Taking Steps To End Cashless Bail To Protect Americans
Signed August 25, 2025·Donald Trump·90 FR 42129
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Declares that federal policies and resources should not support jurisdictions that have eliminated cash bail, to the maximum extent permitted by law. Directs the Attorney General to submit, within 30 days, a list of states and local jurisdictions that have substantially eliminated cash bail as a condition of pretrial release for offenses posing a clear threat to public safety, including violent, sexual, or indecent acts, burglary, looting, or vandalism, and to update the list as needed. Directs the head of each federal executive department and agency, working with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to identify federal funds—including grants and contracts—currently provided to those identified jurisdictions that could be suspended or terminated consistent with applicable law. States it does not create enforceable rights and must be implemented consistent with existing 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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Executive Order 14342 of August 25, 2025
Taking Steps To End Cashless Bail To Protect
Americans
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 and Policy. Maintaining order and
public safety requires incarcerating individuals whose
pending criminal charges or criminal history
demonstrate a clear ongoing risk to society. When these
individuals are released without bail under city or
State policies, they are permitted--even encouraged--to
further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans
because they know our laws will not be enforced. Our
great law enforcement officers risk their lives to
arrest potentially violent criminals, only to be forced
to arrest the same individuals, sometimes for the same
crimes, while they await trial on the previous charges.
This is a waste of public resources and a threat to
public safety.
As President, I will require commonsense policies that
protect Americans' safety and well-being by
incarcerating individuals who are known threats. It is
therefore the policy of my Administration that Federal
policies and resources should not be used to support
jurisdictions with cashless bail policies, to the
maximum extent permitted by law.
Sec. 2. Consequences for Cashless Bail Jurisdictions.
(a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the
Attorney General shall submit to the President, through
the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, a
list of States and local jurisdictions that have, in
the Attorney General's opinion, substantially
eliminated cash bail as a potential condition of
pretrial release from custody for crimes that pose a
clear threat to public safety and order, including
offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts,
or burglary, looting, or vandalism. The Attorney
General shall update this list as necessary.
(b) The head of each executive department and
agency, in coordination with the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget, shall identify Federal funds,
including grants and contracts, currently provided to
cashless bail jurisdictions identified pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section that may be suspended or
terminated, as appropriate and consistent with
applicable law.
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.
(d) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the Department of Justice.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 25, 2025.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed August 25, 2025. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.