Executive Actions Tracker

This EO directs the Secretary of Education to take all appropriate actions to enforce the requirements of section 1011f of title 20, United States Code to require complete and timely disclosure by higher education institutions of foreign funding. The Secretary of Education and other agencies shall take appropriate action to prospectively ensure that certification of compliance by higher education institutions with 20 U.S.C. 1011f and any other applicable foreign funding disclosure requirements is material for purposes of 31 U.S.C. 3729 and for receipt of appropriate Federal grant funds, which shall not be provided in cases of noncompliance with 20 U.S.C. 1011f and any other applicable foreign funding disclosure requirements.

This EO establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Department of Education the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. These organizations will aim to foster opportunities, provide the highest quality education, obtain equal opportunities for federal programs, and ensure college-educated Americans are empowered. This EO also revokes EO 14041, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

This proclaims April 19 through April 27, 2025, as National Park Week.

This proclamation honors the memory of His Holiness Pope Francis by ordering that the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff at the White House, all public buildings and grounds, military posts, naval stations, and naval vessels throughout the United States and its Territories, as well as at all U.S. embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, until sunset on the day of interment.

This memo extends the freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees within the executive branch as initially directed in the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025 (Hiring Freeze). through July 15, 2025.

This proclaims April 19, 2025, as a day in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

This proclamation amends Proclamation 9173 (Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Expansion) to permit commercial fishing within the monument, finding that the existing prohibition is not necessary to protect the monument's objects of scientific and historic interest. It prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from barring commercial fishing between 50 and 200 nautical miles from the monument's landward boundaries where the monument is coterminous with the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, restricts commercial fishing there to United States flagged vessels, and allows foreign flagged vessels to transship U.S.-harvested fish only by permit. It also directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to expeditiously publish proposed rules amending or repealing regulations that restrict commercial fishing in the monument.

Clients in Environmental · Energy and Infrastructure

This EO seeks to promote the productive harvest of US seafood resources; limit commercial fishing regulation; combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; and protect seafood markets from the unfair trade practices of other nations. The Secretary of Commerce shall identify regulations to rescind or revise to further this goal, solicit public comments, and coordinate with various groups. Secretary of Commerce shall also coordinate with the Secretary of Interior to review national monuments to suggest opening them to commercial fishing.

Clients in Food and Beverage · Environmental

This EO aims to remove barriers for federal procurement and remove all FAR provisions not required by statute or essential to sound procurement. Within 180 days, the Administrator of the Office of Federal Public Procurement Policy (“Administrator”) shall take appropriate actions to amend the FAR to ensure that it contains only provisions that are required by statute or that are otherwise necessary to support simplicity and usability, strengthen the efficacy of the procurement system, or protect economic or national security interests. Within 15 days of the date of this order, each agency exercising procurement authority pursuant to the FAR shall designate a senior acquisition or procurement official to work with the Administrator and the FAR Council to ensure agency alignment with FAR reform and to provide recommendations regarding any agency-specific supplemental regulations to the FAR. The Administrator shall consider adding 4-year sunset provisions on the FAR provisions to be removed or reworked until this EO.

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This EO directs federal policy that agencies shall procure commercially available products and services, including those that can be modified to fill agencies’ needs, to the maximum extent practicable, including pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-355, as amended) (FASA). Within 60 days, each agency shall review all open solicitations/notices where a commercial option has not been identified and evaluate whether a commercial option is available. 30 days later, each agency shall evaluate proposed action to advance commercial options. Within 120 days, and annually thereafter, each agency shall provide a report to OMB detailing the agency’s compliance with FASA and its progress toward implementing this order. Whenever an agency proposes to solicit a non-commercial product or service, the applicable contracting officer shall provide the specific reasons a non‑commercial product or service is required. The approval authority shall review and approve or deny the proposal in writing.

Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services

Directs agencies to adopt the maximum use of technology for environmental review and permitting for infrastructure projects. Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), in consultation with the National Energy Dominance Council and relevant permitting agencies, shall issue a Permitting Technology Action Plan for modernizing the technology used for Federal permitting and environmental review processes for infrastructure projects. Within 90 days of issuance of the plan, the relevant officials should adopt and begin implementation of that plan. Within 15 days of the date of this memorandum, the Chairman of CEQ shall establish and lead an interagency Permitting Innovation Center that will design and test prototype tools that could be implemented pursuant to the Permitting Technology Action Plan for NEPA reviews and other environmental permits and authorizations.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Construction · Environmental · AI, Robotics and Quantum

This EO revokes Executive Order 12072 and Executive Order 13006. The Administrator of General Services is directed to initiate the process to amend the regulations at title 41, parts 102-79 and 102-83, Code of Federal Regulations, and to take any other steps necessary to conform Federal office space management policy with this order. Agencies that acquire or utilize federally owned or leased space under authority other than the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), as amended, shall conform to the provisions of this order.

Clients in Construction

This memorandum directs the Secretaries of Labor and Health and Human Services and the Commissioner of Social Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to ensure ineligible aliens do not receive Social Security Act funds, including by prioritizing civil or administrative enforcement against States, localities, and grantees that fail to verify eligibility. It directs the Attorney General and the Commissioner to expand the SSA's fraud prosecutor program to at least 50 U.S. Attorney Offices, and the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a similar program for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services programs in at least 15 offices, both by October 1, 2025. It further directs the Commissioner to implement the recommendations of SSA Inspector General Audit Report A-06-21-51022, refer mismatched earnings reports for persons age 100 or older to the Inspector General, and, within 60 days, review resuming civil monetary penalties under section 1129 of the Social Security Act.

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This EO directs a Section 232 investigation to determine the effects on national security of imports of processed critical minerals and their derivative products, including the impact on domestic production.

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This EO seeks to optimize Federal health care programs, intellectual property protections, and safety regulations to provide access to prescription drugs at lower costs. The EO directs various agency actions to achieve this goal.

Clients in Healthcare · Life Sciences

This EO clarifies the exceptions set forth under EO 14247 as amended (4/2/25).

This EO directs Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Homeland Security to (1) provide for use and jurisdiction for DoD on federal lands; (2) provide for transfer and acceptance of jurisdiction over such Federal lands to enable military activities on military installation and for the designation of the federal lands as National Defense Areas by the Secretary of Defense. Secretary of Interior shall allow DoD use of Roosevelt Reservation not yet transferred/withdrawn.The Secretary of Defense may determine those military activities that are reasonably necessary and appropriate to accomplish the mission assigned in Executive Order 14167 and that are necessary to protect and maintain the security of military installations.

Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services

This EO directs a suspension pending review for any active security clearances held by individuals at Susman and a cessation of any government materials provided. Government contracting agencies shall, to the extent permissible by law, require Government contractors to disclose any business they do with Susman and whether that business is related to the subject of the Government contract. The heads of all agencies shall review all contracts with Susman or with entities that disclose doing business with it under subsection and take steps to terminate any contracts. The heads of all agencies shall provide guidance limiting official access from Federal Government buildings to employees of Susman when such access would threaten the national security of or otherwise be inconsistent with the interests of the United States and guidance limiting Government employees acting in their official capacity from engaging with Susman employees. Lastly, agency officials shall refrain from hiring employees of Susman, absent a waiver from the head of the agency, made in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.

This executive order aims to accelerate U.S. defense procurement by reforming acquisition processes with a focus on speed, flexibility, and execution. It mandates a comprehensive review of existing acquisition process, internal regulations, acquisition workforce, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System, and major defense acquisition programs.

Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services

This EO directs the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and all other relevant agency heads to immediately take all action to suspend any active security clearances held by Christopher Krebs, in addition to individuals at entities associated with Krebs, including SentinelOne pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest. Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action to review Kreb's activities as a Government employee and submit a report.

Clients in Digital Infrastructure

This proclaims April 9, 2025, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.

The phased implementation plan directs the Secretaries of State and Defense to promptly execute key actions, including implementing NSPM 10 of 2018, reevaluating missile technology restrictions, and engaging Congress to update notification processes for defense sales. Within 60 days, they will identify priority partners and end-items for arms transfers, ensuring these actions do not impair U.S. readiness and enhance allied burden-sharing. Annually, priority lists and munitions protections will be reviewed to focus on sensitive technologies. Plans to improve transparency and develop an electronic tracking system for defense sales will be submitted within 90 and 120 days, respectively.

Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services

This EO modifies Executive Order 14257. First, it suspends from 4/10/25 - 7/9/25 country specific ad valorem rates, and instead enforces a 10% rate for all countries (except as otherwise provided). As of 4/10/25, the duty rate for Chinese products is increased to from 84% to 125% for HTSUS and from 90% to 120% for low value imports.

This EO directs the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and all other relevant agency heads to immediately take all action to suspend any active security clearances held by Miles Taylor, in addition to individuals at entities associated with Taylor, including the University of Pennsylvania, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest. Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action to review Miles Taylor’s activities as a Government employee and submit a report.

This memo orders agencies to take steps to repeal any regulation that exceeds its statutory authority, especially considering the listed court decisions (see memo for full list). This follows the review period ordered in Executive Order 14219.