Executive Actions Tracker

This EO empowers the Secretary of State to designate foreign governments as "State Sponsors of Wrongful Detention" if they engage in or support the wrongful detention of U.S. nationals, triggering a range of retaliatory actions such as sanctions, travel restrictions, assistance limits, and export controls. It also outlines criteria for termination of such designations and extends these measures to entities controlling territory.

This memorandum directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the heads of executive departments and agencies, to investigate whether federal grant funds are being used to illegally support lobbying activities in violation of 31 U.S.C. 1352 and to take appropriate enforcement action. The Attorney General must report to the President on the progress of the investigation within 180 days of the memorandum's date of August 28, 2025.

This EO directs multiple federal agencies to take immediate measures to address public safety and disorder in the District of Columbia, including hiring additional law enforcement personnel, forming specialized units, and increasing oversight of housing and transit conditions. It also authorizes increased cooperation and resource allocation for rapid response to civil disturbances and mandates review of police practices to ensure the effective mitigation of the crime emergency.

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This EO directs federal agencies to take all lawful steps to halt cashless bail policies in Washington, D.C., prioritizing the pretrial detention of criminal suspects who pose a threat to public safety and encouraging federally-supported charges and custody whenever possible. Additionally, it instructs the Attorney General and executive departments to review existing police and judicial practices, and to use available administrative and budgetary actions to press D.C. to restore cash bail for offenders considered dangerous.

This EO directs federal agencies to prioritize enforcement of laws against acts of American Flag desecration that incite violence or violate existing content-neutral statutes, consistent with First Amendment limits. It also authorizes immigration-related penalties for foreign nationals involved in flag desecration and encourages federal coordination with state and local authorities for further action.

This EO declares a public safety emergency in the District of Columbia due to rising violent crime and directs the Mayor to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal purposes, with operational control delegated to the Attorney General. The Attorney General is tasked with monitoring the situation, consulting with appropriate officials, and regularly updating the President.

This EO directs federal banking regulators to eliminate guidance and practices that enable financial institutions to restrict access to banking services based on a customer's political or religious beliefs, or lawful business activities, instead requiring decisions be based on neutral, risk-based criteria. Further, it mandates remedial actions for past violations, including reinstatement of affected clients, disciplinary measures against institutions engaging in "politicized or unlawful debanking," and development of a comprehensive strategy to prevent such conduct going forward.

Clients in Consumer Financial Services · Fintech

This EO declares that the national emergency declared in EO 14257 remains and that additional ad valorem duties on goods of certain trading partners are required. Annex I of this EO includes the specific countries, rates, and goods subject to the additional duties.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Retail, Fashion & Beauty · Food and Beverage · Transportation

This EO declares that the emergency declared in Executive Order 14193 remains and that the additional ad valorem rate of duty of 25% for products of Canada shall increase to 35%.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Transportation

This proclamation imposes a 50 percent tariff on imports of semi-finished copper products and intensive copper derivative products, effective August 1, 2025, following a Section 232 finding by the Secretary of Commerce that copper imports threaten national security. The tariff applies only to the copper content of covered articles, and no drawback is available. The Secretary of Commerce must establish a process for adding derivative copper articles within 90 days, implement domestic sales requirements for copper input materials and high-quality copper scrap under the Defense Production Act, and update the President by June 30, 2026, on whether phased tariffs on refined copper of 15 percent in 2027 and 30 percent in 2028 are warranted. Covered products admitted to foreign trade zones must be admitted under "privileged foreign" status.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Aerospace, Defense & Government Services · Construction · Transportation

This EO directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to seek reversal of judicial precedents and termination of consent decrees that impede civil commitment of individuals with mental illness, and directs the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation to assess whether discretionary grant priority may be given to states and municipalities that enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping, loitering, and squatting. It further directs agencies to end support for "housing first" policies, condition homelessness assistance on substance abuse or mental health treatment for participants with such conditions, and review and pursue civil or criminal enforcement against, and freeze assistance to, funding recipients that operate drug injection sites or permit illicit drug use on their property.

Clients in Healthcare · Multifamily Housing

This EO recalibrates U-S sanctions policy toward Syria in light of political changes under President Ahmed al-Sharaa. It ends the 2004 Syria national emergency and broad, economy-wide sanctions, yet strengthens and modernizes targeted measures against former Assad-era officials, human-rights violators, captagon traffickers, and obstructionists to Syria’s political transition. It directs the Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce to use waiver, reporting, and regulatory authorities under the Caesar Act, the Syria Accountability Act, and the Chemical and Biological Weapons Act; to consider selective sanctions relief; to pursue new counter-terrorism designations; and to advance U-S goals at the United Nations—all while ensuring no benefit flows to terrorist groups or proliferators.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure

This memorandum reissues and amends NSPM-5 of June 16, 2017 (Strengthening the Policy of the United States Toward Cuba), directing the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce, in coordination with the Secretaries of State and Transportation, to initiate within 30 days regulatory changes prohibiting direct or indirect financial transactions with entities controlled by or benefiting the Cuban military, intelligence, or security services, subject to enumerated exemptions such as authorized remittances and agricultural and medical sales. It further directs the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust regulations within 30 days to enforce the statutory ban on tourism to Cuba, including requirements for organized educational travel and five-year traveler recordkeeping, and to regularly audit travel to Cuba, and it expands the regulatory definition of "prohibited officials of the Government of Cuba". The Attorney General must report to the President within 90 days on fugitives from American justice in Cuba, and the memorandum supersedes NSPD-52 (2007) and PPD-43 (2016).

Clients in Transportation · Hospitality · Telecom · Food and Beverage

This Executive Order further extends the enforcement delay of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (Public Law 118-50) as it pertains to TikTok, until September 17, 2025. During this time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is prohibited from taking enforcement action or imposing penalties under the Act. The order also directs the Attorney General to issue guidance and notifications affirming non-liability for any conduct during the delay period and to defend the Executive Branch’s exclusive enforcement authority under the Act.

Clients in Media and Technology

This memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take immediate steps to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program, particularly by ending state-directed payment schemes that inflate Medicaid reimbursements far above Medicare levels. The President orders alignment of Medicaid payment rates with Medicare, where legally permissible, to protect the program’s financial sustainability and ensure fairness across federal healthcare systems.

Clients in Healthcare

This proclamation increases the Section 232 tariffs on imports of steel articles, aluminum articles, and their derivatives from 25 percent to 50 percent ad valorem, effective 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 4, 2025, with the duties applying only to the steel or aluminum content of covered articles. Imports from the United Kingdom remain at 25 percent, and on or after July 9, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce may adjust UK rates or raise them to 50 percent if the United Kingdom has not complied with the U.S.-UK Economic Prosperity Deal. The proclamation amends EO 14289 (Addressing Certain Tariffs on Imported Articles), directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to issue guidance on steel and aluminum content declaration requirements with penalties for underreporting, and provides that no drawback is available for the duties imposed.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Construction · Transportation · Aerospace, Defense & Government Services

This Executive Order directs federal agencies to reduce reliance on criminal enforcement of regulatory violations, particularly those lacking clear mens rea (intent) requirements. Agencies are instructed to inventory and publicly disclose all criminally enforceable regulations within one year, update this list annually, and strongly discourage prosecution of offenses not included. Agencies must also revise future rulemakings to identify authorizing statutes and clearly state applicable mental state requirements. Within 45 days, each agency must publish guidance outlining factors to consider when referring violations for criminal prosecution. The order favors civil or administrative enforcement over strict liability criminal penalties and excludes immigration and national security-related enforcement from its scope.

This proclamation establishes Project Homecoming, directing the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to create processes, including the "CBP Home" application and an airport concierge service, for aliens illegally present in the United States to voluntarily and permanently depart on federally funded flights and to provide each departing alien an "exit bonus". It further directs a nationwide communications campaign notifying such aliens of the departure incentives and the consequences of remaining, and directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, within 60 days, to expand the Department of Homeland Security's enforcement and removal operations force by no less than 20,000 officers through deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement, former federal officers, and other personnel.

This executive order directs various actions to ensure that United States federally funded research benefits American citizens without jeopardizing our Nation’s security, strength, or prosperity. My Administration will balance the prevention of catastrophic consequences with maintaining readiness against biological threats and driving global leadership in biotechnology, biological countermeasures, biosecurity, and health research.

Clients in Life Sciences · Healthcare

The AG shall create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law (including private pro bono services). AG shall also take action to maximize federal resources to support state and local law enforcement resources. AG and DoD shall increase provisions of excess military and national security assets to state and local law enforcement. AG shall pursue all necessary legal remedies to ensure prosecution of people who obstruct the enforcement of criminal law and engage in civil rights violations, including those focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This EO seeks to encourage immigration enforcement in “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Specifically, DOJ and DHS shall publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct federal immigration enforcement and enforce various consequences for those jurisdictions, including denial of federal funds or legal remedies. This EO also seeks to prevent federal benefits to aliens in “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Lastly, DOJ shall identify and take appropriate action to prevent enforcement of state and local laws that favor aliens over US citizens.

This memo directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate allegations regarding the unlawful use of online fundraising platforms to make “straw” or “dummy” contributions or foreign contributions to political candidates and committees, and to take all appropriate actions to enforce the law.

Clients in Fintech

This EO seeks to eliminate the “use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible.” All agencies are directed to deprioritize enforcement of all statutes/regulations to the extent they include disparate-impact liability, including but not limited to 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2, 28 C.F.R.42.104(b)(2)–(3), 28 C.F.R. 42.104(b)(6)(ii), and 28 C.F.R. 42.104(c)(2). The DOJ shall review all statutes and regulations that include disparate-impact provisions. DOJ shall also determine if there are any situations where federal law can preempt state law for disparate-impact laws.

Clients in Consumer Financial Services · Insurance

This EO seeks to reform accreditation for higher education. Specifically, the Secretary of Education is directed to monitor, investigate, and take appropriate action over higher education accreditation authorities, including those for medical and law schools, that violate federal law, including diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Further, the Secretary of Education shall take steps to ensure accreditation prioritizes various ideas, including equal treatment and diverse thought.

Clients in Healthcare · Life Sciences

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.