Executive Order 14148

Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

Signed January 20, 2025, printed at 90 FR 8237. 3 sections of substance, 2,154 words.

In plain English

This order cancels a long list of orders signed by the last President. It says those orders were harmful and pushed ideas the public did not want.

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Sec. 1. Purpose and Policy

The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government. The injection of ``diversity, equity, and inclusion'' (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy. Orders to open the borders have endangered the American people and dissolved Federal, State, and local resources that should be used to benefit the American people. Climate extremism has exploded inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation. To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen. The revocations within this order will be the first of

In plain English

This sets out the case the order makes. It says the last administration built bad practice into every agency. It names DEI, which it says put group preference above merit. It says open border orders put people at risk and drained local budgets. It says climate policy raised prices and burdened firms. It says the repeals in this order are only the first.

Sec. 2. Revocation of Orders and Actions

The following executive actions are hereby revoked: (a) Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 (Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government). (b) Executive Order 13986 of January 20, 2021 (Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census). (c) Executive Order 13987 of January 20, 2021 (Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security). (d) Executive Order 13988 of January 20, 2021 (Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation). (e) Executive Order 13989 of January 20, 2021 (Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel). (f) Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 (Protecting Public Health and the

In plain English

This cancels a long list of orders. Each is named by number and date. The list covers race, the census and COVID. It also covers bias by gender and ethics rules. Climate policy is on the list too. Dozens more follow in the same form.

Sec. 3. Implementation

(a) To effectuate the revocations described in section 2 of this order, the heads of each agency shall take immediate steps to end Federal implementation of unlawful and radical DEI ideology. [[Page 8241]] (b) The Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) and the Director of the National Economic Council (NEC) shall review all Federal Government actions taken pursuant to the orders, memoranda, and proclamations listed in section 2 of this order and take necessary steps to rescind, replace, or amend such actions as appropriate. Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Director of the DPC and the Director of the NEC shall submit to the President an additional list of orders, memoranda, and proclamations issued by the prior administration that should be rescinded, as well as a list of replacement orders, memoranda, or proclamations, to increase American prosperity. (c) The

In plain English

This says how the repeals work. Agency heads must stop the named work at once. Two White House groups must review what was done. They may undo, replace or change it. Within 45 days they must send a longer list. That list names more orders to cancel.

Sec. 4. General Provisions

Every order carries this. It is not what the order does.

(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. <GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT> (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, January 20, 2025. [FR Doc. 2025-01901 Filed 1-27-25; 8:45 am] Billing code 3395-F4-P </pre></body> </html>

In plain English

This is the closing clause that nearly every order carries. It says the order does not change what the law already allows. It also says no one can sue to enforce it.

How this order is quoted

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