Executive Actions Tracker

This EO seeks to prohibit recipients of federal funds providing K-12 education from using "discriminatory" ideologies, primarily based on race, color, sex, or national origin. Various heads of agencies are directed to draft policy recommendations to enforce this EO. Further, the "1776 Commission" is reestablished with the goal of promoting patriotic education. All relevant agencies are directed to monitor compliance with the requirement that all educational institutions with federal funds hold a yearly constitution education program.

This EO directs the heads of each agency or executive department to submit a report to the President identifying authorities that might be used to curb or combat anti-Semitism and listing an inventory and analysis of pending complaints of civil-rights violations with anti-semitism against or involving higher education institutions. The Attorney General is also directed to submit a report and analysis of all cases involving higher education institutions and post-October 7, 2023 antisemitism. The Secretaries of State, Education, and Homeland Security must also report recommendations for familiarizing higher education institutions with grounds of inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) for "aliens."

This EO supports school of choice. Specifically, this EO directs the Secretary of Education to include education freedom as a priority in discretionary grant programs and issue guidance regarding how states can use federal formula funds to support K-12 education choice initiatives. The EO further directs the Secretaries of Labor, HHS, DoD, and Interior to review available mechanisms to further this policy

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This EO states that "it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures." The EO directs specific actions at HHS, DoD, and DOJ to enforce this, including stopping insurance support, reviewing policies, and requiring this policy for all federally funded organizations.

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This proclaims January 27, 2025, as a National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, and calls upon Americans to observe the day with programs, ceremonies, and prayers commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.

This EO prioritizes missile defense for the homeland. Under this EO, the Secretary of Defense shall present an architecture and implementation plan for a next-generation missile defense shield for the US. Further, the US shall continue to cooperate with allies and partners on missile defense to protect allies and US troops abroad.

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This EO creates avenues for reinstatement of military members to be reinstated if they were previously discharged for refusing to comply with Covid-19 vaccination requirements.

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This EO establishes a policy that the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints associated with gender dysphoria are inconsistent with military readiness standards, and directs the Secretary of Defense to update DoD Instruction 6130.03 within 60 days, issue directives ending identification-based pronoun usage, and within 30 days identify implementation steps and report to the President. It bars service members from using sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for the opposite sex absent extraordinary operational necessity, directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue parallel guidance for the Coast Guard within 30 days of the DoD updates, and implements the revocation of EO 14004 (Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in Uniform) by rescinding inconsistent policies.

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This EO orders the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland security, as it relates to the Coast Guard, shall abolish every DEI office. Secretary of Defense shall conduct an internal review of any actions taking in pursuit of DEI initiatives. DoD and Armed Forces, including any educational institution under its control, is prohibited from promoting DEI or any listed gender ideology theories.

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This EO states that it is the policy of this administration, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end Federal taxpayer funds for elective abortion. Further, it revokes EO 14076 (Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services) and EO 14079 (Securing Access to Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services). The Director of OMB shall promulgate guidance to the heads of executive departments and agencies related to implementation.

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This EO directs various Secretaries (Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, Commerce, Agriculture) to ensure water resources in Southern California, including: override activities impeding water delivery, maximize water delivery through the Central Valley Project (CVP), expedite exemptions under the Endangered Species Act for water projects, and identify and address regulatory hurdles for water-supply projects. Further, OMB shall review Federal programs affecting land and water management, with recommendations to ensure compliance and disaster prevention.

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This memo revokes the 1/28/21 PM and reinstates the 1/23/17 PM, also called The Mexico Policy. Further, the Secretary of State is directed to implement a plan to extend the requirements for the reinstated PM to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies. The Secretary of State shall also take actions to ensure that US taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that participate in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.

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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 revokes the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021 (Protecting Women's Health at Home and Abroad) and reinstates the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017 (The Mexico City Policy). It directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to implement a plan extending the reinstated memorandum's requirements to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies. It further directs the Secretary of State to ensure U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.

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This EO establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) which shall advise the President on matters involving science, technology, education, and innovation policy and provide the President with scientific and technical information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the American economy, the American worker, national and homeland security, and other topics.

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This EO directs the Director of National Intelligence and AG to present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Further, the Director of National Intelligence and the AG shall review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.

This memorandum establishes that it is the policy of the United States to support full federal recognition, including the authority to receive full federal benefits, of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. It directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with Lumbee Tribe leadership, to review all applicable authorities and submit to the President within 90 days a plan to assist the tribe in obtaining full federal recognition through legislation or other available mechanisms, including analysis of each potential legal pathway such as an act of Congress, judicial action, or the acknowledgment procedures in 25 CFR part 83.

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This EO instructs APST, APNSA, Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, the OMB Director, and any heads of relevant agencies to develop an AI Action Plan. The AI Action Plan should be free of "social agendas." The EO further orders a review of actions taken pursuant to EO 14110 (rescinded) and a correction of any agency actions that are not consistent with this EO.

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This EO rescinds EO 14067 and directs the Secretary of Treasury to take appropriate actions consistent with this new EO regarding the digital sector. Further, the President's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets is established, to be chaired by the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto. The Working Group is responsible for analyzing the digital sector and making recommendations.

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This EO initiates the process of designating the Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

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This EO revokes: (a) Executive Order 14042 of September 9, 2021 (Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors); and (b) Executive Order 14043 of September 9, 2021 (Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees).

Requires all departments and agencies to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements. Rescinds executive orders and Presidential memoranda related to federal actions and initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion, including Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment Opportunity). Directs the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to immediately cease promoting diversity and holding federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking affirmative action. Does not apply to employment and contracting preferences for veterans. Requires each agency head to include in every contract or grant award a term/provision that makes compliance with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws material to the government's payment decisions, which includes a certification that the contractor/recipient does not operate any DEI programs that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws. Directs federal agencies to encourage private sector to advance the policy of individual initiative, excellence, and hard work.

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This memorandum directs the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately return the FAA to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring and to rescind all DEI initiatives and preferencing policies or practices. It further directs both officials to review the past performance and performance standards of all individuals in critical safety positions and to replace any individual who fails or has failed to demonstrate requisite capability.

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This EO establishes policies and procedures for DoD and DHS to secure the borders of the United States through physical barriers and increased personnel presence, apprehend and detain illegal aliens until they can be removed from the United States, and terminate parole programs and are inconsistent with the policies of the EO. The EO also requires the Secretary of State to facilitate international agreements whereby asylum seekers would remain in Mexico while their case is pending. The EO also seeks to fulfill the requirements of the DNA Fingerprint Act for all aliens detained, and to use technology to determine the validity of claimed familial relationships. The Attorney General is to prioritize the prosecution of offenses that relate to the border.

The EO routes water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of California.

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