Executive Actions Tracker

This EO directs the Administrator of General Services, in coordination with the Administrator of the National Design Studio and the Director of OMB, to establish America.gov as the single online point of entry for "covered services" — public-facing federal services with more than 100,000 users in a 12-month period that can be accessed or applied for online, excluding IRS tax filing and Department of War and Intelligence Community services — using Login.gov as its authentication service. The Director of OMB must issue an implementation memorandum to agency heads within 90 days, and agency heads must identify covered services, integrate them with America.gov and Login.gov, and provide ongoing usage and performance data to GSA and OMB.

This executive order directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the NOAA Administrator, to modernize recreational fisheries data collection, deploy mobile applications for mandatory and voluntary electronic catch reporting, and review Magnuson-Stevens National Standards guidelines within 180 days. It directs the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to initiate rescission of regulations burdening boaters and anglers within 30 days, transition permits to multi-year terms with a presumption of renewal, and deploy a unified interagency permit portal within 1 year. It also directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Federal Outer Continental Shelf Reef-in-Place Program within 60 days to convert decommissioned offshore structures, excluding offshore wind infrastructure, into artificial reefs, and establishes an Interagency Shark and Pinniped Depredation Task Force.

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This EO directs the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish, within 180 days, updated information technology systems and guidance for ongoing sharing of Official Military Personnel Files and Service Treatment Records, deploy AI-based digital tools consolidating veterans' benefits access, and, within 30 days, ensure records transfer to the Department of Veterans Affairs immediately upon a service member's discharge. It also requires, within 120 days and in consultation with HHS and OMB, review and modification of existing IT contracts to add interoperability requirements, and directs the Secretary of War, within 180 days, to update the Transition Assistance Program to connect separating service members to jobs, training, or apprenticeships and to veterans' benefits representatives.

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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 executive order establishes fixed-price contracts as the default and preferred method of federal procurement. It requires written justification by contracting officers for any non-fixed-price contract and written agency-head approval when the non-fixed-price value exceeds set thresholds ($100 million for the Department of War, $35 million for NASA, $25 million for the Department of Homeland Security, and $10 million for other agencies), with exceptions for emergency response and research and development for major systems acquisition. Within 90 days, each agency head must review and seek to modify, restructure, or renegotiate its 10 largest non-fixed-price contracts toward fixed prices, and must report semi-annually to the Director of OMB on approved non-fixed-price contracts. The Director of OMB must issue implementation guidance within 45 days, and the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy must propose Federal Acquisition Regulation amendments and develop a fixed-price contracting training program within 120 days.

Clients in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services

This executive order establishes the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud within the Executive Office of the President, chaired by the Vice President with the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission as Vice Chairman, to coordinate a national strategy against fraud, waste, and abuse in federal benefit programs. Member agencies must submit descriptions of fraud-susceptible transactions within 30 days, the Task Force must coordinate adoption of minimum anti-fraud requirements within 60 days, and each member must submit a measurable implementation plan within 90 days. The order also directs the Attorney General to promote meritorious private civil actions under 31 U.S.C. 3730 concerning benefit-program fraud and ensure their prompt review.

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This EO directs the Director of the CFPB, the federal banking regulators (Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC, NCUA), and the Director of the FHFA to consider tailoring mortgage regulations for community banks and smaller banks (those with assets under $100 billion), including amendments to ability-to-repay/qualified mortgage rules, TILA-RESPA disclosure requirements, and HMDA reporting thresholds, along with revisions to capital and liquidity rules, appraisal standards, servicing supervision, enforcement policy, and loan-officer licensing, and directs adoption of digital mortgage processes such as electronic signatures and remote online notarization. It also directs the Director of the FHFA to submit a report on the efficiency of national housing finance markets to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget within 120 days.

Clients in Consumer Financial Services · Multifamily Housing · Construction · Fintech

This memorandum directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the heads of executive departments and agencies, to investigate whether federal grant funds are being used to illegally support lobbying activities in violation of 31 U.S.C. 1352 and to take appropriate enforcement action. The Attorney General must report to the President on the progress of the investigation within 180 days of the memorandum's date of August 28, 2025.

The executive order establishes the “America by Design” initiative and a National Design Studio to modernize and improve the usability and aesthetics of federal digital and physical services, led by a newly created Chief Design Officer. Agencies are required to collaborate with the Chief Design Officer to prioritize and implement design enhancements, with initial results due by July 4, 2026, while ensuring compliance with existing laws and regulations.

Clients in Digital Infrastructure · Media and Technology

This EO requires federal agencies to implement stricter review processes for discretionary grants, specifically prohibiting grants for activities that promote racial preferences, deny "binary" sex, facilitate illegal immigration, or any other initiative against public safety or American values. Agencies must designate senior officials to oversee grantmaking, prioritize accountability, streamline application requirements, and include terms allowing termination of grants that no longer align with agency priorities or the national interest.

Clients in Healthcare · Life Sciences · AI, Robotics and Quantum

This memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take immediate steps to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program, particularly by ending state-directed payment schemes that inflate Medicaid reimbursements far above Medicare levels. The President orders alignment of Medicaid payment rates with Medicare, where legally permissible, to protect the program’s financial sustainability and ensure fairness across federal healthcare systems.

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This Executive Order directs federal agencies to reduce reliance on criminal enforcement of regulatory violations, particularly those lacking clear mens rea (intent) requirements. Agencies are instructed to inventory and publicly disclose all criminally enforceable regulations within one year, update this list annually, and strongly discourage prosecution of offenses not included. Agencies must also revise future rulemakings to identify authorizing statutes and clearly state applicable mental state requirements. Within 45 days, each agency must publish guidance outlining factors to consider when referring violations for criminal prosecution. The order favors civil or administrative enforcement over strict liability criminal penalties and excludes immigration and national security-related enforcement from its scope.

This Executive Order directs the Archivist of the United States, through the Office of the Federal Register, to improve the timeliness and cost-efficiency of publishing regulatory actions. It requires the Archivist to collaborate with the Government Publishing Office to modernize systems, reduce publication delays, and reassess the current fee schedule for publishing in the Federal Register. Reports on average publication times and cost adjustments must be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget at multiple intervals, with the goal of streamlining publication processes and aligning fees with actual costs.

Directs agencies to adopt the maximum use of technology for environmental review and permitting for infrastructure projects. Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), in consultation with the National Energy Dominance Council and relevant permitting agencies, shall issue a Permitting Technology Action Plan for modernizing the technology used for Federal permitting and environmental review processes for infrastructure projects. Within 90 days of issuance of the plan, the relevant officials should adopt and begin implementation of that plan. Within 15 days of the date of this memorandum, the Chairman of CEQ shall establish and lead an interagency Permitting Innovation Center that will design and test prototype tools that could be implemented pursuant to the Permitting Technology Action Plan for NEPA reviews and other environmental permits and authorizations.

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

This EO revokes Executive Order 12072 and Executive Order 13006. The Administrator of General Services is directed to initiate the process to amend the regulations at title 41, parts 102-79 and 102-83, Code of Federal Regulations, and to take any other steps necessary to conform Federal office space management policy with this order. Agencies that acquire or utilize federally owned or leased space under authority other than the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), as amended, shall conform to the provisions of this order.

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This EO seeks to promote financial integrity by enabling the Department of the Treasury to more easily conduct improper payment and fraud prevention screening prior to disbursing funds on behalf of agencies. Further, it aims to increase transparency and accountability by requiring agencies to provide the Department of the Treasury with the information needed to track transactions through the General Fund in greater detail. This order also promotes operational efficiency by returning disbursing functions to the Department of the Treasury when possible and consolidating and standardizing core Federal financial systems.

This EO mandates the transition to electronic payments for all Federal disbursements and receipts by digitizing payments to the extent permissible under applicable law. Effective September 30, 2025, and to the extent permitted by law, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cease issuing paper checks for all Federal disbursements inclusive of intragovernmental payments, benefits payments, vendor payments, and tax refunds, except as specified in section 4 of this order. As soon as practicable, and to the extent permitted by law, all payments made to the Federal Government shall be processed electronically.

Clients in Fintech · Consumer Financial Services

This EO directs all Agency Heads to take all necessary steps to ensure Federal officials designated by the President or Agency Heads have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software systems, and information technology systems for purposes of pursuing Administration priorities related to the identification and elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. Further, agency heads should take all necessary steps to ensure the Federal Government has unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive Federal funding. The Secretary of Labor shall receive unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records, including all such data and records currently available to the DOL Office of Inspector General.

This EO aims to consolidate federal procurement under GSA, rather than at individual agencies.

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Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law: (i) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (ii) the United States Agency for Global Media; (iii) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution; (iv) the Institute of Museum and Library Services; (v) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; (vi) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund; and (vii) the Minority Business Development Agency. In reviewing budget requests submitted by the governmental entities listed, the Director of OMB or the head of any agency charged with reviewing grant requests by such entities shall reject funding requests for such governmental entities to the extent they are inconsistent with this order.

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This EO directs each agency head to build a centralized technological system within the agency to record every payment by the agency with a brief written justification by the employee who approved it. The system shall also include a mechanism for the agency head to pause and rapidly review any payment that does not include a written justification. If possible, the written justifications should be posted publicly. Further, each agency head shall review (1) all existing contracts and grants and terminate or modify those that do not align with this administration’s policies within 30 days and (2) the agency’s contracting policies, procedures, and personnel within 30 days and shall not approve new contracting officer warrants during this time unless deemed necessary. Following this review, agency heads shall issue guidance on signing or modifying contracts and the DOGE Team Lead will write a monthly report on this. Also, a written justification will be required for non-essential travel. As possible, all agency employee credit cards shall be treated as frozen for 30 days, except for those used for disaster relief, natural disaster response, or critical services. Lastly, agencies shall (1) confirm submitted updates regarding real property (7 days), (2) identify all termination rights under current leases (30 days), and (3) submit a plan to OMB for disposition of real-property that is no longer needed (60 days). This order does not apply to the following: law enforcement officers, USCBP and ICE, Uniformed Services, any other grant, contract, component, or real property deemed exempt, and classified information/systems.

This EO directs the elimination of non-statutory components and functions of the following agencies: the Presidio Trust; the Inter-American Foundation; the United States African Development Foundation; and the United States Institute of Peace. Within 14 days, the head of each of the above agencies shall submit a report to OMB Director confirming compliance with this EO and stating what components are statutorily required and to what extent. Funding to these agencies should be rejected unless compliant with this EO. The Presidential Memorandum of November 13, 1961 (Need for Greater Coordination of Regional and Field Activities of the Government), is revoked. OPM Director shall initiate the process to withdraw regulations 5 CFR 960 (Federal Executive Boards) and 5 CFR 362 (Presidential Management Fellows program). Within 14 days, the applicable heads shall terminate the following agencies: Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, Academic Research Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council, Community Bank Advisory Council, Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID, and Health Equity Advisory Committee. Within 30 days, assistants to the President shall submit a list of other government entities that should be terminated as unnecessary.

This EO directs agency heads, in coordination with their DOGE Team Leads and the Director of OMB, to initiate a process to review all regulations subject to their sole or joint jurisdiction for consistency with law and Administration policy. Within 60 days, the agency heads shall submit a list of various classes of identified regulations. The Administrator of OIRA shall consult with the agency heads to develop a Unified Regulatory Agenda that seeks to rescind or modify these regulations as appropriate. Further, agencies shall seek to preserve their enforcement resources by de-prioritizing actions to enforce regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of the statute or goes beyond constitutional power. Agency heads shall consult with their DOGE Team Leads and Administrator of OIRA on potential new regulations as soon as practicable. This does NOT apply to: military, national security, homeland security, foreign affairs, immigration, executive branch management of its employees, and anything else exempted by Director of OMB.

This EO states that it is the policy of the executive branch to "ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch" and all executive agencies (including independent agencies) shall "submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register." This does not apply to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or to the Federal Open Market Committee. Definitions for various independent agencies and employees subject to this EO are provided. Director of OMB shall establish performance standards and management objectives for independent agency heads and report their performance and efficiency to the President periodically. Director of OMB shall also review independent regulatory agencies' obligations for consistency with the President's policies regularly and consult with agency chairmen to adjust agency actions as necessary and appropriate to advance the President's policies, which may include prohibiting expending of appropriations on particular activities. Further, the heads of independent regulatory agencies shall each establish a White House Liaison, regularly consult with directors of OMB, White House Domestic Policy, and White House National Economic Council, and submit strategic plans to the Director of OMB for clearance prior to finalization. Lastly, the President and the AG (subject to President's supervision and control) shall provide the authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch, which is controlling on all executive employees in their official duties.

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This Memo directs the heads of agencies to take appropriate actions to make public (as legal and appropriate) the complete details of every terminated program, cancelled contract, terminated grant, or any other discontinued obligation of federal funds.