| Date Signed |
Executive Order Title |
Summary |
| February 26, 2025 |
Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Cost Efficiency Initiative |
This EO requires agencies to build a centralized technological system to record every payment issued by the agency pursuant to each contract and grant, along with a written justification for each payment. The system must include a mechanism to pause and rapidly review any payment for which the approving employee has not submitted a written justification. Agencies, working with their DOGE team lead, shall issue guidance on the written justification requirement. The EO requires all agencies, in consultation with DOGE, to review existing contracts and grants and terminate or modify them to “promote efficiency and advance the policies of the current Administration” within 30 days. Agencies must also review contracting policies, procedures, and personnel and issue guidance on signing new contracts or modifying existing contracts to promote efficiency and the policies of the current administration. The EO also makes changes to non-essential travel justifications and credit cards, along with requiring agencies to submit information on property subject to the agency’s administration. |
| February 25, 2025 |
Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information |
The EO references work from the first Trump administration on healthcare price transparency, and it states that the federal government will continue to promote universal access to clear and accurate healthcare prices and will take all necessary steps to improve existing price transparency requirements, increase enforcement of price transparency requirements, and identify opportunities to further empower patients with meaningful price information, potentially including through the expansion of existing price transparency requirements. The EO directs the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to “rapidly implement and enforce” price transparency regulations within 90 days. Actions specified include: requiring the disclosure of the prices of items and services, not estimates, issuing updated guidance or proposed regulatory action ensuring pricing information is standardized and comparable across hospitals and plans, and issuing guidance or proposed regulatory action updating enforcement policies designed to ensure compliance. |
| February 19, 2025 |
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders |
This EO directs agencies to identify all federally funded programs that currently allow undocumented immigrants to obtain cash or non-cash benefits, and take action, consistent with applicable law, to align those programs with existing federal laws, including the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). It directs agencies to ensure that eligibility verification systems ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude ineligible immigrants. It directs DOGE to identify other sources of federal funding for undocumented individuals and recommend additional agency actions to align with this EO. |
| February 19, 2025 |
Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy |
In accordance with this EO, HHS shall terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID, and CMS shall terminate the Health Equity Advisory Committee. The EO calls for the termination of the Presidential Management Fellows program. This EO also directs non-statutory components and functions of certain foreign affairs governmental entities to be eliminated, as allowed under applicable law, and directs such entities to submit a report stating if components of their entity are statutorily-required. |
| February 19, 2025 |
Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative |
This EO directs agency heads to work in coordination with DOGE team leads and OMB to review all regulations subject to their jurisdiction for consistency with law and Administration policy. Within 60 days, agencies shall submit to OMB a list of certain regulations, including those that the agency believes are unconstitutional, are not authorized by statutory authority, and impose undue burdens on small businesses, among other types of regulations. It directs agencies to de-prioritize enforcement actions that enforce regulations that go beyond the powers vested by the Constitution, and ensure enforcement actions are compliant with law and Administration policy. The EO directs OMB to issue implementation guidance. |
| February 18, 2025 |
Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies |
This EO requires independent agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, to submit proposed regulations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) before publication in the Federal Register. The EO directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish performance standards and management objectives for independent agencies and to review independent agency actions for consistency with the President’s priorities. The EO states that only the President and Attorney General can provide interpretations of law for the executive branch. It directs independent agencies to regularly consult with and coordinate policies and priorities with OMB, DPC, and the White House National Economic Council. |
| February 18, 2025 |
Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization |
This EO directs the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) to submit a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment. |
| February 14, 2025 |
Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools |
This EO directs the Secretary of Education to issue guidelines to elementary schools, local educational agencies, State educational agencies, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education regarding those entities’ legal obligations with respect to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under law for COVID-19 vaccine school mandates. It directs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to develop a plan to end COVID-19 vaccine school mandates. The plan should also include a list of discretionary Federal grants and contracts provided to schools that are non-compliant with the guidelines issued and each agency’s process for preventing Federal funds from being provided to, and rescinding Federal funds from, entities that are non-compliant with the guidelines. |
| February 13, 2025 |
Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission |
The EO states that agencies that address health must focus on reversing chronic diseases, including mental health disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. The EO specifically states that all federally funded health research should be transparent and have open-source data, directs the NIH to prioritize research on why Americans are getting sick, directs all agencies to work with farmers to ensure food is healthy and affordable, and directs agencies to ensure expanded treatment options are available, including with flexible health insurance coverage. The EO establishes the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission, which will be chaired by RFK Jr. The first mission of the Commission will be to address childhood chronic diseases, with actions including studying contributing causes, assisting the President with public education, and providing government-wide recommendations on how to address childhood chronic diseases. Within 100 days, the Commission must submit a Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which should include specific items such as comparing childhood chronic diseases in the US to other countries and reporting on best practices for prevention. Within 180 days, the Commission must submit a strategy on how to restructure the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases. |
| February 11, 2025 |
Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative |
This EO requires agencies to implement a workforce optimization initiative, stating each agency can hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart and agency heads, in consultation with their DOGE team lead, must develop a hiring plan. The hiring plan requires: new career appointment hiring decisions be made in consultation with the agency’s DOGE team lead; no vacancies for career appointments be filled that the DOGE team lead deems should not be filled unless the agency head decides otherwise; DOGE team leads must provide the US DOGE Service (USDS) Administrator with a monthly hiring report. Agency heads should prepare for large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), particularly in offices that perform functions not mandated by statute and including employees working in DEI initiatives. Agency heads must submit a report identifying statutes that establish the agency, or subcomponents of the agency, as statutorily required entities. |
| January 31, 2025 |
Unleashing Prosperity through Deregulation |
This EO requires that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget will ensure standardized measurement and estimation of regulatory costs. It requires that for fiscal year 2025, the total incremental cost of all new regulations, including repealed regulations, be significantly less than zero. It is unclear what this 10-to-1 ratio means in practice. A rule, regulation, or a guidance document could be one thousand pages, or it could be one paragraph. It could represent a significant policy, or it could be a minor, technical requirement. |
| January 28, 2025 |
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation |
This EO states that the policy of the US is to “not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another.” The EO directs agencies to rescind or amend any guidance that relies on guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). It directs HHS to publish a literature review on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria. It directs agencies who provide research or education grants to medical institutions to ensure grantees are not performing any care that is prohibited under this EO. It directs HHS, TRICARE, and the federal employee health benefits program to not cover this care, and it directs HHS to take such action through vehicles such as Medicare or Medicaid conditions of participation, section 1557, or mandatory drug use reviews. It directs the Attorney General to investigate any companies that provide medications related to transition that may have long-term side effects, and urges the Attorney General to pass legislation with Congress that enacts a private right of action for children and their parents. |
| January 27, 2025 |
Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military’s COVID-19 Mandate |
This EO reinstates service members that were discharged for refusing to comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that was imposed in August 2021 and rescinded January 2023. The EO directs them to be reinstated at their former rank and receive full back pay. |
| January 24, 2025 |
Enforcing the Hyde Amendment |
This EO revokes two Biden-era reproductive health EOs. The EO also directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance ensuring agencies comply with the Hyde Amendment, which is passed by Congress annually and prohibits federal funding for abortion. |
| January 23, 2025 |
Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence |
The EO directs the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), in coordination with the heads of relevant agencies, to develop and submit to the President an action plan to achieve the policy set forth in this EO. It also directs those officials to review all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken pursuant to the revoked Executive Order 14110 of October 30, 2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence) and propose suspending, revising, or rescinding any actions inconsistent with this new EO. |
| January 23, 2025 |
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology |
This EO establishes the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), that will be composed of no more than 24 members and will be co-chaired by the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST) and the Special Advisor for AI & Crypto. The remaining members will be appointed by the President and include individuals and representatives from sectors outside of the Federal Government. The Co-Chairs may designate up to two Vice Chairs of the PCAST from among the non-Federal members of the PCAST. The PCAST will advise the President on matters involving science, technology, education, and innovation policy. Additionally, the PCAST will provide the President with scientific information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the economy, workers, national and homeland security, and other topics. The PCAST will meet regularly and solicit information from stakeholders, along with serving in specified advisory committee and panel roles. It also revokes Biden’s EO of the same name that created his PCAST. |
| January 20, 2025 |
Withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization |
This EO provides notice of intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), citing mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and an inability to demonstrate independence from the political influence of WHO member states. It directs the State Department and Office of Management and Budget to pause transfer of funds to the WHO and recall any personnel working in any capacity at the WHO. |
