Executive Actions Tracker
Executive orders, proclamations and memoranda from Jan 20, 2025 onward, with AI-assisted summaries, tagging and litigation tracking.
- MemorandumFeb 6, 2025Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
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.
Active - EO 14202Executive OrderFeb 6, 2025Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
This EO creates a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, which must review the activities of all executive agencies and determine any anti-Christian policies or practices and make corrective recommendations.
Active - EO 14201Executive OrderFeb 5, 2025Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports
This EO seeks to rescind all federal funds to educational programs that allow male competitive participation in women's sports. The Secretary of Education is directed to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and locker rooms under Title IX. Further, the Secretary of Education and AG will prioritize Title IX enforcement in this manner. All agencies will review grants to educational programs and rescind funding for failure to comply with this order. Various agencies will also do affirmative outreach to state and other organizations to promote this policy, including athletic organizations and governing bodies.
DEI/Social IssuesGovernmental – Public Policy and Government AffairsLitigationPrivate Client ServicesClients in Sports
Active2 legal challenges - EO 14199Executive OrderFeb 4, 2025Withdrawing the United States From and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations
This EO terminates US participation with UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and directs a review of US participation with the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Further, US agencies shall not contribute any funds to UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The Secretary of State and UN Ambassador shall conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations that the US is a member of and provides funding to. Lastly, the Secretary of State shall inform the UN that the US will not satisfy any claims to 2025 payments to these organizations.
Active - EO 14196Executive OrderFeb 3, 2025A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund
This EO directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, to develop a plan for the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund and submit it to the President within 90 days.
Active - EO 14192Executive OrderJan 31, 2025Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation
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.
Active - MemorandumJan 31, 2025Limiting Lame-Duck Collective Bargaining Agreements That Improperly Attempt to Constrain the New President
This memorandum establishes an executive branch policy that collective bargaining agreements executed in the 30 days before a change in presidential administrations shall not be approved if they create new contractual obligations, make substantive changes to existing agreements, or extend an existing agreement's duration, though existing rollover provisions are unaffected. It directs agency heads to promptly disapprove any such agreement executed by subordinate personnel but not yet approved under 5 U.S.C. 7114(c). The requirements do not apply to CBAs primarily covering law enforcement officers, subject to a severability provision if that exclusion is held to defeat the memorandum's status as a government-wide rule. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management is directed to publish the memorandum in the Federal Register.
Active - EO 14189Executive OrderJan 29, 2025Celebrating America's 250th Birthday
This EO establishes the "White House Task Force on Celebrating America's 250th Birthday" to coordinate the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence. Further, EO 13934 (Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes), 13978 (Building the National Garden of American Heroes), and 13922 (Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combatting Recent Criminal Violence) are reinstated.
Clients in Art
Active - EO 14190Executive OrderJan 29, 2025Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
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.
Active - EO 14188Executive OrderJan 29, 2025Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism
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."
Active12 legal challenges - EO 14191Executive OrderJan 29, 2025Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families
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
Clients in Tribal and Native American Law
Active - EO 14184Executive OrderJan 27, 2025Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military's COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
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.
Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Active - EO 14185Executive OrderJan 27, 2025Restoring America's Fighting Force
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.
Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Active - EO 14182Executive OrderJan 24, 2025Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
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.
Clients in Healthcare
Active - EO 14181Executive OrderJan 24, 2025Emergency Measures To Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas
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.
Environment/EnergyLand UseReal EstateGovernmental – Public Policy and Government AffairsGovernmental – Government ContractsWhite Collar Defense and InvestigationsLitigationClients in Energy and Infrastructure · Environmental · Construction · Multifamily Housing
Active - MemorandumJan 24, 2025Memorandum for the Secretary of State the Secretary of Defense the Secretary of Health and Human Services the Administrator of the United States for International Development – The White House
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.
Clients in Healthcare
Active - EO 14180Executive OrderJan 24, 2025Council To Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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.
Clients in Energy and Infrastructure
Active - MemorandumJan 24, 2025The Mexico City Policy
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.
Health and Life SciencesForeign AffairsDEI/Social IssuesGovernmental – Public Policy and Government AffairsClients in Healthcare
Active - EO 14177Executive OrderJan 23, 2025President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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.
Clients in AI, Robotics and Quantum · Life Sciences
Active - MemorandumJan 23, 2025Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
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.
Clients in Tribal and Native American Law
Active - EO 14179Executive OrderJan 23, 2025Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
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.
Clients in AI, Robotics and Quantum · Media and Technology
Active - EO 14178Executive OrderJan 23, 2025Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
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.
Digital CurrencyCorporateCommercial FinanceGovernmental – Public Policy and Government AffairsGlobal ReachClients in Blockchain Technology and Digital Assets · Fintech
Active - MemorandumJan 21, 2025Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation
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.
Clients in Transportation · Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Active - MemorandumJan 20, 2025Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California
The EO routes water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of California.
Clients in Environmental · Energy and Infrastructure · Food and Beverage
Active - MemorandumJan 20, 2025Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
This memorandum directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and agency heads as necessary, to submit within 60 days recommendations to advance the policy that federal public buildings be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage, including possible revisions to the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and procedures for community input into building design. Until those recommendations are submitted, the Administrator must notify the President at least 30 days before approving a new federal building design that diverges from this policy.
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