Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on January 9, 2025
Signed December 30, 2024·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·90 FR 187
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Closes all federal executive departments and agencies on January 9, 2025, as a mark of respect for former President James Earl Carter, Jr. Allows agency heads to keep certain offices or installations open and require specific employees to report for duty that day for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need. Specifies that January 9, 2025, is treated as falling under Executive Order 11582 and related federal pay and leave statutes for purposes of employee compensation. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to take actions necessary to carry out the order. States that it does not affect existing legal authorities of agencies or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any enforceable legal right or benefit for any party.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 14133 of December 30, 2024
Providing for the Closing of Executive
Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on
January 9, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of
the Federal Government shall be closed on January 9,
2025, as a mark of respect for James Earl Carter, Jr.,
the thirty-ninth President of the United States.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies
may determine that certain offices and installations of
their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open
and that certain employees must report for duty on
January 9, 2025, for reasons of national security,
defense, or other public need.
Sec. 3. January 9, 2025, shall be considered as falling
within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February
11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other
similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and
leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall take such actions as may be necessary
to implement this order.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 30, 2024.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 30, 2024. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.