E.O.14154
Unleashing American Energy
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8353
E.O.14153
Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8347
Directs federal agencies to prioritize resource development in Alaska, including oil, gas, mining, timber, and seafood, and to expedite permitting for energy and natural resource projects, especially liquefied natural gas exports. Instructs the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and the Army to rescind, revise, or pause numerous regulations, records of decision, and rules issued between 2021 and 2025 that restricted drilling, mining, and road projects in areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the Ambler Road corridor, and national forest roadless areas, and to reinstate earlier, more permissive versions of those actions. Orders review of Alaska Native land trust guidance, waterway navigability determinations, and hunting and fishing regulations for consistency with state priorities. Directs the Army Corps of Engineers to assist Alaska's governor with transportation infrastructure clearing, and calls for an assessment, with the Secretary of Defense, of options to expand Alaska's energy export capacity, including the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. States it does not alter existing agency legal authority or create enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14152
Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8343
Directs the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to immediately revoke the security clearances of 50 named former officials, including former intelligence agency leaders who signed a 2020 letter about Hunter Biden's laptop and former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who published a memoir containing sensitive information. States it is U.S. policy that the Intelligence Community avoid partisan political activity, that clearance holders not use their status to influence elections, and that classified information not be disclosed in memoirs for personal profit. Requires the Director of National Intelligence, within 90 days, to report to the President through the National Security Advisor on any further inappropriate activity related to the letter, recommendations to prevent future election-related interference by intelligence personnel, and possible disciplinary actions. States the order does not alter existing legal authorities and creates no enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14151
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8339
Directs federal agencies to terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and related "environmental justice" offices, positions, programs, policies, and performance requirements government-wide. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), must coordinate ending these programs and revise federal employment practices, union contracts, and training so that performance reviews reward individual initiative and skill rather than DEI-related factors. Within sixty days, each agency head must eliminate DEI-related offices and positions, report to OMB on existing DEI-related positions, budgets, contractors who provided DEI training, and grantees funded for DEI or environmental justice work since January 20, 2021, and have a deputy assess the costs and impacts of prior DEI policies and recommend changes to align agency practices with the order. It also directs the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to convene monthly meetings with OMB, OPM, and agency deputies to review progress and costs. It states the order does not create enforceable legal rights and applies subject to existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14150
America First Policy Directive to the Secretary of State
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8337
Directs the Secretary of State to issue guidance, as soon as practicable, aligning the Department of State's policies, programs, personnel, and operations with what the order calls an 'America First' foreign policy that prioritizes American interests and citizens. The order states it does not alter the legal authority of any executive department or agency, does not affect the Office of Management and Budget's role in budgetary, administrative, or legislative matters, and must be carried out consistent with existing law and available funding. It also specifies that it creates no enforceable legal rights or benefits for any party against the United States or its officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14149
Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8243
Declares it the policy of the United States that no federal officer, employee, or agent may engage in or facilitate conduct that unconstitutionally abridges Americans' free speech, and that no taxpayer resources may be used for such conduct. States that federal actions taken over the prior four years allegedly pressured social media companies to moderate or suppress speech under the banners of combating misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with heads of executive departments and agencies, to investigate federal government activities from that period found inconsistent with this order's policies, and to submit a report to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, recommending remedial actions. Clarifies that the order does not alter existing legal authorities of agencies or the Office of Management and Budget, must be implemented consistent with law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14148
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8237
Revokes a large number of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and related actions issued by the prior administration, covering topics including diversity, equity and inclusion programs, climate policy, COVID-19 response measures, immigration and refugee policy, LGBTQ and gender-identity protections, racial equity initiatives, policing reforms, prescription drug pricing, artificial intelligence regulation, offshore oil and gas leasing withdrawals, and orders of succession within several federal departments and agencies. Directs agency heads to immediately stop implementing what it calls diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Instructs the Director of the Domestic Policy Council and the Director of the National Economic Council to review actions taken under the revoked orders and, within 45 days, recommend further rescissions or replacements to the President. Directs the National Security Advisor to review National Security Memoranda issued between January 20, 2021, and January 20, 2025, and recommend within 45 days which should be rescinded. States it does not alter agencies' existing legal authority, applies subject to available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14147
Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government
·Donald Trump·90 FR 8235
Directs the Attorney General to review, in consultation with other federal departments and agencies, the enforcement activities of agencies with civil or criminal authority—including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission—over the previous four years, identifying conduct considered inconsistent with the order's stated policy against political weaponization of law enforcement, and to report findings and recommended remedial actions to the President. Similarly directs the Director of National Intelligence to review Intelligence Community activities over the same period and submit a comparable report. Instructs all departments and agencies to comply with document-retention requirements, with noncompliance referred to the Attorney General. States it does not alter existing legal authorities or Office of Management and Budget functions, must be implemented consistent with law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14146
Partial Revocation of Executive Order 13961
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 8109
Revokes Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of Executive Order 13961 (Governance and Integration of Federal Mission Resilience), which had addressed federal mission resilience policy. Renumbers the remaining Sections 2, 6, and 8 of that order as Sections 1, 2, and 3. Amends the newly renumbered Section 1 by removing a clause referring to achieving the prior policy. Amends the newly renumbered Section 2(b) to replace a reference to the Executive Committee established under the old order's Section 3 with a reference to the Restricted Principals Committee described in a National Security Memorandum on National Continuity Policy issued the same day. States that the order does not alter existing legal authorities of agencies or the Office of Management and Budget, must be implemented consistent with law and available funding, and does not create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14145
Helping Left-Behind Communities Make a Comeback
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 8105
Directs a coordinated federal approach to support economically distressed and left-behind communities, including areas in Community Disaster Resiliency Zones, regions served by specific federal economic development programs, and rural areas identified by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Secretary of Commerce, through the Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, must work with agencies including the Departments of the Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, and Homeland Security, plus the Environmental Protection Agency and Small Business Administration, within one year to improve community engagement, support local economic development, create a shared technical assistance network, and coordinate overlapping programs. Agencies are directed to consider funding preferences for these communities, help potential grant applicants navigate federal programs, consider agreements to share information across agencies, and, where relevant, assist areas recovering from recent major disasters with long-term economic resilience planning and funding access.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14144
Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 6755
Directs numerous federal agencies to strengthen government cybersecurity, building on Executive Order 14028. It requires software vendors selling to the government to submit machine-readable attestations and supporting evidence to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and directs updated federal contracting rules, secure software development guidance, and supply-chain risk management practices. It orders steps to secure federal identity systems, cloud services, internet routing, DNS, email, and voice/video communications through encryption, and sets deadlines for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography. It addresses cybersecurity of space systems and directs a study of federal space ground systems. It promotes use of digital identity documents and 'yes/no' verification services to reduce benefits fraud, and directs pilot programs and research on artificial intelligence for cyber defense. It instructs the Office of Management and Budget to revise cybersecurity guidance and directs minimum cybersecurity practices for federal contractors, including labeling requirements for consumer internet-of-Things products by January 2027. It excludes national security systems from most provisions, sets separate requirements for them, and amends Executive Order 13694 to expand sanctions criteria for malicious cyber actors. Numerous specific deadlines, ranging from 30 to 270 days, are assigned to various agency heads throughout.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14143
Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 6751
Allows the head of any federal executive department or agency to noncompetitively appoint certain AmeriCorps alumni to competitive service positions for which they are qualified. The Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps, or a designee, must certify that an individual completed at least 1,700 hours of service as a Team Leader or Member, in the National Civilian Community Corps, or as an AmeriCorps State and National participant; VISTA members' existing eligibility status is unaffected. Appointments generally must occur within one year of completing the qualifying service, though this can be extended up to three years for further service, military duty, higher education, or other qualifying activities, or to allow background checks. Standard disqualifying factors for competitive service, such as citizenship requirements, nepotism violations, or failure to register for Selective Service, still apply. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may issue implementing regulations, though eligibility applies regardless of whether such regulations are issued.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14142
Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the Situation in Syria
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 6709
Amends Executive Order 13894, which declared a national emergency over the situation in Syria and blocked property of certain persons contributing to it. It removes language citing Turkey's military offensive into northeast Syria as a specific justification for the emergency. It also revises the criteria for blocking a person's property, narrowing them to cases of materially assisting, sponsoring, or supporting a blocked person, or being owned or controlled by or acting on behalf of a blocked person, replacing several more specific prior criteria. It further strikes a subsection, 8(f), from the original order. The order states it does not alter existing agency authorities or budgetary functions, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14141
Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 5469
Directs multiple federal agencies to accelerate the buildout of artificial intelligence data centers and supporting clean energy infrastructure in the United States, framing this as a matter of national security and economic competitiveness. Instructs the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, and the Interior to identify federal lands suitable for leasing to private companies for frontier AI data centers and associated clean power generation, including designating priority geothermal zones, with target dates through 2025 and 2027. Directs those agencies to run competitive solicitations for developers, set security, labor, and clean-power-matching requirements for winning applicants, and coordinate expedited permitting, environmental reviews, and transmission upgrades. Requires various reports and plans, including on electricity price effects, supply chain risks, nuclear power deployment, data center efficiency, and international engagement with allies on AI infrastructure. Assigns roles to the Departments of Commerce, State, Agriculture, and others, and to agencies such as the EPA, NIST, and the Army Corps of Engineers. Contains numerous additional definitions, deadlines, and procedural directives beyond what is summarized here.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14140
Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the Situation in the Western Balkans
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 2589
Amends Executive Order 14033, which addressed the destabilizing situation in the Western Balkans, by replacing its section 1 with expanded criteria for blocking property and assets of certain individuals. Under the revised standard, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may block the U.S. property and assets of persons found to threaten the peace, security, or territorial integrity of Western Balkans states, undermine democratic institutions, violate regional peace or accountability agreements such as the Dayton Accords or Prespa Agreement, commit serious human rights abuses, or engage in corruption involving Western Balkans governments or officials. It also covers leaders or members of entities involved in such conduct, those who materially assist blocked persons, entities owned or controlled by them, and spouses or adult children of blocked individuals. The order states it does not alter existing agency authority or create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14139
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of the National Cyber Director
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 2587
Sets an order of succession within the Office of the National Cyber Director under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. If the National Cyber Director dies, resigns, or otherwise cannot perform the job's duties, the order specifies that the Deputy National Cyber Director, followed by the Chief of Staff, the Assistant National Cyber Director for Policy Development, the Assistant National Cyber Director for Policy Implementation, the Assistant National Cyber Director for Resource Management and Administration, and then the General Counsel, shall act as Director, in that sequence. It states that officials serving in these positions only in an acting capacity cannot become acting Director under this order, and that anyone stepping in must otherwise be eligible under the Act. The President retains discretion to depart from this order when designating an acting Director. The order also clarifies it does not alter existing agency authority or Office of Management and Budget budgetary functions, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14138
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of Management and Budget
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 2585
Establishes an order of succession within the Office of Management and Budget, listing officials who would act as Director if both the Director and Deputy Director die, resign, or otherwise become unable to serve. The order lists twelve positions in sequence, starting with the Deputy Director for Management and continuing through various associate directors, the General Counsel, and other office administrators. It specifies that officials serving in these roles only in an acting capacity cannot become acting Director under this order, and that anyone acting as Director must otherwise be eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The President retains discretion to depart from this listed order when designating an acting Director. The order revokes a prior 2012 executive order that had set an earlier succession order for the same office, and states it does not affect other agencies' authority or create enforceable rights for any outside party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14137
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of the Treasury
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 2583
Establishes an order of succession for the Department of the Treasury, listing officials who would act as Secretary if both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary die, resign, or otherwise become unable to serve. The line of succession runs through the Under Secretaries (by seniority), the General Counsel, Deputy Under Secretaries and Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretaries (by seniority), the Chief of Staff, the Assistant Secretary for Management, the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and two deputy commissioner positions. It excludes anyone already serving in one of these roles only in an acting capacity, requires eligibility under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and preserves the President's discretion to designate a different acting Secretary. It revokes a prior 2016 order on Treasury succession and states it does not create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14136
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 2581
Establishes an order of succession within the Department of Justice, under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, specifying who may act as Attorney General 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 order lists, in sequence, the United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York, the District of Arizona, the Northern District of Illinois, and the District of Hawaii as eligible to act. It excludes officials serving in those posts only in an acting capacity, requires that any successor otherwise be legally eligible to serve, and preserves the President's discretion to depart from this order when designating an acting Attorney General. It revokes Executive Order 13787, which had previously set a DOJ succession order, and states it does not create enforceable rights against the government or affect other agencies' existing legal authority.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14135
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Homeland Security
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 2579