Executive Actions Tracker
Executive orders, proclamations and memoranda from Jan 20, 2025 onward, with AI-assisted summaries, tagging and litigation tracking.
- MemorandumJan 20, 2025The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal (Global Tax Deal)
This memorandum declares that commitments made by the prior administration under the OECD Global Tax Deal have no force or effect in the United States absent an act of Congress. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD to so notify the OECD, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade Representative to take additional implementing steps. It further directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, to investigate foreign tax rules that are extraterritorial or disproportionately affect American companies and to deliver findings and a list of options for protective measures to the President within 60 days.
Active - EO 14172Executive OrderJan 20, 2025Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness
Requires agencies to appoint members to the Board on Geographic Names. Reinstates the name "Mount McKinley" for the Denali Mountain. Renames the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."
Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Tribal and Native American Law
Active - EO 14147Executive OrderJan 20, 2025Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Directs the DOJ, SEC, and FTC to review all investigations during the last 4 years to determine if any investigations unfairly targeted political opponents of the Biden Administration. Also directs the DNI to determine whether the Intelligence Community has done the same. Requires these agencies to submit a report to the President identifying these matters and recommendations for appropriate remedial actions.
Active2 legal challenges - MemorandumJan 20, 2025Return to In-Person Work
This memorandum directs the heads of all executive departments and agencies to terminate remote work arrangements as soon as practicable and require employees to return to in-person work at their duty stations on a full-time basis, while permitting agency heads to make exemptions they deem necessary.
Active - MemorandumJan 20, 2025Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees
Memorandum structuring the National Security Committee (NSC). It establishes the NSC as the President's principal means for coordinating national and homeland security policies across departments and agencies. The Principals Committee (PC) and Deputies Committee (DC) serve as senior interagency forums for policy development and decision-making, while Policy Coordination Committees (PCCs) manage policy implementation and integration.
Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Active - ProclamationJan 20, 2025Declaring A National Emergency At The Southern Border Of The United States
This proclamation declares a national emergency at the southern border under sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act and invokes 10 U.S.C. 12302 and 10 U.S.C. 2808. It directs the Secretary of Defense to deploy members of the Armed Forces, including the Ready Reserve and National Guard, to support the Secretary of Homeland Security in obtaining operational control of the southern border, and directs the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to construct additional physical barriers. It revokes Proclamation 10142 (Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Southern Border of the United States and Redirection of Funds Diverted to Border Wall Construction), issued January 20, 2021, and requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the President within 30 days and, jointly with the Secretary of Homeland Security, within 90 days, including recommendations on whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services · Construction · Telecom
Active - EO 14159Executive OrderJan 20, 2025Protecting the American People Against Invasion
This EO sets forth several policies and procedures aimed at enforcing the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The EO directs DHS and USCIS to prioritize enforcement of INA and other Federal laws related to illegal entry and unlawful presence of aliens in the United States. The EO directs the Attorney General to prioritize prosecution of criminal offenses related to the same. The EO aims to establish Homeland Security Task Forces in all states. The EO directs DHS to ensure the efficient and expedited removal of aliens from the United States and to construct detention facilities for aliens pending the outcome of their removal proceedings. The EO states that all "sanctuary jurisdictions" will no longer receive federal funds.
Active12 legal challenges - EO 14154Executive OrderJan 20, 2025Unleashing American Energy
The EO establishes policy of fossil fuel exploration on federal lands and continental shelf, non-fuel minerals, eliminates "EV mandate", and general deregulation of energy and consumer appliances. It promotes energy exploration on federal lands, strengthens the U.S. position in mineral production, and encourages regulatory reforms to eliminate burdensome mandates and support consumer choice. The order revokes several prior climate-related EOs (13990, 13992, 14008, 14007, 14013, 14027, 14030, 14037, 14057, 14072, 14082, and 14096) and streamlines the permitting process to expedite energy project approvals. Additionally, it focuses on ensuring accurate environmental analyses and addressing national security implications related to mineral reliance.
Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Environmental · Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Active13 legal challenges - EO 14152Executive OrderJan 20, 2025Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information
The EO orders the investigation of individuals and revocation of security clearances for individuals involved in the Hunter Biden laptop coverup.
Security ClearancesGovernmental – National SecurityWhite Collar Defense and InvestigationsLitigationClients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Active - EO 14150Executive OrderJan 20, 2025America First Policy Directive to the Secretary of State
Requires the Secretary of State to issue guidance regarding changes to policies, programs, personnel, and operations that will focus on putting American interests first in foreign policy.
Active - MemorandumJan 20, 2025Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects
This memorandum withdraws all areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from wind energy leasing effective January 21, 2025, until the memorandum is revoked, without affecting existing leases or leasing for other purposes such as oil, gas, and minerals. It directs the Secretary of the Interior and other agency heads to cease issuing new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore and offshore wind projects pending a comprehensive review of federal wind leasing and permitting practices led by the Secretary of the Interior. It also directs the Secretary of the Interior to place a temporary moratorium on activities and rights of Magic Valley Energy, LLC under the Lava Ridge Wind Project Record of Decision, and authorizes the Attorney General to seek stays of related pending litigation.
Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Environmental · ESG and Sustainability
Active - EO 14171Executive OrderJan 20, 2025Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce
This EO restores a category of federal workers known as "Schedule F" that existed in the prior Trump administration under EO 13957. Schedule F employees lack the same job protections typically enjoyed by career civil servants, including procedures and appeals rights for termination. The Director of OPM is directed to amend applicable regulations to enact the above change and issue guidance, within 30 days, about additional categories of positions for this determination.
Amended4 legal challenges - EO 14145Executive OrderJan 19, 2025Helping Left-Behind Communities Make a Comeback
This executive order directs a whole-of-government approach to place-based economic development in "covered communities", including economically distressed regions, Community Disaster Resiliency Zones, and certain rural and Tribal areas. The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, must coordinate federal investments across twelve implementing agencies and, within 1 year, improve community engagement, develop an interagency technical assistance network, and identify overlapping program geographies. Implementing agencies are directed to include preferences for covered communities in funding opportunities, assist grant applicants in distressed regions, consider signing a memorandum of agreement within 1 year to share information across programs, and support long-term economic development in disaster-affected regions.
Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Tribal and Native American Law
Prior administrationActive - EO 14146Executive OrderJan 19, 2025Partial Revocation of Executive Order 13961
This EO partially revokes EO 13961 (Governance and Integration of Federal Mission Resilience), originally issued on December 7, 2020, by revoking Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 and renumbering Sections 2, 6, and 8 as Sections 1, 2, and 3. It also amends the renumbered sections to replace references to the Executive Committee established under the prior order with the Restricted Principals Committee described in the National Security Memorandum of January 19, 2025 (National Continuity Policy).
Revocation of Executive OrdersNational Security/DefenseGovernmental – Public Policy and Government AffairsPrior administrationActive