E.O.14254
Combating Unfair Practices in the Live Entertainment Market
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14699
E.O.14253
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14563
Directs the Vice President, acting through his role on the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents, to work to remove content from Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo that the order describes as improper ideology, and to recommend further actions to the President. Instructs the Vice President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to work with Congress so that future funding for the Smithsonian bars spending on exhibits that divide people by race or conflict with federal policy, and requires the planned American Women's History Museum to recognize only women, not men, as women. Directs efforts to seek Board of Regents appointees who support this approach. Orders the Secretary of the Interior to fund infrastructure improvements at Independence National Historical Park by July 4, 2026, and to review monuments and markers on Interior Department land removed or altered since January 1, 2020, reinstating pre-existing ones where appropriate and ensuring such properties do not disparage Americans past or present.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14252
Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14559
Establishes the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, chaired by the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor, with representatives from agencies including the Departments of the Interior, Transportation, and Homeland Security, the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, ATF, and several U.S. Attorney's Offices. The Task Force is to coordinate with local officials such as the Metropolitan Police Department on immigration enforcement, monitoring D.C.'s sanctuary-city status, accrediting the city's forensic lab, supporting police recruitment, streamlining concealed-carry licensing, reviewing pretrial detention policies, reducing transit fare evasion, and increasing law enforcement presence at sites like the National Mall and Union Station. It must report to the President as needed. Separately, the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with other officials, must develop a beautification program covering monument restoration, graffiti removal, cleanliness of public spaces, and private-sector involvement, and must immediately direct the National Park Service to remove homeless encampments and graffiti from federal land in Washington, D.C.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14251
Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14553
Determines that numerous federal agencies and subdivisions have intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security functions incompatible with federal labor-management relations law, and amends Executive Order 12171 to exclude them from collective bargaining coverage under Chapter 71 of title 5 and Subchapter X of Chapter 52 of title 22, United States Code. Covered agencies include the Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, Energy, and Agriculture subdivisions, plus EPA, USAID, NRC, NSF, FCC, GSA, and various information-technology offices government-wide. Delegates authority to the Secretaries of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Transportation to adjust these exclusions under specified conditions, including certification and Federal Register publication requirements. Directs agencies to reassign employees previously performing union-related duties to agency work and to terminate agency participation in related grievance and unfair-labor-practice proceedings once bargaining agreements end. Requires agency heads to report within 30 days on additional subdivisions that might qualify for exclusion on national security grounds.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14250
Addressing Risks From WilmerHale
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14549
Directs federal agencies to suspend security clearances held by individuals at the law firm WilmerHale pending review, and to identify and cease providing government property, facilities, and services benefiting the firm. Requires government contractors to disclose any business dealings with WilmerHale, and directs agency heads to review and terminate contracts involving the firm where legally permitted, aligning funding decisions with administration priorities including Executive Order 14147. Agencies must report contract assessments to the Office of Management and Budget within 30 days. Instructs agencies to limit WilmerHale employees' access to federal buildings and to restrict government employees' official interactions with the firm where national security interests are implicated. Also directs agencies to generally refrain from hiring WilmerHale employees unless a waiver is granted by the agency head in consultation with the Office of Personnel Management. States it does not affect existing agency legal authority or create enforceable rights, and preserves provisions of a related order concerning Perkins Coie LLP.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14249
Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14011
Directs the Department of the Treasury and federal agencies to strengthen controls over payments made through the government's General Fund to reduce fraud and improper payments. Requires Treasury, with the Office of Management and Budget, to set up pre-certification verification for payments, and directs agency certifying officers to follow criteria such as confirming payee identity, account validity, and fund availability before payments are approved. Requires agencies to update Privacy Act notices within 90 days to allow data sharing with Treasury for fraud detection. Directs the Office of Management and Budget, within 180 days, to require agencies to consolidate core financial systems and use standardized platforms. Directs Treasury to review and potentially revoke agencies' independent disbursing authority (Non-Treasury Disbursing Offices), consolidating disbursement functions under Treasury's Chief Disbursing Officer, except for classified payments and cases Treasury deems necessary to exempt. Requires agencies to submit compliance plans within 90 days and Treasury to report implementation progress to the President within 180 days, while protecting classified and personal information.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14248
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14005
Directs multiple federal agencies to tighten enforcement of election laws related to citizenship, ballot deadlines, and voting system security. Within 30 days, requires the Election Assistance Commission to mandate documentary proof of U.S. citizenship on the federal voter registration form. Directs the Department of Homeland Security and State Department to share citizenship and immigration data with state election officials, and to report on non-citizens who indicated on immigration forms that they voted. Instructs the Attorney General to prioritize prosecution of non-citizen voting, pursue information-sharing agreements with states on election crimes, and enforce laws barring ballots received after Election Day. Directs the Election Assistance Commission to withhold funds from noncompliant states, update voting system guidelines to discourage barcode-based vote counting and require voter-verifiable paper records, and directs the Defense Department to update overseas voter forms to require citizenship proof. Also orders agencies to halt actions under a prior, already-revoked executive order on voting access and report on compliance. Includes provisions on foreign campaign contributions and severability.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14247
Modernizing Payments To and From America's Bank Account
·Donald Trump·90 FR 14001
Directs the federal government to phase out paper checks in favor of electronic payments. Effective September 30, 2025, the Secretary of the Treasury must stop issuing paper checks for federal disbursements, including benefits, tax refunds, and vendor payments, except for limited exceptions such as people without banking access, certain emergency payments, and national security or law enforcement needs. Agencies must transition recipients to direct deposit, prepaid cards, or other electronic methods, and federal receipts like fees, fines, and taxes are to be collected electronically where practical. The Treasury Department is to support this shift through centralized payment systems and work with financial institutions to address access issues for unbanked populations, while safeguarding classified and personal information. Agencies must submit compliance plans to the Office of Management and Budget within 90 days, and Treasury must report implementation progress to the President within 180 days. The order states it does not authorize a Central Bank Digital Currency.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14246
Addressing Risks From Jenner & Block
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13997
Directs federal agencies to suspend security clearances held by individuals at the law firm Jenner & Block pending review, and orders the Office of Management and Budget to identify and halt government resources, including access to secure facilities, provided to the firm. Requires government contractors to disclose business dealings with Jenner & Block, directs agencies to review and consider terminating contracts involving the firm, and requires agencies to report their contract assessments to the Office of Management and Budget within 30 days. Instructs agencies to limit the firm's employees' access to federal buildings and restrict government employees from engaging with them, naming former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann specifically, and directs agencies to generally refrain from hiring the firm's employees absent a waiver. States it does not limit actions authorized under a separate executive order concerning Perkins Coie LLP, and specifies it does not create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14245
Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13829
Authorizes a 25 percent tariff, starting April 2, 2025, on goods imported into the United States from any country that buys Venezuelan oil, whether directly or through intermediaries. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security and the U.S. Trade Representative, may decide whether to impose the tariff on a given country, and it would expire one year after that country's last purchase of Venezuelan oil unless ended earlier. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to determine whether a country has imported Venezuelan oil and to issue implementing regulations. If the tariff is applied to China, it also extends to Hong Kong and Macau to prevent transshipment. The order cites the ongoing Venezuela national emergency and Tren de Aragua's designation as a terrorist organization as justification, leaves existing Venezuela-related sanctions in effect, and requires the Secretaries of State and Commerce to report to the President every 180 days on the tariffs' effectiveness.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14244
Addressing Remedial Action by Paul Weiss
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13685
Revokes Executive Order 14237, which had addressed risks from the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. The order explains that it is withdrawing the earlier directive because Paul Weiss agreed to policy changes, including political neutrality in client selection and attorney hiring, taking on pro bono matters across the political spectrum, merit-based hiring and promotion rather than diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and dedicating the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services during the president's term to causes such as veterans' issues, fairness in the justice system, and combating anti-Semitism. It also notes the firm acknowledged wrongdoing by a former partner, Mark Pomerantz. The order states it does not alter existing agency authority or Office of Management and Budget functions, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available appropriations, and creates no enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14243
Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13681
Directs the heads of federal agencies to give federal officials designated by the President or agency heads full and prompt access to unclassified agency records, data, and information technology systems, in order to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, and to authorize sharing of such data within and across agencies. Within 30 days, agency heads must rescind or modify guidance that blocks such data sharing and report to the Office of Management and Budget on regulations that should be changed or eliminated; these regulatory changes are exempted from Executive Order 14192. Agencies must immediately ensure federal access to data from state programs receiving federal funding, including data held by third parties, and the Secretary of Labor must receive unfettered access to unemployment data and payment records. Agency heads must also review classification policies within 45 days and report on any that classify information beyond what is necessary. The order supersedes prior orders and rules that conflict with these data-sharing requirements, to the extent within direct presidential rulemaking authority.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14242
Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13679
Directs the Secretary of Education to take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent allowed by law, to facilitate closure of the Department of Education and shift authority over education back to states and local communities, while aiming to keep services, programs, and benefits running without interruption. Also requires that any Department of Education funding be strictly conditioned on compliance with federal law and administration policy, including ending programs or activities that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives or gender ideology under any label. The order states it does not alter other agencies' existing legal authority or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, must be carried out consistent with existing law and available funding, and does not create any new legally enforceable rights for individuals against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14241
Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13673
Directs federal agencies to take a series of steps aimed at expanding domestic mining, processing, and refining of critical minerals, uranium, copper, potash, and gold. Agencies involved in permitting must report pending mineral production projects within 10 days so the National Energy Dominance Council can identify ones to expedite, including some listed on the federal Permitting Dashboard. It directs the Interior Department to inventory federal lands with mineral deposits and prioritize mining as a primary land use, and directs the Defense, Interior, Agriculture, and Energy Departments to identify federal land suitable for leasing to private mineral production companies. Citing the national energy emergency declared in Executive Order 14156, it waives certain Defense Production Act requirements and delegates related presidential authority to the Secretary of Defense and the head of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to support financing of mineral projects. It also directs agencies to pursue loan programs, capital investment funds, export financing guidance, and small-business support measures, and calls for recommendations to Congress on mining waste regulations under the Mining Act of 1872. The order contains further implementation details and deadlines.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14240
Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13671
Directs the consolidation of federal procurement of common goods and services within the General Services Administration (GSA). Within 60 days, agency heads must submit proposals to the GSA Administrator for GSA to handle their domestic procurement of common goods and services where legally permitted. Within 90 days, the Administrator must submit a comprehensive government-wide procurement plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Within 30 days, OMB's Director must designate the Administrator as executive agent for all government-wide information technology acquisition contracts, though the Administrator may defer or decline this role when needed for continuity of service. The Administrator is also directed to ongoingly streamline government-wide indefinite delivery contract vehicles for information technology to reduce duplication. Within 14 days, OMB must issue a memorandum to agencies implementing the IT executive-agent designation. The order states it does not alter existing legal authorities and must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14239
Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13267
Directs the federal government to shift more responsibility for infrastructure preparedness and resilience to state, local, and individual actors. Within 90 days, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs must publish a National Resilience Strategy, to be updated every four years. Within 180 days, officials must review and recommend changes to critical infrastructure and national continuity policies, including several named executive orders, national security memoranda, and presidential directives, moving away from an all-hazards approach toward risk-informed policy. Within 240 days, officials must review preparedness and response policies and develop a National Risk Register quantifying risks to infrastructure, to inform intelligence, private-sector, state, and federal budget decisions, and to be updated every four years. Within one year, the Secretary of Homeland Security must propose changes to federal frameworks defining emergency-related "functions" to improve coordination with state and local governments. States explicitly that infrastructure policy reviews exclude matters related to misinformation, disinformation, or "cognitive infrastructure."Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14238
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13043
Directs the elimination of non-statutory components and functions, to the maximum extent allowed by law, at seven federal entities: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency. Requires these entities to reduce statutory functions and staffing to the minimum required by law. Gives the head of each entity 7 days to report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget confirming compliance and detailing any statutorily required functions. Instructs the Office of Management and Budget and agencies reviewing grant requests to reject funding for these entities that conflicts with the order, unless needed to complete an expected termination. States it does not alter existing legal authorities, must be implemented consistent with law and available funding, and creates no enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14237
Addressing Risks From Paul Weiss
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13039
Directs federal agencies to suspend security clearances held by individuals at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and attorney Mark Pomerantz pending review, citing the firm's past legal actions and hiring of Pomerantz, as well as alleged discriminatory diversity practices. Orders the Office of Management and Budget to identify government resources, including secure facilities, provided to the firm and have agencies stop providing them where legally possible. Requires government contractors to disclose business ties with the firm, and directs agencies to review and consider terminating contracts involving the firm, submitting an assessment to the Office of Management and Budget within 30 days. Instructs agencies to limit the firm's employees' access to federal buildings, restrict official interactions with them, and generally refrain from hiring the firm's employees absent a waiver. States it does not limit actions authorized under a related order concerning Perkins Coie LLP, and that it does not create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14236
Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13037
Revokes a set of executive orders, national security memoranda, presidential memoranda, and presidential determinations issued under the previous administration, following an earlier order (Executive Order 14148) that rescinded 78 similar actions. The revoked items include orders on COVID-19 data response, foreign policy workforce revitalization, human rights protections for LGBTQI+ persons abroad, a minimum wage increase for federal contractors, several Defense Production Act determinations covering infant formula, solar panels, insulation, electrolyzers and heat pumps, biotechnology and biomanufacturing policy, conventional arms transfer policy, defense supply chain resilience, global labor standards, tribal self-determination funding, apprenticeship expansion, and an investment and workforce initiative. The order states it does not affect existing statutory authority of agencies, the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, or create any enforceable legal rights, and must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available appropriations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14235
Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11885