E.O.13798
Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty
·Donald Trump·82 FR 21675
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
Directs federal agencies to strengthen collection and enforcement of antidumping and countervailing duties owed by importers. Within 90 days, the Secretary of Homeland Security, consulting with the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative, must develop a plan requiring "covered importers" identified as revenue risks—those with no import history or a record of failing to pay duties on time—to post bonds or other security. The Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, must also develop a strategy within 90 days for combating violations of trade and customs laws and for interdicting inadmissible merchandise. The Treasury and Homeland Security Secretaries must take steps, including rulemaking if needed, to let Customs and Border Protection share information with intellectual property rights holders about possible infringement or abandoned counterfeit merchandise. The Attorney General, with Homeland Security, must set prosecution priorities and allocate resources for trade law violations. The order does not create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13784
Establishing the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
·Donald Trump·82 FR 16283
Establishes the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, made up of members appointed by the President, with a chair designated from among them. The commission is tasked with studying the federal response to drug addiction and opioid abuse, including reviewing existing federal funding, assessing access to treatment and overdose-reversal services, examining prevention practices and prescription monitoring programs, evaluating educational messaging, and reviewing existing federal programs, then recommending improvements to the President. The Office of National Drug Control Policy will provide administrative support and funding to the extent permitted by law. The commission must submit an interim report within 90 days of the order and a final report by October 1, 2017, unless the chair notifies the President that an extension is needed. The commission will terminate 30 days after submitting its final report unless the President extends it. Members serve without extra pay, though private citizens may receive travel expenses.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13783
Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth
·Donald Trump·82 FR 16093
Directs federal agencies to review and, where appropriate, suspend, revise, or rescind regulations, orders, and guidance that burden domestic energy production, including oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear resources. Agencies must submit review plans to the Office of Management and Budget within 45 days, draft reports within 120 days, and final reports within 180 days. Revokes several prior climate-related executive actions, including Executive Order 13653 and related presidential memoranda and reports, and rescinds federal guidance on considering greenhouse gases in environmental reviews. Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to review the Clean Power Plan and related greenhouse gas emission rules for possible suspension or revision, and disbands the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, withdrawing its cost estimate documents. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to lift the federal land coal leasing moratorium and resume coal leasing, and to review rules on hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas development on federal lands. Requires notification of the Attorney General regarding related pending litigation.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13782
Revocation of Federal Contracting Executive Orders
·Donald Trump·82 FR 15607
Revokes Executive Order 13673 of July 31, 2014, section 3 of Executive Order 13683 of December 11, 2014, and Executive Order 13738 of August 23, 2016, all of which dealt with federal contracting requirements. Directs all executive departments and agencies to promptly consider rescinding any orders, rules, regulations, guidance, or policies that implemented or enforced the revoked orders and provision, as appropriate and consistent with law. Clarifies that nothing in the order affects existing legal authority of agencies or their heads, or the budgetary and administrative functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and states that it creates no enforceable rights against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13781
Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch
·Donald Trump·82 FR 13959
Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to develop a plan for reorganizing the executive branch to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability, including possibly eliminating or merging unnecessary agencies, components, or programs. Requires each agency head to submit a proposed reorganization plan to the Director within 180 days. Requires the Director to publish a Federal Register notice inviting public suggestions, consider them, and then submit a governmentwide reorganization plan to the President within 180 days after the public comment period closes, including recommendations for any legislative or administrative changes needed. Instructs the Director, in preparing the plan, to weigh factors such as whether functions belong at the federal, state, local, or private level, whether functions are redundant, whether costs are justified by public benefits, and the costs of eliminating or merging entities, and to consult with agency heads and outside experts. States it does not alter existing legal authorities and creates no enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13780
Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States
·Donald Trump·82 FR 13209
Revokes Executive Order 13769 and replaces it, suspending for 90 days the entry into the United States of nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, subject to exceptions for lawful permanent residents, current visa holders, dual nationals, and others, and to case-by-case waivers by consular or border officials. Suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days and caps refugee admissions at 50,000 for fiscal year 2017. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, with the Secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence, to review screening and vetting procedures worldwide, report findings within set deadlines, and recommend further country-specific restrictions. Requires additional scrutiny for Iraqi nationals, suspension of the Visa Interview Waiver Program, expansion of the Consular Fellows Program, review of visa reciprocity agreements, expedited development of a biometric entry-exit tracking system, and public reporting on terrorism-related offenses by foreign nationals. States no previously issued visas will be revoked under this order and it takes effect March 16, 2017. Contains further implementation and enforcement provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13779
White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
·Donald Trump·82 FR 12499