days of signing.
Granting Pardon to Stephen E. Buyer
President Trump granted a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to Stephen E. Buyer, a former Army Judge Advocate General and U.S. Representative from Indiana, based on endorsements from 54 current and former members of Congress. The Attorney General is directed to administer and immediately issue a certificate of pardon.
Strengthening Customs Enforcement
This executive order mandates comprehensive customs enforcement reforms targeting foreign importers of record (IORs), including stricter bonding requirements, prohibition of foreign IORs from filing informal entries, enhanced vetting, supply chain disclosure mandates, and tougher penalties for noncompliance. The order directs DHS to implement these changes through regulatory revisions within 90-180 days and seeks legislative recommendations within 45 days.
Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security
This executive order directs federal agencies to strengthen cybersecurity defenses using advanced AI tools, establishes a voluntary framework for frontier AI model developers to collaborate with government on security assessments, creates an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse for vulnerability coordination, and prioritizes criminal enforcement against AI-enabled cyberattacks. It emphasizes collaboration with industry rather than mandatory regulation.
Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate research, regulatory review, and patient access to psychedelic drugs (including ibogaine compounds) for treating serious mental illness and reducing suicide rates. It creates FDA priority vouchers for breakthrough-designated psychedelics, establishes Right to Try access pathways, funds state-federal collaboration through ARPA-H, mandates interagency data sharing with VA, and requires timely DEA rescheduling of approved psychedelic products.
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.
Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections
This executive order directs DHS to compile and share citizenship lists with states for federal election verification, requires USPS rulemaking to create tracked mail-in ballots with unique barcodes, and prioritizes prosecution of officials or entities that provide ballots to non-citizens. It mandates new federal infrastructure for voter eligibility verification and imposes compliance mechanisms including potential federal funding withholding.
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.
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.
Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens
This executive order directs multiple Cabinet departments to combat transnational cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes targeting Americans—including scam centers, ransomware, sextortion, and financial fraud often backed by foreign regimes. It mandates reviews and action plans to create a new operational cell for interagency coordination, establishes a Victims Restoration Program, and authorizes diplomatic consequences including sanctions, visa restrictions, and trade penalties against nations that tolerate such criminal activity.
Protecting the National Security and Welfare of the United States and Its Citizens From Criminal Actors and Other Public Safety Threats
This executive order directs the Attorney General to provide DHS with access to federal criminal history record information (CHRI) for immigration screening and vetting purposes, and authorizes DHS to exchange felony conviction records reciprocally with Visa Waiver Program countries and other trusted allies for border security and immigration screening.
Addressing Addiction Through the Great American Recovery Initiative
This executive order establishes the White House Great American Recovery Initiative, co-chaired by the Secretary of HHS and a Senior Advisor for Addiction Recovery, to coordinate federal response to substance use disorder. The Initiative brings together 15+ officials across cabinet departments and agencies to recommend steps for aligning federal programs, increasing treatment access, and integrating addiction services across health, criminal justice, workforce, education, and housing systems.
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.
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.
Regarding the Acquisition of Certain Assets of EMCORE Corporation by HieFo Corporation
This presidential order, issued under section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, prohibits and unwinds the April 30, 2024 acquisition of EMCORE Corporation's digital chip and wafer design, fabrication, and processing assets by HieFo Corporation, a Delaware-registered company controlled by a Chinese citizen. HieFo must divest all interests in these assets within 180 days, with immediate restrictions on access, transfers, and operations until CFIUS verifies completion.
Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research
This executive order directs the Attorney General to expedite rescheduling marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act to facilitate medical research. It also directs multiple health agencies to develop research methods using real-world evidence for medical marijuana and hemp-derived CBD products, and tasks White House legislative staff with working Congress to update statutory definitions for hemp-derived cannabinoids.
Restricting and Limiting the Entry of Foreign Nationals To Protect the Security of the United States
Proclamation 10998 expands and modifies travel restrictions on foreign nationals from countries deemed to have deficient screening and vetting capabilities. It continues full or partial entry suspensions for 19 countries from prior proclamations, adds 8 new countries to full suspension (including Syria and PA-document holders), imposes partial suspensions on 15 additional countries, and narrows family-based visa exceptions while adding new exceptions for athletes and DOJ witnesses. The proclamation takes effect January 1, 2026, with 180-day review cycles.
Designating Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
This executive order designates illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), directing the Attorney General, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Homeland Security to take enforcement, financial sanctions, military-chemical response, and intelligence actions against fentanyl trafficking networks. The order reframes fentanyl from a drug enforcement issue to a national security and counterterrorism priority with potential military and WMD-intelligence tools.
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.
Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists
This executive order initiates a process to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under immigration law and as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under economic sanctions law. It directs the Secretaries of State and Treasury to submit a joint report within 30 days and then take designation action within 45 days after that report.
Granting Pardons for Certain Offenses Related to the 2020 Presidential Election
This proclamation grants a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to 78 named individuals for conduct related to alternate elector schemes and efforts to challenge the 2020 Presidential Election results, excluding President Trump himself. The Attorney General is directed to administer certificates of pardon through the Pardon Attorney.
Modifying Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China
This executive order reduces the additional ad valorem duty on Chinese imports from 20% to 10%, effective November 10, 2025, following commitments by China to take measures against synthetic opioid trafficking. The order modifies the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and establishes ongoing monitoring of China's compliance.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order continues 22 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2027, and assigns FACA compliance responsibilities to designated agency heads. It supersedes the prior continuance order (EO 14109) from 2023.
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
This National Security Presidential Memorandum directs federal law enforcement to investigate, prosecute, and disrupt domestic terrorist networks and organized political violence, with particular focus on "anti-fascist" movements. It mandates the National Joint Terrorism Task Force to coordinate a comprehensive strategy targeting funding sources, radicalization networks, and organizations behind politically motivated violence including doxing, swatting, rioting, and assaults on federal officers. The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security must designate domestic terrorism as a national priority area for grant funding, while the Treasury Secretary and IRS Commissioner are directed to trace and cut off financial flows to these activities.
Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security
This executive order determines that a proposed divestiture of TikTok's U.S. operations qualifies under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, creating a new U.S.-based joint venture with less than 20% foreign ownership. The order delays enforcement of the Act for 120 days to allow completion of the transaction, directs the Attorney General to issue protective guidance to providers, amends a 2020 divestment order related to ByteDance's acquisition of Musical.ly, and designates the Attorney General as the government's representative under the Framework Agreement.
Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers
This Proclamation imposes a $100,000 payment requirement on employers seeking H-1B visas for foreign specialty occupation workers, effectively restricting entry of most H-1B workers unless employers pay this substantial fee. The restriction takes effect September 21, 2025, expires after 12 months unless extended, and directs multiple agencies to implement compliance measures and consider rulemakings to revise prevailing wage levels and prioritize high-skilled, high-paid workers.
Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
This executive order further extends until December 16, 2025 the Department of Justice's delay in enforcing the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act against TikTok and related entities. The order directs the Attorney General to issue guidance and letters to providers confirming no liability for conduct during the covered period, and asserts federal exclusivity over enforcement to preempt state or private action.
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.
Additional Measures To Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia
This executive order expands federal intervention in Washington D.C. following a declared crime emergency two weeks prior. It directs multiple agencies to create specialized law enforcement units, hire additional personnel, establish a recruitment portal, ready National Guard forces for civil disturbance response, investigate HUD housing safety compliance, and review D.C. police procedures.
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.
Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag
This executive order directs the Attorney General to prioritize prosecution of American flag desecration under existing content-neutral laws (violent crimes, hate crimes, property crimes, disorderly conduct) and directs the Secretaries of State, Homeland Security, and the Attorney General to deny or revoke visas, immigration benefits, and pursue removal of foreign nationals who engage in flag desecration under circumstances permitted by federal immigration law. The order explicitly acknowledges First Amendment limits from Texas v. Johnson but seeks to maximize enforcement within those boundaries and pursue litigation to clarify First Amendment exceptions.
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.
Revocation of Executive Order on Competition
This executive order revokes Executive Order 14036, the Biden administration's 2021 order on promoting competition in the American economy. The revocation eliminates the prior order's directives to federal agencies on antitrust enforcement, labor market competition, and consumer protection measures, without replacing them with new policy instructions.
Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia
This executive order declares a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. and federalizes the Metropolitan Police Department by directing its services for federal purposes. The Attorney General is delegated authority to direct the Mayor of D.C. on police deployment for maintaining law and order, protecting federal property, and ensuring government operations.
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.
Establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics
This executive order creates a White House Task Force, chaired by the President and vice-chaired by the Vice President, to coordinate federal planning for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The task force brings together cabinet secretaries and senior White House officials to oversee security, transportation, visa processing, and emergency response, with administrative support from DHS and a reporting deadline of October 1, 2025 for agency plans.
Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border
This executive order increases the additional ad valorem tariff rate on certain Canadian goods from 25% to 35%, effective August 1, 2025, citing Canadian retaliation and inadequate cooperation on fentanyl interdiction. It also establishes a 40% penalty rate for transshipped goods evading duties and mandates semi-annual publication of circumvention facility lists.
Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries
This executive order globally suspends the $800 duty-free de minimis exemption for all countries, effective August 29, 2025. All non-postal shipments must now enter through formal customs channels with applicable duties; international postal shipments face new per-package flat duties ($80-$200) or ad valorem IEEPA tariff rates, with the flat-rate option expiring after 6 months.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
This executive order redirects federal homelessness policy toward civil commitment, institutional treatment, and enforcement-based approaches. It directs multiple agencies to prioritize grants to jurisdictions that ban urban camping and drug use, reverses "housing first" and harm reduction policies, and seeks to roll back judicial precedents and consent decrees that limit civil commitment of mentally ill homeless individuals.
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.
Revoking PPD-6 on U.S. Global Development Policy
This memorandum revokes Presidential Policy Directive-6 (PPD-6), the 2010 Obama-era policy on U.S. Global Development Policy, on grounds that it conflicts with the current administration's executive orders on America First foreign policy, WHO withdrawal, international environmental agreements, and foreign aid realignment. The revocation directs a broad set of cabinet officials and agency heads but imposes no new affirmative mandates or deadlines.
Regarding the Acquisition of Jupiter Systems, LLC by Suirui International Co., Limited
This presidential order, issued under the Defense Production Act's CFIUS authority, prohibits the 2020 acquisition of Jupiter Systems by Chinese-owned Suirui International and mandates complete divestment within 120 days. The order requires destruction or transfer of intellectual property and source code, imposes strict access controls during the divestment period, and subjects the transaction to ongoing CFIUS oversight and verification.
Reissuance of and Amendments to National Security Presidential Memorandum 5 on Strengthening the Policy of the United States Toward Cuba
This memorandum reissues and amends Trump-era NSPM-5 to tighten U.S. policy toward Cuba, directing agencies to restrict financial transactions with Cuban military-controlled entities, enforce the tourism ban, expand internet access for Cubans, and oppose international efforts to lift the embargo. It sets multiple deadlines for regulatory adjustments and reports while explicitly maintaining the statutory embargo framework.
Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions
This executive order terminates the national emergency declared in 2004 and revokes six sanctions executive orders targeting Syria, effective July 1, 2025, while expanding a separate sanctions framework to hold the former Assad regime accountable. It directs waivers under the Syria Accountability Act, CBW Act, and Caesar Act to ease export controls and other restrictions, and mandates review of terrorism designations including for Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria's State Sponsor of Terrorism status.
Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
This executive order further extends the Department of Justice's delay in enforcing the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act against TikTok until September 17, 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 exclusive federal executive authority over enforcement to preempt state or private action.
Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response
This executive order directs federal agencies to streamline wildfire programs, expand local preparedness partnerships, develop AI and technology roadmaps for firefighting, ease regulations on prescribed burns and fire retardants, reduce wildfire risks from power lines, and modernize response capabilities through declassified satellite data and performance metrics. It responds to the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires by targeting what it describes as bureaucratic barriers and mismanagement in wildfire prevention and response.
Restoring American Airspace Sovereignty
This executive order establishes a federal task force and directs multiple agencies to strengthen U.S. airspace security against threats from unmanned aircraft systems (drones). It mandates new rulemaking for flight restrictions over critical infrastructure, expands law enforcement and homeland security capabilities for drone detection and countermeasures, and prioritizes counter-UAS training for major upcoming sporting events including the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Summer Olympics.
Unleashing American Drone Dominance
This executive order accelerates U.S. drone industry growth by mandating FAA rulemaking for beyond-visual-line-of-sight commercial operations, establishing an eVTOL pilot program, prioritizing domestic drone procurement across federal agencies and the military, restricting foreign supply chain risks, and expanding export financing for American-made unmanned aircraft systems.
Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University
This proclamation suspends entry of foreign students and exchange visitors seeking to attend Harvard University on F, M, or J visas, citing national security concerns over Harvard's alleged failure to provide disciplinary records of foreign students to DHS, rising campus crime, foreign funding entanglements (particularly with China), and ongoing civil rights investigations. The suspension lasts 6 months with a 90-day review for extension, and directs the Secretary of State to consider revoking current Harvard foreign students' visas while allowing national-interest exceptions.
Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals To Protect the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
Proclamation 10949 suspends or limits entry into the United States for nationals of 19 countries, effective June 9, 2025. Twelve countries face full suspension of both immigrant and nonimmigrant entry (Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen), while seven countries face partial suspension targeting immigrants and specific nonimmigrant visa categories (Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela). The restrictions are based on asserted deficiencies in screening, vetting, information-sharing, identity-management, and high visa overstay rates.
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.
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.
Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission
This executive order establishes a 14-member Religious Liberty Commission, supported by three advisory boards, to study and report on threats to religious liberty in the United States and recommend policy responses. The Commission is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on religious liberty foundations, current threats, and preservation strategies, with a termination date of July 4, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful
This executive order establishes a federal interagency task force to combat crime in Washington, D.C. through enhanced immigration enforcement, police support, and prosecution policies, while directing the Interior Secretary to implement a beautification program including monument restoration, encampment removal, and graffiti cleanup. It reinstates enforcement priorities from a prior Trump-era monument protection order and explicitly targets the District's sanctuary-city policies.
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.
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
This executive order mandates documentary proof of citizenship for federal voter registration, requires federal agencies to share databases with states for voter list verification, bars counting mail ballots received after Election Day, directs the Election Assistance Commission to recertify voting systems with paper-record requirements, and conditions federal election funding on compliance with these standards. It also explicitly ceases implementation of Executive Order 14019 and directs DOJ to prioritize prosecution of non-citizen voting and foreign election interference.
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.
Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil
This executive order imposes a potential 25% tariff on all goods from countries that import Venezuelan oil, directly or indirectly, effective April 2, 2025. The Secretary of State has discretionary authority to determine which countries face the tariff, with the Secretary of Commerce responsible for determining whether countries have imported Venezuelan oil and issuing implementation regulations.
Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua
President Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to declare members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) as 'Alien Enemies,' authorizing their immediate apprehension, detention, and removal without standard immigration proceedings. The proclamation directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to execute regulations for summary detention and removal of Venezuelan TdA members aged 14+ who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
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.
Establishing the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026
This executive order creates a White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026, chaired by the President and vice-chaired by the Vice President, with members spanning major cabinet departments and White House offices. The Task Force will coordinate federal agency planning for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and 2026 FIFA World Cup, with agencies required to submit planning reports by June 1, 2025, and the Task Force terminating on December 31, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
Establishing the National Energy Dominance Council
This executive order establishes the National Energy Dominance Council within the Executive Office of the President, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior with the Secretary of Energy as vice chair. The council comprises 18 cabinet-level and senior White House officials to advise the president on expanding domestic energy production across all sources including fossil fuels, nuclear, and critical minerals, with a mandate to deliver a National Energy Dominance Strategy and specific recommendations within 100 days.
Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement To Further American Economic and National Security
This executive order pauses new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and enforcement actions for 180 days while the Attorney General reviews existing guidelines and policies. The order directs the Attorney General to cease new FCPA cases, review ongoing ones, and issue updated guidelines prioritizing American economic competitiveness and presidential foreign affairs authority.
Establishment of the White House Faith Office
This executive order establishes the White House Faith Office within the Executive Office of the President, replacing prior faith-based initiative offices. It amends several Bush-era executive orders to rename existing centers and creates a new coordinating structure to advance faith-based partnerships in federal programs, religious liberty enforcement, and grant access for religious organizations.
Protecting Second Amendment Rights
This executive order directs the Attorney General to review all federal actions from January 2021 through January 2025 that may have infringed on Second Amendment rights, including ATF rules, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention's work, and litigation positions. Within 30 days, the Attorney General must submit a proposed plan of action to protect Second Amendment rights, after which implementation will be finalized with the Domestic Policy Advisor.
Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
This executive order establishes a Department of Justice-led interagency task force to identify and eliminate what it characterizes as anti-Christian bias in federal agencies, reviewing policies and practices from the previous administration and recommending corrective actions across government. The task force must submit an initial report within 120 days, a summary report within one year, and a final report before its automatic termination after two years.
Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
This executive order declares a national emergency and imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), blocking property of ICC officials and those who assist ICC investigations of U.S. or allied personnel, and suspending their entry into the United States. The order responds to ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders and preliminary investigations involving U.S. personnel.
Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports
This executive order directs federal agencies to enforce Title IX by withholding funds from educational programs that allow males to compete in women's sports. It mandates policy changes across education, immigration, diplomacy, and international sports governance to restrict participation in female athletic categories to biological women, and requires convening domestic and international stakeholders within 60 days.
Progress on the Situation at Our Northern Border
This executive order pauses previously announced 25% tariffs on Canadian goods and 10% tariffs on Canadian energy products that were set to take effect February 4, 2025, pushing the effective date to March 4, 2025. The pause allows time to assess whether Canada's recent cooperative steps on border security and drug interdiction are sufficient, while maintaining the threat of immediate tariff implementation if conditions worsen.
Progress on the Situation at Our Southern Border
This executive order pauses the 25% tariffs on Mexican goods that were scheduled to take effect February 4, 2025, pushing the start date to March 4, 2025, to allow time to assess whether Mexico's cooperative steps on migration and drug trafficking are sufficient. It withdraws exceptions for goods already in transit and directs continued assessment by homeland security and other officials during the pause period.
Imposing Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border
This executive order imposes a 25 percent ad valorem tariff on most Canadian goods and a 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy products, effective February 4, 2025, citing Canada's alleged failure to stop illicit drug flows across the northern border. It expands an existing national emergency declaration, terminates inconsistent prior trade directives, and removes de minimis duty exemptions for Canadian imports.
Imposing Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border
Executive Order 14194 imposes a 25 percent ad valorem tariff on all products of Mexico, effective February 4, 2025, citing Mexico's failure to combat drug trafficking organizations and illegal migration as a national emergency under IEEPA and the NEA. The order expands the scope of the January 20, 2025 national emergency declaration, terminates inconsistent prior trade directives, and authorizes escalation if Mexico retaliates. Tariffs may be removed upon presidential determination that Mexico has taken adequate cooperative action.
Imposing Duties To Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China
This executive order imposes an additional 10 percent ad valorem tariff on all goods imported from China, effective February 4, 2025, citing China's failure to stop the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals and related transnational criminal activity. The order expands a previously declared national emergency and terminates inconsistent prior trade directives with China.
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).
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
This executive order directs federal agencies to develop a strategy within 90 days to cut funding to K-12 schools that promote "gender ideology" or "discriminatory equity ideology," mandates parental notification policies, reestablishes the President's Advisory 1776 Commission to promote patriotic education, and requires agencies to prioritize federal resources for patriotic education programs. It also directs the Attorney General to coordinate prosecution of teachers and school officials for certain activities related to social transition of minors.
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
This executive order prohibits federal funding, sponsorship, or support for pediatric gender-affirming medical care, defining such treatments as "chemical and surgical mutilation" for individuals under 19. It directs multiple agencies to rescind supportive policies, exclude coverage from federal health programs (Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, FEHB/PSHB), prioritize enforcement of existing laws, and promote new legislation creating private rights of action for affected children and parents.
Emergency Measures To Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas
This executive order directs federal agencies to override California state water policies to maximize water deliveries to Southern California for wildfire response, while also expediting disaster relief for Los Angeles wildfire survivors and North Carolina Hurricane Helene victims. It mandates reviews of federal funding to California, fast-tracks environmental compliance for water projects, and requires housing and debris removal plans for affected communities.
Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This executive order directs the declassification and public release of all federal records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Director of National Intelligence and Attorney General must submit plans for releasing the JFK records within 15 days and for the RFK and MLK records within 45 days, reversing prior administrations' continued withholdings and certifications.
Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
This executive order revokes the Biden administration's digital asset framework (EO 14067) and establishes a new pro-crypto policy direction, creating a presidential working group to develop regulatory frameworks for stablecoins and a potential national digital asset stockpile. It also prohibits federal agencies from establishing or promoting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and directs banking access protections for law-abiding crypto participants.
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.
Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States
This proclamation declares a national emergency at the southern border, invoking military construction authority and deploying Armed Forces to support DHS in achieving 'complete operational control.' It mandates additional physical barrier construction, potential regulatory waivers for counter-drone operations, and revocation of Biden's 2021 border emergency termination. The order includes 30- and 90-day reporting requirements and raises the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act.
Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021
This proclamation grants full, unconditional pardons to all individuals convicted of offenses related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol events except 14 named individuals whose sentences are commuted to time served. It directs the Attorney General to issue pardon certificates, ensure immediate release of imprisoned individuals, and seek dismissal with prejudice of all pending indictments related to January 6.
Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion
This proclamation declares that an "invasion" is ongoing at the southern border and invokes Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution and sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the INA to suspend and restrict entry of aliens crossing the southern border. It directs the Secretaries of Homeland Security and State and the Attorney General to repel, repatriate, or remove such aliens and bars them from accessing asylum and other INA provisions permitting continued presence until the President determines the invasion has ceased.
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.
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.
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 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.
Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists
This executive order declares a national emergency and creates a process to designate certain international drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations (including Tren de Aragua and MS-13) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under immigration law or Specially Designated Global Terrorists under economic sanctions law. It requires recommendations within 14 days and prepares for potential use of the Alien Enemies Act to expedite removals.
Protecting the American People Against Invasion
This executive order revokes four Biden-era immigration executive orders and directs sweeping enforcement actions across federal agencies to crack down on illegal immigration. It mandates expanded detention capacity, new homeland security task forces, restrictions on sanctuary jurisdictions, elimination of public benefits for unauthorized immigrants, and rescission of prior administration parole and temporary protected status policies.
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.
Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats
This executive order mandates enhanced vetting and screening of all aliens seeking admission or already present in the U.S., requiring agencies to identify deficient countries for potential admission suspensions within 60 days and to evaluate visa programs, inadmissibility grounds, and assimilation policies within 30 days. It re-establishes pre-January 20, 2021 screening baselines and directs removal of aliens found to threaten national security or public safety.
Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program
This executive order suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) effective January 27, 2025, halting refugee entry and application decisions until a future presidential determination that resumption aligns with U.S. interests. It requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report every 90 days on whether to resume the program, allows case-by-case exceptions for national interest, directs exploration of expanded state/local role in refugee placement, and revokes Biden-era EO 14013.
Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety
This executive order directs the Attorney General to vigorously pursue capital punishment at the federal level and support state-level executions, including by seeking death penalties for all qualifying federal crimes (with special emphasis on murders of law enforcement officers and crimes by undocumented aliens), evaluating the 37 Biden-commuted death row inmates for harsher confinement and possible state charges, ensuring states have lethal injection drugs, and seeking to overturn Supreme Court precedents limiting capital punishment.
Securing Our Borders
This executive order directs a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration at the southern border, mandating construction of physical barriers, maximum detention of apprehended aliens, termination of catch-and-release and CBP One parole practices, resumption of Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico), and enhanced prosecution of border-related crimes. Multiple Cabinet secretaries must submit additional recommendations within 14 days.
Application of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok
This executive order directs the Attorney General to suspend enforcement of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act for 75 days regarding TikTok and related ByteDance applications. The order aims to give the new administration time to assess national security concerns and negotiate a resolution while protecting service providers from liability for continuing to host or distribute TikTok during the enforcement pause.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
This executive order establishes a federal policy recognizing only two immutable sexes (male and female), explicitly rejecting gender identity as a basis for federal policy. It mandates that all federal agencies use sex-based definitions in all documents and communications, rescinds multiple Biden-era executive orders and guidance documents on transgender rights, prohibits federal funding for gender-affirming medical care for inmates, directs changes to government IDs to reflect biological sex, and requires agencies to remove all materials promoting gender ideology.