Executive Actions Tracker

This EO directs Director of OMB to submit a plan to reduce the size of the federal government's workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition. This plan must require each agency to hire no more than one employee for every four that depart. This EO does not apply to functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement. Each agency must develop a hiring plan in compliance with this EO and cannot fill any vacancies that the DOGE team determines should not be filled, unless the agency head determines otherwise. Agency heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force. OPM shall initiate a rulemaking process to revise 5 CFR 731.202(b) to include additional suitability criteria. This EO does not apply to military personnel, any positions deemed by agency heads to be necessary for national security, homeland security, or public safety, and any exemptions granted by Director of OPM.

This memo directs the heads of all agencies to review all funding provided to NGOs and align future funding with the goals and interests of the US and this administration.

This EO states that whenever an agency publicly proposes for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed. For FY 2025, the heads of all agencies are directed to ensure that the total incremental cost of all new regulations being finalized this year shall be significantly less than zero. Any new incremental costs associated with new regulations shall be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least 10 prior regulations. Further, for each agency's Regulatory Plan, the agency head must identify the increased costs and the offsetting regulations with total costs or savings associated with each of these. No regulation shall be issued by an agency if it was not included in the most recent update of the Unified Regulatory Agenda. The Director of OMB is charged with implementing this order, including providing additional guidance to the agencies.

This EO establishes a FEMA Review Council to assess and improve FEMA's effectiveness and impartiality in disaster response. The Council, led by the Secretaries of DHS and DoD, will include government and external experts. It will advise the President and produce a report with assessments and reform recommendations. The Council will terminate after one year unless extended.

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This memorandum directs all executive departments and agencies to refrain from proposing or issuing any rule until it is reviewed and approved by a department or agency head appointed after noon on January 20, 2025, to immediately withdraw rules sent to the Office of the Federal Register but not yet published, and to consider postponing for 60 days the effective dates of published rules not yet in effect. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may exempt rules addressing emergencies or statutory or judicial deadlines and oversees implementation. The freeze extends beyond rules under 5 U.S.C. 551(4) to regulatory actions under EO 12866 and guidance documents as defined in EO 13891.

Renames the US Digital Service the United States DOGE Service (USDS) and established USDS in the Executive Office of the President. Will be led by the USDS Administrator. Establishes the US DOGE Temporary Organization dedicated to advancing the President's 18-month DOGE agenda and will terminate on July 4, 2026. Agency heads required to establish a DOGE Team of at least 4 individuals, which is tasked with advancing the DOGE Agenda. Charges the USDS Administrator with commencing a software modernization initiative.

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This memorandum orders a freeze on hiring Federal civilian employees across the executive branch, prohibiting the filling of positions vacant as of noon on January 20, 2025, and the creation of new positions, with exceptions for military personnel and positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety. The Director of OMB, in consultation with the Director of OPM and the Administrator of USDS, must submit a workforce reduction plan within 90 days, upon which the freeze expires for all agencies except the IRS, where it remains until the Secretary of the Treasury determines lifting it is in the national interest. Contracting outside the Federal Government to circumvent the freeze is prohibited.

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.

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