Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos

Executive Order 14243 of March 20, 2025

Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating
Information Silos

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. Purpose. Removing unnecessary
barriers to Federal employees accessing Government data
and promoting inter-agency data sharing are important
steps toward eliminating bureaucratic duplication and
inefficiency while enhancing the Government's ability
to detect overpayments and fraud.

Sec. 2. Definitions. (a) “Agency” has the meaning
given to it in section 3502 of title 44, United States
Code, except that such term does not include the
Executive Office of the President or any components
thereof.

    (b) “Agency Head” means the highest-ranking
official of an agency, such as the Secretary,
Administrator, or Director. With respect to multimember
agencies, “Agency Head” means the Chairman or
equivalent official.

Sec. 3. Eliminating Information Silos. (a) Agency Heads
shall take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent
consistent with law, to ensure Federal officials
designated by the President or Agency Heads (or their
designees) have full and prompt access to all
unclassified agency records, data, software systems,
and information technology systems--or their
equivalents if providing access to an equivalent
dataset does not delay access--for purposes of pursuing
Administration priorities related to the identification
and elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. This
includes authorizing and facilitating both the intra-
and inter-agency sharing and consolidation of
unclassified agency records.

    (b) Within 30 days of the date of this order,
Agency Heads shall, to the maximum extent consistent
with law, rescind or modify all agency guidance that
serves as a barrier to the inter- or intra-agency
sharing of unclassified information specified in
subsection (a) of this section. Agency Heads shall also
review agency regulations governing unclassified data
access, including system of records notices, and,
within 30 days of the date of this order, submit a
report to the Office of Management and Budget
cataloging those regulations and recommending whether
any should be eliminated or modified to achieve the
goals set forth in this order. Regulatory modifications
pursuant to this order are exempt from Executive Order
14192.
    (c) Immediately upon execution of this order,
Agency Heads shall take all necessary steps, to the
maximum extent consistent with law, to ensure the
Federal Government has unfettered access to
comprehensive data from all State programs that receive
Federal funding, including, as appropriate, data
generated by those programs but maintained in third-
party databases.
    (d) Immediately upon execution of this order and
without limiting the above directives, the Secretary of
Labor and the Secretary's designees shall receive, to
the maximum extent consistent with law, unfettered
access to all unemployment data and related payment
records, including all such data and records currently
available to the Department of Labor's Office of
Inspector General.
    (e) This order supersedes any prior Executive
Orders and rules or regulations subject to direct
Presidential rulemaking authority to the extent they

serve as a barrier to the inter- or intra-agency
sharing of unclassified information as specified in
this order.
    (f) Agency Heads shall conduct a review of
classified information policies to determine whether
they result in the classification of materials beyond
what is necessary to protect critical national security
interests and, within 45 days of the date of this
order, submit a report to the Office of Management and
Budget cataloguing those classified information
policies and recommending whether any should be
eliminated or modified to achieve the goals set forth
in this order.

Sec. 4. 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,

    Washington, March 20, 2025.