# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schemas/exec-orders-file.json --- - id: 14151 title: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing date: 2025-01-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14151-ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing summary: >- This order establishes the administration's targeting of "DEI" as something to be eliminated in the federal government. It includes a directive for the head of the OPM to eliminate DEI in hiring practices and federal employment policies. It also includes directives to agencies to eliminate DEI-related positions as well as contracts, and a monthly meeting with OPM, OMB and agency heads to report on the costs of social justice measures for their agencies. This order does not mention DOGE (and precedes it), but DOGE is heavily involved in writing programs to look for DEI keywords and delete web pages, etc. all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14158 title: Establishing and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" date: 2025-01-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14158-establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-government summary: >- Renames the US Digital Service to the US DOGE Service and also defines an entity for Special Government Employees to work within it named the DOGE Temporary Organization. This order also specifies the structure of 4-person DOGE teams that will embed within agencies to implement "the President's DOGE agenda." It also states that DOGE will be focused primarily on IT modernization activities within agencies, that they must be granted widespread access and that they will adhere to "rigorous data protection standards." agencies: - DOGE directs_doge: true all_agencies: true - id: 14159 title: Protecting the American People Against Invasion date: 2025-01-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14159-protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion summary: >- This Executive Order has nothing to do directly with DOGE, but it does establish the "emergency" framing that the Trump administration has used around framing and it does lay out the groundwork for the work DOGE will do later to create large data lakes to surveil immigrants. all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14169 title: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid date: 2025-01-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14169-reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid summary: >- This executive order mandated a 90-day pause on all foreign aid grants from the United States so they could be reviewed and it commanded the OMB to enforce this pause through withholding apportionments as necessary. It also granted the Secretary of State the power to approve funds that had been paused. This EO did not mention DOGE or USAID specifically, but it was the basis for DOGE's intervention and destruction of that agency. agencies: - State - USAID all_agencies: false directs_doge: false - id: 14170 title: Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service date: 2025-01-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14170-reforming-the-federal-hiring-process-and-restoring-merit-government summary: >- "Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and the Administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), shall develop and send to agency heads a Federal Hiring Plan that brings to the Federal workforce only highly skilled Americans dedicated to the furtherance of American ideals, values, and interests." agencies: - OPM - DOGE all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14179 title: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence date: 2025-01-23 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14179-removing-barriers-american-leadership-artificial-intelligence summary: >- This order revoked Biden-era executive orders and memos on how Artificial Intelligence can be utilized within the government. Those established some guardrails to ensure that AI training would not leak data to unauthorized locations, that AI programs would not perpetuate bias, and that AIs would not be used to make decisions or determinations until it had been cleared through a pilot program. This executive order does not mention DOGE, but it enables their widespread use of AI without needing to follow any of the safeguards of the Biden admininstration. all_agencies: false directs_doge: false - id: 14192 title: Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation date: 2025-01-31 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14192-unleashing-prosperity-through-deregulation summary: >- This executive order tasked agencies with reducing regulations by putting caps on their ability to new regulations. Specifically, a new regulation could only be proposed if 10 regulations are eliminated, and the projected costs must be zero or negative (by removing other regulations). It's unclear if these targets were rigidly enforced (for instance, OPM has been ordered to issue multiple new regulations over the last few months), but it does formalize the Project 2025 framing that all regulation is bad with an OKR-style metric for DOGE to enforce. all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14210 title: Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative date: 2025-02-11 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14210-implementing-the-presidents-department-government-efficiency summary: >- This executive order set an benchmark for attrition at various agencies, mandating that agencies can only hire 1 new person if 4 people are removed (ie, a 75% reduction). It also tasked agency heads to work with DOGE leads in their agencies to develop "a data-driven plan" for prioritizing new hires in the areas of highest need. It also granted the local DOGE team lead with the power to determine if any vacancy should be filled and to veto any potential hire into career positions. all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14215 title: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies date: 2025-02-18 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14215-ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies summary: >- This executive order laid out the concept that independent agencies that were created as such by Congress are not allowed to be independent and must instead report to the President. Furthermore, any regulations they propose must be cleared by the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within OMB first. It also claims that Federal employees are not allowed to use their own interpretations to determine what actions are legal or illegal; instead, the law is what the President or the Attorney General says it is (and since the Trump DOJ had already rejected the independence of the AG, this means the law is what the President alone says it is). Needless to say, this has been heavily litigated in court, but it serves as the administration's justification for cracking down on independent agencies. all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14217 title: Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy date: 2025-02-19 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14217-commencing-the-reduction-the-federal-bureaucracy summary: >- The first executive order that targeted direct action against some of the small independent agencies. In this case, it ordered that the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace must be reduced to their minimum statutory functions within 14 days. This Executive Order did not name DOGE, but it was the justification for Nate Cavanaugh's invasion of those agencies. agencies: - IAF - USADF - USIP all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14218 title: Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders date: 2025-02-19 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14218-ending-taxpayer-subsidization-open-borders summary: >- Another executive order focused on immigration. This one is focused on the fear that immigrants might be illegally accessing government resources and using public funds. To that end, it directs various public programs to use automated eligibility verification systems before providing services. It also commands for OMB and DOGE to examine all possible sources of federal funding for agencies and to issue a report and recommendation within 30 days. In essence, it augments DOGE's generic permit to rifle through agency expenditures to give them an additional anti-immigration support. all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14219 title: Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative date: 2025-02-19 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14219-ensuring-lawful-governance-and-implementing-the-presidents summary: >- Following up on the previous deregulatory EO, this one tasks agency heads to work with their DOGE teams and the head of the OMB (ie, Russell Vought) to identify various regulations that should be eliminated and provides a list of regulation categories that the executive order has determined are unlawful, including a notion that agencies should only stick to a very limited notion of statutory authority. all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14222 title: Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative date: 2025-02-26 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14222-implementing-the-presidents-department-government-efficiency-cost summary: >- This executive order directed all agencies to work with their DOGE teams to build a single centralized system to record all payments made by the agency with the requirement that every requested payment must include a brief written justification for the services. It also grants the authority to DOGE teams to review all contracts and grants at the agencies and terminate at their discretion any grants they feel don't serve the administration or should have their costs recovered. This executive order gave DOGE the justification to demand access to grants in all agencies and set a 30-day deadline to support their practice of demanding emergency powers to do so. This order also placed a 30-day freeze on all spending cards (implemented by the GSA setting a $1 limit for them) and elimination of all non-essential travel. Finally, this EO commanded all agencies to follow the GSA's lead and terminate any unnecessary building leases within 30 days. all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14238 title: Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy date: 2025-03-14 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14238-continuing-the-reduction-the-federal-bureaucracy summary: >- This order built on the methods outlined in EO 14217, and expanded the list of agencies that must be immediately wound down to a bare minimum to include the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media (parent of VOA, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and the Minority Business Development Agency. These agencies were given only 7 days to comply and some were immediately visited by Nate Cavanaugh to ensure their destruction. agencies: - FMCS - USAGM - WWICS - IMLS - USICH - CDFIF - MBDA all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14240 title: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement date: 2025-03-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14240-eliminating-waste-and-saving-taxpayer-dollars-consolidating summary: >- This executive order directed agencies to submit plans within 60 days of how their procurement could instead be conducted by GSA instead of by the agency itself. It also designated the Administrator of the GSA as the executive agent for any government-wide acquisition contracts (GWAC) for IT. This means that the GSA becomes the sole entity to negotiate and/or continue IT contracts for software and services at various agencies. Although this order does not explicitly mention DOGE, the GSA's technology division is heavily controlled by DOGE and the GSA Administrator, Stephen Ehikian, is considered a DOGE associate. agencies: - GSA all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14243 title: Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos date: 2025-03-20 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14243-stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-eliminating-information-silos summary: >- This order was designed to formalize the widespread data access that DOGE has already demanded from agencies. Claiming it is motivated by a desire to eliminate information silos, it ordered that agencies must make all efforts to ensure that agency heads or their designees (i.e., DOGE) must have full access to any unclassified data that they request. Furthermore, they must be given access to any data provided by states that participate in federal programs. It also included a specific instruction that the Secretary Labor (or his designee) should have access to unemployment records that belonged to their Inspector General, a direct granting of access to a dataset that DOGE had been coveting. agencies: - DOL all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14247 title: Modernizing Payments to and From America's Bank Account date: 2025-03-25 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14247-modernizing-payments-and-from-americas-bank-account summary: >- This order moves to eliminate the use of paper checks by the federal government by the date of September 30th. More importantly, it moves to centralize all payment processing of electronic payments to route through the Treasury department. agencies: - Treasury - HHS - State - Education - VA - DHS - SSA all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14248 title: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections date: 2025-03-25 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14248-preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-american-elections summary: >- This order attempts to assert greater federal control over the voter registration process for each state towards verifying that only citizens are voting (a frequent trope in anti-immigrant rhetoric on the right wing despite the lack of any evidence it happens regularly). To that end, it lays out some requirements for states that have triggered lawsuits for overreach``. It also directs that the Social Security Administration to make available to state and local officials the "Social Security Number Verification Service, the Death Master File, and any other Federal databases" for use in verifying individuals. It also directs DHS to work with DOGE on reviewing the voter registration lists for each state against immigration records in the idea that they will be able to identify patterns of illegal voting. And it threatens to withhold election funds from the FEC for any state that refuses to comply. agencies: - SSA - FEC all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14270 title: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy date: 2025-04-09 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14270-zero-based-regulatory-budgeting-unleash-american-energy summary: >- This executive order is targeted against regulations affecting the energy sector, ordering agencies to add sunset clauses to their regulations so they can regularly re-assess if oil spills or acid rain caused by coal plant emissions are now actually good. This order is explicitly targeted at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DoE), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It also includes the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior. As such, it explicitly mentions that the DOGE teams already integrated into these agencies should be involved with the regulatory review process. agencies: - EPA - Energy - NRC - DOI all_agencies: true directs_doge: true - id: 14275 title: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement date: 2025-04-15 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14275-restoring-common-sense-federal-procurement summary: >- This order calls for significant revisions to the Federal Acquisition Register (FAR) – the complicated rules that govern how the US procures goods and services. While there is a real need to streamline aspects of the FAR, this effort could also serve as a cover to the executive branch to influence how contracts are awarded. Noting it here because DOGE has been linked to efforts within the FAA to redirect contracts to use Starlink. all_agencies: false directs_doge: false - id: 14271 title: Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts date: 2025-04-15 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14271-ensuring-commercial-cost-effective-solutions-federal-contracts summary: >- This executive order specifically constrains the ability of the federal government to create custom software, by mandating that any proposed procurement for custom development work must include a justification for why it couldn't be handled by an off-the-shelf product and must get explicit approval from agency leadership (and probably DOGE staff) to proceed. This would be a boon to Silicon Valley firms like Oracle, Salesforce or Palantir while also diminishing the ability of agencies to own the systems they operate, restoring the perpetual licensing-fee treadmill that has plagued many agency IT operations. all_agencies: true directs_doge: false - id: 14284 title: Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service date: 2025-04-24 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14284-strengthening-probationary-periods-the-federal-service summary: >- Issued in the wake of preliminary injunctions that found OPM radically overstepped its bounds demanding the indiscriminate termination of probationary employees, this executive order proposes a new regulation that would require agencies and employees in probationary periods (ie, in the first year of a role, whether as a new hire or promotion) affirm why they should continue to be hired or be automatically terminated. As a result of this ruling, federal staff could find themselves promoted into new responsibilities and then fired because their their case for continued employment was not considered adequate or the administration wants to reduce headcount. all_agencies: false directs_doge: false - id: 14290 title: Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media date: 2025-05-01 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14290-ending-taxpayer-subsidization-biased-media summary: >- This executive order commanded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) board of directors to cease any funding and support for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) TV network and National Public Radio (NPR). As an independent agency, the CPB is not obliged to listen to the President, but this administration has already asserted its right for absolute executive control in EO 14215. The main purpose of this EO was to coordinate its efforts [with an attack on the CPB by DOGE](/agencies/independent#arts) and as an angry response to CPB seeking a restraining order against the Trump administration for trying to fire its board a few days prior. agencies: - CPB all_agencies: false directs_doge: false - id: 14300 title: Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission date: 2025-05-23 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14300-ordering-the-reform-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission summary: >- This executive order commands the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reduce its regulatory oversight over the nuclear energy sector, with the goal of radically increasing the number of nuclear reactors in America. This would be just another example of the Trump Administration/Project 2025 insistence that industry can regulate itself, but it does explicitly direct that the NRC must consult with a DOGE team assigned to the agency both on how to streamline the regulatory process for nuclear reactors and to conduct a reduction-in-force to layoff an unstated number of staff. agencies: - NRC - DOGE all_agencies: false directs_doge: true - id: 14301 title: Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy date: 2025-05-23 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14301-reforming-nuclear-reactor-testing-the-department-energy summary: >- This order commands the Department of Energy to revise the rules around testing new nuclear reactors and to expedite any environmental rules that might hinder the development of new reactors. This would be just another example of the Trump ethos that industry can regulate itself, but it also includes a specific provision that the DOGE Team at the Department of Energy must be involved in this effort. agencies: - Energy all_agencies: false directs_doge: true - id: 14306 title: Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144 date: 2025-06-06 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14306-sustaining-select-efforts-strengthen-the-nations-cybersecurity-and summary: >- This executive order defines some revisions to several cybersecurity executive orders issued by the Biden administration and directs NIST and CISA to make some adjustments to their requirements. It also includes a command to strike out the sentence "Open source software plays a critical role in Federal information systems." from federal cybersecurity guidance, reinforcing the admininistration moving away from open-source to proprietary licensed technologies that would be licensed to the government by tech firms. agencies: - NIST - CISA all_agencies: false directs_doge: false - id: 14338 title: Improving Our Nation Through Better Design date: 2025-08-21 link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14338-improving-our-nation-through-better-design summary: >- This executive order established the creation of a new National Design Studio within the White House and a Chief Design Officer who will be in charge of defining standards for the look and functionality of federal websites. The executive order also directs the Chief Design Officer to update the existing US Web Design System. Although this order does not explicitly mention DOGE, it borrows from the same playbook, designating that the National Design Studio will be under the leadership of an Administrator and creating a temporary organization within the National Design Studio as a likely place to hire special government employees. This resemblence is underscored by the fact that Joe Gebbia has been tapped to be the first Chief Design Officer. agencies: - NDS all_agencies: true directs_doge: false