Executive Actions Tracker

This EO directs the Secretary of the Treasury to determine within 5 days whether relief is authorized under 26 U.S.C. 7508A and, if so, to defer payment of diesel fuel excise taxes under 26 U.S.C. 4041(a)(1)(A) and 4041(b)(1)(B) incurred from October 5, 2026, through December 31, 2026, without penalties or interest. It also directs the IRS to announce, within 5 days, that it will not impose penalties under 26 U.S.C. 6715 for dyed diesel fuel sold for use or used on the highway during that period, and requires the Secretary to issue implementing guidance, explore avenues including legislation to forgive the deferred amounts, and assess IRS allocation of fuel inspection resources. The Secretary of Transportation, through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Secretary of Agriculture are directed to coordinate with states, industry, labor organizations, and agricultural stakeholders to facilitate implementation, and the Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs is directed to encourage corresponding state action.

Clients in Transportation · Energy and Infrastructure · Food and Beverage

This EO directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a website, TrumpIRA.gov, by January 1, 2027, listing private-sector financial institutions offering IRAs under 26 U.S.C. 408 that accept the Federal Saver's Match contribution of up to $1,000 under 26 U.S.C. 6433, maintain net-expense ratios of no more than 0.15 percent, and impose no minimum-contribution or balance requirements. It further directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to issue guidance on the tax treatment of contributions by tax-exempt organizations to workers' IRAs, directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor to issue regulations or guidance protecting workers and preventing prohibited transactions under 26 U.S.C. 4975, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, to prepare legislative recommendations codifying the order's policy.

Clients in Fintech · Consumer Financial Services

This executive order directs the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to review and revise stormwater, wetlands, and Clean Water Act section 404 permitting requirements to reduce housing construction costs, and directs the Secretaries of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Agriculture, and Energy and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to eliminate or reform rules, programs, and energy-efficiency standards that constrain residential development. It also directs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to issue guidance streamlining NEPA and National Historic Preservation Act review for housing projects, directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promulgate regulatory best practices for State and local governments within 60 days, and directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development to align federal incentives with Opportunity Zone and New Markets Tax Credit programs to promote single-family home construction.

Clients in Construction · Multifamily Housing · Energy and Infrastructure · Environmental · ESG and Sustainability

This EO directs federal agencies to modernize the foster care system through improved technology, data collection, and partnerships, while expanding resources and opportunities for youth transitioning out of foster care. It also seeks to remove barriers for qualified foster and adoptive parents, especially those with sincerely held religious beliefs, and encourages collaboration with faith-based organizations to support families and children in need.

Clients in Healthcare · AI, Robotics and Quantum

This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate permitting and construction of AI data centers and related infrastructure, covering "Qualifying Projects" such as data centers requiring over 100 MW of new load or involving at least $500 million in committed capital expenditures. It directs the Secretary of Commerce to launch a financial support initiative, the Council on Environmental Quality to coordinate new NEPA categorical exclusions, the EPA Administrator to streamline permitting and identify Brownfield and Superfund sites within 180 days, and the Secretaries of the Interior, Energy, and Defense to make federal lands, including military installations, available for such projects. It also revokes EO 14141 (Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure), issued January 14, 2025.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · AI, Robotics and Quantum · Digital Infrastructure · Environmental · Construction

This Executive Order directs the Department of the Treasury and the Department of the Interior to implement provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that eliminate tax credits and federal support for wind, solar, and other “green” energy sources. It emphasizes ending preferential treatment for such projects, tightening construction eligibility criteria, and enforcing restrictions related to foreign-controlled supply chains. Reports detailing agency actions and findings must be submitted to the President within 45 days.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · ESG and Sustainability

This EO establishes a policy to revitalize and rebuild the domestic maritime industries and workforce, enhancing national security and economic prosperity. It mandates the creation of a Maritime Action Plan (MAP) to address legislative, regulatory, and fiscal aspects. Key actions include securing the maritime industrial base, addressing targeting by the PRC, enforcing cargo fees, engaging allies for aligned trade policies, incentivizing investment, launching a Maritime Security Trust Fund, and improving education and training in the maritime sector. The EO also calls for efficiency in procurement, expansion of the U.S. commercial fleet, securing Arctic waterways, and various deregulatory initiatives.

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

Directs AG and FTC to ensure that competition laws are appropriately enforced in the concert and entertainment industry. The FTC and state Attorneys General shall rigorously enforce the Better Online Tickets Sales Act, 15 U.S.C. 45c. FTC shall take action, including new regulations and enforcement, to ensure price transparency and prevent unfair conduct in the secondary ticket market. Secretary of Treasury and AG shall ensure ticket scalpers are operating lawfully.

Clients in Media and Technology · Hospitality · Sports

This memo outlines a variety of policies that will further American investment particularly in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, while safeguarding national security, including the following: The U.S. aims to be a top destination for investment, benefiting from allied and partner contributions; Limitations will be placed on foreign investments in critical sectors unless investors are verifiably independent from adversaries like the PRC; A streamlined process will be created to encourage investments from allies in U.S. advanced technology; Expedited environmental reviews for investments over $1 billion; New rules will prevent PRC-affiliated entities from acquiring critical American businesses and assets; Strengthening CFIUS to restrict adversary investments in strategic sectors and technologies; Encouraging non-controlling foreign investments that do not affect national security; Using legal tools to prevent U.S. investments in the PRC's military-industrial sector; Considering restrictions on U.S. investments in strategic sectors in the PRC; Evaluating the suspension of the 1984 U.S.-PRC Income Tax Convention to encourage domestic investment; Ensuring foreign companies meet auditing standards, reviewing structures limiting investor rights, and upholding fiduciary standards. The agencies are directed to implement the above policy as appropriate.

Clients in AI, Robotics and Quantum · Aerospace, Defense & Government Services · Energy and Infrastructure

This memorandum establishes a policy of imposing tariffs and other responsive measures against foreign governments whose taxes or regulations discriminate against American companies, particularly in the technology sector. It directs the United States Trade Representative to determine whether to renew Section 301 investigations of the digital services taxes of France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, and whether to investigate Canada's digital services tax or pursue a panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. It further directs the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative to identify discriminatory foreign tax and regulatory practices, investigate European Union and United Kingdom measures affecting content moderation by U.S. companies, and establish a process for American businesses to report harmful foreign tax or regulatory practices.

Clients in Media and Technology · Digital Infrastructure · Telecom

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 memorandum establishes an America First trade policy and directs a series of investigations and reviews by the Secretaries of Commerce, the Treasury, State, Defense, and Homeland Security, the United States Trade Representative, and other officials, covering trade deficits, a potential External Revenue Service, unfair foreign trade practices, the USMCA, currency manipulation, antidumping and countervailing duty rules, the de minimis exemption, PRC trade compliance and Section 301 tariffs, export controls, outbound investment restrictions under EO 14105, and steel and aluminum import measures. Resulting findings and recommendations are due to the President in unified reports by April 1, 2025, except an OMB procurement assessment due April 30, 2025.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Aerospace, Defense & Government Services · Life Sciences · Transportation · Digital Infrastructure

This memorandum declares that commitments made by the prior administration under the OECD Global Tax Deal have no force or effect in the United States absent an act of Congress. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD to so notify the OECD, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade Representative to take additional implementing steps. It further directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, to investigate foreign tax rules that are extraterritorial or disproportionately affect American companies and to deliver findings and a list of options for protective measures to the President within 60 days.