Revocation of Certain Executive Orders
Signed January 21, 2025·Donald Trump·90 FR 8637
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Revokes two prior executive orders related to COVID-19: Executive Order 14042, which required federal contractors to follow specific COVID-19 safety protocols, and Executive Order 14043, which required federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The order states that it does not affect existing legal authority of federal agencies or their heads, nor the budgetary and administrative functions of the Office of Management and Budget. It also specifies that it must be carried out consistent with applicable law and subject to available funding, and that it does not create any new legal rights or benefits for any party against the United States or its officers and employees.
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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 14174 of January 21, 2025
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Revocation. The following Executive Orders
are hereby revoked:
(a) Executive Order 14042 of September 9, 2021
(Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal
Contractors); and
(b) Executive Order 14043 of September 9, 2021
(Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for
Federal Employees).
Sec. 2. 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,
January 21, 2025.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 21, 2025. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.