E.O.13804
Allowing Additional Time for Recognizing Positive Actions by the Government of Sudan and Amending Executive Order 13761
·Donald Trump·82 FR 32611
E.O.13803
Reviving the National Space Council
·Donald Trump·82 FR 31429
Revives the National Space Council, originally established in 1989, and details its structure and duties. Chaired by the Vice President, the Council includes cabinet secretaries, the Director of National Intelligence, the NASA Administrator, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior officials. It is directed to review U.S. space policy, recommend strategy to the President, coordinate among civil, national security, and commercial space sectors, advise on international space activities, and help resolve related policy disputes, meeting at least annually. The Chair reports to the President quarterly and may establish committees and working groups. The order also directs the Council to convene a Users' Advisory Group of non-federal industry representatives, and requires agencies to supply information and align space activities with national policy where legally possible. The Council must submit a report to the President within one year and annually thereafter. The order supersedes the 1989 executive order that created the Council.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13802
Amending Executive Order 13597
·Donald Trump·82 FR 28747
Amends Executive Order 13597, which established visa and foreign visitor processing goals and created the Task Force on Travel and Competitiveness, by deleting subsection (b)(ii) of section 2 of that order. Directs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, working with other relevant agency heads as needed, to revise the implementation plan described in section 2(b) of the earlier order to reflect this change. The order applies to the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs and related agencies involved in visa processing, and states it does not create any new enforceable rights and must be carried out consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13801
Expanding Apprenticeships in America
·Donald Trump·82 FR 28229
Directs the Secretary of Labor to consider proposing regulations allowing third parties, such as trade groups, companies, unions, and nonprofits, to recognize "industry-recognized apprenticeship programs" alongside the existing Department of Labor registration system. Instructs the Secretary to use available funding to expand apprenticeships, particularly among students, underrepresented sectors, and youth, and directs several agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Labor, Education, and Justice, to promote apprenticeships for high schoolers, Job Corps participants, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people, and service members and veterans. Directs the Secretary of Education to support colleges in incorporating apprenticeships. Establishes a Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion within the Department of Labor to recommend strategies, chaired by the Secretary of Labor. Requires an Excellence in Apprenticeship recognition program within two years, and directs agencies to evaluate and report on the effectiveness of their workforce development programs to the Office of Management and Budget, with recommendations to reform or eliminate ineffective ones.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13800
Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure
·Donald Trump·82 FR 22391
Directs federal agencies to manage cybersecurity risk using the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cybersecurity Framework, requiring each agency head to submit a risk management report within 90 days to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who must jointly assess the reports and report back to the President with a plan to address gaps. Calls for a report on modernizing federal information technology toward shared services. For critical infrastructure sectors, directs Homeland Security and other agencies to identify support for entities at greatest risk, assess market transparency practices, address botnet resilience with the Department of Commerce, and evaluate electric grid disruption readiness with the Department of Energy. Orders reports on defense industrial base cyber risks, national deterrence strategy, international cybersecurity cooperation, and cybersecurity workforce development, each due within set deadlines ranging from 45 to 240 days. Reports may be classified in whole or part. States it does not alter existing legal authorities or create enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13799
Establishment of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
·Donald Trump·82 FR 22389
Establishes the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, chaired by the Vice President and made up of up to 15 additional members appointed by the President with expertise in elections, election management, fraud detection, or voter integrity. Directs the commission to study voter registration and voting processes used in federal elections and report to the President on practices that strengthen or undermine public confidence in election integrity, and on vulnerabilities that could allow improper or fraudulent voter registration and voting. Defines these terms for the commission's use. The commission is to hold public meetings, consult federal, state, and local officials and election law experts, avoid duplicating existing government efforts, and will terminate 30 days after submitting its report. The General Services Administration is to provide administrative support, and members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13798
Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty
·Donald Trump·82 FR 21675
Directs executive agencies to protect, to the extent permitted by law, the freedom of individuals and organizations to engage in religious and political speech. Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to ensure the Department does not take adverse action—such as denying tax-exempt status, deductions, or other tax benefits—against individuals, houses of worship, or religious organizations for speaking on moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where similar speech has not typically been treated as campaign intervention. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to consider issuing amended regulations addressing conscience-based objections to the federal preventive-care mandate. Directs the Attorney General to issue guidance interpreting federal religious liberty protections for use by all agencies. States that the order does not impair existing agency authority, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13797
Establishment of Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20821
Establishes the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy within the White House Office, led by a Director selected by the President with supporting staff. The office's mission is to advise the President on policies aimed at increasing economic growth, reducing the trade deficit, and strengthening domestic manufacturing and defense industries. Its responsibilities include advising the President on trade strategies, acting as a liaison between the White House and the Department of Commerce on trade-related projects, and helping improve federal procurement and hiring practices, including carrying out policies from Executive Order 13788 (Buy American and Hire American). The order states it does not alter existing legal authority of federal agencies 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 or benefits.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13796
Addressing Trade Agreement Violations and Abuses
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20819
Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative, in consultation with the Secretaries of State and the Treasury, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, to conduct comprehensive reviews of all U.S. trade and investment agreements and of trade relations with World Trade Organization member countries with which the United States runs significant trade deficits but has no free trade agreement. Within 180 days, the Secretary of Commerce and the Trade Representative must report to the President identifying violations or abuses of trade agreements, unfair treatment by trading partners, instances where agreements failed to deliver promised benefits like jobs or market access, and recommended lawful remedies. It directs the Secretary of Commerce, the Trade Representative, and other agency heads to take appropriate lawful action to address identified violations, and states the findings should guide future U.S. trade policy and negotiations. It does not alter existing agency legal authority or create enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13795
Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20815
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to consider revising the offshore oil and gas leasing schedule to include annual lease sales in several Outer Continental Shelf planning areas, including parts of the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and the Atlantic, while protecting the existing 2017-2022 leasing program. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to obtain an accounting of energy resource potential before designating or expanding National Marine Sanctuaries, and orders a review, with the Secretaries of Defense and the Interior, of sanctuary and Marine National Monument designations made in the prior ten years, with a report due within 180 days. Revokes Executive Order 13754 on Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience, and modifies prior Outer Continental Shelf leasing withdrawal memoranda. Directs review or reconsideration of several existing rules and guidance documents covering well control, offshore air quality, Arctic drilling, and marine mammal sound-effects guidance, and calls for expedited handling of certain permit and authorization requests related to offshore energy activity.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13794
Establishment of the American Technology Council
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20811
Establishes the American Technology Council (ATC) to coordinate the federal government's use of information technology and the delivery of digital services. Names the President as chairman, with the Vice President, several cabinet secretaries, the Director of National Intelligence, the Office of Management and Budget director, and various White House and technology officials as members, and provides for a Director to lead the council. Allows the Director to invite agency heads with service delivery programs to participate, and lets the ATC form committees, task forces, and interagency groups, including a senior interagency forum and a deputies committee. States the council's functions do not cover national security systems and do not affect existing agency or OMB authority. Encourages agencies to cooperate with and assist the ATC, and encourages the Director of National Intelligence to share relevant classified cybersecurity information. The order and the council are set to terminate on January 20, 2021.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13793
Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the Department of Veterans Affairs
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20539
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish, within 45 days, an Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection within the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to appoint a Special Assistant reporting directly to the Secretary to serve as the office's Executive Director. The department must fund and administratively support the office as appropriations allow. The office is tasked with advising the Secretary on disciplining or terminating employees who violate public trust or endanger veterans' health, safety, or well-being, identifying statutory barriers to such action and reporting them for possible legislative changes, working with department components to resolve veterans' complaints of wrongdoing, investigating and correcting wrongdoing, and protecting employees who lawfully report misconduct from retaliation. In setting up the office, the Secretary must consider whether existing offices already perform these functions, whether capabilities overlap, and whether merging offices could improve efficiency. The order states it does not alter existing agency authority or create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13792
Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20429
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to review national monument designations and expansions made under the Antiquities Act since January 1, 1996, that cover more than 100,000 acres, or that the Secretary finds were made without adequate public outreach and coordination. The review must weigh factors such as the Act's original objectives, effects on land use and local communities, and the availability of federal resources for management. The Secretary is to consult with several other cabinet officials and with affected state, tribal, and local governments. Within 45 days, an interim report addressing the Bears Ears National Monument and other selected designations, with recommendations for presidential or legislative action, must go to the President through named White House officials. A final report covering the full review is due within 120 days, also including recommended actions. The order states it does not alter existing agency authority or create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13791
Enforcing Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20427
Directs the Secretary of Education to review all Department of Education regulations and guidance documents related to the Department of Education Organization Act, the General Education Provisions Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act, to determine whether they comply with federal laws barring the Department from directing or controlling state and local decisions on curriculum, instructional programs, school administration, personnel, and selection of library resources, textbooks, and instructional materials. Where regulations or guidance documents are found inconsistent with these statutory prohibitions, the Secretary must rescind or revise them, publishing proposed regulatory changes or withdrawing or modifying guidance documents within 300 days of the order. It defines 'guidance document' broadly to include letters, memoranda, manuals, bulletins, and waiver approvals. The order states it does not alter other agencies' existing legal authority and creates no enforceable rights against the government.'Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13790
Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America
·Donald Trump·82 FR 20237
Establishes the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture and including the heads of numerous federal departments and agencies, to identify legislative, regulatory, and policy changes benefiting rural America. Areas of focus include reducing regulatory barriers, promoting technology adoption, expanding agricultural education, empowering state, local, and tribal agencies, preserving family farms, ensuring science-based food safety and crop protection rules, boosting agricultural exports, advancing energy production, and addressing access to public lands for grazing, timber, and mining. The task force must give state, local, and tribal officials and rural stakeholders a chance to suggest changes, and must coordinate with reviews under three named prior executive orders. Within 180 days, the Secretary of Agriculture must submit a report to the President, through the Assistants to the President for Economic Policy and Domestic Policy, recommending changes identified by the task force. The order revokes Executive Order 13575, which had established the White House Rural Council, and applies subject to existing law and available appropriations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13789
Identifying and Reducing Tax Regulatory Burdens
·Donald Trump·82 FR 19317
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to review all significant tax regulations issued on or after January 1, 2016, and identify, within 60 days, any that impose undue financial burdens, add unnecessary complexity, or exceed the Internal Revenue Service's statutory authority. Within 150 days, the Secretary must submit and publish a report recommending specific actions to address the identified regulations, and must take steps to delay, suspend, modify, or rescind them as permitted by law, including through notice-and-comment rulemaking if needed. The Secretary must publish a summary of finalized actions within 10 days of completion, or, if not finished within 180 days of the report, publish an interim summary. The Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget are also directed to reconsider the existing exemption of certain tax regulations from standard regulatory review under Executive Order 12866, and to revise the Internal Revenue Manual if needed to implement that change.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13788
Buy American and Hire American
·Donald Trump·82 FR 18837
Sets executive branch policy to maximize use of American-made goods and materials in federal procurement and financial assistance, and to strictly enforce immigration laws governing foreign workers. Directs agency heads, within 150 days, to assess their compliance with Buy American laws, review use of waivers, and propose policies maximizing domestic materials; the Secretary of Commerce and Office of Management and Budget Director must issue guidance on these assessments within 60 days, and Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative must assess how free trade agreements affect Buy American laws within 150 days. Requires a report to the President within 220 days, plus annual agency reports through 2020 and beyond. Directs agencies to construe public interest waivers narrowly and consider effects of dumped or subsidized foreign steel and iron before granting them. Directs the Secretaries of State, Labor, Homeland Security, and the Attorney General to propose rules and reforms ensuring H-1B visas go to the most-skilled or highest-paid applicants and to prevent immigration fraud or abuse.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13787
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice
·Donald Trump·82 FR 16723
Establishes an order of succession for the office of Attorney General, specifying that if the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, Associate Attorney General, and any officers designated under 28 U.S.C. 508 are unable to serve, the role passes in order to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, then the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, then the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, it excludes anyone already serving in one of those offices in an acting capacity from acting as Attorney General under this order, and requires that anyone stepping in be otherwise eligible under that Act. It also preserves the President's discretion to depart from this order when designating an acting Attorney General, revokes the earlier Executive Order 13775, and states that it creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13786
Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits
·Donald Trump·82 FR 16721
Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative, working with the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Agriculture, and Homeland Security and other relevant agencies, to prepare and submit to the President an Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits within 90 days. The report must identify foreign trading partners with which the United States had a significant goods trade deficit in 2016, and for each one assess the major causes of the deficit, including tariffs, non-tariff barriers, dumping, subsidies, intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, and labor practices. It must also evaluate whether the partner unfairly disadvantages U.S. commerce, the effects on domestic manufacturing and defense industries, effects on employment and wages, and any imports or practices that may harm national security. The agencies may hold public meetings and gather input from state, local, and industry stakeholders while preparing the report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13785
Establishing Enhanced Collection and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties and Violations of Trade and Customs Laws
·Donald Trump·82 FR 16719