E.O.13960
Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government
·Donald Trump·85 FR 78939
E.O.13959
Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies
·Donald Trump·85 FR 73185
Declares a national emergency over investments that finance companies supporting China's military and intelligence activities, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Prohibits U.S. persons, starting January 11, 2021, from buying or trading publicly listed securities—or related derivative products—of companies designated as "Communist Chinese military companies" by the Secretary of Defense, with additional companies subject to a similar ban 60 days after designation. Allows limited windows for investors to divest existing holdings without penalty. Bans transactions and conspiracies designed to evade these restrictions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, consulting with the Secretaries of State and Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, to issue regulations, licenses, and rules implementing the order, and to report to Congress on the emergency. Defines key terms including "Communist Chinese military company," "security," "transaction," and "United States person," and lists initially designated companies in an attached annex.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13958
Establishing the President's Advisory 1776 Commission
·Donald Trump·85 FR 70951
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish, within 120 days, the President's Advisory 1776 Commission within the Department of Education to promote what the order calls patriotic education about the American founding. The commission, up to 20 members appointed by the President plus several cabinet-level ex-officio members, is to produce a public report within one year on the founding's core principles, advise on the 250th anniversary of American independence, develop a "Presidential 1776 Award" recognizing student knowledge of the founding, and advise federal agencies on promoting this focus at parks, monuments, and other historic sites and in federal grants. The Department of Education provides its funding and support, and the commission terminates after two years unless extended. The order also directs agencies to monitor and enhance compliance with existing law requiring federally funded schools to hold Constitution Day programs, and instructs the Departments of Education, Defense, and State to prioritize existing programs toward promoting patriotic education.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13957
Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
·Donald Trump·85 FR 67631
Creates a new Schedule F within the excepted federal civil service for career positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character that are not tied to a presidential transition. Amends Civil Service Rule VI to add this schedule and exempts Schedule F positions from standard competitive-service hiring rules and from the adverse-action removal procedures in chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code. Directs the Office of Personnel Management's Director to issue implementing regulations and transition guidance. Requires each executive agency head to review covered positions within 90 and 210 days, and annually thereafter, and either petition the Director to reclassify qualifying positions into Schedule F or, for statutorily excepted positions, publish determinations in the Federal Register. Requires the Director to report annually to the President on petitions granted and denied. Directs agencies to prohibit the same personnel practices barred elsewhere in federal law for Schedule F employees and to seek exclusion of qualifying positions from collective bargaining units where appropriate.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13956
Modernizing America's Water Resource Management and Water Infrastructure
·Donald Trump·85 FR 65647
Establishes an interagency Water Subcabinet, co-chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and including several other cabinet agencies, to coordinate federal water resource management and infrastructure efforts. Directs the Water Subcabinet, within 90 days, to identify and recommend consolidation of existing federal water-related task forces and working groups. Within 120 days, requires it to submit a report recommending actions on water storage and drought resilience, water quality and restoration, drinking water and flood control systems, and water data and forecasting, with lead agencies and milestones through fiscal year 2025, followed by annual status updates. Within 150 days, directs the Subcabinet to recommend priorities for integrated infrastructure planning across agencies funding water projects, and, in consultation with several other departments, to develop recommendations for recruiting, training, and retaining water-sector workers. Specifies that implementation depends on available funding and existing legal authority, and creates no enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13955
Establishing the One Trillion Trees Interagency Council
·Donald Trump·85 FR 65643
Establishes the United States One Trillion Trees Interagency Council to coordinate federal participation in the World Economic Forum's One Trillion Trees initiative, a global effort to grow and conserve one trillion trees by 2030. The council, co-chaired by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture with two White House officials as vice chairs, includes numerous cabinet secretaries and agency heads such as the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the EPA Administrator, and others. It is tasked with developing a strategy to track federal tree-related activities, identifying legal barriers and funding opportunities to support tree growth and conservation, informing state, local, and tribal officials of federal forest-management efforts, and setting up a reporting protocol. Agency heads on the council must incorporate this work into their strategic planning and submit regular progress reports. The council remains independent from the initiative itself and is set to terminate on December 31, 2030.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13954
Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental- and Behavioral-Health Needs
·Donald Trump·85 FR 63977
Establishes a Coronavirus Mental Health Working Group, co-chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, with representatives from numerous federal departments and agencies, to coordinate a government-wide response to mental-health conditions worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, including suicide risk. The group is directed to examine existing programs affecting vulnerable populations such as minorities, seniors, veterans, children, small business owners, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders, and must submit a report to the President within 45 days outlining a plan to improve coordination of treatment and recovery services. It also directs agency heads, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, to review grant programs and encourage grantees to support safe in-person and telehealth participation in support groups, therapy, and community or faith-based activities, and to use existing authority to fund community organizations providing mental-health and suicide-prevention outreach. Implementation depends on existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13953
Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain From Reliance on Critical Minerals From Foreign Adversaries and Supporting the Domestic Mining and Processing Industries
·Donald Trump·85 FR 62539
Declares a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act over the country's dependence on critical minerals from foreign adversaries, particularly China. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with other agencies, to investigate this reliance and report to the President within 60 days, recommending actions such as tariffs, quotas, or import restrictions, and to provide updates every 180 days starting January 1, 2021. Requires relevant agencies to report within 30 to 60 days on legal authorities, appropriations, and strategies for expanding domestic critical minerals mining and processing. Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the State Department to report on research needs and international cooperation options. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to review and potentially revise loan guarantee and manufacturing incentive program rules to support mineral supply chains, and directs several agencies to accelerate permitting and examine reuse of historic mining and coal waste sites for mineral recovery. Amends Executive Order 13817 to require periodic updates to the critical minerals list. Defines key terms and clarifies that implementation depends on existing legal authority and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13952
Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children
·Donald Trump·85 FR 62187
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that hospitals and programs receiving federal funding understand their obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act to provide medical screening and stabilizing treatment to all infants born alive, including extremely premature infants or those with disabilities, and to not discourage parents from seeking such treatment. Instructs the Secretary to clarify how complaints of violations can be submitted, investigate such complaints, and take enforcement action, including terminating federal funding, against noncompliant individuals or organizations. Directs prioritization of Department of Health and Human Services discretionary grants and National Institutes of Health research funding toward improving survival treatments for such infants and toward training medical personnel in providing life-saving care. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations or guidance as needed to implement these directives, subject to existing law and available appropriations, and states that the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13951
An America-First Healthcare Plan
·Donald Trump·85 FR 62179
Sets out a general policy of expanding healthcare choice, lowering costs, and improving care while maintaining protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to maintain and build on existing efforts to expand affordable coverage options, and directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to continue expanding access to affordable medicines, including generic and biosimilar drug approvals and drug importation. On surprise medical billing, it directs Health and Human Services to seek a legislative solution with Congress by December 31, 2020, and, absent one, to take administrative action to shield patients from unforeseeable out-of-pocket bills. Within 180 days it requires updates to the Medicare.gov Hospital Compare website disclosing hospitals' price-transparency compliance, itemized discharge billing, and use of legal action against patients. It also directs continued efforts to reduce healthcare fraud, improve veterans' care, and promote medical research into COVID-19, Alzheimer's, sickle cell disease, and pediatric cancer.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13950
Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
·Donald Trump·85 FR 60683
Prohibits federal agencies, the Uniformed Services, federal contractors, and certain federal grant recipients from using workplace training that promotes what it labels "divisive concepts," including ideas that one race or sex is inherently superior, that the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist, or that individuals bear collective guilt or responsibility based on race or sex. Directs the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to add compliance clauses to federal contracts, run a complaint hotline, and investigate violations, and to request information from contractors about diversity training within 30 days. Requires agency heads to review grant programs and report to the Office of Management and Budget within 60 days, review federal training programs through the Office of Personnel Management, assign a senior official to ensure compliance, and report training-related spending within 90 days. Directs the Attorney General to assess potential liability under Title VII and, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, issue guidance if appropriate. Applies to new contracts entered 60 days after signing.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13949
Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to the Conventional Arms Activities of Iran
·Donald Trump·85 FR 60043
Blocks all U.S.-based property and interests of persons determined by the Secretary of State or Secretary of the Treasury to be involved in supplying, selling, or transferring arms or related materiel to or from Iran, providing related training or assistance, contributing to proliferation of military-use items by Iran's government, or supporting or being controlled by anyone already blocked under the order. It bars U.S. persons from transactions with these designated persons, including donations of relief supplies, and prohibits evasion or conspiracy to violate its terms. It suspends U.S. entry for aliens meeting these criteria, unless the Secretary of State determines entry serves U.S. interests or law enforcement objectives, coordinating with the Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General. The Treasury Secretary, consulting with the Secretary of State, is authorized to issue implementing regulations. Exceptions apply for agricultural commodities, food, medicine, medical devices, and official U.S. or United Nations business. It states no advance notice is required before blocking property, citing the risk of asset flight, and cites the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13948
Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First
·Donald Trump·85 FR 59649
Sets a policy that Medicare should not pay more for certain high-cost prescription drugs and biological products than a 'most-favored-nation price'—the lowest price, adjusted for volume and per-capita gross domestic product differences, that a manufacturer charges in a comparable-income member country of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to immediately implement a rulemaking plan testing this pricing approach for certain high-cost drugs under Medicare Part B, and to develop and implement a similar payment model for Medicare Part D drugs facing insufficient competition and higher-than-foreign prices. States these models aim to test whether capping prices this way reduces poor clinical outcomes and excess spending. Revokes a prior executive order of the same title issued July 24, 2020. Specifies that agency legal authorities and Office of Management and Budget budgetary functions remain unaffected, and that the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13946
Targeting Opportunity Zones and Other Distressed Communities for Federal Site Locations
·Donald Trump·85 FR 52879
Amends Executive Order 12072 (Federal Space Management) to direct that, when selecting sites for federal space needs, preference be given to qualified opportunity zones, other distressed areas, and centralized community business areas, except where cost or security concerns take precedence. It also updates the General Services Administration Administrator's duties for acquiring, managing, and disposing of federal space, and makes minor gender-neutral wording changes. Separately, it amends Executive Order 13006 on locating federal facilities on historic properties, replacing references to "central cities" with "distressed communities," reaffirming the goal of placing federal facilities in qualified opportunity zones and other distressed areas, adjusting how alternative historic sites are considered when no suitable property exists, and updating references to "States, local governments, Indian tribes" to "State, local, and tribal governments." The order states it does not alter existing agency legal authority or budget functions, and creates no enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13945
Fighting the Spread of COVID-19 by Providing Assistance to Renters and Homeowners
·Donald Trump·85 FR 49935
Sets a policy to minimize residential evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 national emergency and directs several federal agencies to act. The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are told to consider whether temporary measures halting evictions for nonpayment of rent are necessary to prevent COVID-19's spread between states. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development are directed to identify available federal funds for temporary financial assistance to struggling renters and homeowners. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is directed to take appropriate action, such as assisting public housing authorities, landlords, and federal grant recipients, to help avoid evictions and foreclosures. The Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, in consultation with the Treasury Secretary, is directed to review existing authorities and resources for preventing evictions and foreclosures. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights and applies subject to existing law and available appropriations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13944
Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States
·Donald Trump·85 FR 49929
Directs federal agencies to increase domestic procurement of Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and their Critical Inputs, using authorities to limit competition to U.S. producers and split contracts among multiple domestic manufacturers, subject to exceptions for public interest, unavailability, excessive cost increases, or declared emergencies. Requires the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner to identify, within 90 days, a list of such essential products and to examine supply-chain vulnerabilities and regulatory barriers to domestic production. Directs the Office of Management and Budget to review limiting online purchases to e-commerce platforms meeting anti-counterfeiting standards, the U.S. Trade Representative to modify trade-agreement procurement coverage to exclude these products, the Secretary of Defense to restrict procurement of defense-related items to domestic sources, and the Environmental Protection Agency to streamline permitting for advanced manufacturing facilities. Authorizes use of Defense Production Act authority to prioritize and allocate these goods. Requires agencies to submit annual reports on procurement sources and spending, and the Secretary of Commerce to report on the health industrial base. Applies to executive departments and agencies involved in procuring these products, without limiting emergency response or veterans' drug access.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13943
Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat, and Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain
·Donald Trump·85 FR 48641
Acting under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act, and citing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13873, this order addresses risks posed by the WeChat messaging and payment application owned by Chinese company Tencent Holdings Ltd. It prohibits, beginning 45 days after the order's signing, any transactions related to WeChat by persons or property under U.S. jurisdiction with Tencent Holdings or its subsidiaries, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce. It also bans transactions that evade or attempt to violate this prohibition, and any conspiracy to do so. The Secretary of Commerce is directed to identify covered transactions within 45 days, without prior notice to affected parties, and is authorized to issue rules and regulations to implement the order. All federal departments and agencies are directed to take appropriate measures to carry it out, consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13942
Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok, and Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain
·Donald Trump·85 FR 48637
Citing the national emergency over information and communications technology supply chains declared in Executive Order 13873, the order finds that TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by China's ByteDance Ltd., poses risks including data collection on U.S. users, censorship of politically sensitive content, and potential disinformation campaigns. Beginning 45 days after the order, it prohibits transactions by any person or property subject to U.S. jurisdiction with ByteDance Ltd. or its subsidiaries, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce within that 45-day period. It also bans transactions or conspiracies intended to evade these prohibitions. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to issue rules and regulations to implement the order, and other federal agencies must take appropriate measures to support it. The order states it does not create enforceable legal rights and must be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13941
Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access
·Donald Trump·85 FR 47881
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take several actions to expand rural healthcare and telehealth access. Within 30 days, the Secretary must announce a new Medicare payment model to test flexibilities and value-based care options for rural providers, and must work with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Federal Communications Commission to develop a strategy for improving rural physical and communications healthcare infrastructure. Also within 30 days, the Secretary must report to the President on policy initiatives to reduce regulatory burdens on rural clinicians, address rural disease prevention, reduce maternal mortality, and improve rural mental health. Within 60 days, the Secretary must review temporary telehealth and staffing flexibilities adopted during the COVID-19 public health emergency and propose regulations to extend appropriate measures beyond the emergency period. The order applies to federal health agencies and Medicare programs serving rural communities, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13940
Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices With the Interests of American Workers
·Donald Trump·85 FR 47879