E.O.13947
Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First
·Donald Trump·85 FR 59171
E.O.13939
Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen
·Donald Trump·85 FR 45759
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to complete a rulemaking process addressing drug rebates in the Medicare Part D program. The rulemaking would remove anti-kickback safe harbor protections for certain retrospective price reductions and other payments that drug manufacturers give to health plan sponsors, pharmacies, or pharmacy benefit managers when not applied at the point of sale, while creating new safe harbors allowing discounts to be applied directly at the patient's point of sale to lower out-of-pocket costs, and permitting certain legitimate service fees for pharmacy benefit managers. Before taking this action, the Secretary must publicly confirm that it is not expected to increase federal spending, Medicare beneficiary premiums, or patients' total out-of-pocket costs. The order states that discounts on prescription drugs should benefit patients directly, and clarifies 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.13938
Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients
·Donald Trump·85 FR 45757
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take steps expanding access to lower-cost imported prescription drugs. This includes facilitating waivers that let individuals import prescription drugs when doing so poses no added safety risk and lowers costs, under a provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; authorizing re-importation of insulin products when the Secretary finds it necessary for emergency medical care; and completing a pending rulemaking process to allow importation of certain prescription drugs from Canada. The order states its purpose as addressing higher U.S. drug prices compared to other developed countries, citing the European Union's experience with parallel drug trade. It specifies that implementation must be consistent with existing law and subject to available funding, and that it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13937
Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications
·Donald Trump·85 FR 45755
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take action, to the extent permitted by law, ensuring that future grants under section 330(e) of the Public Health Service Act are conditioned on Federally Qualified Health Centers having practices in place to make insulin and injectable epinephrine available at the discounted price the health center paid under the 340B Prescription Drug Program, plus a minimal administration fee. This benefit is meant for low-income individuals, as determined by the Secretary, who face high cost-sharing requirements, have a high unmet deductible, or lack health insurance. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights and must be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13936
The President's Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization
·Donald Trump·85 FR 43413
Declares a national emergency after determining that Hong Kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous from China to justify its previous special treatment under U.S. law. Suspends preferential treatment for Hong Kong under several statutes covering immigration quotas, arms exports, defense production, and export controls, treating it the same as mainland China. Directs agency heads to act within 15 days to amend related regulations, end police training programs, suspend extradition and prisoner-transfer agreements, halt certain scientific cooperation, end Fulbright exchanges with China and Hong Kong, and pursue other steps ending special conditions. Blocks the U.S. property of foreign persons involved in enforcing China's national security law in Hong Kong or undermining its autonomy, democratic institutions, or human rights, and bars transactions with them. Suspends U.S. entry for such persons and their immediate family. Authorizes the Treasury and State Departments to implement and enforce these measures, and allows the President to reconsider the order if Hong Kong's autonomy is restored. Contains additional definitions and procedural provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13935
White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative
·Donald Trump·85 FR 42683
Establishes the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative within the Department of Education to improve Hispanic Americans' access to educational and economic opportunities, including by identifying effective workforce and education practices, fostering public-private partnerships, and monitoring federal programs affecting outcomes for Hispanic Americans. The Initiative is led by an Executive Director appointed by the Secretary of Education and includes an Interagency Working Group coordinating relevant agencies. The order also creates the President's Advisory Commission on Hispanic Prosperity, made up of up to 20 presidentially appointed members plus designated cabinet officials, tasked with promoting job pathways, strengthening Hispanic-Serving Institutions, encouraging partnerships, and periodically reporting progress and recommendations to the President. The Commission terminates two years after the order unless extended. The order supersedes Executive Order 13555 and a related provision of Executive Order 13889, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13934
Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
·Donald Trump·85 FR 41165
Establishes an Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, with members from the General Services Administration, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Directs the Task Force to report within 60 days on options for creating a National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park featuring named historical figures, aiming to open it before July 4, 2026. Instructs relevant agencies to prioritize funding for commissioning lifelike, realistic statues of historically significant Americans, especially in communities where statues were removed or destroyed, and directs the General Services Administration to revise its art policies accordingly. Directs the National Endowment for the Humanities to prioritize funding for education on founding documents and ideals, with annual reports through 2026. Applies the enforcement provisions of Executive Order 13933 to protect the National Garden and newly commissioned statues. DefinesRead the full summaryShow less
E.O.13933
Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence
·Donald Trump·85 FR 40081
Directs federal prosecution to the fullest extent of the law against those who destroy, deface, or vandalize monuments, memorials, or statues, and against those inciting related violence or damaging religious property, citing existing federal statutes covering property destruction, veterans' memorials, conspiracy, and religious property protection. Instructs the Attorney General to prioritize investigation and prosecution of these offenses and to coordinate with state and local authorities. Directs agency heads to review federal grant programs and, where legally appropriate, withhold funding tied to public spaces from state and local governments or law enforcement agencies deemed to have failed to protect monuments from destruction or vandalism. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, and Secretary of Homeland Security to provide personnel, upon request from the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Administrator of General Services, to help protect federal monuments and property, with this assistance provision expiring after six months unless extended by the President. States it does not alter existing agency authority or Justice Department prosecutorial discretion.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13932
Modernizing and Reforming the Assessment and Hiring of Federal Job Candidates
·Donald Trump·85 FR 39457
Directs the Office of Personnel Management, working with other agencies, to shift federal hiring in the competitive service away from degree-based requirements toward skills- and competency-based assessments. Agencies may only impose a minimum educational requirement when it is legally required to perform the job's duties in that state or locality, or when education directly reflects the competencies needed for a position. Position descriptions and job postings must be based on the specific skills and competencies the job requires. Within 120 days, OPM must publish revised job classification and qualification standards, which take effect within 180 days. Within that same 180-day period, agencies must develop or adopt assessment methods that do not rely solely on educational attainment or on candidates' self-reported abilities, and must keep evaluating the effectiveness of their assessment strategies. The order defines terms such as 'assessment,' 'competitive service,' 'education,' and 'qualification,' and states it does not create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13931
Continuing the President's National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board
·Donald Trump·85 FR 39455
Amends Executive Order 13845 of July 19, 2018 to extend the President's National Council for the American Worker, setting its termination date at September 30, 2021 unless the President extends it further. Also continues the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, previously established under the same order, until that same date. The order states it does not alter 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 new legally enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13930
Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America's Children
·Donald Trump·85 FR 38741
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take a series of steps aimed at improving the foster care and adoption system. These include publishing annual data on children in foster care and awaiting adoption, collecting data on siblings separated in care, developing better tracking of available foster homes, and issuing guidance encouraging partnerships between state agencies and nongovernmental groups, including faith-based organizations, on an equal basis. It also directs guidance on expanding educational and trauma-informed training resources, promoting kinship guardianship assistance, studying and updating implementation of the Multiethnic Placement Act's anti-discrimination requirements, and reviewing state compliance with timelines for preventing removals, terminating parental rights, and achieving permanency. Deadlines range from six months to three years depending on the task. The order states it does not alter implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act or the tribal consultation process, and does not create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13929
Safe Policing for Safe Communities
·Donald Trump·85 FR 37325
Directs the Attorney General to set standards for certifying independent bodies that credential state and local law enforcement agencies, requiring those standards to confirm that agencies' use-of-force policies comply with law and prohibit chokeholds except where deadly force is legally permitted. Directs the Justice Department to condition discretionary grant funding on agencies seeking such credentialing. Establishes a database, coordinated by the Attorney General, to share information among law enforcement agencies on excessive-force incidents, terminations, convictions, and civil judgments, with periodic public release of anonymized data. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop training and co-responder programs for encounters involving mental illness, homelessness, and addiction, and requires Health and Human Services to survey community-support models and report findings and funding recommendations to the President within 90 days. Directs the Attorney General to propose legislation enhancing grant programs supporting these credentialing, reporting, training, and community-engagement efforts. States it creates no enforceable legal rights and applies subject to existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13928
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated With the International Criminal Court
·Donald Trump·85 FR 36139
Declares a national emergency over International Criminal Court (ICC) efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute United States military, intelligence, or government personnel, or personnel of allied countries, without their governments' consent. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the order blocks all US property and interests of foreign persons the Secretary of State determines directly engaged in, materially supported, or are owned or controlled by someone engaged in such ICC actions. It bars donations, contributions, and transactions with those blocked, and prohibits attempts to evade or conspire to violate these measures. It also suspends US entry for such persons, their immediate family members, and ICC employees or agents, unless the Secretary of State determines entry serves US interests or law enforcement objectives, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Secretary of the Treasury, consulting the Secretary of State, is authorized to issue implementing regulations and report to Congress on the emergency.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13927
Accelerating the Nation's Economic Recovery From the COVID-19 Emergency by Expediting Infrastructure Investments and Other Activities
·Donald Trump·85 FR 35165
Citing the COVID-19 national emergency and its economic effects, the order directs federal agencies to use emergency and expedited legal authorities to speed infrastructure and related projects. It instructs the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the Army (for civil works), and the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, and Agriculture (for projects on federal lands) to expedite authorized and appropriated projects and report progress to the Office of Management and Budget, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Council on Environmental Quality within 30 days, with status updates every 30 days thereafter. It also directs all agencies to identify and use emergency provisions, exemptions, and categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and Clean Water Act permitting programs administered by the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA, and to review other statutes allowing expedited treatment of infrastructure, energy, and natural resources actions, reporting similarly. It states it creates no enforceable legal rights and does not alter existing agency authority.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13926
Advancing International Religious Freedom
·Donald Trump·85 FR 34951
Directs the Secretary of State, working with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to prioritize international religious freedom in foreign policy and foreign assistance within 180 days, and to budget at least $50 million per fiscal year for related programs, subject to available funds. Requires agencies funding foreign assistance to avoid discriminating against faith-based groups competing for federal funding. Directs Chiefs of Mission in countries flagged for religious freedom violations to develop action plans, and instructs agency heads to raise religious freedom concerns with foreign counterparts. Requires State Department Foreign Affairs Series employees to undergo religious freedom training, with agencies submitting implementation plans within 90 days, and refresher training every three years. Directs the Secretaries of State and Treasury to develop recommendations for using economic tools, including visa restrictions or sanctions under Executive Order 13818, against countries or entities tied to religious freedom violations. Defines key terms by reference to existing statutes and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13925
Preventing Online Censorship
·Donald Trump·85 FR 34079
Sets policy aimed at large online platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, framing certain content moderation as improper censorship. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and in consultation with the Attorney General, to petition the Federal Communications Commission within 60 days to propose regulations clarifying the scope of liability protections under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, particularly around what counts as good-faith content restriction. Requires federal agencies to review their advertising spending on online platforms and report findings to the Office of Management and Budget within 30 days, with the Department of Justice assessing whether platforms are appropriate recipients of government advertising. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to consider whether platforms' content restrictions constitute unfair or deceptive practices and to consider publishing a report on complaints. Instructs the Attorney General to form a working group on state-level enforcement and model legislation, and to draft proposed federal legislation supporting these objectives. Defines "online platform" broadly to include social networking sites and general search engines.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13924
Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery
·Donald Trump·85 FR 31353
Directs federal agency heads to use available emergency authorities to support economic recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak and to identify regulatory standards that may hinder that recovery, considering whether to rescind, modify, waive, or grant exemptions from such requirements consistent with existing law. Instructs agencies (excluding the Department of Justice) to speed up pre-enforcement rulings on whether proposed business conduct complies with relevant statutes, and to consider policies of enforcement discretion for entities making good-faith compliance efforts, including with public health guidance. Lists principles of fairness agencies should apply in administrative enforcement and adjudication, such as placing the burden of proof on the government and ensuring proportionate penalties. Requires agencies to review regulatory flexibilities adopted during the pandemic and report to the Office of Management and Budget and White House domestic and economic policy officials on which should be made permanent. Assigns the Office of Management and Budget to monitor compliance and issue implementation guidance, and states the order does not apply to foreign, military, or national security functions except certain procurement and trade actions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13923
Establishment of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force Under Section 741 of the United States- Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act
·Donald Trump·85 FR 30587
Establishes the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to monitor United States enforcement of the prohibition on importing goods made with forced labor under section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930, acting under authority granted by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act. The task force is chaired by the Secretary of Homeland Security and includes representatives from the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, and Labor, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with the chair able to invite other agencies to join or observe. Decisions on certain enforcement actions are to be made by consensus where possible, falling to majority vote, with the chair able to break ties, if the chair decides delay would be excessive. Each participating agency covers its own costs, and the order states it does not create any enforceable legal rights and applies subject to existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13922
Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act to the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation To Respond to the COVID-19 Outbreak
·Donald Trump·85 FR 30583
Invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950, the order delegates to the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation the authority to make loans and other financial commitments to expand domestic production of resources needed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, including strengthening related domestic supply chains. This authority, drawn from sections 302 and 303 of the Act, is to be used in consultation with the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, and other agency heads as needed. Loans are limited to supporting COVID-19 response and recovery or supply chain resiliency, and must follow existing federal credit and budget guidelines. The Corporation's Chief Executive Officer must adopt rules to implement the order. The delegation expires when the two-year waiver period under the CARES Act's relevant provision ends, and the order does not alter existing agency authorities or create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13921
Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth
·Donald Trump·85 FR 28471