E.O.14240
Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
·Donald Trump·90 FR 13671
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
Directs the Secretary of Education, coordinating with the Secretary of the Treasury as appropriate, to propose revisions to federal regulations (34 CFR 685.219) governing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program so that the definition of qualifying "public service" excludes employment with organizations whose activities have a substantial illegal purpose. It lists categories of disqualifying conduct, including aiding violations of federal immigration law, supporting designated terrorist organizations or cartels, child abuse including gender-related medical procedures for minors or trafficking children across state lines to avoid parental custody, patterns of illegal discrimination, and patterns of violating state laws such as trespassing, vandalism, or obstructing highways. The order states its policy that employees of such organizations should not be eligible for loan forgiveness. Implementation is subject to existing law, available appropriations, and agencies' existing legal authority, and the order creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14234
Establishing the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11883
Establishes the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 to coordinate federal support for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The President chairs the Task Force and the Vice President serves as Vice Chair, with an Executive Director handling day-to-day operations. Membership includes the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce, Transportation, and Homeland Security, the Attorney General, several White House advisors, the FBI Director, and other agency heads the Chair or Vice Chair may invite. The Task Force is to coordinate with federal agencies on planning and executing events around the tournaments, and agencies must provide requested information and assistance. It will be administratively housed in the Department of Homeland Security, which provides funding and support as appropriations allow. Agencies on the Task Force must submit reports on their planning activities by June 1, 2025. The Task Force terminates December 31, 2026, unless the President extends it, and the order does not alter existing agency authorities or create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14233
Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11789
Establishes a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a separate United States Digital Asset Stockpile, both to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury. The reserve is to be capitalized with bitcoin already held by the government through criminal or civil forfeiture or penalty proceedings, which will not be sold and will be kept as a reserve asset. The stockpile is to hold other forfeited digital assets, managed under strategies the Treasury Secretary sets. Agencies have 30 days to review their holdings and authority to transfer bitcoin and other digital assets to these accounts, and to report their full holdings to Treasury and the President's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets. The Treasury and Commerce Secretaries are to develop budget-neutral strategies for acquiring more bitcoin, but additional acquisition of other digital assets requires further action. Sales of these assets are restricted to specific legal circumstances, such as court orders or return to crime victims. Treasury must deliver a legal and investment evaluation within 60 days.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14232
Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Southern Border
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11787
Amends Executive Order 14194, which had imposed additional tariffs on goods from Mexico over concerns about illicit drug flows across the southern border. Exempts from the additional ad valorem duty any articles that qualify as goods of Mexico under general note 11 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which implements the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, effectively covering most USMCA-compliant automotive parts and components. Also reduces the additional tariff rate on potash not covered by that exemption from 25 percent to 10 percent. States these changes are meant to limit disruption to the U.S. automotive industry and its workers. The modifications take effect for goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption starting at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on March 7, 2025. Clarifies that the order does not alter existing agency authorities, is subject to available appropriations, and creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14231
Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11785
Amends Executive Order 14193, which had imposed additional tariffs on Canadian goods to address illicit drug flows across the northern border. Exempts from those added tariffs any goods entered duty-free as a good of Canada under the terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, including related provisions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. Reduces the additional tariff rate on potash not covered by that exemption from 25 percent to 10 percent. These changes take effect for goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, starting at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on March 7, 2025. States that it does not affect other agencies' existing legal authority, will be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14230
Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11781
Directs federal agencies to suspend security clearances held by individuals at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP pending review, and to identify and stop providing government goods, property, and services to the firm. Requires government contractors to disclose any business dealings with Perkins Coie, and directs agency heads to review and, where legally permitted, terminate contracts involving the firm, reporting their actions to the Office of Management and Budget within 30 days. Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to review large law firms' hiring and promotion practices for racial or sex-based discrimination, and the Attorney General to investigate firms doing business with the federal government for compliance with anti-discrimination laws. Also directs agencies to limit Perkins Coie employees' access to federal buildings and government personnel, and to generally refrain from hiring the firm's employees absent a waiver. States the order does not alter existing agency legal authority or create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14229
Honoring Jocelyn Nungaray
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11585
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas as the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge, in memory of a 12-year-old girl killed in Houston in June 2024. The order states the renaming must be completed, with updated procedures, within 30 days, using authority under the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act. It also directs the Secretary to issue guidance ensuring all federal references to the refuge, including agency maps, contracts, and other documents, reflect the new name. The order includes general provisions clarifying that it does not alter existing agency authority or the budgetary functions of the Office of Management and Budget, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any legally enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14228
Further Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11463
Amends Executive Order 14195, which had imposed tariffs on Chinese goods over the flow of synthetic opioids like fentanyl into the United States, by raising the ad valorem tariff rate on products of the People's Republic of China from 10 percent to 20 percent. The order states this change follows a determination that the Chinese government has not taken adequate steps to curb the illicit drug crisis through cooperative enforcement, and that the situation described in the earlier order has not improved. It relies on the same legal authorities cited in Executive Order 14195, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, and provisions of the Trade Act of 1974. The order notes it does not alter existing agency authorities or budgetary functions, must be carried out consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any new enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14227
Amendment to Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11371
Amends Executive Order 14194, as previously amended by Executive Order 14198, both addressing the situation at the southern border, by revising a provision on duty-free treatment for low-value imported goods. Under the revised text, duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321 remains available for covered articles described in the earlier order, but will stop being available once the Secretary of Commerce notifies the President that adequate systems exist to fully and quickly process and collect the tariffs required under the order. The order states it does not affect existing legal authority of federal agencies or the Office of Management and Budget, must be carried out consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any enforceable legal rights against the United States or its officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14226
Amendment to Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11369
Amends Executive Order 14193, as previously amended by Executive Order 14197, both addressing the flow of illicit drugs across the northern border, by revising section 2(h). Under the revised language, duty-free treatment for low-value shipments (the “de minimis” exemption under 19 U.S.C. 1321) remains available for otherwise eligible goods covered by the order, but will end once the Secretary of Commerce notifies the President that adequate systems are in place to fully and quickly process and collect the tariffs imposed under the order. The order states it does not alter the legal authority of federal agencies or the Office of Management and Budget, must be carried out consistent with existing law and available funding, and does not create any new legal rights or benefits enforceable against the United States.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14225
Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11365
Directs federal agencies to increase domestic timber production on public lands. Within 30 days, the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture must issue guidance on tools like Good Neighbor Authority and stewardship contracting to speed timber delivery, and propose legislation expanding relevant authorities. Within 60 days, the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries must develop a strategy to speed Endangered Species Act reviews of forestry projects. Within 90 days, the two Secretaries must set a four-year annual timber sale target for lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. Later deadlines require completing a Whitebark Pine consultation, considering new categorical exclusions under environmental law for timber thinning and salvage, and streamlining permitting by rescinding regulations seen as burdensome. It also directs the Endangered Species Committee to expedite exemption reviews and report on obstacles to timber production caused by Endangered Species Act implementation, and directs relevant agencies to make emergency consultation staff available.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14224
Designating English as the Official Language of the United States
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11363
Designates English as the official language of the United States. Revokes Executive Order 13166, which addressed access to services for people with limited English proficiency, but states that agencies are not required to change existing services or stop offering documents or programs in other languages; agency heads may decide what best serves their agency's mission. Directs the Attorney General to rescind policy guidance issued under the revoked order and to issue updated guidance consistent with applicable law. Clarifies that the order does not alter existing legal authority of federal agencies, does not affect the budgetary or legislative functions of the Office of Management and Budget, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any enforceable legal rights for individuals against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14223
Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11359
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to launch a Section 232 investigation under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether imports of timber, lumber, and derivative products such as paper, furniture, and cabinetry threaten national security. The investigation must examine domestic production capacity, demand, reliance on foreign supply chains, effects of foreign subsidies and trade practices, and whether tariffs or quotas are needed. The Commerce Secretary must consult with the Secretary of Defense and other relevant agency heads, then submit a report to the President within 270 days containing findings on national security risks, recommended actions such as tariffs, export controls, or production incentives, and policy proposals for strengthening the domestic timber and lumber supply chain, including investment and permitting reforms. The order defines timber as unprocessed wood and lumber as processed wood, and states it does not alter existing agency authority or create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14222
Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11095
Directs federal agency heads, working with each agency's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Team Lead, to build systems tracking payments under discretionary contracts, grants, and loans, requiring written justification before approval, with public posting where practicable. Agencies must review existing covered contracts and grants within 30 days, prioritizing scrutiny of funds to educational institutions and foreign entities, and may terminate or renegotiate them. Agencies must also review contracting policies within 30 days, pausing new contracting officer warrants during that period, and issue new guidance before signing future contracts. Requires tracking and justification of non-essential travel, a 30-day freeze on employee credit cards (with exceptions for disaster relief and critical services), and real property actions including inventory updates within 7 days, review of lease termination rights within 30 days, and a General Services Administration disposition plan within 60 days. Excludes law enforcement, immigration enforcement agencies, the military, classified systems, and items agencies exempt in writing.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14221
Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients With Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information
·Donald Trump·90 FR 11005