Executive Actions Tracker

This executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service by amending the Civil Service Rules and Regulations and further amending EO 13957 (Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service) as amended by EO 14171 and EO 13562 as amended by EO 14217. It places the positions listed in the order's Appendix into Schedule Policy/Career, and directs agency heads to notify affected employees and conform agency records within 7 days. It also directs agency heads to set aside separate bonus pools for Schedule Policy/Career employees and directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to initiate a rulemaking creating a Presidential award program and, within 60 days, to issue revisions removing obsolete Civil Service Rules provisions.

This EO closes all federal departments and agencies, excusing employees from duty on December 24 and December 26, 2025, except for those required for national security, defense, or public need. It ensures that these dates are treated as federal holidays for pay and leave purposes. OPM is directed to take necessary actions to implement this order.

This EO sets new pay rates and salary schedules for federal employees across various statutory pay systems, including the General Schedule, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, Senior Executive Service, and certain executive, legislative, and judicial positions, effective January 1, 2026. It also adjusts pay for uniformed services and authorizes the Director of the OPM to consider an additional increase for certain law enforcement personnel, and establishes new locality-based comparability payments. The order supersedes the previous pay adjustment order from December 2024.

This EO freezes most federal civilian hiring except for specified priority roles and requires agencies to establish Strategic Hiring Committees and submit annual staffing plans to ensure efficiency and alignment with administration priorities. It outlines specific exceptions and exemptions, mandates regular reporting, and reaffirms that its provisions will not impair essential services or conflict with applicable law.

This EO expands national security exclusions under federal labor-management relations law by designating additional agencies and agency subdivisions as primarily engaged in intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work, thus exempting them from Chapter 71 of Title 5. It also amends prior executive orders to add new excluded units and provides an expedited timeline for implementing related determinations by the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs.

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This EO creates Schedule G in the excepted service for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy-advocating character normally subject to change upon a Presidential transition, amending Civil Service Rule VI (5 CFR 6.2 and 6.4) to list the new schedule and exempt removals from Schedule G positions from the Civil Service Rules and Regulations. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management is directed to adopt implementing regulations, and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs must consider whether prospective Schedule G appointees would be suitable exponents of the President's policies without regard to political affiliation or activity.

This Presidential Memorandum imposes a temporary freeze on hiring for Federal civilian positions within the Executive Branch through October 15, 2025. It prohibits filling vacant or creating new positions unless explicitly exempted, consistent with the Merit Hiring Plan issued by OPM. The order allows for limited exceptions—such as for national security, public safety, and legally required services—and outlines a process for departmental approval and OPM notification. It prohibits the use of external contracting to bypass the freeze and encourages internal staff reallocation to support agency priorities and maintain essential services.

This EO amends the civil service rules to update the probationary and trial periods for federal employees. Further, the head of each agency shall make a list of all probationary employees and the agencies shall conduct performance reviews for all of these employees and determine whether to continue employment after the probationary period.

This memo extends the freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees within the executive branch as initially directed in the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025 (Hiring Freeze). through July 15, 2025.

This EO finds certain listed agencies and agency subdivisions to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work and, therefore, Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, cannot be applied to these agencies. This EO also updates Executive Order 12171 of November 19, 1979 to add national security exclusions. Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs are delegated authority under 5 U.S.C. 7103(b)(1) to issue orders suspending the application of section 1-402 or 1-404 of Executive Order 12171, as amended, to any subdivisions of the departments they supervise, thereby bringing such subdivisions under the coverage of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. The Secretary of Transportation is delegated authority under section 7103(b) of title 5, United States Code, to issue orders excluding any subdivision of the Department of Transportation from Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute coverage or suspending any provision of that law with respect to any Department of Transportation installation or activity. With respect to employees in agencies or subdivisions thereof that were previously part of a bargaining unit but have been excepted under this order, each applicable agency head shall, upon termination of the applicable collective bargaining agreement: reassign any such employees who performed non-agency business pursuant to section 7131 of title 5 or section 4116 of title 22, United States Code, to performing solely agency business; and terminate agency participation in any pending grievance proceedings under section 7121 of title 5, United States Code, exceptions to arbitral awards under section 7122 of title 5, United States Code, or unfair labor practice proceedings under section 7118 of title 5 or section 4116 of title 22, United States Code, that involve such employees.

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This memorandum delegates to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management the authority to make final suitability determinations and take suitability actions against executive branch employees based on post-appointment conduct, including directing agency heads to remove employees who do not meet suitability criteria. The Director of OPM is directed to propose regulations amending Part 731 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, and the delegation is not effective until that rulemaking is complete. The proposed regulations must also require agency heads to comply with the Director's instructions on separation or corrective action within 5 work days of a final decision.

The Secretary of State shall revise the 2022-2025 Decision Criteria for Tenure and Promotion in the Foreign Service, issued under section 2326.2 of title 3 of the Foreign Affairs Manual, to remove any reference to the Core Precept entitled “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.” The Secretaries shall promptly direct all employees of their Departments not to give this Core Precept any force or effect. Further, Secretaries shall direct all officers and employees of their Departments not to base Foreign Service recruitment, hiring, promotion, or retention decisions upon an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or while acting in an official capacity, promote, advocate for, or otherwise inculcate support for equity ideology. Secretaries shall take appropriate action if any current Foreign Service Members have knowingly and willfully engaged in unconstitutional or otherwise illegal discrimination based upon race or other protected characteristics.

This EO directs OMB to take all necessary steps to eliminate the Federal Executive Institute.

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.

This EO directs various officials (including the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, Director of OMB, Director of OPM, and Administrator of DOGE) to develop and deliver to agency heads a new Federal Hiring Plan within 120 days. Also, the Director of OPM shall establish clear performance metrics to evaluate the success of the reforms in the new Federal Hiring Plan and request agency analysis on a regular basis.

This memorandum directs measures to increase presidential accountability over career Senior Executive Service (SES) officials. It requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to issue SES Performance Plans that agencies must adopt within 30 days. It further directs agency heads to reassign SES members to align with the President's agenda, terminate and reconstitute Executive Resources Boards with noncareer officials serving as a majority, re-constitute Performance Review Board membership, and take actions up to and including removal of SES officials whose performance is inconsistent with the memorandum's principles or their duties under 5 U.S.C. 3131.

This EO directs a hiring freeze for all Federal civilian employees, to be applied through the executive branch. No vacancies may be further filled or new positions created until the freeze is lifted. This freeze DOES NOT apply to military personnel of the armed forces; positions related to immigrant enforcement, national security, or public safety; anything that may adversely impact the provision of Social Security, Medicare, or Veteran's benefits; nomination and appointment of officials; or any exceptions deemed necessary by the Director of OPM. Within 90 days, the Director of OMB, in consultation with the director of OPM and Administrator of USDS, shall submit a plan to reduce the federal workforce, at which time the freeze will be lifted for all federal agencies and departments EXCEPT for the IRS. Contracting outside the federal government to circumvent this memorandum is prohibited.

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 memorandum directs the heads of all executive departments and agencies to terminate remote work arrangements as soon as practicable and require employees to return to in-person work at their duty stations on a full-time basis, while permitting agency heads to make exemptions they deem necessary.

This EO restores a category of federal workers known as "Schedule F" that existed in the prior Trump administration under EO 13957. Schedule F employees lack the same job protections typically enjoyed by career civil servants, including procedures and appeals rights for termination. The Director of OPM is directed to amend applicable regulations to enact the above change and issue guidance, within 30 days, about additional categories of positions for this determination.