Executive Actions Tracker

This EO amends EO 13603 (National Defense Resources Preparedness), as previously amended by EO 14391 (Adjusting Certain Delegations Under the Defense Production Act), to adjust delegations of the President's Defense Production Act authorities. It adds the Secretary of the Interior alongside the Secretary of Energy for delegations concerning all forms of energy and energy production, construction, distribution, and use, with each Secretary able to act independently of the other. It also provides that energy-related disputes between the two Secretaries be referred to the National Energy Dominance Council, or to both that Council and the National Security Council in coordination with the Department of War when national defense infrastructure or military operations are implicated, and delegates authorities under section 101(c)(1)-(2) of the Act to the Secretaries of the Interior, Commerce, and Energy.

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This EO declares a national emergency under IEEPA and the NEA with respect to foreign-supplied bulk-power system electric equipment, and prohibits any acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation of foreign-produced bulk-power system electric equipment initiated after the order's date where the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and other officials, determines the equipment is tied to a "Covered Foreign Entity" and poses an undue risk to national security or critical infrastructure. The Secretary of Energy may impose conditions on equipment installed before the order, negotiate mitigation measures, establish a pre-qualified equipment and vendor list, and must publish implementing rules within 120 days. Within 180 days, the Secretary of Energy must submit recommended Federal Acquisition Regulation revisions to prioritize U.S.-manufactured energy infrastructure in federal procurement, which the FAR Council must consider proposing within 90 days of receipt.

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This proclamation imposes tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on imports of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS components found to threaten national security: a 100 percent ad valorem duty on UAS over 25 kilograms, UAS with thermal imagers, docking stations, and critical components, and a 25 percent duty on lighter UAS, effective September 3, 2026, plus a 25 percent duty on additional components effective February 9, 2027. Duty rates are capped at 15 percent for products of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and EU members and 10 percent for the United Kingdom, subject to importer certification. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to add components to the tariffs and shall establish an onshoring program allowing companies with approved plans to build U.S. production facilities before January 20, 2029, to import covered products duty-free during construction.

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This executive order directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take actions and update rules and guidance to prevent "birth tourism", defined as entry into the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil, or facilitating such entry. Authorized actions include denying or revoking visas, permanently barring entry, removing aliens who engaged or plan to engage in birth tourism, and taking action against facilitators, and the order delegates authority under 8 U.S.C. 1185(a) to both Secretaries. Either Secretary may grant exemptions on humanitarian or national-interest grounds.

This EO directs the Secretary of War and the Secretaries of the military departments to cease issuing waivers under 10 U.S.C. 4872(c)(1) for acquisition of covered materials beginning January 1, 2027, except where a prime contractor or subcontractor submits an accepted mitigation plan for removing non-compliant material from its supply chains. It further directs the Secretary of War, within 180 days, to develop guidance requiring contractors at all tiers to map critical supply chains, submit indentured Bills of Materials, vet suppliers for financial, foreign ownership, and manufacturing risks, and avoid "unreliable foreign supplier" sources, and to initiate regulatory action requiring contractors to qualify alternative sources. The Secretary must report to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs every 6 months until January 1, 2028, and the order exempts Project Vault and U.S.-financed foreign critical mineral projects from its restrictions.

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This EO directs the transition of federal information systems to NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography standards, with the Director of OMB and the National Cyber Director coordinating the effort. Agency heads must designate PQC migration leads within 30 days, and OMB must issue guidance within 90 days requiring agencies to transition high value assets and high impact systems to PQC for key establishment by December 31, 2030 and for digital signatures by December 31, 2031. It also directs the FAR Council to publish proposed rules within 180 and 270 days requiring covered contractors to comply with NIST FIPS, including PQC-compliant algorithms, by December 31, 2030 and to implement vulnerability disclosure policies covering cryptographic vulnerabilities.

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This executive order directs a whole-of-government effort to accelerate the development, commercialization, and protection of quantum information science and technology (QIST). It requires the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology to update the National Quantum Strategy within 180 days, establishes the Quantum Computer for Application Development and Discovery Science (QC-ADDS) Effort, and directs the Secretaries of War, Commerce, and Energy and the Director of the National Science Foundation to develop plans on quantum sensing, supply chains, and workforce recruitment. It also directs the FBI Director to propose expanded counterintelligence staffing and the Secretaries of State and Commerce to align international engagements on market access, export controls, and technology protection.

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This EO directs the Secretaries of War, Homeland Security, and the Treasury, among others, to prioritize the cyber defense of federal information systems, with the Secretary of the Treasury forming an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse in voluntary collaboration with industry within 30 days. Within 60 days, the named officials must develop a classified benchmarking process to designate AI models as a "covered frontier model" and design a voluntary framework giving the government pre-release access to such models, while expressly disclaiming any mandatory licensing or preclearance requirement. It also directs the Attorney General to prioritize enforcement of federal criminal laws against those using AI to illegally access or damage computer systems.

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This EO amends EO 13603 (National Defense Resources Preparedness), issued March 16, 2012, to delegate certain Defense Production Act authority under section 203 to the Secretary of Energy in addition to the Secretary of Commerce, with each able to act independently. It also clarifies that section 2(a) of EO 14156 (Declaring a National Energy Emergency), issued January 20, 2025, requires an agency head to recommend action to the President only when the authority is vested in the President alone and has not been delegated.

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This EO directs the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, War, and Homeland Security and the Attorney General, in consultation with the Office of the National Cyber Director, to review frameworks for combating transnational criminal organizations engaged in cyber-enabled crime within 60 days and to submit an action plan to the President within 120 days, including creation of an operational cell within the National Coordination Center established under EO 14159 (Protecting the American People Against Invasion). The Attorney General must submit a recommendation on a Victims Restoration Program, funded by assets clawed back, forfeited, or seized from these organizations, within 90 days, and shall continue prioritizing prosecutions of cyber-enabled fraud. The Secretary of State is directed to demand enforcement actions from foreign governments and impose consequences on nations tolerating such activity, including limits on foreign assistance, targeted sanctions, visa restrictions, trade penalties, and expulsion of complicit foreign officials.

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This EO finds, under section 101 of the Defense Production Act, that elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides are critical to the national defense, and delegates to the Secretary of Agriculture the President's authority to prioritize contracts and allocate materials, services, and facilities to ensure their continued supply, in consultation with the Secretary of War. The Secretary is directed to issue implementing orders and regulations that do not place the corporate viability of any domestic producer at risk, and domestic producers are required to comply with the order under 7 CFR part 789.

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This memorandum, addressed to the Secretary of War, determines pursuant to section 303(a)(7)(B) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4533) that action is necessary to avert shortfalls in critical Department of War supply chains, and waives the requirements of section 303(a)(2)-(a)(6) of the Act for supply chains critical to reviving the defense industrial base. Covered supply chains include those supporting critical sectors identified in the September 2018 EO 13806 interagency task force report, including military aircraft, chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear protection, ground combat vehicles, nuclear warheads, radar and electronic warfare systems, shipbuilding, soldier systems, space systems, defense electronics and microelectronics, machine tools, the organic industrial base, and defense workforce training pipelines.

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This EO directs the Secretary of War, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, to seek to procure power from the U.S. coal generation fleet by approving long-term Power Purchase Agreements or similar contracts with coal-fired energy production facilities to serve Department of War installations and other mission-critical facilities, prioritizing projects that enhance grid reliability and blackout prevention, on-site fuel security, and mission assurance for defense and intelligence capabilities. It invokes EO 14261 (Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241), EO 14262 (Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid), and the national energy emergency declared under EO 14156 (Declaring a National Energy Emergency).

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This executive order establishes an America First Arms Transfer Strategy to use foreign arms sales to expand U.S. defense industrial capacity. It directs the Secretaries of War, State, and Commerce to submit a sales catalog of prioritized platforms, identify Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales opportunities, and provide advocacy recommendations within 120 days; develop an industry engagement plan and a Third-Party Transfer reform plan within 60 days; develop Enhanced End Use Monitoring criteria within 90 days; establish a Promoting American Military Sales Task Force within 30 days; and begin publishing quarterly performance metrics on FMS cases and export license adjudication within 120 days. It also amends EO 13637 (Administration of Reformed Export Controls) to reallocate congressional notification functions between the Secretaries of War and State.

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This executive order directs the Attorney General to provide the Department of Homeland Security with access to criminal history record information maintained by the Department of Justice for DHS screening and vetting purposes, to the maximum extent permitted by law. It also authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to exchange such information on a reciprocal basis with border security and immigration authorities of Visa Waiver Program countries and other trusted allies, solely for screening travelers and immigrants, under bilateral or multilateral agreements containing privacy safeguards for United States persons.

This executive order declares a national emergency under IEEPA and the NEA with respect to threats posed by the Government of Cuba and establishes a tariff system under which an additional ad valorem duty may be imposed on imports from any foreign country that directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides oil to Cuba. The Secretary of Commerce is directed to determine whether a country provides oil to Cuba, after which the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security and the United States Trade Representative, recommends whether and to what extent duties should be imposed, with the President making the final determination. The order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on January 30, 2026, and supersedes inconsistent provisions of prior proclamations and executive orders.

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This EO declares a national emergency and uses IEEPA/NEA authority to protect certain U.S.-held Venezuela-related funds from attachment or other judicial process, citing U.S. national security and foreign policy interests in Venezuelan stability. It defines “Foreign Government Deposit Funds,” makes any attachment or similar process null and void, restricts any transfer or dealing absent Treasury authorization, and directs Treasury (with State/DOJ) to hold the funds in a custodial sovereign capacity and assert sovereign immunity in proceedings.

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This memorandum delegates to the Secretary of State the President's authority under section 614(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to determine whether it is vital to U.S. national security interests to make up to $25.9 million in sales of cluster munitions technology under the Arms Export Control Act to the Republic of Korea, and to authorize such sale, subject to fulfilling the requirement of section 614(a)(3) of the FAA.

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This EO sets a comprehensive national space policy focused on returning Americans to the Moon by 2028, establishing a permanent lunar outpost, enhancing missile and space security, growing the commercial space economy, and advancing space technology such as nuclear power for lunar missions. It requires federal agencies to reform acquisition processes, strengthen international partnerships, and implement strategies for space security and spectrum leadership, while prioritizing commercial solutions and efficient operations. The order supersedes prior space policy directives and aligns all federal efforts with these new space exploration, security, and economic priorities.

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This proclamation continues the full entry suspension imposed by Proclamation 10949 (Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals To Protect the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats) on nationals of 12 countries and the partial suspension on Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela; newly imposes a full suspension on nationals of Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Syria and on travelers using Palestinian Authority-issued travel documents; and partially suspends entry (immigrant and B-1, B-2, F, M, and J visas) for nationals of 15 additional countries, while lifting Turkmenistan's nonimmigrant suspension. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security may grant case-by-case national-interest exceptions, and the Secretary of State must report to the President every 180 days on whether the restrictions should continue. The proclamation takes effect January 1, 2026, and does not apply to lawful permanent residents or to holders of valid visas issued before that date.

This EO designates illicit fentanyl and its precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction due to their extreme lethality and use by criminal organizations threatening U.S. national security. It directs federal agencies to strengthen investigations, prosecutions, sanctions, interagency cooperation, and military preparedness against the fentanyl threat. The order mandates a unified and elevated federal response to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and bolster homeland defense against potential large-scale chemical attacks involving fentanyl.

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This EO establishes the “Genesis Mission,” a national initiative led by the Department of Energy to accelerate scientific discovery and technological innovation through an integrated AI platform that leverages federal research resources, datasets, and partnerships, aiming to advance key science and technology challenges, strengthen national security, and maintain U.S. global leadership in AI.

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This proclamation exempts certain stationary sources listed in Annex I from compliance with specified requirements of the EPA's Coke Oven Rule (89 FR 55684) for two years beyond each of the Rule's relevant compliance dates, during which time those sources remain subject to the standards in effect before the Rule. Issued under section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act, the proclamation rests on presidential determinations that the technology needed to comply with the Rule is not commercially available and that the exemption is in the national security interests of the United States.

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This proclamation exempts the primary copper smelters identified in Annex I from compliance with the EPA's May 13, 2024 Copper Rule (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Primary Copper Smelting Residual Risk and Technology Review and Primary Copper Smelting Area Source Technology Review) for 2 years beyond each of the Rule's compliance deadlines, invoking section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act. During the exemption period, the listed sources remain subject to the emissions standards in effect prior to the Copper Rule. The President determines that the technology required by the Copper Rule is not commercially available and that the exemption is in the national security interests of the United States, citing EO 14220 (Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Copper).

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The President has directed the phased construction of up to four Arctic Security Cutters in foreign shipyards due to urgent national security needs in the Arctic, while requiring a plan to develop domestic expertise for future icebreaker builds. This is a temporary measure to address capability gaps and does not preclude continued investment in the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base, with authorization expiring in four years unless extended.

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