Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Signed March 14, 2025·Donald Trump·90 FR 13037
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Revokes a set of executive orders, national security memoranda, presidential memoranda, and presidential determinations issued under the previous administration, following an earlier order (Executive Order 14148) that rescinded 78 similar actions. The revoked items include orders on COVID-19 data response, foreign policy workforce revitalization, human rights protections for LGBTQI+ persons abroad, a minimum wage increase for federal contractors, several Defense Production Act determinations covering infant formula, solar panels, insulation, electrolyzers and heat pumps, biotechnology and biomanufacturing policy, conventional arms transfer policy, defense supply chain resilience, global labor standards, tribal self-determination funding, apprenticeship expansion, and an investment and workforce initiative. The order states it does not affect existing statutory authority of agencies, the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, or create any enforceable legal rights, and must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available appropriations.
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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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Disposition
Revokes: EO 13994, January 21, 2021; National Security Memo. 3, February 4, 2021; Memo. of February 4, 2021; EO 14026, April 27, 2021; Memo. of March 31, 2022; Presidential Determination No. 2022–13, May 18, 2022; Presidential Determination No. 2022–15, June 6, 2022; Presidential Determination No. 2022–16, June 6, 2022; Presidential Determination No. 2022–17, June 6, 2022; Presidential Determination No. 2022–18, June 6, 2022; EO 14081, September 12, 2022; Memo. of January 17, 2023; National Security Memorandum 18, February 23, 2023; Memo. of February 27, 2023; Memo. of November 16, 2023; EO 14112, December 6, 2023; EO 14119, March 6, 2024; EO 14126, September 6, 2024
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Executive Order 14236 of March 14, 2025
Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive
Orders and Actions
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. Purpose. In Executive Order 14148 of January
20, 2025 (Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive
Orders and Actions), I rescinded 78 Presidential orders
and memoranda issued by then-President Biden. I also
directed the Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy, the Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy, and the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs to compile lists of additional orders,
memoranda, and proclamations issued by the prior
administration that should be rescinded. I have
determined that the following additional rescissions
are necessary to advance the policy of the United
States to restore common sense to the Federal
Government and unleash the potential of American
citizens.
Sec. 2. Revocation of Orders and Actions. The following
executive actions are hereby revoked:
(a) Executive Order 13994 of January 21, 2021
(Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future
High-Consequence Public Health Threats).
(b) National Security Memorandum 3 of February 4,
2021 (Revitalizing America's Foreign Policy and
National Security Workforce, Institutions, and
Partnerships).
(c) Presidential Memorandum of February 4, 2021
(Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the
World).
(d) Executive Order 14026 of April 27, 2021
(Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors).
(e) Presidential Memorandum of March 31, 2022
(Finding of a Severe Energy Supply Interruption).
(f) Presidential Determination 2022-13 of May 18,
2022 (Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production
Act to Ensure an Adequate Supply of Infant Formula).
(g) Presidential Determination 2022-15 of June 6,
2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section
303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended,
on Solar Photovoltaic Modules and Module Components).
(h) Presidential Determination 2022-16 of June 6,
2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section
303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended,
on Insulation).
(i) Presidential Determination 2022-17 of June 6,
2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section
303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended,
on Electrolyzers, Fuel Cells, and Platinum Group
Metals).
(j) Presidential Determination 2022-18 of June 6,
2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section
303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended,
on Electric Heat Pumps).
(k) Executive Order 14081 of September 12, 2022
(Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American
Bioeconomy).
(l) Presidential Memorandum of January 17, 2023
(Delegation of Authority Under Section 6501(b)(2) of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2022).
(m) National Security Memorandum 18 of February 23,
2023 (United States Conventional Arms Transfer Policy).
(n) Presidential Memorandum of February 27, 2023
(Presidential Waiver of Statutory Requirements Pursuant
to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950,
as amended, on Department of Defense Supply Chains
Resilience).
(o) Presidential Memorandum of November 16, 2023
(Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights, and High Labor
Standards Globally).
(p) Executive Order 14112 of December 6, 2023
(Reforming Federal Funding and Support for Tribal
Nations to Better Embrace Our Trust Responsibilities
and Promote the Next Era of Tribal Self-Determination).
(q) Executive Order 14119 of March 6, 2024 (Scaling
and Expanding the Use of Registered Apprenticeships in
Industries and the Federal Government and Promoting
Labor-Management Forums).
(r) Executive Order 14126 of September 6, 2024
(Investing in America and Investing in American
Workers).
Sec. 3. 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,
March 14, 2025.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed March 14, 2025. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.